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by phlip
15 Aug 2016, 05:31
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge
Replies: 3185
Views: 340516

Re: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge

Gatherer ruling for Accursed Witch wrote:If an effect causes Accursed Witch to transform on the battlefield, rather than leaving it and returning transformed, then Infectious Curse doesn’t become attached to any player and is put into your graveyard. This won’t cause abilities that trigger when a creature leaves the battlefield to trigger.
by phlip
07 Aug 2016, 00:27
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge
Replies: 3185
Views: 340516

Re: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge

Sure. Sinuous Predator is still a Werewolf, so it's a legal target, and it's still capable of transforming (it just doesn't have a way to do so on its own).
by phlip
02 Aug 2016, 16:51
Forum: Crapshots
Topic: Crapshots - Volume 4
Replies: 119
Views: 59899

Re: Crapshots - Volume 4

I'm glad someone in the comments for that one actually said the word "dot-commer"... I couldn't for the life of me figure out what that line was supposed to be...
by phlip
02 Aug 2016, 03:31
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules
Replies: 7432
Views: 440118

Re: Venting Thread Delta - Now With Easy to Follow Rules

Count me in for the party to give some bureaucrat a swift baseball bat to the taint. By which I mean commiserate non-violently in a forum thread. Because that sucks, dude.
by phlip
01 Aug 2016, 16:50
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge
Replies: 3185
Views: 340516

Re: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge

Correct.
by phlip
31 Jul 2016, 16:38
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge
Replies: 3185
Views: 340516

Re: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge

They're the same thing... this actually came up before, in this thread, using some shenanigans to make a permanent into both an Aura and an Equipment, and then re-equipping it and asking if it also enchanted the new attachee... Some relevant rules: 303.4k An ability of a permanent that refers to the...
by phlip
30 Jul 2016, 01:27
Forum: Bonus Video
Topic: Getting Angry at Pok??mon Gyms [gvlog]
Replies: 1
Views: 2564

Re: Getting Angry at Pok??mon Gyms [gvlog]

Graham wrote:Pok??mans???
Paul!
by phlip
26 Jul 2016, 18:52
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge
Replies: 3185
Views: 340516

Re: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge

If I have 1 Graf Rats and 2 Midnight Scavengers, I'm assuming all 3 don't get exiled... Is there a priority in choosing one over the other, or is it just my choice of whichever I want? When Graf Rats's trigger resolves, you'll pick one of the two Midnight Scavengerses to exile, and then they'll com...
by phlip
26 Jul 2016, 17:04
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge
Replies: 3185
Views: 340516

Re: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge

chetoos wrote:if you did take control of the opponent's half of the meld card with act of treason, you can start the meld to exile them both.

No, the trigger only happens if you "both own and control" both halves. If you control a half that your opponent owns, it isn't going to help.
by phlip
26 Jul 2016, 16:10
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge
Replies: 3185
Views: 340516

Re: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge

Correct.
by phlip
26 Jul 2016, 03:12
Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
Topic: Watch + Play
Replies: 303
Views: 136403

Re: Watch + Play

Apparently it has some technical problems? Over and above the problems of having Thriller in there... I don't know the details though.

I believe Ian has said he's working on it...
by phlip
20 Jul 2016, 00:52
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: The General Magic: The Gathering Thread
Replies: 8925
Views: 480887

Re: The General Magic: The Gathering Thread

Well, I was just going for minimal proof-of-concept... if you want to really speed it up, you'd add Conjurer's Closet to blink the Mimic every turn, and have it copy the newly-created token, so that the number of "make a new copy every turn" triggers grows every turn... get yourself some q...
by phlip
19 Jul 2016, 15:52
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: The General Magic: The Gathering Thread
Replies: 8925
Views: 480887

Re: The General Magic: The Gathering Thread

Xenograft plus Opalescence plus Progenitor Mimic. Every turn you get a new copy of Xenograft, which can name a different creature type.

It's fun how much can be broken by turning random things into creatures and Progenitoring them...
by phlip
08 Jul 2016, 19:49
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge
Replies: 3185
Views: 340516

Re: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge

I assume you are allowed to sac a token for an Emerge cost, and then just pay the whole cost since there's no CMC. Yes. Unless the token is a copy of something that had a mana cost, in which case it'll have the same CMC as whatever it was copying. Speaking of sacrificing creatures that don't have a...
by phlip
03 Jul 2016, 05:31
Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
Topic: Rhythm Café
Replies: 13
Views: 3760

Re: Rhythm Café

Watching the Love Live vod... suddenly this Twitter account I see RTed in my feed from time to time is starting to make an amount of sense...
by phlip
30 Jun 2016, 16:26
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge
Replies: 3185
Views: 340516

Re: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge

Yeah, there is a way to gain control of a spell, but not to give it away, at least as far as I can find in my searching.
by phlip
28 Jun 2016, 20:22
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: The General Magic: The Gathering Thread
Replies: 8925
Views: 480887

Re: The General Magic: The Gathering Thread

One of the main downsides of counterspells in general is drawing them too late... once your opponent has already resolved their big creature or whatever. Unsubstantiate's main upside is that its other mode, of bouncing a creature, is useful mostly in the cases where Remand would be bad, because you ...
by phlip
19 Jun 2016, 21:30
Forum: commodoreHUSTLE
Topic: Overwatched [commodoreHUSTLE]
Replies: 11
Views: 7125

Re: Overwatched [commodoreHUSTLE]

It seems everyone who actually plays Overwatch has fallen deep into this hole, leaving only us stragglers who don't actually play the game to comment in this thread... I actually enjoyed this one, despite only getting most of the references through memes. I was a little surprised that the stinger wi...
by phlip
05 Jun 2016, 23:13
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge
Replies: 3185
Views: 340516

Re: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge

Short, unhelpful answer: Kurkesh can only copy activated abilities. Knowledge Pool's ability is a triggered ability. But instead, let's say you activate Strionic Resonator targeting Knowledge Pool 's trigger. The copied trigger resolves, and the player who cast the original spell exiles their spell,...
by phlip
02 Jun 2016, 04:37
Forum: LoadingReadyRun Streams
Topic: Watch + Play
Replies: 303
Views: 136403

Re: Watch + Play

Watching through today's W+P, the drug in that first game was "Hydroxide Oxydrine"? From my googling, Oxydrine is a French brand-name cleaning agent. I can't find much info on what's in it, but from the name I imagine it's similar to OxiClean in the English-speaking world. That is, a stron...
by phlip
24 May 2016, 17:32
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge
Replies: 3185
Views: 340516

Re: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge

"When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it." - is a delayed trigger, controlled by the controller of Animate Dead, which instructs the controller of the animated creature to sacrifice it... which is exactly what Sigarda prevents. So yes, if your opp...
by phlip
22 May 2016, 16:10
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: The Limited thread
Replies: 441
Views: 46854

Re: The Limited thread

Well then. ⋅ Approximately 1 in 8 boosters (more accurately, 15/121) have a mythic in the rare slot. ⋅ 1 in 8 boosters have a rare DFC, which is a mythic 1/5 of the time (3 mythics and 6 rares, and each rare is twice as common as each mythic) ⋅ 15/67 boosters have a foi...
by phlip
21 May 2016, 18:35
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: The Limited thread
Replies: 441
Views: 46854

Re: The Limited thread

Yep, same was possible in ISD and DKA, too. Just super unlikely.
by phlip
21 May 2016, 00:36
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: The Limited thread
Replies: 441
Views: 46854

Re: The Limited thread

From Maro's Tumblr - every pack has a common or uncommon DFC. 1 in 8 packs also has a rare or mythic DFC. Unlike what he guesses in that Tumblr post, I believe both of these take what is traditionally a common slot ([edit] see also this [/edit]), so each pack still has 1 single-faced rare or mythic,...
by phlip
16 May 2016, 04:39
Forum: Magic: The Gathering
Topic: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge
Replies: 3185
Views: 340516

Re: Magic the Gathering: Ask a Judge

The relevant part of the rules text for Unearth says "If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else"... so if something is specifically exiling it, then Unearth isn't going to affect it - it's already going to exile, there's nothing the replacement effect ...

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