Coward is a creature subtype, but isn't printed on any creatures as far as I know. Changelings (creatures with the Changeling ability) are cowards and they're warriors. They're also squid wizards. Boldwyr Intimidator makes changelings unable to block each-other.

In practice, though, even when you've got them in hand, they're pretty hard to cast. I can usually get the mana to get Karona online, but not cast one of the Avatars. Also, the vivids are fine in my playgroup because there's usually a deck drawing attention turns before I need to start casting anyth...

Face-down cards are

Creature -
2/2

If it doesn't have a morph cost on the card, the Morph ability can't be activated.

Face-down cards have no CMC.

A copy of a face-down card is a colorless 2/2 with no creature types and no abilities. It'll also have no morph ability or cost.

This is my Karona mono-god build; it's pretty shaky now because I have some slots filled with "I wanted to put this in the deck" that should be filled instead with mana fixing.

It'll be like the dragons. They've got a standard way of writing mana costs.

the threads pop up when the crew is soliciting questions for Lrrcasts.

1x Sprout Swarm 1x Vitaspore Thallid 1x Psychotrope Thallid 4x Fecundity 4x Doubling Season 1x Saproling Symbiosis 1x Mycoloth 1x Overrun 2x Heartbeat of Spring 2x Phyrexian Altar 2x Ashnod's Altar 4x Parallel Lives 4x Llanowar Elves 4x Elvish Mystic 2x Birds of Paradise 2x Nemata, Grove Guardian 4x...

hooray for layers and timestamps!

I'm okay with the "base power and toughness" template now. It actually makes it easier to explain layers.

that foil prophet will be worth money to commander players in a year or so.

this is correct. If an effect (say Rogue's Passage) said "target creature can't be blocked this turn," then Turn to Frog doesn't change that. But Triton Shorestalker has an ability that makes it unable to be blocked, and Turn to Frog removes that ability.

I saw an upside-down rare in a pack yesterday; it also had a slight crimp on one side. it's not as bad as the box of BNG that my lgs has just finished going through. At least three commons from each pack were severely miscut. The border is double-thick on the left, and the card frame is right up aga...

doesn't "it's still a ____" override type replacement? (205.1b)

It'll just be Land. Illusion is attached to the type Creature, and can only exist on a creature.

PI-Gideon is just PW - Gideon, unless he becomes a creature. Then the copy is type PW Creature - Gideon Illusion.

Yes, anything that interacts with a named counter can interact with all things that have that named counter on them. Fury Charm can remove time counters from Time Bomb.

it's certainly pretty bad short-term EV, but core sets are usually short print runs, and many of the new cards look like they'll have long-term value in non-rotating formats, so it's worth picking them up for long-term trading value. Notables: Ob Nix, Hushwing Gryff, Chain Veil, all of the new plane...

I have one of the many Blade Runner director's cuts. There are like 5? It's a bit ridiculous, definitely let us know if it's a director's cut, and what version. Ridley pls pls Blade runner has 5 commercially available cuts: US Theatrical (has voiceovers) Int'l Release (more violent than US release)...

I had no trouble

We had so much fun with a resolved Knowledge Pool on Saturday. We had to physically represent the stack at nearly all times because I was playing Counterspell 2! (You're still not doing that.), and the other corner of the table was playing Storm, and the Pool had been filled up with hard counters an...

hooray for cast triggers!

I got to Stifle a storm trigger today.

I would also like to thank the many players who didn't care for their giant Garruk cards because now I have a playset. Dunno what this will do for me, but why wouldn't I want a playset of a planeswalker? http://puu.sh/a96ci.jpg I didn't get to play Prerelease, but I did know that people were just g...

yeah, it's a less energetic matter-antimatter reaction

BUT if your Undying guy dies with both a +1/+1 counter and enough -1/-1 counters on it to kill it, it'll not come back, as it dies to state based actions before the counters annihilate each-other, and it had a +1/+1 when it died.

I think he intends to double kicker and buyback costs with the effect

most instances of lifegain are for one or two life.

I can honestly say that Shahrazad is a card I've never seen played. I think I've seen all of the Power Nine hit the table, but not that one. Good luck finding it! I've never seen it played, but I've personally held five separate copies. The owner of the newest LGS in town has a few that he's willin...

Ugh, the collections I'm working on are going to be so much harder than that. 1: Phil & Kaja Foglio art -- 1+ of each printing (incl. Claymore J. Flapdoodle) 2: The reserved list excluding power nine -- 1+ of each card Shahrazad is my chase card for both collections right now. My last Reserved L...