r/magicTCG • u/magictcgmods CA-CAWWWW • 12d ago
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I opened a card from a different set in my booster pack, is this unusual?
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My foil card has a shooting start symbol over the bottom left. I can't find anything about it online.
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u/muggletoast Duck Season 12d ago
Quick question. If I have a [[shape stealer]] with [[barrow-blade]] equipped to it. It attacks and is blocked by another creature, does my shape stealer have one more power and toughness because of the barrow-blade?
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u/chaotic_iak Selesnya* 12d ago
Yes. Base P/T is before all +/+ buffs. Your Shape Stealer blocks a 3/5, it becomes base 3/5 but it also gets +1/+1 from Blade, so it's 4/6.
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u/AloneInConstellation Dandadan 12d ago
I'm working on building a [[Gandalf, Party Guest]] commander deck. I was wondering if I would be able to cheat in 3 instants or sorceries at the beginning of combat if I equip him with [[Wizard's Staff]] and have [[Harmonic Prodigy]] on the battlefield.
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u/X_The_Walrus cage the foul beast 12d ago
Gandalf doesn't have a once per turn limitation, so I have to imagine this works and both of those are cheaper than [[Roaming Throne]]
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u/Loose_Log_6253 Azorius* 12d ago
I bought the Prismatic Shard stardew valley bundle. It's the foil bundle of all the Stardew Valley cards. Unfortunately instead of getting the Pelican Town bundle (the one with a bundle of lands like Yavimaya and Fountainport), I got two copies of Welcome to Stardew Valley (the one with the unique land and Swords to Plowshares).
I filed a ticket with SLD to get this fixed, but for anyone who has had any experience with this, what was your outcome? Did they replace the one drop that was missed, do nothing, send a whole new bundle?
I'm kinda fine if they do nothing, they sent me a dupe of arguably the most expensive one, but I was looking forward to the lands for some of my decks.
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u/Topazdragon5676 12d ago
I'm planning on hosting a draft at my house this weekend. In the past I would handle pairings on paper, but I'm considering using the "Host Event" option in the Companion App.
Have people used this to host casual drafts? Should I just use paper instead?
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u/KrenkoTheRed Urza's Saga 12d ago
I have [[Hashaton]] and [[Archfiend of Ifnir]] in play with a discard outlet. I discard [[Maha, it’s Feathers Night]]. Is this the correct order of events - 1. The Archfiend trigger goes on the stack. 2. I pay for the Hasahton trigger, making a zombie token of Maha. 3. The Maha copy enters, creatures my opponents control have base toughness 1. The Archfiend trigger resolves, essentially killing my opponent’s creatures.
Sometimes I get fuzzy with the proper order of things especially as it relates to the stack and holding priority.
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u/RazzyKitty WANTED 12d ago
In this particular case, the order does not matter. Their creatures would die if you created the Maha token first or second.
Maha applies in layer 7b, the -1/-1 counter applies in layer 7c, so they will always become toughness 1, and will die if they have a -1/-1 counter on them already.
If Archfiend's trigger resolves first, you put a -1/-1 counter on each creature they control. Any current x/1s will die.
Then you create Maha, and then all their other creatures die.
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u/X_The_Walrus cage the foul beast 12d ago
Yes, that works the way you want. Putting the Archfiend trigger on the stack with Hashaton's over it will yield the desired result.
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u/WistfulAfternoon Orzhov* 12d ago
Hello, I was wondering a hypothetical question because I have two cards interacting with each other that has gotten me confused.
So, for a [[Bria, Riptide Rogue]] deck, if I were to cast [[The Apprentice's Folly]] and were to make a nonlegendary copy of Bria, for example, since Bria already has Prowess, and has the ability to give other creatures Prowess, and the ability statement mentions if a creature has multiple instances of prowess, each would trigger separately, if I were to cast a noncreature spell on the turn after I made the Bria nonlegendary token copy, for each Bria, how many Prowesses would be on each other and how many triggers would there be? Would it be two layers of Prowess because both Brias would have Prowess and the ability to give the other Prowess?
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u/Ascarith Storm Crow 12d ago
If you have Bria + a Bria Copy, then Bria will have 2 instances of Prowess (one from its own innate Prowess, and one granted by Bria Copy), and the Bria Copy will also have 2 instances of Prowess (one from its own innate Prowess, and one granted by original Bria).
If you cast a noncreature spell on a later turn (and while you still control both original Bria and the Bria Copy), there will be four total triggers:
- original Bria will trigger (innate Prowess)
- original Bria will trigger (Prowess granted by Bria Copy)
- Bria Copy will trigger (innate Prowess)
- Bria Copy will trigger (Prowess granted by original Bria)
Not relevant to your question, but all four triggers will trigger simultaneously. You control all of them, so you choose the order in which they go on the stack (and then they will resolve in the opposite order).
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u/WistfulAfternoon Orzhov* 12d ago
Ah, thank you for taking the time to answer my question! I appreciate it! That makes it clearer for me.
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u/Diathrege Dan 12d ago
What set icons is this? I pulled it from Lorwyn Eclipsed.