113.7a Once activated or triggered, an ability exists on the stack independently of its source.
Destruction or removal of the source after that time won’t affect the ability. Note that some
abilities cause a source to do something (for example, “Prodigal Pyromancer deals 1 damage to
any target”) rather than the ability doing anything directly. In these cases, any activated or
triggered ability that references information about the source for use while announcing an
activated ability or putting a triggered ability on the stack checks that information when the
ability is put onto the stack. Otherwise, it will check that information when it resolves. In both
instances, if the source is no longer in the zone it’s expected to be in at that time, its last known
information is used. The source can still perform the action even though it no longer exists.
Yes, you can respond to the upkeep trigger that phases your lands out by tapping your lands for mana. You have to use that mana in that upkeep step, though, since it will be emptied from your mana pool when the step ends.
Yes. To convoke for a blue mana symbol you have to tap a blue creature. That blue creature doesn't have to be blue from the get go, doesn't have to have any blue mana symbols in its cost. It just has to be blue at the time you want to convoke.
Again, note, that a Verdurous Gearhulk under the effect of a Painter's Servant set to blue is still green. It is also blue. Thus making it a blue and green object.
1. I declare Green with Painter which turn all my cards to green... With that Can I use the Green Gearhulk to convoke Thought Monitor Blue Mana cost since the Gearhulk is already green?
No. Coloring the Monitor card green does not change the fact, that there is a BLUE mana symbol in the mana cost. You want to convoke that, you need to tap a BLUE creature.
2. I declare Blue with Painter which turn all my cards to Blue... With that Can I use my previoisly colorless Ornitopher now Blue to Convoke for Thought Monitor's Blue Mana cost since the Ornitopher is already turned Blue?
Well, Master of Etherium IS blue, so that one can be used for convoking the Thought Monitor's blue mana, even without involving the Painter's Servant. But you CAN'T use the Painter's Servant set to green to convoke the blue mana, cause the Servant is only green, due to its own effect. Set it to blue, and you can.
Not sure, what you are refering to with "both". But improvise only reduces the generic cost, no matter the color (or lack thereof) of your artifacts.
I mean also Affinity, can only reduce generic cost. So having a blue colored artifact in play like a Master of etherium wouldn't reduce the colored cost of another blue artifact with affinity like Thought Monitor.
1. I still need to pay blue mana right?
2. The less of Master of Etherium only counts as a generic mana less right?
Because just like Improvise it only reduce generiç mana and the color of that artifact is ignored with Thought Monitor So I am still required to *** blue mana?
Yes to all.
Only if you have the creatures nessessary to tap to convoke out the colored portion of the spell. Colored artifacts don't matter for convoke, you need creatures, and creatures of the right color to convoke down the colored portion of the cost.
If I declare GREEN with Painter Servant to my deck with Chief Engineer in play.
With that it turns all the cards everywhere from that DECK colored Green, So I could now Convoke cast Thought Monitor with other colorless creature together with Esper Sentinel reardless of being originally colored white now turned green by painter. So do that work?
Thought Monitor has a blue mana symbol in its cost, so you need a blue creature to convoke that part. Set Painter's Servant to blue and this works, yes. Set to green, it does not.
Also, minor note, Painter's Servant adds the chosen color to whatever colors the cards already have, it does not overwrite them.
1.) I was thinking Colored Artifac and also Improvise doesnt lessen the colored mana Right
Correct. Improvise only reduces the generic part of the cost by 1 for each artifact you control.
2.) But both can pay all the cost down to zero
Not sure, what you are refering to with "both". But improvise only reduces the generic cost, no matter the color (or lack thereof) of your artifacts.
3.) But Convoke spells work with both colored and colorless artifact right?
Convoke needs creatures to tap. A colored artifact with convoke can be made cheaper by tapping a creature, tapping a creature of a color in the colored part of the mana cost can reduce thast colored part of the cost.
4.) So if I made all may artifact gain convoke using Chief Engineer then colored the deck with Painter Servant
I could pay all the costof all colored artifact paid down to zero even for originally colorless artifacts then now colored by painter. Right?
Only if you have the creatures nessessary to tap to convoke out the colored portion of the spell. Colored artifacts don't matter for convoke, you need creatures, and creatures of the right color to convoke down the colored portion of the cost.
It's all part of the same trigger. And because of that, since the trigger does not get to resolve due to all its targets having become illegal, NONE of its effects happen.
Both buyback and Gandalf's trigger are trying to replace the same event (the spell being put into the graveyard when it is finished resolving). As the controller of the affected object you get to decide which replacement effect to apply first. The other will then no longer be applicable, and your choice of replacement will be carried out.
Think of the opponent (or the attacked planeswalker) as being last in the damage assignment order. To reach them, all blockers before them in the damage assignment order must be assigned lethal damage.
Banding on defense only effects combat damage assignment. And for that, at least two legal blockers, at least one of which has to have banding or bands with [other] are nessessary. So no, the Hill Giant can't block the flyer in a band with something else.
702.22j During the combat damage step, if an attacking creature is being blocked by a creature with
banding, or by both a [quality] creature with “bands with other [quality]” and another [quality]
creature, the defending player (rather than the active player) chooses how the attacking
creature’s damage is assigned. That player can divide that creature’s combat damage as they
choose among any creatures blocking it. This is an exception to the procedure described in rule
510.1c.
No, 4 mana is what you get. Or 3 if you activate the land's original mana ability. The original mana ability and the mana ability granted by Grafted Growth do not combine, you have to decide which one to activate, the other you can then not activate. Because the cost of tapping the land can no longer be paid, it was already tapped for the other ability. Market Festival then adds 2 mana to what the ability you activated produced.
Yes. The source of the damage isn't around anymore, so the game uses last known information about it to determine the results of the damage is deals. This LKI includes it having deathtouch, so any creature receiving damage from it will be destroyed by state based actions once the trigger has finished resolving.
113.7a Once activated or triggered, an ability exists on the stack independently of its source.
Destruction or removal of the source after that time won’t affect the ability. Note that some
abilities cause a source to do something (for example, “Prodigal Pyromancer deals 1 damage to
any target”) rather than the ability doing anything directly. In these cases, any activated or
triggered ability that references information about the source for use while announcing an
activated ability or putting a triggered ability on the stack checks that information when the
ability is put onto the stack. Otherwise, it will check that information when it resolves. In both
instances, if the source is no longer in the zone it’s expected to be in at that time, its last known
information is used. The source can still perform the action even though it no longer exists.
702.2e If an object changes zones before an effect causes it to deal damage, its last known
information is used to determine whether it had deathtouch.
To answer your first question, yes, you can have multiple auras on the same permanent, as long as none of the auras are giving the permanent an ability that makes the permanent an illegal target (for example, shroud or protection).
A little nitpick, but just to make stuff clear. Hexproof and shroud only stop CASTING more auras onto the permanent. They DO NOT stop ATTACHING more auras onto that permanent. Usually an aura is cast as a spell to make it enter the battlefield, so hexprof and shroud stop that. But if an aura enters the battlefield in any way other than as a resolving spell with a designated target to enchant (like being created as a token copy, a resolving Copy Enchantment, or coming back from temporary exile), it CAN get attached to a hexproof or shrouded permanent. Protection, otoh, outright stops being enchanted, so that ability will stop an aura attachment anyone tries in such a fashion.
Again, note, that a Verdurous Gearhulk under the effect of a Painter's Servant set to blue is still green. It is also blue. Thus making it a blue and green object.
No. Coloring the Monitor card green does not change the fact, that there is a BLUE mana symbol in the mana cost. You want to convoke that, you need to tap a BLUE creature.
Yes.
Yes to all.
Thought Monitor has a blue mana symbol in its cost, so you need a blue creature to convoke that part. Set Painter's Servant to blue and this works, yes. Set to green, it does not.
Also, minor note, Painter's Servant adds the chosen color to whatever colors the cards already have, it does not overwrite them.
Correct. Improvise only reduces the generic part of the cost by 1 for each artifact you control.
Not sure, what you are refering to with "both". But improvise only reduces the generic cost, no matter the color (or lack thereof) of your artifacts.
Convoke needs creatures to tap. A colored artifact with convoke can be made cheaper by tapping a creature, tapping a creature of a color in the colored part of the mana cost can reduce thast colored part of the cost.
Only if you have the creatures nessessary to tap to convoke out the colored portion of the spell. Colored artifacts don't matter for convoke, you need creatures, and creatures of the right color to convoke down the colored portion of the cost.
702.22j During the combat damage step, if an attacking creature is being blocked by a creature with
banding, or by both a [quality] creature with “bands with other [quality]” and another [quality]
creature, the defending player (rather than the active player) chooses how the attacking
creature’s damage is assigned. That player can divide that creature’s combat damage as they
choose among any creatures blocking it. This is an exception to the procedure described in rule
510.1c.
A little nitpick, but just to make stuff clear. Hexproof and shroud only stop CASTING more auras onto the permanent. They DO NOT stop ATTACHING more auras onto that permanent. Usually an aura is cast as a spell to make it enter the battlefield, so hexprof and shroud stop that. But if an aura enters the battlefield in any way other than as a resolving spell with a designated target to enchant (like being created as a token copy, a resolving Copy Enchantment, or coming back from temporary exile), it CAN get attached to a hexproof or shrouded permanent. Protection, otoh, outright stops being enchanted, so that ability will stop an aura attachment anyone tries in such a fashion.