MTG Salvation

Other dual lands have a condition to have them enter the battlefield untapped. Shocklands enter untapped if you take 2 damage. Fetchlands deal 1 damage to you and effectively result in the same thing as these new duals. M10 duals required that you already have a basic (in standard), while Scars duals needed to be one of your first two land drops. These have no real drawback. It's the color you need when you play it. If you have one of these and a basic land in your opening hand, you have both colors you need with no drawback, much like M10 and Scars duals. You could play 12 of these in a 3 color deck, and there's no reason you shouldn't. Who wouldn't play these over any of the other lands I've mentioned? There's no drawback. And in a set that will inevitably have land bounce to promote landfall effects, you're not even stuck on the first color you picked.

Am I the only one that is put off by the blatant power creep? I remember making custom lands that people criticized for not ETB tapped because they were "strictly better" than basics. Now Wizards is just straight up printing dual lands that don't ETB tapped but you have to settle on one of the two colors. How are these not instantly slotting out basics? Especially with recent duals being harder than ever to have enter untapped? Am I missing something, or is the power creep on display just massive for this set?

Further, the reason Goyf doesn’t die to a Bolt in that situation is because state based actions would be checked after the Bolt resolves, at which point it’s in the graveyard, giving Goyf 4 toughness and 3 damage marked.

I would clarify that not every spell exiled goes on the stack, only whichever ones you’d like to cast. So assuming you have Eye of the Storm with a Bolt under it then you cast Baral’s Expertise the stack would be:

EotS trigger
Expertise

If you let the trigger resolve, it exiles the Expertise and gives you copies of it and Bolt that you can cast. You do have to decide which ones to cast before you can then cast Brainstorm on top of those copies, which would trigger EotS again. However if you cast Brainstorm before the EotS trigger resolves, the stack would be:

EotS trigger
Brainstorm
EotS trigger
Expertise

The timing is pretty important in this case, as Brainstorming before you allow the trigger to resolve would only net you 1 expertise.

EDIT: As far as your original question’s stack though it would be:

EotS trigger
Expertise

The trigger resolves and exiles expertise, allowing you to then cast the copy of the expertise and the bolt, which would look like:

Expertise
Bolt

Expertise resolves and you cast Brainstorm off the expertise:

EotS trigger
Brainstorm
Bolt

Trigger resolves, exiles Brainstorm and gives you copies of it, Expertise, and Bolt:

Expertise
Brainstorm
Bolt
Bolt

Side note: anything that trigger each time you cast an instant or sorcery would trigger on the original card being cast and the copy being cast. A card like Wee Dragonauts would get really big really fast in this scenario.

3. When copies of something enter the battlefield, they enter the same way that thing would when it first enters the battlefield. You can read rule 706.2 to learn more about copiable values, but in a nutshell, copies only copy the text on the card, not any counters or temporary modifiers like “+2/+2 until end of turn”. For a Planeswalker, that includes its starting loyalty, which for Jace is 3.

I do think it’s relevant to point out that they can remove both counters in response to whatever would be dealing the 1 damage. This wouldn’t work if it was combat damage and the player with the Ballista let his 2 combat damage go through, but in the case of something like Rain of Embers, the player with the Ballista can remove both counters before the damage resolves.

Huge update.

So I haven't completely finished it yet, but I'm uploading what I have so far. I haven't added the leveler overlays, devoid overlays, or miracle overlays, but here's a small sample of what this template is capable of:

You can download the template here.

I made a thing.

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And it's done!

You can download the PSD file here.

I'm not sure if people are still interested in this, but it's just about finished. Take a peek

I've been on a break from Magic for a couple years, and away from these forums for quite some time. After 5 years though, I should hope my Photoshopping skills have gotten infinitely better.

Because it can be relevant, if you end the turn *during* the end step (and, thus, with the "lose the game" trigger on the stack), it will not trigger again. It will be exiled when the turn is ended so you still won't lose, but it is important to note that letting it trigger and ending the turn prevents you from losing and prevents it from triggering again.

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The thing is that it's a situation where both sides are decidedly not equal. On the one hand, we have a member of the community who may or may not have done some things people dislike (such as play Flip It Or Rip It) and members of the community who act in utterly toxic, virulent ways that actively serve to shrink the community by driving people away. Defending the latter is defending trolling and harassment, and MTGSalvation is not the space for such activities. Therefore, discussing recent events is fine, but attempting to defend abhorrent behaviour and those who commit same is not fine. I won't speak to the above-infracted post, but it's perfectly possible to have a civilized discussion about the events surrounding Christine Sprankle without delving into "SJW" nonsense.

Hey hey hey. You said the forbidden acronym. Give yourself an infraction. Now.

To clarify, Ashiok gave a well-written, thoughtful analysis of the situation and its many moving parts, and Wildfire basically saw the forbidden acronym (look, I don't want an infraction myself) and tossed out an infraction. This is an opportunity to have a real discussion about the issue, but it would seem the mods just want an echo chamber.

Look, I believe that Jeremy is a toxic presence in the Magic community. He's frankly a vile, yet oddly impotent *****stirrer. However, when we completely wall off an opportunity for real dialogue and discussion, we confer newfound credibility to the venom he so readily spews out. Sometimes, we have to hear the other side, even if it does make our skin crawl a little bit. Hearts and minds aren't changed by silence and censorship.

But of course, if none of the mods can get on board with this, I'll save any potential commenters the time:

"Jeremy sucks and women should be treated fairly." x 100. /thread

I know I'm not in a position to have a say on this, but I think it is just better to lock the thread and do not talk about the subject then. I accept my infraction, it is okay, but higher levels of policing in a delicate matter like this is not going to foster an environment for a positive dicussion, in my view. I feel like this current situation with the cosplayer is directly related to the topics I mentioned before. Look at the state of this thread: there are 4 mod posts so far and 3 community member posts.

If you think the subject can't be addressed in certain angles to the point that it can't be discussed, then it is better not to discuss it. That is how I see it. For instance, I disagree with something Marsquisd said, but I can't even address it without receiving another infraction.

So the trick is to not post in this thread, then? Looking at the other thread it seems like everyone not condemning the guy was given a warning for trolling. This is really poor conduct by the mods.