No difference at all.
Since the Aura reentering from exile doesn't target, it can attach to anything that it can legally be attached to (so pretty much everything but a card with Protection from Blue)
Well, if he is trying to steal your akroma with the Reins, he can't.
Grab the Reins clearly says "Gain control of target creature"
So i'm not sure why your friend believes otherwise
But your opponent doesn't get to see what you are doing until you paid for it and the spell is still in your hand (not on the stack), just highlighted while you are determining targets and paying it.
That's a perfectly understandable thing for them to do.
If the opponent saw a spell as soon as you clicked it, this would heavily punish a simple misclick. You can't 'accidently' begin casting a spell in real life, so to mimic that they made it so the spell isn't revealed till fully cast.
This is less of an error on MTGO's part, and more of the program trying to be fair as possible and not destroy someone because they clicked a card in their hand in error.
Please show me how. When I click on the spell, the client asks me to pay for it, then put it on the stack.
I'm not sure what you are talking about.
I use MTGO, and when I cast a spell, it goes on the stack, then choose targets, pay costs.
If it's something like Fling, i'll sac the creature before I pay the mana.
I remember another article in the past where a guy was building a Modern deck and in it he put 4 Ponders. I wish I remember who it was but the preverbial you know what hit the fan pretty hard with it, considering he talked about how much he played it and tested it against the top decks at his store and online and how much he won with it.
There was a big outcry over that. Anyone remember that? It was about a year ago or so. Hard to imagine A) no one he playtested noticed, B) he didn't notice, and C) the editor didn't notice. He appologized the next week along with the editor I believe.
Yes, if the creature would be destroyed from lethal damage, regeneration can save him.
You'll have to regenerate him before the fight ability actually resolves for it to save him.
First strike is a combat only ability, that modifies how combat works, so no it doesn't do anything.
Deathtouch on the other hand modifies how all damage from the source works, so it will work. If a creature with deathtouch fights another creature, the second creature will die.
What if a creature was chosen for clone to copy, let's say Giant Spider. Will clone still enter as a 1/1 Giant Spider with no reach? What if the creature clone copy is an Arcbound Lancer?
Yep, it would be whatever it copied, then humility would make it a 1/1 with no abilities. The lancer would make it a 5/5. Since modular is also a replacement effect, it'll apply after you choose to copy the Lancer, and before it enters the battlefield still. So it'll be a 1/1 with 4 counters
A card is the colors in it's casting cost in all zones.
So a Hussar Patrol has W and U in it's cost, so it's white and blue.
Horde of Notions has WUBRG in it's mana cost, so it is white, blues, black, red, and green.
105.2. An object can be one or more of the five colors, or it can be no color at all. An object is the color or colors of the mana symbols in its mana cost, regardless of the color of its frame.
Since the Aura reentering from exile doesn't target, it can attach to anything that it can legally be attached to (so pretty much everything but a card with Protection from Blue)
Grab the Reins clearly says "Gain control of target creature"
So i'm not sure why your friend believes otherwise
That's a perfectly understandable thing for them to do.
If the opponent saw a spell as soon as you clicked it, this would heavily punish a simple misclick. You can't 'accidently' begin casting a spell in real life, so to mimic that they made it so the spell isn't revealed till fully cast.
This is less of an error on MTGO's part, and more of the program trying to be fair as possible and not destroy someone because they clicked a card in their hand in error.
I'm not sure what you are talking about.
I use MTGO, and when I cast a spell, it goes on the stack, then choose targets, pay costs.
If it's something like Fling, i'll sac the creature before I pay the mana.
So no.
It was Jacob Van Lunen, and it was his modern Wildfire deck.
I mostly remember this because I made a thread kind of ranting about him and all his mistakes
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=400259
State based actions are checked any time a player would receive priority and before any triggered abilities would go on the stack.
You'll have to regenerate him before the fight ability actually resolves for it to save him.
First strike is a combat only ability, that modifies how combat works, so no it doesn't do anything.
Deathtouch on the other hand modifies how all damage from the source works, so it will work. If a creature with deathtouch fights another creature, the second creature will die.
Yep, it would be whatever it copied, then humility would make it a 1/1 with no abilities. The lancer would make it a 5/5. Since modular is also a replacement effect, it'll apply after you choose to copy the Lancer, and before it enters the battlefield still. So it'll be a 1/1 with 4 counters
1 damage tramples over in the first damage step, then 2 more tramples over because lack of a blocker in the second damage step.
Gatherer updated the ruling to this on the 1st:
We YuGiOh now
So a Hussar Patrol has W and U in it's cost, so it's white and blue.
Horde of Notions has WUBRG in it's mana cost, so it is white, blues, black, red, and green.