Please enable JavaScript to get the best experience from this site. Very importantly, the effects of Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts and Dissipation Field aren't replacement effects. Nicole blocks with a Samite Healer and activates Samite Healer’s ability to prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to it. A replacement effect is a type of continuous effect that watches for one event to happen, and replaces it entirely with another event. This replacement effect may apply more than once to the same event. Its owner must pay. Effects that cause a permanent to enter the battlefield as a copy of something else are the third type of “high priority” replacement effects, applying after control-modifying, but before ordinary replacement effects like Imposing Sovereign’s.
Example: A player is instructed to create a token that’s a copy of Voice of All, which has the ability “As Voice of All enters the battlefield, choose a color.” Doubling Season has an ability that reads “If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.” Because entering the battlefield is an event contained within the event of creating a token, the effect of Doubling Season must be applied first, and then the effects of the two Voice of All tokens may be applied in either order. 616.1c If any of the replacement and/or prevention effects would cause an object to become a copy of another object as it enters the battlefield, one of them must be chosen.
Introductions are in order – Official names for stuff, Just my type – Types, subtypes, and supertypes, Let me Spell it out for you – How to cast a spell, Learning how to count – Converted mana costs, Swimming in the Mana Pool – Mana abilities, TOADS – Power- and toughness-changing abilities, What you thought you knew – Tournament trivia, Enters the battlefield replacement effects, Investigations | GP Cleveland Tournament Report, Updated! You can either exile it or shuffle it in to the library as once one is chosen the other no longer applies. Ads by Fandom. Then Essence of the Wild will set them to its own copiable values. Once the spell resolves, though, it’s too late to regenerate the creature. If you’re playing a companion, it must adhere to color identity and singleton rules.
The instructions on Smallpox are performed in the order written, so the discard happens before the sacrifice. :|. A: Damage is processed in a three-part sequence.
I once was an L1 judge and have a fair bit of rules understanding but since mutate happens to be new and fairly complicated in some situations, one question came up. There are three replacement effects. 616.1b If any of the replacement and/or prevention effects would modify under whose control an object would enter the battlefield, one of them must be chosen. If both abilities are in effect, which takes precedence? Debt of Loyalty wants to modify this event by regenerating the bear. Q: Amy controls Furnace of Rath and attacks Nicole with 2 3/3 beast tokens. Even though when you pay the cost, it will be replaced by something much less useful, the game will still see that and count the cost as being paid. 5/3/2019 If Amy makes Nicole take the hit, Furnace of Rath will apply and double this to 4 damage. Note: If it was Havoc Festival instead of Sulfuric Vortex, the situation changes. It also means that replacement effects that would increase the damage dealt by that source, or would have that source deal that damage to a different object or player, have no event to replace, so they have no effect. Meanwhile, a replacement effect can be worded in a number of ways. From the glossary of the Comprehensive Rules (September 25, 2020—Zendikar Rising), From the Comprehensive Rules (September 25, 2020—Zendikar Rising). If she applies Essence of the Wild first, that will set Clone’s copiable values to Essence’s. If a commander is in a graveyard or in exile and that card was put into that zone since the last time state-based actions were checked, its owner may put it into the command zone. Replacement effects that interact with any part of a damage event take place at the appropriate place in that sequence. This means that ability must apply before the troll enters the battlefield. This page was last edited on 8 October 2019, at 20:28.
Whenever two replacement effects occur the effected objects controller (or owner if there is no controller) chooses which order to apply them in.
In the end, we left the replacement effect in place for hidden zones (hand and library) and now use the state-based action for graveyard and exile. Will it enter the battlefield tapped or untapped? 107.3d This rule referred to making choices for how to pay costs during resolution by saying to choose while paying. Because Dictate doubles damage to any permanent, not just creatures, Jace won’t get off easy if Amy redirects the damage to Jace before it doubles. The Commander Website is Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy.
Flashback means, in part, “If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack.” Remand’s self-replacement effect is applied first, replacing the event of putting the flashback card into its owner’s graveyard with putting it into their hand. Suppose she applies Furnace of Rath’s doubling first. Q: Nicole has a Grizzly Bears, which Amy targets with a Debt of Loyalty. Worship would modify the damage event so that it reduced Nicole to 1 life in that case. Rather, they are able to happen at any time, even in the middle of … © 2020 MagicFind, Inc. All rights reserved.
A: Both of these are replacement effects that want to modify the way Primal Clay enters the battlefield.
Amy would then choose whether to redirect 2 damage from Nicole to Jace. Suppose that she chooses to apply Furnace of Rath first. Introduction This document is the ultimate authority for Magic: The Gathering® competitive game play. If you cast Rescue on your commander and choose to send them to the command zone, then because this is a replacement effect, Rescue functionally reads “Put target permanent you control into the command zone” — the “return to your hand” event is replaced and never happens.
Q: Amy controls a Furnace of Rath and attacks with a 3/3 creature with trample. As such, “commander-ness” cannot be copied or overwritten by continuous effects.
A: The damage event starts as [2 damage to Nicole, 1 damage to Samite Healer]. This site works best with JavaScript enabled.
Tracking the commander through all of that is stretching the Magic rules, and while I think we could have made it work, it was tricky both rules-wise and physically.
Please enable JavaScript to get the best experience from this site. As Thunder-Thrash Elder enters the battlefield, its controller can choose to sacrifice Runeclaw Bear when applying the devour 3 effect or when applying the devour 5 effect, but not both. After the Gather Specimens ability is processed, Nicole will be the player refered to by the “you” in Primal Clay’s ability, so she will be the one to make the choice for it. Many of the numbered rules are divided into subrules, and Whichever shield is used replaces the entire destruction event, so the subsequent ones do not apply. Examples: Finally, all other replacement effects apply. Suppose instead that Nicole chooses to apply the redirection effect first. Then, this is processed into its results, so the event becomes [Nicole loses 6 life, 6 damage is marked on Nicole’s creature, 2 damage is marked on Amy’s creature, Nicole gains 2 life]. At this point, Golgari Grave-Troll is still in Amy’s graveyard, so it will count itself, along with the Narcomoebas that were put there as part of casting Dread Return, for a total of 4 +1/+1 counters. Q: Nicole controls a Rest in Peace when she uses a Lapse of Certainty to counter Amy’s Grizzly Bears. The card retains it’s commander-ness through any status changes, and is still a commander even when controlled by another player. Nicole is the affected player, so she decides what order these apply. Unfortunately, this choice won’t make much of a difference. Q: Amy controls Courser of Kruphix and plays a Breeding Pool from the top of her library. If she applies Clone first, that ability will set Clone’s copiable values to those of Fusion Elemental. Both want it to be a copy, so they both apply in the same “layer.” Amy, as the affected player, may apply them in whatever order she wishes, but neither order will result in Clone entering as a copy of Fusion Elemental. This replacement effect may apply more than once to the same event. Example: Two permanents are on the battlefield.
Then flashback’s replacement effect applies and replaces putting it into their hand with exiling it. The wording of these effects use "instead", "As
If a commander would be put into its owner’s hand or library from anywhere, its owner may put it into the command zone instead.
The situation: I control two Bramblewood Paragons and a Primal Vigor. Both of these are triggered abilities. As that token is created, the token’s controller chooses a color for it. Replacement effects don’t require priority or use the stack when they apply.
A: No. For instance, a. Rather, they are an effect of a resolving spell or ability that replaces part or all f that spell or ability's own effects. First self-replacement effects apply. Example: One effect reads “If you would gain life, draw that many cards instead,” and another reads “If you would draw a card, return a card from your graveyard to your hand instead.” Both effects combine (regardless of the order they came into existence): Instead of gaining 1 life, the player puts a card from their graveyard into their hand. A: Untapped. The Hand, Wrist and Forearm MTG contains treatment recommendations for carpal tunnel syndrome, and will replace the current Carpal Tunnel Syndrome MTG effective January 1, 2021. As such, it is applied, and the decision to pay 2 life or not is made, before Breeding Pool enters the battlefield. In this case, the only possible outcomes are [4 damage to Jace] or [4 damage to Nicole]. A: Similar to the last question, Golgari Grave-Troll’s counter-putting ability is a replacement effect that modifies how it enters the battlefield.