Tag: Memoricide
Shortcutting to Resolution
Three of the official shortcuts deal with announcing or asking about choices before those choices need to be made. If you cast a spell or activate an ability and declare choices that aren’t normally made until that spell or ability resolves, you have to abide by those declared choices unless another player responds to that […]
Planeswalker names and subtypes.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This article has been updated as of the prerelease of Magic 2014 on July 13; Please refer to the revisions below. When one or more planeswalkers with the same subtype is in play, both will go to the graveyard when state-based actions are applied. How this works is different than the ‘legend rule’ […]
You can forget when resolving Memoricide.
instructs its controller to search for ‘any number’ of the named card in the hand, graveyard and library of the targeted player. ‘Any number’ can mean zero. This means that is is possible for a player to miss, intentionally or not, a copy of the named card in a graveyard. This is a bit different […]
When to pay mana for Leonin Arbiter’s ability
‘s static ability prevents player from searching their libraries unless they pay 2 mana. Paying this mana is a special action that can only be done when a player has priority. Technically speaking, in order to search your library you must pay this two mana before any effect that would allow you to search starts […]