The other relevant rule that Anusien referred to:

415.6. A spell or ability on the stack is an illegal target for itself.

Narcomoeba
1{U} (2), Creature - Illusion 1/1
Flying
When Narcomoeba is put into your graveyard from your library, you may put it into play.

1) The ability starts with the word "When," so it's a triggered ability and can be responded to just as any other (non-mana) triggered ability.

2) Since two triggered abilities can't resolve at the same time, each ability has to resolve separately. Assuming both dredges happened during the resolution of the same spell or ability (one whose effect involved multiple card draws), both abilities would go on the stack immediately after that spell or ability resolves, then both players would get priority.

No. The Cutpurse has to be in play to "see" combat damage being dealt, otherwise it won't trigger.

Yes, that's legal.

Note that, unlike with many other triggered abilities, the order is important here: if the RFG trigger is allowed to resolve first, the intervening-if clause in the token creation ability will see that the Bridge is no longer in your graveyard and you won't get the token.

This does NOT rely on timestamps. Urborg's effect is dependent on Blood Moon's effect, because Blood Moon modifies what Urborg can affect (by causing it to lose its ability).

The end result in this case is that all non-basic lands are Mountains, and Urborg does nothing.

Yes. Flashback only replaces the event of the card going somewhere other than the RFG zone.


Yes. The spell is considered a new object when you replay it via suspend, and "forgets" that it was previously played via flashback.

The FAQ is correct. When you sacrifice a land during the resolution of Chain of Vapor to create a copy, that copy goes onto the stack and both players get priority before that copy resolves. Since the "sac a land to copy" is part of the effect of Chain of Vapor's resolution, you cannot make a copy if the spell doesn't resolve.

I haven't really seen any of the Suspend cards that look playable in this format yet.

As for this particular one, there are so many one-cost Blue spells in the format that draw you cards right now that I just don't get where this is going to be played.

Certainly going to make Standard/Block a lot more interesting though.

Yes, in my opinion it should be. I've been playing True Believer in U/W Fish for months now and it's always been spectacular... even in matches where all it does is turn away Duress/Therapy.

The only problem with it is that you have to make sure you don't try to Ancestral yourself while it's in play. I did that once at an REL3 tournament...

So the only winning move is not to play... good job. WOPR would be proud.

Any deck that's playing this and not playing Necro can't possibly be correct.

Honestly I can't see any real justification for this card in this format. Reading over the Coldsnap spoiler, it didn't even get me to stop for a second reading of the text.

Getting into my third consecutive Top 4 with my deck is my number one goal actually.

Thing just HAD to be on my birthday didn't it?

Also Steve, you neglected to mention that a Meandecker got second place in said tournament.

Yeah, I'll be there.

Because there are any of a number of other spells that can also be pitched to FoW and Misdirection which don't become lame after Turn 2 in today's environment.

Heck, in today's Gifts-happy environment I'd play Dissipate before I played Force Spike.

Most unpowered metas have plenty of people trying to play Sligh-like aggro decks. Are you saying that no such decks exist in your meta?

As for Brainstorm, I simply have to disagree that it is better than Impulse for this particular deck, for reasons greater than Chalice for 1. Brainstorm is problematic when your opponent has a threat on the table, and you Brainstorm and see nothing but counters and land... cause guess what? Without that reshuffle you don't have an answer now and you're still not going to have an answer two turns from now. This isn't as much of a problem when your Brainstorm is likely to show you three cards that actually do three different things, all of which you may need to do over the next couple of turns.

I have played this deck quite a bit (both in testing and in tournaments of around 20 people or so) and even if I took Chalices out of the deck I'd still keep Impulse.

And while Force Spike may be a good first-turn counter, it's typically a bad counter on just about every other turn in the game. I have historically had enough problems getting Mana Leak to work after about turn 3, let alone Force Spike. (This is especially true when your opponent is tapping lands like Mishra's Workshop or Tolarian Academy to play spells.) Every time your opponent resolves a threat they didn't have to tap out for, you're going to wish that Force Spike was something else.

As for Control Magic or Old Man of the Sea, I think that depends on whether you expect Oath and Gifts (Control Magic) or aggro and Welder Stax (Old Man).

If you're unpowered and have to stay mono-U...

-4 Force Spike
-4 Brainstorm
+4 Chalice of the Void
+4 Impulse
+2 Some bounce spell (I'm thinking Echoing Truth)

Force Spike is lame if your mana denial strategy isn't working perfectly, and Impulse is better than Brainstorm in this deck because you have so many functionally redundant cards, and therefore can afford to see three of them go to the bottom of your deck.

Chalice is awesome for sure.

And you really want some way to deal with a problem permanent once it's actually in play, that doesn't require you to wait forever for Powder Keg.

Despite what everyone else on my team tells me, I have actually had a fair amount of success with Spiketail Hatchling. It dovetails well with Aether Vial and gives an evasion creature for Jitte. I've actually been running them instead of Skyfolk. (BTW, I made Top 8 at one of the Origins tournaments playing this deck... my loss in Swiss was against Steve Menendian playing Oath and my loss in Top 8 was to Rich Shay playing CS...)

I would suggest against Lotus Petal as it gives the opponent an artifact in your graveyard so Welder can start messing with your game plan.

Rootwater Thief is AMAZING here. I would probably run 3 in the Skyfolk slot.

I'm still not sure how I feel about Tinker/Colossus.

Here are the changes I would make:
-3 Skyfolk
-1 Petal
+1 Trop
+3 Rootwater Thief

If you want to get rid of Tinker/Colossus:
-1 Tinker
-1 Colossus
+2 Daze

The spell is still in the "stack" zone while it's resolving, which thereby makes it a legal target for Force of Will. The fact that it's "already resolving" doesn't change its location.

Your judge was incorrect. If you are performing the same action multiple times, and something is creating an optional replacement effect (such as Dredge), you're NOT obligated to use that optional replacement effect on the first instance of the action.

You can indeed draw one card from the Bazaar and then make the decision about whether to replace the second draw with Dredge. This is because Dredge is not a triggered ability, but rather a static ability that creates a replacement effect.

I believe his performance two days ago speaks for itself.

This is correct. The Colossus is still "being destroyed" due to lethal damage, which is specifically stopped due to being indestructible. The fact that lethal damage is being achieved by reducing toughness by one point, instead of dealing an 11th point of damage, is irrelevant.

If Darkblast actually reduced the toughness of the Colossus to zero, it would indeed get it shuffled back into its owner's deck.

How can you find Mask with Artificer's Intuition, seeing as how Mask costs 2 and AI only finds artifacts with a CMC of 1 or less?

I would run something like Tainted Pact first. At least it can find both halves of the combo.

Agreed on Jitte not really having a place here. With only six creatures you're far too likely to get draws with a Jitte and no creatures, meaning you have a dead card in hand until you draw one that you can actually protect.

Granted, it's awesome in some other decks like Fish variants with oodles of evasion creatures, but not here. This deck can't afford to have dead cards anywhere and that's what you'd get with Jitte.

Not really. Splashing another color messes up your mana: either you need to fetch a basic that isn't an Island, or you have to play a non-basic that gets locked down by your own B2B.


Despite running B2B, yeah, you want these. Stuff like Bazaar, Library, and Academy need to be dealt with sooner rather than later, and it can help you survive the early game until you can get a B2B with backup out.


I really like Keg, personally. It does a great job of beating up on bad aggro decks that lean on 1 and 2 cc creatures. Does a decent number on Fish if they don't already have a Null Rod out as well.


Probably looking at either a Chain of Vapor or maybe an AEther Spellbomb. Yeah, you might be able to cram a couple in somewhere... and that's advisable because Oath can be a pretty rough matchup for this deck.

Misdirection depends on the meta... the scrubbier the meta, the more useful Misdirection is because you'll have stuff like Lightning Bolt and Hymn to Tourach to target. In powered metas you're probably going to be relegated to using it as a "pitch counter" in a counter war or trying to steal an Ancestral Recall.


YMMV, but I've generally found the tempo loss of having to bounce my land to be frustrating. There is one potential upside to him, and that's bouncing your strips back to your hand if an opportunity to use them has presented itself.

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I believe the answer is C.





Since the UP trigger is held "until the next time a player would receive priority," and that doesn't happen until beginning-of-upkeep abilities go on the stack, then the UP trigger is resolved first.

I would probably take Maze of Ith. I'd expect to get back Proteus Staff most likely, or possibly Disturbed Burial.

Consider this:

For decks that can "proactively" use this card (i.e. to copy one of its own artifacts) Sculpting Steel is almost always a better choice:

Can be played off Workshop
Can be Welded in and out (Copy Artifact cannot be welded in)
Immune to REB[/list:u]

And how many people are actually playing Sculpting Steel in Type 1? Not many last time I checked.

Using this card "reactively" is even worse. 99% of the time if you're copying a non-creature artifact you'd be better off just destroying theirs instead... and if you're using this to copy their artifact creature, why not just spend the extra U1 for Control Magic to steal it instead?

Here's the appropriate entry from the Comp. Rules:

Oracle wording:


So yes, you can play it because the life loss is not "paid," it's simply part of the effect on resolution.

Proxies are only allowed in sanctioned tournaments at the discretion of the TD under one of the following two circumstances:

1)A card at a limited event comes out of the pack miscut or damaged in such a way it would be considered marked, or

2)A card becomes significantly damaged or worn during the course of a tournament.

If you want a Mox Jet in your deck in a sanctioned tournament, then you have to actually put the card in the deck. Simply proving you own it isn't enough.