The spell will still resolve, but it won't do anything.

First strike would suffice.

If the lifelink creature is in play when damage resolves, then Unsummoned with the lifelink trigger on the stack, you will still gain life. Both the lifelink creature and the creature being dealt damage must be in play when damage resolves, but not necessarily when the triggered ability resolves.

The lifelink can only trigger if the creature is in play when the damage resolves.

Can I still choose a card from my sideboard when I cast Burning Wish, even though no game rule allows me to see those cards?

The second relevant part of rule 408.1c is

Note it doesn't say that whenever a spell resolves, someone receives priority. What happens is, every player passes priority, allowing Finalize to resolve. While Finalize is resolving, the targeted spell resolves. Then, Finalize finishes resolving and the active player receives priority.

We don't (and shouldn't) take MODO into account when designing cards. It's the job of the Magic Online programmers to implement the cards, and they seem to be better at it than you give them credit for.

I see no problem with "Target spell resolves." under the current rules. Objects can be removed from the stack in any order, Counterspell and Remand already remove spells from the stack out of order. Having a spell resolve out of order is not a problem.

Yes. The ability will try to do as much as possible.

Revealing the card is the only natural way to make this card work. It also partially alleviates the "better than Grim Tutor" problem. Basically, if you really want to keep the card hidden, you should play Grim Tutor instead of this card.

It should probably be
Griffin Mount

Creature -- Griffin
2/2
Flying
  : ~This~ becomes an equipment artifact with "Equipped creature gets +0/+1 and gains flying and first strike." Attach ~this~ to target creature.

Unless you want it to remain a creature while equipped so it can still be Shocked, etc.

You can't use mana abilities while a spell is resolving unless the spell instructs you to pay mana.

You can play mana abilities while playing a spell.

You're kidding, right? This is incredibly overpowered. Prodigal Pyromancer -> draw lock?

You can't sacrifice cards you don't control.

Mana from Dark Rituals and Cabal Rituals that have already been cast is in their mana pool. They must use it.

You don't make any choices for Storm triggers, since they are not part of playing the spell, but a separate triggered ability.

The targeted player is still the one playing the spell, and they own and control that spell as it resolves, so they get their own Empty tokens.

That's what happens. If you Control Magic someone's creature, it has summoning sickness until it starts the turn under your control.

Would "if you own 10 or more permanents you don't control" be more interesting? That's what I first thought when I saw "infiltration".

"Because it would be awesome" isn't a good enough reason? I just want an excuse to imagine an artifact card with a purple border.

I think the card would be justified if it was in a "color matters" set. It's a great way to do a sixth color without all the difficulties normally associated with making a sixth color. It only has to appear on one card, it doesn't need to fit into the color wheel, it doesn't need a section of the color pie, and it doesn't need a basic land; it's just there.

Haste is acceptable in black. Trample is not.

State-based effects are applied before triggered abilities are put on the stack.

This means that anything that leaves play due to a SBE is no no longer a legal target for triggered abilities.

Neo-Cube

Artifact
Neo-Cube is purple.

Edit: Alternately, "Artifacts are purple." or "Artifacts and artifact cards not in play are purple.".

Black Lotus
Show and Tell
Platinum Angel
4 x Pact of Negation

Show and Tell is pretty strong on the play.

Perhaps "Whenever ~this~ is put into your graveyard from play, if ~this~ is the only creature card in your graveyard, you may pay 3 life. If you do, you may return ~this~ to play. "

Otherwise you get infinite loops that combo with Nantuko Husk.

Some combo decks to set the benchmark:

Black Lotus
Channel
Fireball
Volcanic Island
Daze Pact of Negation
Force of Will Pact of Negation
Misdirection Pact of Negation


Swamp
Ornithopter
Cabal Therapy
Black Lotus
Dark Ritual
Yawgmoth's Will
Tendrils of Agony

First, a Force deck can beat most Channel-Torch hands with only 2 Forces.

Second, a Force deck could easily win off two cards if they draw Lotus and Recall.

Third, you won't have 4 cards left in hand. You have to use a Lotus to play Channel.

Fourth, your topdecking will be worse than the Force player's, because you need to topdeck more Lotuses and Channels, while having worthless extra Torches in your deck. The Force player can topdeck any blue cards to keep up. A player with Ancestral Recalls is in an even better position, as they are likely to outdraw you 3 to 1.

Fifth, trading a Force and a blue card for a Lotus and a Channel is not card disadvantage.

3 Force > 2 Channel

Channel-Torch cannot beat a 3 Force hand if the Force player knows to counter the Channels. Even if the Force player tries countering your Lotuses, you can only win with a perfect hand of 5 Black Lotus, 1 Channel, 1 Torch. Even if the Force player only has 2 Forces, you can only beat the strategy "Force the first Lotus, then Force the first Channel." with a perfect hand of 4 Lotus, 2 Channel, 1 Torch, and even that hand is vulnerable to Force on both Channels. Channel-Torch has ridiculously long odds against a Force of Will deck.

I think Lotus-Recall might be better than Lotus-Desire. A good Force player will likely try to counter your second Black Lotus. Maybe a combination of Recall and Desire is better.

Channel-Torch loses to Force of Will and Surging Flame. Surging Flame probably also loses to Force.

See some of the work we did on this format: Magic without the 4-of rule.

What's the best ratio of Surging Flames for beating Force decks? You'd want to include some mountains probably so you don't run out of Spirit Guides.

Lotus-Ancestral-Force seems like the best deck here.

You can activate the first ability, but it won't do much.

"Players skip their untap steps." is neither an activated ability nor a triggered ability. It doesn't contain a colon or the magical words "at", "when", or "whenever".

"At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Stasis unless you pay  ." is a triggered ability. It starts with the word "at". However, Stifling that trigger is on the same level of play as Spell Snaring a Daze.

There is no stipulation for NCB that decks must be Vintage legal. That's only a rule I used in my 7CB tournament.