This doesn't make any sense to me either.  If you can see everything they can see, then either they can't see their sideboard during a wish resolution or they can.  If they can't, how do they select their card?  If they can, then doesn't mindslaver let you see it too?

If this is an official ruling from Organized Play, it looks like they're trying to contradict the rules of logic here.

I'm finding that Master's Edition is better than I thought it would be.  Ivory Tower is especially fun to play.  (I have it in the sideboard of my Landstill deck.)

I don't care much for drafting it, though.

Both will increase the cost of Force of Will, Sphere of resistance will increase it by one and trinisphere will increase it to three.  This is because Force of Will says "instead of paying Force of Will's mana cost", but cost increases like either sphere are not part of the mana cost.

No.  The option to copy happens as part of the resolution of Chain of Vapor, which never happens if it is countered by chalice.

1) The storm count will be three.  Storm counts spells played, and chain of vapor copies are put directly on the stack, and thus are not played.  (Isochron Scepter copies, on the other hand, are played, because the scepter says play the copy.)

2) Belcher will deal damage equal to the number of cards in your library.  This is because belcher doesn't say that you have to reveal a land.

3) No and no.  You can only discard cards from your hand.  That's one reason why they removed the "as though it was in your hand" from cards like will.

4) Yes.  Unlike cycling, which specifies "discard" implying "from your hand", you can pitch a card from your hand rather than paying the mana cost of a Force of Will in your graveyard after playing Yawgmoth's Will because Force only says "rather than paying this's mana cost", which happens regardless of where it's played from.  Note that since force specifies a blue card "in your hand", you can't remove a blue card from your graveyard regardless of whether you've played Will, but you probably already knew that.  Also note that removing from the game is not discarding.

Regarding the order, the Ghost says "When Skulking Ghost becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."  The key word there is "When".  "When", as well as "Whenever" and "At", denote triggered abilities, which trigger when(ever) the specified event happens or at the specified time, and go on the stack the first time a player receives priority after they trigger.

Since you receive priority after playing a spell, in this case the bounty, the ghost's triggered ability will trigger while the bounty is still on the stack and will go on the stack on top of the bounty.  As LordHomerCat said, this means that when bounty resolves, the ghost will be gone.  The bounty will, as he said, do as much as possible, which is giving the bears +2/+2.  As LordHomerCat said, things will happen as you want.

The set has been spoiled, and is extremely underwhelming.   

http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=891882

As has been said all over forums.gleemax.com, the set has a lot of casual cards but nothing for competitive classic (except about 6 cards including Force of Will).

In the original announcement for Classic, it was stated that Classic would be the format where you could play any card you own.  Therefore, they can't ban cards.

From what Worth Wollpert, the new brand manager for Magic Online, said, Flash is probably getting restricted in September.

First of all, Classic is supposedly going to have restrictions, not bannings.

I don't see why they should restrict Flash.  Yes, Flash is good, but it's not unbeatable.  First turn swamp, duress makes its life hard, as does first turn plains, chrome mox removing a blue card, Meddling Mage, or plains, mox removing a white card, Samurai of the Pale Curtain.  Leyline of the Void's effect is obvious.

Of course, all that could change when Force of Will comes.  Any of those except Leyline can be forced.  One leyline alone is not enough due to Chain of Vapor and the like, and two leylines in one opening hand is very unlikely.

I don't know enough about High Tide to make an educated comment, but my impression is that it won't work, especially because we're not getting Turnabout or Stroke of Genius for a long time.


They've said that Master's Edition will not contain anything from Mirage or later, but they will reprint all the post-Mirage sets over time.

Are you talking about constructed or limited?

If you mean limited, the only way people can join the event is by buying the product.  The product is part of the entry fee.

If you mean constructed, if they print anything worthwhile, like Force of Will, people will buy it.

They've said that they'll hold events involving it and tenth edition, i. e. (X = tenth, Me = Master's Edition, the new set) XXXMeMe for premier events, XXMe for drafts.

I think it should be noted that Classic now has a weekly PE (Premier Event) on Sundays at 12:00 noon Pacific time.

I have tested this deck a bit, and I've found three things.  The first thing I've found is that Ichorid is really good.  You will from time to time not win immediately after you go off due to, say, not hitting any narcomoebas.  When that happens, ichorid is great for a win next turn.

The other thing I've found is that this deck is horribly inconsistent.  By that, I mean that it rarely draws its LEDs, even with 4x Serum Powder.  When it does draw LEDs, it often doesn't get enough dredgers or drawers.  If there is any way to make it more consistent, it would, I believe, be very good.

The third is that this deck is not very good at dealing with disruption, or at least my version is not.  (My version has a sideboard of 3x Vampiric Tutor, 2x Chain of Vapor, 2x Echoing Truth, 4x Watery Grave, 2x Breeding Pool, and 2x Pithing Needle.)  By the time I have dealt with my opponent's disruption, they often have enough counterspells to stop me from going off.

Hello.  I'm Javasci on Magic Online and Ambitious on forums.  I play almost exclusively online classic.  One of my ambitious is to become a good deckbuilder, but so far all I can do is improve existing decks.  Even then, I'm not sure if my changes are improvements or not.  I'm currently between decks; I'm moving off an "improvement" of Star-Spangled Slaughter and onto the dredge deck that was posted in the Classic MTGO Forum section of these forums.