#dedaleus

[magicjudge]

Does Teysa Karlov cause Heart piercer Manticores 'when you do' ability to trigger twice?

No, this doesn’t work.

Heart-Piercer Manticore’s reflexive trigger triggers when you sacrifice a creature to its ETB trigger. While that involves a creature dying, the creature dying isn’t what’s causing the ability to trigger and thus Teysa won’t intervene and give you a bonus trigger.

[neni-has-ascended]

Hi, I found your blog after reading "A complete turnabout" and I was wondering if you had any intention of continuing it?

Hello! Thank you for coming all the way here!

I do wanna continue it eventually, but the thing is that Spirit of Justice has really killed my enthusiasm for Ace Attorney for the time being. I’ll definitely come back to it eventually, but right now, my focus is on other franchises. That said, I still love the games to pieces, and the fanfic is a big part of what helped me get to where I am now, so I feel obligated to end it one day. 

[markrosewater]

Would you say that the green version of countering spells is giving creatures hexproof, causing spells to get countered?

I would. Thank you.

[magicjudge]

You said Watery Grave will always enter untapped with Blood Sun, but isn't Watery Grave's first ability a replacement effect replacing how it enters the battlefield? Blood Sun wouldn't affect it until after it has entered the battlefield right?

You would be right as of six months ago, but there was a change to how replacement effects rules work that came into effect with the release of Ixalan. That change allows permanents entering the battlefield to look at continuous effects that would affect those permanents on the battlefield when determining which replacement effects get to modify how the permanent enters the battlefield. This means that Blood Sun’s ability removal effect will cause Watery Grave’s ETB replacement effect to not exist and thus it can’t modify how Watery Grave enters the battlefield.

[markrosewater]

Do you think we could ever see a set where one of the colors isn't present?

It would be highly unlikely. The color wheel is the foundation of the game.

[magicjudge]

So my playgroup recently exiled a spell, while Zada Hedron Grinder's copy ability was on the stack. We found out that Zada will use the spells last known information. Is there a rule of thumb that determines whether an ability uses last known information or does nothing?

If the game needs information about a permanent, card, or spell that’s no longer in the zone it expects it to be in, it can use that object’s last known information to determine what needs to happen. This needs to be the case so that abilities like Modular and the like can function.

Last Known Information isn’t used if the missing object was a target of the spell or ability that’s resolving. It’s only used in non-target situations.

[markrosewater]

I am a white male and I am 100% A-Ok with more female representation, even as Planeswalkers. The question I have on this is why are people so focused on female Planeswalkers? Why are people ignoring legendary creatures, or other story important female characters? Are they also white-male dominated?

The legendary characters get just as much care for diversity as the planeswalkers. In fact, all card concepting (what the illustration represents) take it into account.

From a gender standpoint, for instance, half of all creatures pictured on cards (of things you can visually tell gender) should be female because in the real world (or even a fantasy one that relies on sexual reproduction) that's how it is.

[elspethsunschampion]

dedaleus replied to your post:concept: trans jace

Even if it was normalized, bullies would still bully it. That’s how bullies are. Also, if my memory is correct, they called him girly. And I doubt any world where they consider girly an insult isn’t exactly trans-friendly.

I don’t really agree with this statement.  Bullies pick up on whatever society says is unacceptable.  Certainly, it’s possible to be bullied for anything that makes you different, but it’s much likelier to be bullied for something that deviates from societal norms (it’s much likelier to be bullied for being gay in our society than for being Christian, for example.)

Also, I just checked, and, no, they just call him a “freak” and repeatedly bully him for his mental powers.