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[whymtgcardsmith]

Is there like an actual WhyMTGCardsmith cube? If so, where do I find it? If there is currently no such thing, would you mind me creating one and posting it online? I would love to draft and cast all these broken cards some day :D

There’s no official cube, no. But we always encourage anyone who wants to make one to please do so.

[magicjudge]

So how does Ninjutsu work in multiplayer? Say I am player A and attack player B, he doesn't block. Do I get to ninjutsu in Mistblade Shinobi ability and have it attack player C, unblocked?

The creature whose Ninjutsu ability you activated will enter the battlefield attacking the same player or planeswalker that the returned creature was attacking.

[magicjudge]

When will the new blood moon rules I read about in the iconic masters release notes be in effect? The new rules change how blood moon interacts with shock-lands for example.

The rule change will be part of the changes for the Ixalan release. 

I’ll give more details on the rules change once I see its full text.

[magicjudge]

In a Multiplayer Game, player A casts Master Warcraft during my (player B) turn, to try to force me to attack my good friend player C with all my creatures. Player A, being a coward, is hiding behind a ghostly prison. Can he do that? Or is the power of friendship stronger? Also, would the situation change if he were hiding behind a Blazing Archon instead?

Master Warcraft allows player A to choose which creatures attack this turn, but not which opponent or opponent’s planeswalker each creature will attack. That choice remains up to you.

With Ghostly Prison on the battlefield under A’s control, you can still choose to have the creatures attack A, but only if you can afford to pay the {2} for each creature you want to send at A.

If A controls Blazing Archon, you can’t have any of the creatures attack A, but they can still attack planeswalkers A controls, if there are any.

[magicjudge]

The German Rhonas the Indomitable has a misprint that read translated "Rhonas the Indomitable can't attack unless you control..." which allows him to block at any time, even if you control just him. Could you post that so people know? It changed the outcome of some games today at our prerelease because we only found out afterwards.

FYI

[magicjudge]

Vehicles + Enchanted Evening If I crew my smugglers copter, will it still be an enchantment? Or will it it's cardtypes be overwritten to "artefakt creature" and nothing else?

Yes, it will be an Artifact Enchantment Creature - Vehicle.

Normally, effects that set a permanent’s types (or subtypes) without stating that it’s in addition to other types or subtypes will overwrite all those other types or subtypes.

However, “becomes an artifact creature” is an exception to this rule. When something “becomes an artifact creature” due a spell or ability resolving, it automatically retains all its other types and subtypes in addition to being an artifact and a creature. 

Why though? Because the first cards that turned things into artifact creatures worked this way or specifically called out when they didn’t. (See Ashnod’s Transmogrant, Xenic Poltergeist, and Titania’s Song.)

[magicjudge]

So I Play Fairgrounds Warden and have it Exil an opposing creature. Then later in the game, a Permeating Mass deals combat damage to my fairground warden, turning it into a copy of the mass. Now, if my Fairgrounds Warden dies, will my opponent get his creature back?

Yes, it still comes back.

The fast that Fairgrounds Warden no longer has its triggered ability doesn’t matter since returning the creature is part of the original trigger that exiles the creature. 

[magicjudge]

What is the interaction between Eternal Scourge and Semblance Anvil? If I exile the scourge with the anvil, creature spells are two colorless cheaper, but can I cast scourge for one mana? Does he get the cost reduction?

No, it’ll cost 3.

The first step in casting a spell is to move it from wherever it currently is and put it onto the stack. In this case, that means that you move Eternal Scourge from exile to the stack. Later on in the casting process, the game checks to see if there are any cost reduction or cost-increasing effects that would apply to the spell, but nothing is exiled with Semblance Anvil anymore and so Semblance Anvil can’t reduce any costs.