#mtg puzzles

[gathering-magic]

For Sean's latest puzzle, you'll need to give your all if you want to find the solution!...

Reya Dawnbringer by Matthew D. Wilson

[immortal-elements]

Mtg "how many copies?"

Swarm intelligence on the battlefield as well as Melek Izzet paragon, you have attacked with a creature so raid is active.

You cast doomsday, setting your deck to be the following 5 cards in this order:

Howl of the horde

Insidious will

Twincast

Reverberate

Lightning bolt.

Assuming infinite mana and no cards in hand, we cast our cards as follows:

Howl of the horde, hold priority with it on the stack.

Insidious will, copy mode, all copies choosing to target howl of the horde

Twincast, all copies targeting howl of the horde

Reverberate, all copies targeting howl of the horde

Allow howl of the horde to resolve

Lightning bolt.

How many copies of lightning bolt do we get? How much damage do we deal? How many friends do we lose?

[flavoracle]

#MTGSOI What if the cryptoliths are pointing INWARDS, rather than outwards? Many people are looking at the cryptoliths like hands on a clock, but clock hands point outward, while most images of cryptoliths are shown in a circle pointing inwards (like the image at the top.) Using that logic, the cryptoliths in the poster above would be 7, 9, 4, 1. I figured this was worth considering. @northernweird what are your thoughts? Anybody else?