#ninth-wave

[magicjudge]

Hey Charlotte, hope all’s well! Got an odd corner-case situation: can The Ozolith have both +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters on it at the same time? I know that if yes, once you move the counters to a creature, if the creature would still be alive, they’d annihilate, and I’m guessing that the same would be true if you animate The Ozolith. The only practical application I can think of is involving Thief of Blood. Thanks!

The state-based action that causes +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters on the same permanent to annihilate each other applies to all permanents and not just creatures. So, if your Ozolith gets both kinds of counters, either from a creature dying with both types of counter on it or from it already having one type and then getting the other type, it will lose an equal number of each of these counters until only one of the two types of counter remains. This happens before anyone gets priority so you'll never have the opportunity to move both types of counter onto the same permanent from the Ozolith.

[magicjudge]

Hey! If I have the new card K’rrik, Son of Yawgmoth in play, does that mean I can pay 2 life for hybrid black costs? If yes, can I pay 2 life for extort (keyword)?

Yes, you can.

When you go to pay a hybrid cost, you choose which of its two halves you’ll pay. If you choose the {B} half of a hybrid symbol, then K’rrik’s ability will let you pay life instead of mana for it. This means that you can extort spells by paying 2 life if you control K’rrik and a permanent with extort.

[magicjudge]

Hey Charlotte! Quick one for you: does Plague Engineer naming Thopter prevent the traditional Thopter-Sword combo? I’ve heard different answers from different tournament-level sources. Thanks, and hope all’s well in your world.

Yes, it does.

With Plague Engineer on the battlefield to give all of your opponents’ Thopters -1/-1, the Thopters from Thopter Foundry will enter the battlefield as 0/0 creatures and immediately die. Since they’re not 1/1 creatures, Sword of the Meek won’t trigger from the graveyard and won’t return itself to the battlefield, stopping the combo dead in its tracks.

[magicjudge]

Regarding your recent answer about Doubling Season and special actions, how does Doubling Season interact with Megamorph?

Turning a creature face up for its Megamorph cost is a special action and the counter is added as a replacement effect that modifies that special action, so Doubling Season won’t apply to the counter from Megamorph.

[magicjudge]

About Spookwagen's question, couldn't the original Aurelia's trigger be put on the stack before the myriad population, causing the Mirror Gallery Aurelias to untap after entering the battlefield attacking via the original Aurelia's trigger, thus allowing each one to be declared as an attacker for their first time during the second combat phase, and thus retriggering the original Aurelia's myriad trigger, barring that she survives all combat phases, to create a loop of infinite combat steps?

The tokens from Blade of Selves are exiled when the combat phase ends. They’re gone before the additional combat phase begins.

[magicjudge]

The last question about Starfield of Nyx and abilities got me thinking about something: If you play a Detention Sphere while you have an active Starfield of Nyx, will a Torpor Orb prevent its triggered ability?

Yes, if you have enough enchantments.

[magicjudge]

Hey again, hope you're settling in to your new home nicely! I had an odd situation arise this evening while playing EDH with a friend. With a Containment Priest in play, I Reality Shifted one of his creatures. Since the manifest card isn't a token and isn't being cast, Containment Priest's replacement effect applies and the card is exiled. Will the card be exiled face up or face down? Does it follow morph reveal rules, or is it exempt due to never having been on the stack or battlefield? Thanks!

The card will be exiled face up.

Cards are always exiled face up unless the effect exiling them specifically says to exile the cards face down.

[magicjudge]

Hey again! I was just about to ask a head-scratcher of a question involving Panglacial Wurm and Selvala, Explorer Returned, but figured it out by doing a bit of research and thinking (the Wurm is moved from the library to the stack before you pay costs with Selvala, so the Wurm can't end up in your hand, and if the cost can't be payed because she didn't produce enough mana, the spell is reversed). I couldn't have done it without everything I've learned from here, so I just wanted to say thanks!

Hooray for learning! :)