#snowskeleton

[neomesimpy]

I am laughing for 5 minutes!

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IMAGE THAT EXIST!! HAHAHHAHAH

[magicjudge]

Interesting situation came up tonight: Fumiko the Lowblood and Ghostly prison in a multiplayer game. My understanding of the interaction is that you can choose to attack the player with the Ghostly Prison, then choose to not pay the cost, and thus not attack, because it won’t force you to pay. Another player believes that you’ll instead be forced to attack a different player if you choose not to pay the tax for attacking. Which interpretation is correct, and why does/doesn’t it work either way?

You can never be forced to pay a cost to attack, such as for Ghostly Prison. Paying such a cost to attack is part of declaring attackers. The active player chooses which player or planeswalker each creature is attacking, then pays any required costs. If there are costs that can’t be paid or aren’t paid, then the declaration of attackers is illegal and a legal set of attackers needs to be declared. The set of attackers is also illegal if less than the maximum possible number of requirements to attack are being fulfilled.

What this means for Fumiko is that each creature controlled by an opponent of Fumiko’s controller that can attack must do so. If that creature’s control doesn’t want to (or can’t) pay for it to attack the controller of Ghostly Prison, then that player must choose a different player or planeswalker for it to attack. It only gets to not attack if every possible attack requires a cost to attack.

[dedalvs]

Hey I was just wondering what the correct pronunciation of Khaleesi should be from how to created it and then what you would have changed the spelling too based on how it's pronounced on the show?

It’s pronounced how it looks: [ˈxa.le.e.si]. In order to prevent confusion, were I to go with the English speaking pronunciation as canon, I would have respelled it Khalisi.

[markrosewater]

FYI: the different basic land types correspond to the different locations dragons are located in the DnD universe. It may not give a good flavor reason, but I can't imagine that was unintentional on Richard's part.

I did not know that.

[dedalvs]

Howdy! I was reading through the text you posted recently, and came across a word I can't quite translate. The word is"oznis." It seems to show up in several different places with different meanings each time. Could you possibly shed some light on the meaning/use of this word?

That is because it’s a copula. :) Just means “to be”. That’s why it pops up a bunch.

[magicjudge]

Why don't targets get checked as a state based action? It doesn't seem to make sense that they only get checked on cast/resolution.

Because that’s how the rules work.

State-based actions clean up things that wouldn’t otherwise clean themselves up, and spells and abilities with illegal targets will be countered when they try to resolve. Letting them hang out on the stack until then isn’t hurting anything.

[magicjudge]

In reference to a recent question Tabak answered, and in respect of his wish to send rules questions to you, how exactly does countering a spell work?

A spell or ability can be countered in two ways: It can be countered by another spell or ability that says to counter it, or if it has targets and all of those targets are illegal as it goes to resolve it will be countered on resolution (a.k.a. fizzling).

To counter a spell with another spell or activated ability, you have to cast that spell or activate that ability before the spell you want to counter resolves. Usually you’ll do this at your first opportunity after the spell has been cast, but might want to wait if an ability like Storm has triggered but not resolved yet and you want to cast something like an overloaded Counterflux.

When a spell or ability counters a spell, and if the spell can be countered, that spell is removed from the stack and put into its owner’s graveyard. There’s really nothing more to it than that.

[magicjudge]

So we're all familiar with the Sanguine Bond/Exquisite Blood combo. It's old news. My questions is how does it work if the controller of said combo also controls an Abyssal Prosecutor? We know from the Ad Nauseam+Angel's Grace/Phyrexian Unlife that you can have negative life, so does that make the game a tie because the combo doesn't result in someone dying and therefore goes infinitely with no possible end?

The game will be a draw unless any player chooses to remove either of the enchantments or the Perscutor.