#speechbubblehead

[spectralpixelsredone]

Imagine if they sent him to take care of Tomura.

[magicjudge]

If a player casts a spell from their graveyard using Kess, Dissident Mage's ability, are they also allowed to pay alternate costs, such as Kicker costs? Essentially, Kess's ability, while similar to Flashback, is not Flashback in that it is not an "alternate cost"?

Yes.

When you cast a spell with Kess, you’re not paying a set alternate cost, so you can choose any alternate costs the card might have. Any time you cast a spell with an optional additional cost, such as kicker or escalate, you always have the option to pay that cost.

[magicjudge]

The ruling for Teferi's Puzzle Box states: "You do your normal draw before this ability is put on the stack." This often causes confusion because the artifacts ability is "At the beginning of each player's draw step..." Is there an easier way to explain this without having to whip out my phone to show the ruling every time I cast Puzzle Box?

The easiest way I can think of to explain it is that innate game actions always come first in a step or phase: You draw a card before anything else in your draw step. You declare attackers before anything else in your declare attackers step. etc. Teferi’s Puzzle Box DOES trigger at the beginning of your draw step, but that doesn’t happen until after the mandatory game actions have happened.

[magicjudge]

Not a judge question! Have you posted lists for your EDH decks before? If not would you be willing to do so now? (If you have, would you mind relinking??) :D

My current lists can be seen here: http://tappedout.net/mtg-deck-folders/24-11-16-edh/

[magicjudge]

Was just watching the Pro Tour. What happened at the end between Cox and Kibler? I saw a lot of laughter and confusion o.o

Here’s the video of the match in question.

At 34:49 in the video, Brian Kibler casts Attune with Aether. The camera then stays on Kibler as Pat Cox shuffles Kibler’s deck. During the shuffling, one card out of the deck and down under the table. The card had landed face down on Cox’s backpack just below the table, so he moved out of the way for me to recover it without it being seen. Shuffling then resumed and the match ended soon after.

[magicjudge]

A question about interactions between Master of Cruelties and Maze of Ith. A friend is under the impression that untapping MoC with MoI after declaring attacks will keep MoC's trigger active, thus reducing the defending opponent to 1. Does this work like they assume?

Not quite.

Maze of Ith doesn’t remove the targeted creature from combat, so Master of Cruelties is still an attacking creature even after it untaps. Master of Cruelties’s trigger won’t trigger unless no creatures are declared as blockers against it, though and the defending player can still assign creatures to block it here. (Also, since its damage will be prevented, it’s much easier to block than normal.)

[glutularphysics]

I saw your post with the Hinterland Logger, and how much you liked the MTG werewolves. I dunno if you still play or not, but they are going back to Innistrad, introducing more and more werewolf cards as the go.

I don’t really because I only ever played against my sister and her bf, which was a terrible idea because 1) my sister is the Queen of Games, 2) her bf is the Prince Consort of Games, and 3) they’re hyper competitive but get sad/mad at each other if one attacks the other so I ALWAYS LOSE.

but I HAVE seen stuff for shadows over innistrad, and I will probably end up getting all the transformation cards that come with it because I still have my r/g and b/w decks sitting there, just in case...

[windlesszephyr]

holy shit @speechbubblehead got me a rwby sweater