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    Re: 9th place GP: Seattle

    Here's the relevant IPG section:

    https://blogs.magicjudges.org/rules/ipg3-5/

    In most situations, if you call a judge on yourself as soon as you realize, it's a warning + you lose the card if...
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    Re: Sacrificing Trinisphere to Cabal Therapy

    https://yawgatog.com/resources/magic-rules/#R601

    Total cost is locked in at step F, costs are paid in step H. The Cabal Therapy costs 3 mana regardless of what you use to pay the alternate cost of...
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    Re: Cabal Therapy with Trinisphere

    It's meant to be a simple example. You can easily construct a similar situation for paying costs rather than activating mana abilities.
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    Re: Cabal Therapy with Trinisphere

    The game can't "look forward" before you announce a spell to know whether you actually are capable of paying all costs, especially when choices during the announcement of the spell like modes,...
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    Re: Cabal Therapy with Trinisphere

    You can always attempt to cast a spell, but the game state is reverted to the point before you attempted to cast it if you cannot complete the actions required to cast it, such as paying all costs....
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    Re: Urza's Bauble reveal

    This is really not the place to argue about rules application minutiae. The decision on how this unique effect is handled has been made, and thankfully Wizards long ago deliberately changed their...
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    Re: Stupid Phasing Question

    https://yawgatog.com/resources/magic-rules/#R70225
    702.25d. The phasing event doesn't actually cause a permanent to change zones or control, even though it's treated as though it's not on the...
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    Re: Writing on card faces

    Just remember the tournament rules forbid use of electronic devices, so only do it between matches. A proxy tournament might not strictly be following rules though I suppose.
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    Re: Writing on card faces

    MTR:


    Marking (the front of) sideboard cards is the most common example of "minor strategic information". As far as the official rules are concerned, perfectly fine.
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    Re: Warping Wail on a 1/2 Tarmogoyf

    When Warping Wail resolves, it will check if its target is still valid. If not, the spell will be countered.
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    Re: Warping Wail on a 1/2 Tarmogoyf

    It's nothing like a Lightning Bolt, because Warping Wail is directly removing the Tarmogoyf. Lightning Bolt does not cause the Goyf to (potentially) leave play, the State-Based Action check for...
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    Re: Leovold + careful study or brainstorm

    You're right, this is the section that applies to Leovold: http://www.yawgatog.com/resources/magic-rules/#R61416

    I missed that Leovold is a "can't" effect rather than a replacement effect, and...
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    Re: Leovold + careful study or brainstorm

    EDIT: Leovold isn't a replacement effect, it's a "can't" effect. Since the "X" in "You may X. If you do, Y." is a cost, you can't choose to pay it at all.
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    Re: Elesh Norn... again

    Yep, that's an "intervening if" clause.

    http://yawgatog.com/resources/magic-rules/#R6034
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    Re: Scrap Trawler and Cataclysm

    You are correct, yes. See specifically 603.10: http://yawgatog.com/resources/magic-rules/#R60310

    It doesn't have anything to do with being a creature or not though. Any permanent leaving the...
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    Re: Prize Splits and Player Rights?

    Forgive me if you're already familiar with the rules for prize splitting, but here they are in the MTR:

    https://blogs.magicjudges.org/rules/mtr5-2/

    Unequal prize splits anywhere but the final...
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    Re: "Smoked" Perfect Fits

    Using translucent sleeves backwards to obscure the card face is not a new thing and as you suspect, it's not OK. Doing it specifically to make cards harder to discern veers close to Cheating, in...
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    Re: Different Scenarios about Rulings

    If a spell or ability has the word "target" in its text, then it targets. If it doesn't, then it doesn't target.

    You lose life from Thoughtsieze regardless of whether you find a valid card to...
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    Re: Intentionally creating an infinite loop

    Great answer MaximumC.
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    Re: Urza's Bauble reveal

    701.14d. is really only relevant to hidden zones or multiplayer. Your hand is already visible to you at all times.

    Occasionally things are a bit open to interpretation I guess. Is this one...
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    Re: Urza's Bauble reveal

    Huh, that's a different opinion than what I've heard before and I don't know that person. If no one corrected them, though, I guess maybe that's the current opinion.
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    Re: Urza's Bauble reveal

    The comp rules cannot contain everything, even as lengthy as they are. This one falls under "basic English language meaning", or "common sense".

    Whenever someone selects a card, you know which...
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    Re: Modular, Wrath of God, Manlands

    Sorry missed this thread earlier. As noted, you need a valid target for triggered abilities when they go on the stack, before anyone has priority.
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    Re: Urza's Bauble reveal

    I'm guessing there might be confusion because players typically put their hand face down to let their opponent randomly choose a card? Your hand zone is still visible to you at all times though, so...
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    Re: Show and Tell: Grave Titan vs Flickerwisp

    Nicely done answer.
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