In general ... if a card require to name something upon resolution (its not a target, mode, alternate cost) its a common shortcut to name something when playing the card. However once situation changes by any means it is legal to change the choice at time when card start to resolve.
Does this work also with Clone effects? Choosing a target is done "As comes into play" which to me looks similar to "upon resolution". I am in community full of Lightning bolts and those people usually believe that clone will enter battlefield as 0/0 creature because original creature is no longer on the battlefield. Generally community here believes that removal solves any sort of trouble...
Edit: I am also asking because of changed wording...
“It's possible. But it involves... {checks archives} Nature's Revolt, Opalescence, two Unstable Shapeshifters (one of which started as a Doppelganger), a Tide, an animated land, a creature with Fading, a Silver Wyvern, some way to get a creature into play in response to stuff, some way to get a land into play in response to stuff (a different land from the animated land), and one heck of a Rube Goldberg timing diagram.”
-David DeLaney
Chapin is a briliant theorist and deckbuilder and I would never try and take away from that, but he's also a giant douchebag. Remember GP: Chicago where he rules lawyered his opponent about not announcing the Counterbalance trigger? And how the judge got it wrong and sided with Chapin even though the trigger *has* to go on the stack (not a may)? Yeah. Saying that Chapin did it does not give it positive moral weight.
Sorry but you're not Argumentum ad hominem-ing your way out of this one. Chapin might be all that you said, but on the Counterbalance case the judges took back their initial decision and corrected it. On the Profane Command case they stood with their decision and the article I posted was written by a judge enforcing their position, that it was a legal play.
I'll try to summarize the thread so that we don't continue arguing in circles. Everyone agrees that all of the "trick" plays in the thread are technically legal. Also, lots of people think that they are somewhat cheesy. Some people like the cheesy plays, some people don't.
A fine summary. I think we've gotten about all we can out of this at the moment.
“It's possible. But it involves... {checks archives} Nature's Revolt, Opalescence, two Unstable Shapeshifters (one of which started as a Doppelganger), a Tide, an animated land, a creature with Fading, a Silver Wyvern, some way to get a creature into play in response to stuff, some way to get a land into play in response to stuff (a different land from the animated land), and one heck of a Rube Goldberg timing diagram.”
-David DeLaney
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