TheyCallMeTim
05-11-2012, 01:36 AM
I've also been seeing fire/ice and counterbalance and dark confidant come up recently and people not sure of how it works so I'll reiterate that here as a bonus:
For split cards the card has 2 mana costs all the time except when it is on the stack, where it only has the mana cost of the side being cast. So for example if you flip an assault/battery off a dark confidant you would take damage equal to it's converted mana cost. It's converted mana cost is 1 and 4 so you would take 1 and 4 damage (5 total).
If you then cast assault then a counter balance would need to flip 1 to counter it. ( 4 would not work)
If you flip assault/battery with a counterbalance it will have a converted mana cost of 1 and 4 then. So say your opponent cast a one drop. Counter balance will check if the card flipped has a converted mana cost of 1. It does (also happens to have a converted mana cost of 4 too) and it counters it. Likewise assault/battery would counter a 4 drop too because it has a converted mana cost of 4 too. It cannot counter a 5 drop because it does not have a converted mana cost of 5, just 1 and 4.
The Dark Confident and Counterbalance scenarios seem to contradict each other. I would think it would have the same converted mana cost regardless of which card triggered the reveal (1,4 or 5, but not all three)
For split cards the card has 2 mana costs all the time except when it is on the stack, where it only has the mana cost of the side being cast. So for example if you flip an assault/battery off a dark confidant you would take damage equal to it's converted mana cost. It's converted mana cost is 1 and 4 so you would take 1 and 4 damage (5 total).
If you then cast assault then a counter balance would need to flip 1 to counter it. ( 4 would not work)
If you flip assault/battery with a counterbalance it will have a converted mana cost of 1 and 4 then. So say your opponent cast a one drop. Counter balance will check if the card flipped has a converted mana cost of 1. It does (also happens to have a converted mana cost of 4 too) and it counters it. Likewise assault/battery would counter a 4 drop too because it has a converted mana cost of 4 too. It cannot counter a 5 drop because it does not have a converted mana cost of 5, just 1 and 4.
The Dark Confident and Counterbalance scenarios seem to contradict each other. I would think it would have the same converted mana cost regardless of which card triggered the reveal (1,4 or 5, but not all three)