Q: Can I cast cards exiled with Kaho more than once? A: No, for the same reason you can't cast cards in your hand more than once. When you cast the spell, it moves to the stack, resolves, and is then put into your graveyard. It's no longer exiled (much less by Kaho), so Kaho won't let you cast it any more.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
Q: What happens when I copy a creature/enchantment/artifact spell with Odds? A: Nothing, because you can't. Odds is limited to targeting instant and sorcery spells-it can't target anything else. (Read it again-its target is "target instant or sorcery spell".)
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
Q: Does Omnibian remove abilities from the creatures it changes? A: No. Omnibian doesn't say it removes abilities, so it doesn't. All it does is change the creature's creature type to Frog and change its P/T to 3/3. That's it, no ability-removal involved.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
Q: Do I have to pay the Wurm's cost if I'm casting it from my library? A: Yes, you do, for the same reason you would have to pay the cost if you were casting it from your hand. You are casting it as a spell (and it doesn't say you don't pay the cost), so all the normal rules for doing so apply, including having to pay its cost.
Q: I am searching my Library and want to cast Panglacial Wurm . What happens when I use a Chromatic Sphere to do so? A: Okay, here's what happens.
First, you start searching your library and decide you want to cast the Wurm. You then put the Wurm on the stack (putting a card on the stack is the first step in casting it). The whole time you're searching, you must be very careful to not change the order of any of the cards in your library (save removing the Panglacial Wurm you're casting), or else you will be accused of cheating (because you are).
Then, you have the chance to activate mana abilities, like the one on Chromatic Sphere. If you use the Sphere, you will add one mana of any color to your mana pool, and then draw the top card of your library, keeping it face-down in your hand (even though you already know what it is because you were searching your library at the time). If you use multiple Spheres, you will draw the top several cards. Remember, you must not change the order of the cards in your library during this process. If you change the order of the cards in your library, you change what you're going to draw, and that's cheating.
After that, you finish up casting the Wurm, the card(s) you drew with the Sphere(s) starts being face-up again, and finish searching your library for whatever it was you were searching for. Then, you'll probably have to shuffle your library.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
Q: Can I play this land on the first turn so I don't have to bounce a land? A: Well, you can technically play a bounceland on the first turn. However, doing so won't do you any good, because it'll immediately bounce itself and you'll have wasted your land drop.
The bounceland's return-ability ("When ~ enters the battlefield, return a land you control to its owner's hand") triggers when it enters the battlefield. That is, the land enters the battlefield, then the ability "goes off". Since the land is on the battlefield when the ability resolves, and the ability does not specify that you return a land other than that one to your hand, it sees that you do indeed have a land to return and forces you to do so. You're forced to return it, and you get nothing for your troubles.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
Q: Can I use the Valkyrie to return dead creatures to the battlefield? A: No, you cannot. The Valkyrie's ability can only be played on a still-living creature, for the same reason you can't Shock a dead creature. (Only permanents are legal targets unless the spell or ability specifically says it targets something else.)
Q: I control two untapped, non-summoning-sick Valkyries, and my opponent casts Wrath of God or an equivalent. Can I use my Valkyries to save each other? A: Yes, you can; both Valkyries will die, and then the delayed triggers will return them to the battlefield. When a card calls itself by name, it simply means "this card", not "any card with this name". If it meant any card with that name, that's what it would have said.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
Q: Can I use Djinn Illuminatus to replicate these spells infinitely? A: No. The Djinn makes the replicate cost of the card equal to the mana cost of the card. Since the mana cost of these cards is nonexistent, the replicate cost will be nonexistent, and a nonexistent cost cannot be paid.
Q: Can I use {Card} and similar to cast these spells? A: Depends. Does the card say you cast it "without paying its mana cost" or "pay {some other cost} rather than [its] mana cost"? If so, yes. If not, no.
Since these cards don't have a mana cost, and a nonexistent cost can't be paid, anything that tries to allow you to cast them but doesn't circumvent the nonexistent cost won't work.
Q: Can I copy these spells, say with Twincast or Izzet Guildmage ? A: Yes. You may not be able to cast them, but you can copy them just fine, because that isn't the same as casting the spell.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
Q: Does this card exile creatures in graveyards, hands, and/or libraries? A: No, just the ones on the battlefield. If a card uses the name of a type (supertype, card type, or subtype--"creature" is a card type) without specifying otherwise, it refers only to cards of that type that are on the battlefield. Nothing in any other zone will be affected unless the card specifically says so.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
Q: Can I use Saffi's ability to endlessly return herself? A: No, you cannot. While you can choose to target Saffi with her own ability (targets are chosen before costs are paid), you have to sacrifice her as a cost to activate the ability, and that happens long before the ability actually tries to resolve and set up the return-effect. When the ability tries to resolve, it will see that Saffi is no longer on the battlefield and be countered for having no legal targets.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
Q: What happens to the exiled cards when the Scepter is destroyed? A: They remain exiled, and remain face-down. Your opponent still doesn't get to see what they are. (Nothing is telling you to do anything with them, so they stay where they are.)
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
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