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Feigel wrote:

Are you rejecting the question?
If yes, do We get a resubmit?

Yes, go ahead and resubmit.

And, what happens on A's turn?

You did ask me about B's turn. You can go ahead and ask about A's tomorrow.

Leftconsin wrote:

Guardian Phoenix wrote:

Alice and Bob, freed from the shackles of the Vintage B&R list, decide to play some Magic the way Garfield intended it.

Sounds troubling for me.

D4Q1 Show

D4Q1:  Alice has anted a Black Lotus.  She has in hand a Mox Pearl and a Mox Ruby.  She has in play a Mox Sapphire.  Due to Vedalken Orrery shenanigans, she has both a Mox Emerald and a Shahrazad on the stack, the Shahrazad will resolve first.

The Shahrazad begins resolving and the subgame begins.  Alice plays Contract from Below and antes a Mox Jet.  She then plays a Ring of Ma'ruf .

D4Q1:  Alice uses multiple (maybe even 6) Ring of Ma'Ruf and wishes for all the moxen/Black Lotus possible, the subgame ends and the main game resumes.  Where are all the moxen, the Black Lotus, and the Ring of Ma'Ruf ?

Well, you can't get stuff in the zone no one uses anymore: The Ante Zone! (Sounds like a B-movie.) They probably changed this, which is also probably why you are asking. Under the rules I read last time I read about that a cursed Shahrazad Alice would be able to get Mox Pearl, Mox Ruby, Mox Sapphire, and Mox Emerald. At the end of the subgame, they all (including the ring) go into Alice's Library.

The ante zone is still an officially supported zone.  I see no reason why from the perspective of the subgame the ante zone of the main game wouldn't be considered "outside the game" as a place to wish a card from and be able to grab the Black Lotus.

After submitting the question I suddenly wondered if the Mox Jet was vulnerable to changing ownership based on the results of the subgame.

D4Q2 Show

D4Q2:  Alice and Bob play another game.  Alice antes a Black Lotus, again.  Bob antes a Serra Angel.  Alice then plays Contract from Below and antes a Library of Alexandra.  Bob plays a Jeweled Bird which is then stolen by Alice's Steal Artifact .  Alice plays the ability of the Jeweled Bird .  Bob later miraculously wins the game.  Which cards does Bob own now?

Bob does not own any more cards than what he started with.

I think this might be correct.  What's odd is this rule about ante:
[indent]217.9d To ante an object is to put that object into the ante zone from whichever zone it’s currently in. The owner of an object is the only person who can ante that object.[/indent]
Only the owner can ante the object, which could conceivably cause the Jeweled Bird to do nothing, but Jeweled Bird doesn't actually use ante as a verb, so I guess it isn't affected by that rule.