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7 months ago  ::  Oct 27, 2012 - 10:13PM #1
laforge27
Date Joined: Aug 5, 2012
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If my opponent casts a disintegrate on my creature with regeneration, can I regenerate my creature?
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7 months ago  ::  Oct 27, 2012 - 10:16PM #2
K-Mogg
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Disintegrate
No.  It says so right on the card.
You can activate a regenerate ability, but it will fail to prevent the destruction.
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7 months ago  ::  Oct 27, 2012 - 10:17PM #3
jeff-heikkinen
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You can play abilities that would regenerate it if for some reason you want to, but they won't do anything; Disintegrate explicitly says that creature can't be regenerated this turn, and that text means what it says, not something else. (Besides, if it would die that turn it's exiled instead, which regeneration doesn't help against in any event.)
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7 months ago  ::  Oct 27, 2012 - 10:38PM #4
laforge27
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Sorry. Playing 3rd edition cards. You responses prompted me to look up a picture on Google. Didn't realize text had changed. Thanks!
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7 months ago  ::  Oct 28, 2012 - 2:14AM #5
LMTRK
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Oct 27, 2012 -- 10:38PM, laforge27 wrote:

Sorry. Playing 3rd edition cards. You responses prompted me to look up a picture on Google. Didn't realize text had changed. Thanks!



Note that what is printed on the card doesnt matter, and you dont need to use Google to look at images of the cards.

Use gatherer.wizards.com to search for the card, and ignore the printed wording: the game uses the Oracle text, regardless of what version of the card you have, or what is printed on it.

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May 23, 2013 -- 10:32AM, zammm wrote:

May 23, 2013 -- 10:06AM, Adroitmind@gmail.com wrote:

Not bad. But what happens flavor wise when one kamahl kills the other one?

Zis iz a sign uf deep psychological troma, buried in zer subconscious mind. By keelink himzelf, Kamahl iz physically expressink hiz feelinks uf self-disgust ova hiz desire for hiz muzzer. [/GermanPsychologistVoice]


Jan 5, 2013 -- 9:32PM, RPJesus wrote:

Jan 4, 2013 -- 5:20AM, LMTRK wrote:

That makes no sense to me.

If they spelled the ability out on the card in full then it would not be allowed in a mono-black Commander deck, but because they used a keyword to save space it is allowed?

~ Tim   


Yup, just like you can have Birds of paradise in a mono green deck but not Noble Hierarch . YAY COLOR IDENTITY


Oct 26, 2012 -- 9:56PM, zammm wrote:

Oct 26, 2012 -- 12:24AM, Raeoran wrote:

Is algebra really that difficult?

Survey says yes.


Jul 7, 2011 -- 12:59AM, Novacat wrote:

Jul 7, 2011 -- 12:36AM, LMTRK wrote:

You want to make a milky drink. You squeeze a cow.


I love this description. Like the cows are sponges filled with milk. I can see it all Nick Parks claymation-style with the cow's eyes bugging out momentarily as a giant farmer squeezes it like a squeaky dog toy, and milk shoots out of it.

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7 months ago  ::  Oct 28, 2012 - 10:28AM #6
Astarael7
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OP: I feel compelled to point out that even the Unlimited printing (which I assume is what you mean by 3rd Edition) says the creature can't be regenerated.
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7 months ago  ::  Oct 28, 2012 - 10:32AM #7
Enigma256
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Oct 28, 2012 -- 10:28AM, Astarael7 wrote:

OP: I feel compelled to point out that even the Unlimited printing (which I assume is what you mean by 3rd Edition) says the creature can't be regenerated.


the Revised printing however does not

but as has been said, it's irrelevant what's printed on the card, Oracle wording is what matters

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