Player A casts and resolves . Nekrataal's enters-the-battlefield ability triggers and A and targets Player B's .  In response, Player B casts , targeting Nekrataal.  The stack looks like this (top first):   Swords to Plowshares, targeting Nekrataal. Nekrataal's triggered ability, targeting Suntail Hawk.     Does the Suntail Hawk die?  My thinking is mixed. If I remove the source of the triggered ability, what happens?   The ability doesn't happen. Either the ability is removed from the stack when its source is removed, or the ability is removed when it tries to resolve and sees that the source isn't there. The triggered ability is simply an object on the stack, and it doesn't matter what happens to the Nekrataal that created it.   Any help would be appreciated.
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Player A taps  targeting Player B; its "deals 1 damage to target player" ability is placed on the stack.  Player B gets priority and responds with , targeting Goblin Fireslinger.  Both players pass priority. Snap resolves, and Goblin Fireslinger is returned to its owner's hand.  Does Player B still take 1 damage from Goblin Fireslinger's activated ability?  I know that if the creature had been killed/sent to the graveyard, the ability would still resolve, but I was told recently that because a player's hand is a private zone it couldn't. If anyone could confirm or deny this for me, it would be most appreciated.
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I got attacked by 2  (1/1 infect unblockable), a  (3/1 unblockable) paired with  (2/1 and when paired both creatures get "Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, draw a card") and Tandem Lookout itself (which was unblockable due to an effect).  I tapped my  (tap: "Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn") to prevent 2 damage to me.  My question is: who's damage will be prevented?  Does my opponent decide the order in which the attacking creatures attack during the Declare Attackers Step? Or does he decide that during the Combat Damage Step?  We couldn't find this in the Comp. Rules, so my opponent said his Latch Seeker(3/1) was prevented by 2, but this way I got 2 poison counters and he drew 2 cards. I would have liked to prevent the two poison counters or to only let him draw 1 card (by preventing Tandem lookout).
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In Magic:The Gathering it is possible to trigger abilities of creatures at the same time you can play instants?  I play it that I can block with a creature and sacrifice it at the same time. The attacking creature blocked this ways does not deal damage because the blocking creature is gone - and I get the bonus for the sacrifice (e.g.  gives me an extra B-Mana).  In a recent discussion the topic came up again. It seems like the rulings even allow for the blocking player to wait until the damage is put on the stack. Once the damage is on the stack, I can sacrifice my creature, gain the benefits from the sacrifice ability AND deal damage to the attacking create. In my Blood Pet example I would be able to kill an attacking creature with toughness 1 and get 1 B-Mana.  Is this correct? Where can I find the official ruling that clarifies that?
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has the following ability:     {1}{W}, Exile Dauntless Cathar from your graveyard: Put a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.   Please clarify. If the card is IN my hand, how can I exile if FROM the graveyard if it is not there? Did the writers mean SEND it to graveyard, or actually exile it? Confused, the writing does not make sense.
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Suppose my opponent has a  in play, and I have  and no creatures. During my turn I cast  to gain control of the Colossus and attack with it. So far I haven't done anything controversial.  Now, at this point what I want to do is sacrifice the Colossus to my Attrition, so that my opponent doesn't get him back at the end of the turn. However, Attrition's ability requires a target, and the Colossus is the only potential target on the battlefield. Is it legal to activate the ability and target the Colossus, even though I also want to sacrifice him as part of the ability's cost?  In other words, can I target a creature with an ability, and also sacrifice that same creature as part of the ability's activation cost?  (The ability won't resolve, of course, but that was never the real goal. Normally it would be better to target another of the opponent's creatures, but in this case he doesn't have any, so the Colossus is the only potential target.)
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Will "When/Whenever Foo" trigger if the source is sacrificed to pay a cost for Foo?  Examples  If I activate 's ability and sacrifice , will Kurkesh trigger, allowing me to copy Birthing Pod's ability?  If I cast  and sacrifice  to pay for the cost, will Basilica Screecher trigger, allowing me to extort?
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Let's say I have declared a blocker during the correct phase and during the activate abilities step I choose to tap the blocker to use its ability.  All the abilities resolve and now we move to the declare damage step.  I believe the resolution is that the attacking creature remains blocked and that it deals damage to my blocker; however, the blocker does not deal damage to the attacker.  How would this change if the blocker had first strike? How would this change if the blocker was sacrificed?
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If a Ranger's Animal Companion independently attacks a target that the Ranger is not also attacking, how do you resolve its success and damage? I am assuming that Animal Companions don't have moves like Hack and Slash, so what do you do?
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The new School of Invention tradition for Wizards () while still in playtesting (and indeed a bit silly in my opinion, more of a "chaos wizard"), got me thinking about its reckless casting ability. This allows the caster to cast magic they do not have prepared and get a random result. The random spells have different targeting criteria (Wall of Stone, Fireball, Feign Death , Mass Cure Wounds) and so it is not possible to decide the target of the spell until it has been cast, as you don't know what you are going to get until it is cast.  This suggests that the designer of the subclass has made the assumption that you don't actually target until you have cast the spell and release it, which makes sense from one point of view, strongly supported by the way a prepared action casting works, PHB p.193 where you cast the spell and hold the energy until the condition is met for the readied action at which point you target the spell.  While the Unearthed Arcana is not RAW or finalized and released, my question is not about this subclass, but about the official rules as a whole.  Is there was any direct RAW, or other supporting or opposing RAW, that states at what point a caster defines the target of a spell?  As a sub-question: are there any circumstances where it actually matters, other than the already defined Readied Action spell casting, in the official rules?
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If I have two s, does their effect stack? That is, do the other slivers I have get the "1 damage" ability twice?  If not, why? What rule makes it so they can't have the ability twice?  If I had a different card with same ability would they get it twice? What if the different card had a slightly different wording? Or caused 2 damage instead of 1?   In what situations would a creature be allowed to have two copies of the same ability (if ever)?
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I can't work this one out. For example:  I declare a creature attacking one of my opponents (who's on 5 life). Before he/she declares blockers another player casts  (or similar), reducing his/her life to 0. They would then leave the game, correct?  What happens to my attacking creature, does it still attack the player who is no longer there,  or is it no longer attacking?  In a similar situation, if my opponent has a planeswalker and I attack it, if that planeswalker is destroyed or exiled before it gets to combat damage what happens with the attacking creatures?  My guess is the damage is still dealt to the player/planeswalker no longer there and therefore doesn't do anything except tap the creature, but I'm not sure about this.
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Say my opponent plays a planeswalker during their first main phase.  I have a  or some other effect that will kill it after it is already in play, but before they use any of its abilities.  I could respond to them using a +1 ability, but I want to kill it before that effect goes on the stack.  In most casual situations, it would basically come down to whether I say "Hero's Downfall" first, or they say "+1" first.  But I can't imagine that's how it's supposed to work.  Is there a time between when the planeswalker hits the battlefield and when they activate its abilities that they must let me respond? It seems to me that situations like this arise frequently, and they are resolved simply by who speaks up first, which is horrible for such a rules-oriented game.
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How should I kill the developer? I have tried this method: jump onto his head, turtle, then cast Black Demon. He counters with Black Hole, which ends up killing me instantly no matter where i am
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My opponent attacks with a 3/3. I block with my 1/1 , and have all of my land tapped from my last turn. Can I now tap my Llanowar Elves after it has been declared as a blocker to play  on it, make it 4/4 until end of turn, and destroy my opponent's attacking creature when damage is dealt?
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has the following ability:     Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.   I had a number of creatures on the battlefield, including Marchesa herself, with one or more +1/+1 counters on them when  was played, destroying each creature on the board.  When Marchesa and several other creatures would be killed simultaneously,   Does Marchesa's ability trigger for herself? Does Marchesa's ability trigger for the other creatures under my control with +1/+1 counters?   In attempting to resolve the issue, we tried to look things up, leading to , which cites Rule 603.6d as proving that Marchesa's ability should trigger both for herself and for each other creature with +1/+1 counters.  Unfortunately, none of us could actually understand Rule 603.6d, aside from this example:     Two creatures are on the battlefield along with an artifact that has the ability Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life. Someone plays a spell that destroys all artifacts, creatures, and enchantments. The artifacts ability triggers twice, even though the artifact goes to its owners graveyard at the same time as the creatures.   The example certainly seems analogous to me, but without understanding the actual rule, rather than just the example, we weren't too sure.  A complete answer has to not only answer the question, but back up that answer with citation and explanation of the official rules on the matter.
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Would something like  or something that has "When ~ enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature" trigger Heroic?  It has the keyword target, but does it count as an ability or as part of the spell that targets? I guess this goes likewise for any ability that occurs when a card enters the battlefield.
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If  or any other card states that when it is cast, does this mean that it can trigger when it returns from the battlefield? Such as Conduit of ruin is in the graveyard, I return it to the battlefield from the graveyard. Does the first ability trigger and allow me to search my library for an eldrazi card 7 or more to place on top of my library?