Can I, say, activate Mask for X = 0, put Drakuseth, Maw of Flames on the board face down, No, 4RRR could not be paid by some or all of 0 . If this happens in a tournament, the infraction is "Game Play Error — Game Rule Violation", which starts as a Warning (assuming the judge concludes th...

Yes. For the sake of definiteness, let's say the flash creature is Zealous Guardian . The sequence could then be something like this: Your main phase begins. You get priority and cast Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath . You pay the cost using 1GU obtained in an unspecified way. You get priority and pass....

I have a Cavalier of Thorns , I cast Quasiduplicate to get a token copy of it. That token dies. Does the dies trigger happen? Yes, but it won't do anything in particular. The token will cease to exist before that triggered ability goes on the stack. 111.7. A token that's in a zone other than the ba...

We had this weird idea that the ability of the redcap resolves first before the counter from grumgully get added to it. The timing of Grumgully's effect is actually covered by these rules: 614.1. Some continuous effects are replacement effects. Like prevention effects (see rule 615), replacement ef...

Yes, a 2/2 creature getting +1/+1 from a continuous effect or a counter has power/toughness of 3/3. Since its power is 3, "damage equal to its power" means damage equal to 3. To ignore those (or something like Giant Growth ), it would have to specify "damage equal to its base power&qu...

" 1BB , T : Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand." After you draw a card, the number of cards in your hand will be 1. Then that is the amount of life you lose. That effect doesn't care how many cards used to be in your hand. 608.2c The controller of the...

so things happen from the top to the bottom of the text box of the card? Within any given ability (such as the spell ability here that starts with "Choose two" and ends with "gain 4 life"), you follow the instructions in order, as detailed in this rule that peteroupc cited: 608....