Rules Tip of the Day: You cannot pay life that you do not have. For example, you cannot use Hall of the Bandit Lord's ability unless you have three or more life.

Q: On my opponent's end of turn step, can I pay five Blue mana to cast Quicken and then cast Train of Thought, Replicating once?

A: Yes, that is perfectly legal. You are only playing one sorcery; it doesn't matter that you are also using the Replicate ability.

Q: When Ink-Treader Nephilim is in the graveyard, and I target it with Zombify, will it trigger his effect and target all of my creatures, bringing him back along with anything else in the graveyard?

A: That ability only exists and works when Ink-Treader Nephilim is in play. It will not trigger when this card is targeted in any other zone.

Q: I'm curious if there is any way a Replicate copy of a spell can get on the stack before the card played is put on the stack. This came up with a friend who had a Djinn Illuminatus in play, and replicated an Accumulated Knowledge. Can the original AK be in the graveyard when the copies resolve?

A: No. When you announce the original spell, it is immediately put on the stack. When the announcement is completed the Replicate ability will go on the stack. When this ability resolves, the Replicate copies will go on the stack on top of the original. So the copies will resolve first, before the original does.

Q: I was wondering about what happens if I have an Djinn Illuminatus in play and play Landslide. If I now sacrifice two Mountains and afterwards Replicate five times, would it deal ten damage to my opponent, or would I have to sacrifice Mountains for each copy for them to have an effect?

A: You sacrifice Mountains when Landslide resolves, not as an additional cost when the spell is played. So in order for any copy of Landslide to deal damage, you'll have to sacrifice a Mountain when it resolves. The Replicate copies will not deal the same amount of damage as the original unless you sacrifice the same number of Mountains when each resolves. In a two-player game, there is little point in replicating Landslide, as you can sacrifice all the Mountains you want when the single copy of the spell resolves.

Q: My opponent had Darksteel Colossus in play. I played Nausea and gave all creatures -1/-1. If I play Graven Dominator now, will the Darksteel Colossus die?

A: No, the Colossus will remain in play. The effects from the Nausea and the Graven Dominator are both applied in the same layer, according to timestamp order. So when calculating the P/T of the Colossus, you apply the effect from Nausea first, and than apply the Dominator's effect, making it a 1/1. If the Nausea resolved after the Dominator came into play, then the Colossus would have its toughness lowered to zero, and it would end up being shuffled back into its owner's library.

Q: Would I be able to play Mind Bend, targeting my opponent's Nekrataal as it comes into play, so that it would destroy a non-Blue creature?

A: No, that does not work. Mind Bend can only target a permanent in play. By the time you can play Mind Bend, the Nekrataal is in play; it's ability will have triggered and gone on the stack. Changing the text of the Nekrataal at this point will not change the text of the ability on the stack. In order to do what you want, you need a spell like Spectral Shift or Crystal Spray, that allows you to alter the text of a spell on the stack.

Q: Can I target an Aura I control with Aura Graft and then it to another target which it can enchant? For instance, could I take Curiosity (which I control) and move it from any creature of mine to another creature of mine?

A: Yes, you can target an Aura you already control with Aura Graft in order to move it.

Q: How does Pain's Reward work in Two-Headed Giant? Do we bid as a team, with both players on the winning team getting to draw? Do we bid as single players, going clockwise from the controller of Pain's Reward, with only the winner getting to draw? Or is it something else entirely?

A: Each individual member on a team will bid life—you do not bid as teams—and only the winner of the bidding process will draw four cards. Keep in mind that teammates can confer with each other to decide how much life they should bid.