Rules Tip of the Day: When a land has its type changed into a basic land type, it will lose all of its rules text, and will gain the text the appropriate mana ability. It will keep any supertypes—such as 'Basic', 'Snow-Covered', or 'Legendary'—that it has.

Q: I have Djinn Illuminatus in play, and I want to play Repeal, targeting a creature with a converted mana cost of four. What is the Replicate cost of this Repeal? And can I target a creature with a converted mana cost of less then four with this copy?

A: When you play this Repeal, you choose the value of X before you calculate costs. It is at this time that you also calculate the Replicate cost. If X is equal to four, then the mana cost of the spell will be 4U. This means that the Replicate cost of the spell will also be 4U. And no, you cannot target a creature with a converted mana cost of anything other than four with this Replicate copy. The copy is an exact copy and has the same targeting restriction.

Q: If I have two Blood Funnels in play, are my non-creature spells four mana cheaper? And do I have to sacrifice two creatures?

A: Yes to both questions. The static ability that reduces the cost of noncreature spells you control is cumulative, so they will cost up to four mana less. And whenever you play a non-creature spell, the ability of each Blood Funnel will trigger. These triggered abilities will resolve independently and you will have to sacrifice a creature each time.

Q: I play Tunnel Vision on my friend, naming Plains. On the way down to the Plains, a Darksteel Colossus is revealed. When the Colossus gets shuffled back into the deck, do we shuffle first, then put the Plains on top (with an advantage to me, as I know the next draw) or do we put the Plains on top, then shuffle the Colossus back in (with advantage to my friend, as he manages to get a random draw, even though a chunk of his library has been removed)?

A: When Tunnel Vision resolves you do not put cards one by one into their owner's graveyard, you reveal cards. Technically, these cards are still part of your library as you are revealing them. Then, when you reveal the named card, you stop revealing cards and put all of the revealed cards into their owner's graveyard. If a Darksteel Colossus is one of the named cards, you won't put it into the graveyard until this point. When you do, you'll then shuffle the Colossus back into its owner's library as part of the same action that puts the others into the graveyard. However, Tunnel Vision specifically states that you put the named card on top of the library after the other cards have gone to the graveyard. So—provided you did indeed "hit" a Plains—this Plains will end up on top of the library.

Q: My opponent attacks with Boros Swiftblade, and I play Shining Shoal with X=2. How much damage from the Swiftblade is redirected—the full two, or only the one point of first strike damage?

A: The Shoal will end up redirecting both points of combat damage. Many prevention and redirection effects only apply the next time a source would deal damage. However, Shining Shoal does not care about the number of times that a source would deal damage, just the amount of damage dealt. As you are playing this Shoal with X set to two, the point of damage in the first strike combat damage step will be redirected and and single point of damage in the normal combat damage step will also be redirected.

Q: If I attack with Frenzied Goblin and my opponent has an active Vitu-Ghazi, the City Tree will I be able to make the token he creates in response to the declare attackers step unable to block?

A: No. When you declare the Frenzied Goblin as an attacker, its ability will trigger and go on the stack as soon as the declaration is completed. At this point, you need to choose a target of this ability. From your description, your opponent has not made his token creature yet, so you cannot target it. As long as your opponent makes a token creature after attackers are declared, but before blockers are declared, he'll be able to block with it.

Q: An opponent played an enchantment that made a 4/4 Pro-Blue creature of his a Flagbearer. I have two Blue Ninjas, with Shuriken on each of them. When used, the Shurikens do the damage from their ability, so I thought I could kill his guy, because they are artifacts. My group figured we couldn't target the Pro-Blue creature, because the creature has the ability. Which is correct?

A: The Shuriken may be what is dealing the damage, but the Blue creature is the source of the ability. So no, you cannot target this Pro-Blue creature with the ability as long as the Shuriken is attached to a Blue creature.

Q: Why, if I cast Pariah on one of my opponent's creatures, is the damage coming from me redirected to their permanent, but if I cast Pillory of the Sleepless on one of their creatures, the 'you' that the loss-of-life ability refers to is them instead?

A: In both instances you are the controller of the Aura. On Pariah, where it refers to you, it means 'you' as 'the controller of the Pariah'. Pillory of the Sleepless is different; it gives a triggered ability to the enchanted creature. (You can tell that this is the case as it says "Enchanted creature gains...") As your opponent is the controller of this creature, he will control this ability. It does not matter that the reason this enchanted creature has this ability is because of your enchantment. When this ability uses the word 'you' it means 'the controller of this ability—your opponent.