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Rules Tip of the Day: When a permanent becomes a creature, it does not count as a creature coming into play. Abilities that trigger when a creature comes into play will not trigger.
Q: Do I read Panglacial Wurm properly? If you had four of these in your deck and played a card that made you search your library, then all four Wurms come into play?
A: You have to pay the mana cost of each Panglacial Wurm tht you want to play. That ability does not stipulate that you can play these card without paying the mana cost, so you have to pay the normal cost. Panglacial Wurm's ability changes when you can play it and where you can play it from, but not what you pay.
Q: With Counterbalance in play, when an opponent plays a card, I may reveal the top card of my library and counter if it has the same converted mana cost. Is this ability stackable, in that I can respond with another spell or ability and resolve it, and then resolve the Counterbalance ability?
A: Yes, that is possible. When an opponent plays a spell, Counterbalance's ability will trigger and go on the stack. Before this triggered ability resolves, you can play spells and abilities that may allow you to change what the top card of your library is: Sensei's Diving Top, Survivor of the Unseen, etc. Then, when Conterbalance's triggered ability resolves, you may reveal the top card of your library, and if the converted mana cost of the revealed card is equal to the converted mana cost of your opponent's spell, your opponent's spell will be countered.
Q: If I have Dark Depths in play, and I play Aether Snap, does that bring the 20/20 creature right into play?
A: Not right away; you still have to wait for the triggered ability to resolve. All kidding aside, Aether Snap will remove all of the Ice counters from Dark Depths, and you will get the 20/20 token creature.
Q: I control Tamanoa and play Lightning Storm. It it ends up that my opponent is the last player able to discard a land, giving him the final choice of a target. Am I still able to gain life equal to the total amount of damage by Lightning Storm? Or is the player who last played the activated ability of Lightning Storm actually in control of the spell?
A: You are still the controller of the Lightning Storm, so Tamanoa's ability will trigger, and you will gain life equal to the amount of damage dealt. It does not matter that your opponent was the last person to play the ability of Lightning Storm, you are still the person who initially played this spell, and you are its controller. Lightning Storm's activated ability may allow any player to change the target of Lightning Storm, but that does not mean that that the controller of the spell changes.
Q: If I play Coiling Oracle and flip Lotus Vale or Scorched Ruins, am I required to sacrifice two lands to put it into play?
A: No, you are not required to sacrifice two lands if one of these cards is revealed. However, if you do not, then the Lotus Vale or Scorched Ruins will end up being put in your graveyard.
Q: What is the rule for using the Transmute ability to search for split cards? For instance, could Muddle the Mixture be used to search for Odds / Ends?
A: Yes. Odds / Ends has a converted mana cost of two and five; you can Transmute for it with a card that has a converted mana cost of two or five.
Q: I play Twist Allegiance and switch control of creatures with my opponent, then remove one from play with Otherworldly Journey. Twisted Allegiance says "at end of turn, return control of each other's creatures]] and Otherworldly Journey says "at end of turn, put the removed creature back in play". Do I get to choose which happens first so I can keep the removed creature?
A: No, that does not work, for two reasons. You have no control over the order that these two things occur. Otherworldly Journey creates a delayed triggered ability that triggers at the beginning of the end of turn step, and Twist Allegiance creates a continuous effect that lasts until the end of the current turn, which will end in the cleanup step. The end of turn step comes before the cleanup step, so this removed creature will automatically be returned to play before the effect from Twist Allegiance ends.
The second reason this does not work is that Otherworldly Journey returns the removed creature to play under its owner's control. You may have controlled this creature when it left play, but you are not its owner. So, in this example, the creature that was removed from play by Otherworldly Journey will be returned to play under your opponent's control with a +1/+1 counter, and then the control effect of Twist Allegiance will end.
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