Rules Tip of the Day: Unless the text on a card specifies otherwise, abilities of artifacts, creatures, lands, and enchantments are only applied when those cards are in play.

Q: If my opponent destroys one of my lands with Ghost Quarter can I get a Basic snow land into play, or does it have to say "Basic Land," like the wording of the card states?

A: The Snow-Covered lands are Basic lands, and yes, you can get one when Ghost Quarter's ability resolves.

Q: With a Snow-Covered Swamp and a Swamp in play when Sundering Titan comes into play, do I choose one or both to destroy?

A: When Sundering Titan's comes-into-play ability resolves, you choose one land with the land type Swamp. You cannot choose two, unless a land has the land type Swamp and some other Basic land type. The Snow-Covered Swamp may have an additional supertype, but that does not mean that it is a different Basic type. So in this example you can choose to destroy one or the other, but not both.

Q: My bud had a Windreaver in play and tried to tap Pillar of the Paruns to play its ability. Can this be done?

A: No. Windreaver may be a multicolored permanent, but its abilities are not spells. So your opponent can not use the mana from Pillar of the Paruns to pay the activation cost of these abilities.

Q: I have Isochron Scepter with Glimpse the Unthinkable on it and Djinn Illuminatus in play. If activate Isochron Scepter to play Glimpse, will this copy of Glimpse have Replicate?

A: Yes, all instants and sorceries that you play will have Replicate, even those that are not represented by actual cards and are copies of cards created by some effect.

Q: If the ability on Temporal Aperture is used after your second main phase (at end of turn) and reveals a sorcery, can it be played prior to it being drawn the next turn?

A: No, you will not be able to play this card. Temporal Aperture sets the zone that you can play this card from and what you pay for it, but it does not change when the card can be played.

Q: If my Iridescent Drake gets killed while I have Abduction on it, will it return to play with or without Abduction?

A: It will return to play without the Abduction. However, when Iridescent Drake's comes-into-play ability resolves, you can choose to reattach the Abduction to it. Keep in mind that this is how the combo works now because the "power level" errata of Iridescent Drake was removed.

Q: If I cast Fling on a creature equipped with Cranial Plating, is the damage strictly from the creature's own power, or does it include the power from Cranial Plating?

A: When Fling resolves the game will use last known information about the power of the 'flung' creature. At the time it was sacrificed as an additional cost to play Fling, its power was boosted by the attached Cranial Plating, so Fling will deal this increased amount of damage.

Q: I am in the finals for an Unglued draft, playing my aggro UW deck v. a GW Wordmail/Market-Research-Elemental deck. It's game three and I have cunningly cast Meddling Kids, naming the word 'target'. Wordmail sits in my worthy opponent's grip, my flyers are rocking out, and Victory Is In My Grasp. Suddenly, some guy playing a just-for-fun game behind us asks if there's any card my opponent would like to get Whupped. Next thing I know, this kid behind us gives my Meddling Kids an Ass Whuppin'. Truth be told, it was one of the funniest things I've ever encountered, seemed very in the spirit of Unhinged, and I don't begrudge that it allowed my opponent to drop Wordmail on his Marketing Elemental and take the draft. All that said, I'm curious how the Kids interact with the Whuppin'. Can players from other games play cards in our game which the Kids have outlawed?

A: The effect from Meddling Kids will not prevent your neighbor form playing Ass Whuppin', even if this Ass Whuppin targets a permanent in your game. The effect from Meddling Kids only affects the players within that game. Only those effects that specifically say that they can generate effects outside of the game they are played in, like the one created by Ass Whuppin', can actually 'bleed' into another game. I'm trying to find another way to insert the name Ass Whuppin' into this answer one more time. Ass Whuppin'.