Rules Tip of the Day: You can activate a regeneration ability any time you have priority and can pay the necessary activation cost. You are not limited to using a regeneration ability just before a permanent would be destroyed.

Q: Auramancer's Guise is in my graveyard. I have Mistmeadow Skulk and Quagnoth in play. I play Retether. Which creatures can I enchant with Auramancer's Guise? Are the Auras returned to play considered 'played'?

A: You an enchant the Quagnoth, but not the Skulk. Aura enchantments only target when they are played. They do not target when they are put directly into play or once in play and attached to a permanent. However, an Aura being put into play must have a legal object to attach to, or it will stay in it's current zone. Mistmeadow Skulk's protection ability means that it cannot be target or enchanted by cards with converted mana cost of three or more. As to your second question, Auras are not considered played (for purposes of trigger conditions, say) if they are put directly into play by a resolving spell or ability.

Q: If have two Barren Glory in play, do I still win the game?

A: No. When a card refers to itself by name it means "this card" and not any other card with the same name. At the beginning of your upkeep, the abilities of these Barren Glories will not trigger, as each will "see" the other.

Q: I have a question concerning Boldwyr Intimidator. Its ability states that "target creature's type becomes Coward until end of turn." Does this mean that all creatures of that given type are now Cowards, or just that one card?

A: Just the one targeted card will become a Coward, not all creatures that share a type with that creature. If you play this ability on a Sliver, only the one Sliver will become a Coward. Keep in mind that it will lose all other creature types it had, so it will not longer be a Sliver and it will not share any of the Sliver abilities.

Q: I have a Nacatl War-Pride enchanted by a Verdant Embrace. When I attack with it, are the copies 6/6 or 3/3? Also if I have Primal Forcemage in play when I attack, do the copies get +3/+3?

A: In the first example the tokens creatures will only be 3/3s. Copy effects do not copy other non-copy effects that are applied to the original. However, in the second example the token creatures will become 6/6s. Each of these tokens coming into play will trigger Primal Forcemage's ability. When all of these abilities resolve, the token copies will be 6/6 creatures.

Q: I have a Body Double that copied a Sengir Nosferatu in my graveyard. I know I can pay 1B and then get one 1/2 black Bat with flying into play. But can I pay another 1B to sacrifice the Bat and put the Body Double back into play?

A: No. The ability of this Bat token can only return a card named "Sengir Nosferatu" to play. Once the Body Double card leaves play, it is no longer a copy of Sengir Nosferatu, and its name will be Body Double.

Q: I have three creatures in play, and Dread Return in my graveyard with no other creatures in it. Can I Flashback the Dread Return, sac my three creatures and return one of them to play?

A: No. When you play a spell you choose targets before you pay costs. When you choose the target of this Flashbacked Dread Return, the creature you want to target is not in your graveyard.

Q: I played Slipstream Serpent as a 2/2 face-down card and then attacked with it. After declaring it as an attacker and tapping it, what happens if I pay its Morph costs before damage is dealt and flip it over, if my opponent controls no islands? Does it do six damage anyway, or does it do no damage at all?

A: Slipstream Serpent's ability only matters when attacking creatures are declared. It was a legal attacker when attackers were declared, as it was face down and did not have that ability. The fact that it is turned face up later in the combat phase does not matter. It will still be attacking and it will deal six points of combat damage.

Q: If I have Hivestone and a Sinew Sliver in play, is it a Sliver Sliver? And if so, will it be a 2/2 still or a 3/3?

A: Your Sinew Sliver is already a Sliver, Hivestone does not change anything or make it a Sliver more than once. So it will be just a 2/2.

Q: I Suspend two copies of Curse of the Cabal. If an opponent sacrifices a permanent, does it add two time counters to each card?

A: No. At the beginning of each upkeep step, the ability of Curse of the Cabal will trigger. With two copies suspended, each ability will trigger independently and resolve separately. When the triggered ability of one Curse of the Cabal resolves, the active player can choose to sacrifice a permanent to put two time counters on that Curse of the Cabal only. The other suspended Curse of the Cabal will be unaffected.