Rules Tip of the Day: Copies of spells that are put on the stack without being played will not trigger abilities that trigger when a spell is played. Similarly, they will not be counted by the Storm ability, which counts the number of spells that have been played.

Q: Does Scion of Oona give Faerie Trickery Shroud?

A: No, for two reasons. First, only permanents and players can have Shroud, and second, when an effect refers to a type or subtype without also using the word 'card', 'spell', or 'source', it means a permanent with that type or subtype in play. In other words, only a Faerie in play will have Shroud when Scion of Oona is in play.

Q: I play Garruk Wildspeaker. When I activate his ability to put an additional loyalty counter on him, my opponent casts Incinerate, targeting Garruk. Does Garruk live with one counter or die with zero?

A: First of all, Garruk cannot be targeted by Incinerate. You can be, and when it resolves, your opponent can choose to have Incinerate deal its damage to your planeswalker. Anyway, if this is what happens, Garruk will remain in play with one loyalty counter. Putting a loyalty counter is a cost associated with playing that first ability; it happens when the ability is played, not when it resolves.

Q: Can you Champion a Kithkin soldier creature token that has been created by Militia's Pride, or is this not possible, since the token is not a 'card' that can return to play?

A: Yes, you can Champion a token. It does not matter if the creature can return to play when the Champion leaves; you can choose to remove any appropriate creature you control when the Champion comes-into-play ability resolves: token and nontoken.

Q: If Cenn's Heir is attacking, and I put a 1/1 white Kithkin Soldier into play tapped and attacking with my Militia's Pride, does it give Cenn's Heir +1/+1, or has the Cenn's Heir ability already triggered when he first was declared as an attacker?

A: Cenn's Heir's ability that give it +1/+1 for each other attacking Kithkin calculates the total bonus it gives when the ability resolves. Because you control Cenn's Heir's ability and the ability of Militia's Pride, you can choose what happens. When Cenn's Heir's attacks both its ability and Militia's Pride's ability will trigger. As the controller of these two abilities, you can determine the order that they go on the stack. If you put Cenn's Heir's ability on the stack first, followed by Militia's Pride's ability, then the Militia's Pride ability will resolve first. When it does, you can pay W to put an attacking 1/1 Kithkin into play. Then Cenn's Heir's ability will resolve. When it does, it will 'see' this attacking Kithkin that was just put into play, count it, and give Cenn's Heir +1/+1.

Q: If I play Spellscutter Sprite when there are no any other spells on the stack, what happens? Does the Spellstutter Sprite counter itself?

A: No. In fact, it cannot counter itself. The Sprite's comes-into-play ability will go on the stack after the Spellscutter spell has resolved. If there is not a spell on the stack to target when this ability goes on the stack, it will leave the stack and do nothing.

Q: I have a Nath's Elite in play and I play an additional Nath's Elite and win the Clash. May I put the +1/+1 counter on the Nath's Elite that was already in play?

A: No. When the text of a card refers to itself by name, it means itself only. When this new Nath's Elite comes into play and you win the Clash, it will get the +1/+1 counter, the one that was not in play will not.

Q: I have Chandra Nalaar in play; can I use a healing effect, like Natural Spring, to add to her loyalty counters?

A: No. Planeswalkers do not have a life total, only players do. Changing your life total will not change the number of loyalty counters on a Planeswalker.

Q: How does Leyline of Singularity interact with face-down Morph creatures, which have no name? Does the legend rule not apply, because they have no name instead of sharing a name, or are they all sent to the graveyard if there is more than one face-down creature in play?

A: Face-down permanents do not have names, so there is no name for them to share. Because of this, they will all remain in play even if they are all Legendary.

Q: Using Kaho, Minamo Historian, can I remove a card that has the Buyback ability, play it using Kaho, and pay the extra cost separately to buy it back?

A: Yes, that works. Kaho's ability allows you to play the removed card without paying its mana cost, but you can still choose to pay any additional costs associated with that card, like Buyback. If you do, then when it resolves, it will return to your hand.

Q: I have Briar Shield on a creature in play and I attack with the creature. After my opponent chooses whether to block it, if I sacrifice Briar Shield, will it give +3/+3 in addition to +1/+1, for a total of +4/+4, or get rid of the +1/+1 bonus, just giving +3/+3?

A: It'll just get +3/+3. Briar Shield's first ability that gives +1/+1 is a static ability that generates a continuous effect. This effect is only applied when Brian Shield is in play and attached to it. As soon as you sacrificed the Briar Shield, this effect ended. The effect from its activated ability is also a continuous effect, but that effect specifically lasts until the end of the current turn.