Rules Tip of the Day: If a spell or ability would cause a player to discard more cards than are in his or her hand, then that player discards his entire hand.

Q: I have a Puca's Mischief and a Mistmeadow Witch in play. At the beginning of my upkeep, I choose two legal targets and Puca's "exchange" effect goes on the stack. If I use Mistmeadow Witch to RFG one of them, does the entire effect fizzle, or is the trade one-way?

A: The exchange will not happen. In Magic any effect that tries to perform an exchange will not do so unless both objects to be exchanged are legal when the effect would be applied.

Q: If I have Enchanted Evening in play, can Idyllic Tutor fetch me any non-instant, non-sorcery card from my deck?

A: No. Enchanted Evening only affects permanents in play, not permanent cards in other zones. It does not give cards in any other zones the Enchantment type.

Q: If I have Twilight Shepherd in play and I play Wrath of God, do I get the Wrath back in hand?

A: No, Twilight Shepherd's ability only returns to your hand those cards that went to a graveyard from play that turn. This Wrath of God went from the stack to your graveyard when it resolved, not from play.

Q: If I have a Rootwater Matriarch in play, and my opponent plays Enchanted Evening, can I take control of his creatures with my Matriarch?

A: No. Being enchanted is different from being an enchantment. To be enchanted, an object must have an enchantment with the Aura subtype attached to it.

Q: I have a River Kelpie and another creature with persist in play. If my opponent plays Wrath of God and both my creatures die, does the draw ability of the River Kelpie trigger off of the other persist creature coming back into play from the graveyard?

A: It can, provided that River Kelpie is in play when these other creatures enter play. Each persist ability triggers independently and resolves one at a time. In order to draw a card for each one you'll have to have River Kelpie's persist ability go on the stack last, so it resolves first and enters play before the other creatures do.

Q: The wording on Mossbridge Troll has been something of debate among myself and a few friends. As the card states, you can tap any number of creatures with total power of 10 or greater (aside, of course, from the Mossbridge Troll) to give the Troll +20/+20. If I have a pair of 10/10 creatures, can I tap one creature to give +20/+20 to the Mossbridge Troll, and then tap the other creature, or several smaller creatures, to give the same Mossbridge Troll another +20/+20?

A: Yes. That ability can be played as many times as you can pay the activation cost. There is no special limitation on the number of times it can be played.

Q: If my planeswalker is being attacked, can I play Vindicate and Reknit on it to remove it from combat and prevent it from being attacked?

A: No. Being attacked does not put a planeswalker or a player into combat. A planeswalker that is being attacked is not in combat, so it cannot be removed from combat. Only creatures that are attacking and creatures that are blocking are in combat.

Q: Can an Imp's Mischief redirect a Primal Command if the two modes chosen are the two "target player" modes, and only one player is chosen? Or do the two effects make it two targets?

A: This Primal Command has two targets; it does not matter that in each instance, the same player is targeted. Because of this, this Primal Command spell cannot be targeted by Imp's Mischief.

Q: If I play a white spell and it is countered, can I still play Patrician's Scorn for free?

A: Yes, since you did play a white spell. It does not matter that it was countered; it was still played.

Q: If I champion a creature that has an enchantment on it, does the enchantment go with it or to the graveyard?

A: The enchantment will remain in play, and then when state-based effects are checked, the Aura will go to its owner's graveyard.

Q: I have Ashnod's Coupon, which says that it is invalid in Quebec in the flavor text. Can I still use it in Quebec? I think so, because flavor text is not rules text, but my friend disagrees.

A: You are correct that flavor text has no rules significance. The real question is: can you convince someone to accept it?