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Q: If I sac Doomed Necromancer to bring back a creature into play from my graveyard, is the same Doomed Necromancer a legal target - or is he not in the graveyard yet when the ability needs to choose a target?
A: You can't bring back the same Necromancer because, as you correctly point out, he's not in the graveyard to target when announcing the ability. Targets are chosen (rule 409.1c) before costs are paid (409.1f).
Q: Oh Generous and Omnipotent Judge, who knows exactly how cards interact even before they are printed, and who even gets this Internet Oracle reference:
Future Sight, with Predict as the top card as the library: It feels wonderfully abusive... But how exactly do I abuse it? Do I name Predict, or the next card in the library?
A: Jeremy, oh cogent and sycophantic player, who knows just the right way to Ask the Judge:
It is wonderfully abusive. When you announce Predict, you move it from the library to the stack (rule 409.1a). You then reveal the top card (Onslaught FAQ). You should be able to successfully Predict what that card is.
Sheldon
Q. I attack with a morphed Hystrodon and my opponent blocks with a Nantuko Shade. I pay the morph cost and turn over the Hystrodon. My opponent then pumps his shade up to a 5/4... And I cast Reprisal on the shade. Do I still get to assign trample damage to my opponent, thus drawing a card?
Thanks,
Kevin
A: Kevin,
It's clearer to say"face-down" instead of"morphed," but I get the picture.
The answer is yes, because you haven't yet put the combat damage on the stack. Trample changes how combat damage is assigned (rule 502.9). You've done damage and drawn a card. How much better could it be? I guess you could have played Chastise, but hey...
Sheldon
Q: When a creature comes back into play after an Astral Slide effect, does anyone have the priority to instantly kill that creature at that end of turn?
A: Yes. Whenever a spell or ability resolves from the stack (Astral Slide's is a delayed triggered ability), then the active player gets priority.
Q: If I discard two cards to my Anurid Brushhopper to remove him from play, and I have two Wirewood Savages in play, when the hopper comes back do I get to draw two cards?
My main concern is that"comes into play," as written on the Wirewood Savage, isn't the same as"return it to play" as on the hopper.
What do you think?
Stuart Stribling
A: Stuart,
It's exactly the same. Your Savages will trigger on the Brushhopper coming back.
Sheldon
Q: When sacrificing cards to Read the Runes, do you have to choose all the permanents at once, or one at a time? Can I sacrifice an Annex and the land I am stealing? If I had an infinite creature loop going with Rotlung Reanimator and Artificial Evolution, could I sac zombie after zombie?
A: You choose all the permanents at once. The permanents must be in play when the Runes resolves. You can sacrifice the land the Annex is enchanting and the Annex (because State-Based effects sending the Annex to the graveyard won't be checked until after the Runes resolves).
You don't get priority during the resolution of the Runes, so you'd have to set your bound loop up, get a number of Zombies that you want, and then play the Runes. Read the Runes won't create that loop because the Zombies you create via the Evolved Rotlung won't come into play until after you've finished resolving the Runes.
