Rules Tip of the Day: Colorless is not a color. You cannot choose colorless if an effect has you choose a color. Additionally, just because a card or permanent is colorless does not make it an artifact, and just because an object is an artifact does not make it colorless.

Q: Does Silent Arbiter stop Ninjas from being put into play with the Ninjutstu ability, since the first creature was already attacking ?

A: No. Silent Arbiter's ability only prevents a single creature from being declared as an attacking creature. When a Ninjutsu ability resolves, a Ninja is put into play attacking without being declared as an attacker. Silent Arbiter's ability will not prevent this from happening.

Q: I play Torrent of Stone with Horobi's Whisper Spliced onto it, both parts targeting Shimmering Glasskite. Is the first targeting countered and does the 2nd targeting resolve killing the Glasskite?  I believe the answer is it is one spell so the whole spell is countered.

A: You are correct. When you Splice text onto a spell it is still one spell. The Glasskite ability will counter this entire spell. It does not matter that this single spell targets the Glasskite twice.

Q: If I have two Horoki, Dust Drinker in play (because of Mirror Gallery), would it mean that lands do not untap, and at the beginning of each upkeep I can untap TWO lands (one for each Horoki's effect)?

A: Yes, If there was a Mirror Gallery in play as well as two Horoki, Dust Drinker, then each player would get to untap two lands during their upkeep, one for each of the Horoki triggered abilities.

Q: Can I Imprint Bushi Tenderfoot onto Death-Mask Duplicant to give it Double Strike?

A: No. When a flip card is in any zone other than in play, it will have the characteristics of the non-flipped version.

Q: What happens if I Reanimate Platinum Angel when I’m at 2 life? Will I lose the game?

A: No. When Reanimate resolves, you will first put the Angel into play and then lose seven life. Then after Reanimate has completely resolved state-based effects will be checked. At this point your life total will be below zero, but the Angel is in play and its ability will prevent you from losing the game.

Q: I searched for an answer for this everywhere found nothing. Can a player tear apart his Chaos Orb (that urban legend thing) and make all the pieces fall in the table destroying everything they touch?

A: Technically, this answer does not matter for sanctioned constructed play, as Chaos Orb is not legal in any constructed format, although I suppose you could try this in an Alpha booster draft. And I ‘m sure you could get some bystanders to actually cry if you did this.

Anyway, I don’t think that you can do this, as it is purposely marking / damaging a card in a game. It doesn't really matter that it is your card. You could also argue that once it is ripped up Chaos Orb is no longer a legal card, and therefore Chaos Orb's effect that mentions the Chaos Ob has nothing to refer to, as that card does not exist any longer.

Q: I was curious about tournament rules about discarding at random. Is there a set way in the rules that cards are supposed to be discarded at random? If not, then who gets to choose how the cards are discarded at random, the person discarding the cards or the person who cast the discard spell.

A: There are no hard and fast rules that govern how a random discard is made. The fairest method I know of is to assign each card in a players hand a number, and to have an opponent roll a die, D-10s usually work. If a rolled number is higher than the number of cards in that player's hand, just re-roll until you get a a number that works. This way you have a better shot of generating a random result, as opposed to having one player make a guess.

Q: On "monger-like" abilities both players can use as instants, I notice that they are very specific in targeting (like Wishmonger) or completely global (Squallmonger). Is that because writing an ability like "2: you gain 2 life. Any player may play this ability" only gives life to the controller of the permanent which generated it?

A: The 'you' in an ability always means the controller of the ability, not the controller of the source of the ability when the ability is played or resolves. Wishmonger is worded the way it is for game play and power issues, not because of the rules. If Wishmonger allowed the controller of the ability to make the choice, then any targeted spell, ability or colored local enchantment would be virtually worthless. Also, if the controller of the ability got to choose the color, then an opponent could respond to one activation of Wishmonger's ability by using the Wishmonger's ability and choose white when it resolves. Basically the Wishmonger's ability would negate itself. Most games with a Wishmonger in it would revolve around who had more mana available.