Rules Tip of the Day: An individual replacement effect will only be applied to a single event once; it will not be applied over and over again.

Q: When I play Gifts Ungiven, can I search up two copies of the same split card like Research / Development, searching up Research for one card and Development for another?

A: No. Anywhere but on the stack, this split card has the name Research / Development. You cannot choose to search for two copies with Gifts Ungiven as these two cards do not have different names.

Q: I have a question about Cloudstone Curio and Graft. If I have a Simic Initiate with its normal +1/+1 token, and a Curio in play, can I play another creature, move the token onto it, and bounce the Simic Initiate to my hand with the Curio?

A: No, that does not work. As the controller of these two triggered abilities, you can determine the order that they go on the stack and, therefore, the order they resolve. However, regardless of what you do, you cannot do all of what you want. If you resolve the Graft ability first and move the counter, then the Initiate will go to the graveyard before you can return it to your hand. If you return it to your hand then the graft ability will not do anything, as there is no counter to move.

Q: If a player has no creatures under his control and wants to play Whiptail Moloch, is he prevented from doing so since the Moloch's ability says "deal three damage to target creature you control?"

A: No, he can play Whiptail Moloch. When it comes into play, its ability will trigger and go on the stack. At this point he will have to target a creature he controls with this ability, and the Moloch is the only available target, so he will have to choose it. When the ability resolves, the Moloch's ability will deal three points of damage to itself.

Q: My opponent attacks with a doublestriking Hunted Horror. I choose to block with the tokens I received from the Horror. Will I take two damage or eight?

A: You'll take, at most, two points of combat damage. In the first strike combat damage step, your opponent will have to assign at least three points of damage to each of the blocking Centaur tokens and can assign up to one to you. Then he will have to do the same in the normal combat damage step. It does not matter that the Centaurs have had damage assigned to them previously in combat; that damage was prevented. So the normal combat damage step works like the first strike damage step, and in order to assign any damage from the Hunted Horror to you, he has to assign lethal damage to all blocking creatures.

Q: Can I use Doubling Season to exponentially increase the size of Tetravus? For example, removing three +1/+1 counters to make six Tetravites, then sacking six Tetravites to add twelve +1/+1 counters?

A: You can use that combo to make the Tetravus bigger, just not in the way you described. When you resolve Tetravus's upkeep triggered ability, you have to remove Tetravite tokens from the game first, and then you can remove counters from the Tetravus to make Tetravites. So you'd have to have Tetravites in play first to make the Tetravus bigger. Also keep in mind that you can only complete this process once each time this triggered ability resolves.

Q: What happens if I Quash a copy of an Enduring Ideal?

A: If you counter a copy of Enduring Ideal with Quash, you will be able to search your opponent's hand, library, and graveyard for all copies of cards named Enduring Ideal and remove them from the game. Keep in mind that this does not end the Epic effect; your opponent will still be prohibited from playing spells, and a copy of Enduring Ideal will continue to go on the stack for each of your opponent's subsequent upkeeps.

Q: I have a question regarding Killer Instinct and Primitive Etching. At the beginning of my upkeep, I reveal a creature card. What happens? Does it come into play, and do I draw 2 more cards?

A: While you reveal cards for both abilities, they really have nothing to do with each other and do not combo in any meaningful way. In your upkeep you'll resolve Killer Instinct's ability. If you reveal a creature card, it is put into play. Then, in your draw step, you'll reveal this drawn card and if it is a creature card you'll draw another. If you did not reveal a creature card when resolving Killer Instinct's ability, then you'll reveal this card again and end up drawing it.

Q: is it possible to play Winnow on face-down Morph creatures? Although all should be the same while face-down, the rules say that they don't have any name. So is "no name at all" a valid pre-condition to play Winnow?

A: No, you cannot play Winnow and target a face down creature. When in play and face-down, this creature does not have a name, so it cannot share a name with another creature in play.