Rules Tip of the Day: A spell or ability is only countered on resolution if all of its targets are illegal when it tries to resolve. If at least one target is legal at that point, then the spell will resolve and do as much as possible.

Q: If a 1/1 creature has an Aura that grants it +2/+2, does Sudden Spoiling turn the creature into a 0/2, or does the Aura still work afterwards, making it a 2/4?

A: Because the continuous effects of static abilities from permanents are applied after continuous effects like the one generated by Sudden Spoiling, this creature will be a 2/4.

Q: As I understand it, you can flip Morphed creatures via Momentary Blink, but do I abilities that trigger on the creature turning face up get triggered?

A: No. While the end result is that this face-down creature is now face up, you are not ending the Morph effect and turning this creature face up. What you are doing is removing the face-down creature from play, turning it face up when it is in the removed from game zone (because no effect is causing it to be face-down), and then putting a different face-up creature into play. It may be represented by the same card, but it is a different creature. And because this is what happens, any abilities that trigger on this creature being turned face up will not trigger.

Q: My opponent steals control of my Spectral Force and then attacks me with it. (I don't control any black permanents) At the end of turn I will regain control of Spectral Force. Will it untap in my upkeep? If so, and I attack with it, and then play Seedborn Muse, will it untap in my opponent's upkeep? (My opponent doesn't control any black permanents either.)

A: Yes and no. It will untap in your untap stop, but not in your opponent's. This is because the controller of Spectral Force's triggered ability is whoever controlled Spectral Force when the ability triggers. And the effect from this ability only affects Spectral Force in the upkeep of the controller of the ability. So when you regain control of Spectral Force, it will untap as there is no effect that keeps it from untapping in your untap step. However, when we get to your opponent's turn, the first triggered ability that was generated when your opponent controlled Spectral Force will keep it from untapping, even though you will untap other permanents you control due to Seedborn Muse.

Q; I have an Opal Guardian in play that is still an enchantment. When my opponent's Keldon Halberdier becomes unsuspended, does my Opal Guardian become a 3/4 Gargoyle?

A: Yes. When the last time counter it removed from a Suspended card, the Suspend spell is played. When this happens, Keldon Halberdier will be played, and this will trigger Opal Guardian's ability

Q: On his first turn, my opponent played a Terramorphic Expanse. On my turn, can I play Vesuva and copy his land, or can he sacrifice his Terramorphic Expanse so that my Vesuva comes into play and I'm forced to copy whatever land he searches for?

A: Playing your normal land drop each turn does not use the stack and cannot be responded to. By the time your opponent can do anything, your Vesuva is in play as a tapped copy of Terramorphic Expanse.

Q: My opponent's Yosei, the Morning Star has just gone to the graveyard and he has targeted me and five lands I control with Yosei's ability. If I respond to this triggered ability by playing Gilded Light, will these lands become tapped?

A: Yes. Yosei, the Morning Star's leaves-play triggered ability is only countered on resolution if all of its targets are illegal. You may be an illegal target, but the permanents you control are still legal targets, so they will become tapped. However as you are not a legal target, that portion of Yosei's effect will not do anything, so these lands will untap in your next untap step.

Q: I control Doubling Season, will cards I Suspend be Suspended for twice as long? In other words, if it would normally get three time counters, will it receive six?

A: No. Doubling Season only doubles the number of counters that permanents you control would get. When you Suspend a card, it is removed form the game and not a permanent, so the number of time counters is not doubled.

Q: Supposing there are four Chronosavants in my graveyard and I bring all of them back in a single turn, do I skip the next turn, or the next four turns?

A: Each time one of these Chronosvant abilities resolves, an effect that causes you to skip your next turn will be created. When you skip a turn, only one of these replacement effect will be used up, so in the end, you will skip four turns.

Q: I have a Stasis and a Pendrell Mists in play. All my opponent's available mana sources are tapped. During his upkeep, are his indestructible creatures destroyed or buried or just 'placed in the graveyard' when he can't afford to pay their upkeep?

A: Yes. Pendrell Mists' ability forces player to sacrifice creatures if they cannot pay the upkeep cost. Indestructible creatures can be sacrificed, and when they are, they will go to the graveyard. Indestructibility will not prevent this from happening.