Rules Tip of the Day: As far as I can tell, everyone that has ever written an Ask the Judge: Feature Friday will be in San Diego this weekend for the Pro Tour. So if you ever wanted to meet Sheldon Menery, Seamus Campbell, Lee Sharpe, Nick Fang, Johanna Virtanen, Toby Elliot, Pete Jahn, newcomer Jason Lemahieu, or myself, San Diego is the place to be. I've heard that there may be some Magic tournaments there as well.

Q: When a Morph is played, and then is countered by Delay, giving it Suspend, which version of the card is eventually put into play: the 2/2 face-down Morph, or the face-up card?

A: The face-up creature. When Delay resolves, this card is removed from the game face-up. When the last time counter is removed from this Suspended card, it will be played. You cannot choose to play it face-down, as the Suspend ability is instructing you to play this spell without paying its mana cost.

Q: If my friendly opponent has Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth in play, are my Forests still "basic lands" when I play Imperiosaur?

A: Yes. They have an additional basic land type, but they are still basic lands. Basic is a supertype; non-basic is the lack of that supertype. Urborg, Tomb of Ywagmoth only adds a land subtype, it does not affect supertypes at all.

Q: I have Enduring Renewal in play and I sacrifice a creature, does this add to the Gravestorm count?

A: Yes. Enduring Renewal has a triggered ability that triggers when a creature is put into your graveyard from play. When this ability resolves, the creature card that triggered the ability will return to your hand. As this creature card did go to your graveyard, it will be counted in Bitter Ordeal's Gravestorm ability.

Q: If someone were to Imprint Urza's Rage on a Spellweaver Volute, can they pay the Kicker cost when they play a copy of the Rage?

A: You can still pay the Kicker cost of this enchanted spell. When an effect has you play a spell without paying its mana cost, you cannot take advantage of other alternate costs, but you can still pay additional costs like Kicker.

Q: If I have Thrumming Stone in play, and a Suspended spell resolves, it seems logical that this spell would have Ripple 4. What happens if the Suspended spell is one of those without a casting cost, like Wheel of Fate?

A: First of all, you are correct that cards that un-Suspend and are played will have Ripple due to your Thrumming Stone. You can play a card without a mana cost any time an effect allows you to play a spell without paying the mana cost. Suspend does this, as does Ripple. So you can play any additional copies of Wheel of Fate that are revealed when you resolve the Ripple ability.

Q: My friend plays Backlash on my Phage the Untouchable. Will this cause me to lose the game?

A: No. When Backlash resolves, it will have the targeted creature deal damage to its controller equal to that creature's controller. This does not make the targeted creature attack you and the damage is not combat damage. Since the damage is not combat damage, Phage's ability will not trigger.

Q: I was recently making a Saproling deck and decided to have fun with Conspiracy to make all my Saprolings into Fungi, and use them to make more Saprolings with Sporoloth Ancient and Sporesower Thallid. Then I also thought about Life and Limb and that's when I got confused. If Life and Limb and Conspiracy (naming Fungus) are in play, do all my Saprolings stay Forests, and do all my Forests become Fungi?

A: The effects from Life and Limb and Conspiracy are both type-changing abilities. When calculating the characteristics of permanents, these effects are both applied in layer four. Normally, when applying effects in the same layer you apply them in timestamp order unless there is a dependency issue. Well, these two effects do have dependency issues, and weird ones at that. The weirdness is because the dependencies that exist depends on what is in play. Whether you have a Saproling and or Forest in play changes which is dependent on the other.

If both a Forest and a Saproling are in play (the most likely situation, I think), then which creatures become Forests from Life and Limb depends on which have the type Saproling. But which permanents are made into Fungus because of Conspiracy depends on which permanents are lands. (This happens because all of Life and Limb's effect is applied at one time. This one effect does not make Forests into creatures and make Saprolings into lands at separate times). Because of this, both of these effects are dependent on each other. When this happens, you ignore the dependency issue and apply the effects in timestamp order.

If Conspiracy came into play first, then all your natural creatures in play will be Fungus creatures that are not lands. All of your Forests will be Creature Land - Forest Saprolings and none of them will have the creature subtype Fungus.

If Life and Limb came into play first, all Saprolings and Forests will become Creature Land - Fungus Forests.

This interaction is also strange if you don't have one or the other of a Forest and a Saproling in play. If neither is in play, then there is no dependency, but the effects don't do anything. If you have a Forest but not a Saproling, then Conspiracy depends on Life and Limb. This will make Forests into creatures with the type chosen by Conspiracy. If you have a Saproling but no forests, then Life and Limb depends on Conspiracy. This will make all natural Saprolings into Fungus and therefore they will not become forests.

In all seriousness, my recommendation: don't have both in play at the same time.