Can You Spot the Rules Violation? | MTG Rules Quiz

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[@CardmarketMagic]

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[@jasonmohn1472]

Teferi does NOT take any damage because it's not there. Tefereri's Protection will phase out Teferi and thus it will not be around to take damage from Questing Beast. I was so confused when they said Teferi dies.

[@kaalesrex2933]

yep.. confused me as well (paused right now and looking at comments and reading phasing rulings ^^) and I think so .. "702.26b If a permanent phases out, its status changes to “phased out.” Except for rules and effects that specifically mention phased-out permanents, a phased-out permanent is treated as though it does not exist. It can’t affect or be affected by anything else in the game. A permanent that phases out is removed from combat. (See rule 506.4.)".. and while I can never remember all the text on questing beast .. I'm very certain it doesn't mention phased-out permanents anywhere in that wall of text

[@The2Kah]

I was just gonna write the same thing. Since Teferi technically doesn't exist (phased out) it is treated as no more than a speck of dust on the table. So while Questing looks for Planeswalkers to deal damage to, it won't see a speck of dust, therefore the damage should not be dealt to Teferi since it is not an "existing" Planeswalker.

[@MarcellusI7]

That was exactly my thought.. teferi is phased out at the time when damage is dealt

[@Arcticsharpshooter]

This is correct. As a result of the attack, Anika will have 4 poison counters put on her, while her life total doesn't change, and her permanents including Teferi, Herof of Dominaria will be phased out until her next turn begins.

[@lMaBanana]

​@@Arcticsharpshooter Though not relevant to the cards in this example, would it also be true that combat damage was dealt to Anika for the purposes of e.g. Bloodthirst, despite her life total not changing?

[@johnwilliams-is9yj]

They managed to kill a Teferi that wasn't even in play. Impressive.

[@LakeVermilionDreams]

Where does one learn such power?!

[@jakethewolfie119]

Teferi sacrificed themselves for the protection

[@BerniPro]

and they managed to cast fateful absence without any floating mana or lands

[@aork14]

Questing Beast is really just that good

[@rurounikreep]

@@LakeVermilionDreams watanabe-jutsu

[@SCOOL8896]

The Teferi lives since it Phases Out.

[@james010bont]

Yeah that would make the most sense to me too

[@MareczqZglos]

I wanted to post exacly the same...

[@vxicepickxv]

I caught that too.

[@juzekost]

You are correct sir. Instant resolves and takes effect, you get the poison counters but teferi is not a legal target.

[@tiresome20]

Also it has protection from everything

[@shantheman9922]

JUDGE! The Teferi is phased out, and thus isn't a target for the Questing Beast trigger, and is alive. Anyway, Great concept! would love to see more in-depth scenarios. Less just specific weird interactions between 2 cards, but like, make a ton of triggers happen, and ask them how it resolves.

[@oscarsantillan6487]

it is very interesting, but my only issue is that because there are very few moving parts in the examples, it is easy to get the answer just by guessing, even if you do not know for sure. i think it would be better if next time more parts that look sketchy or weird but are totally legal could be added to make the questions harder and more interesting.

[@PhilippGoggle]

Absolutely! Or some problems where there is nothing illegal going on.

[@StefanWB]

I'm not a regular MTG player any more but I used to be and I'm pretty clued in on Magic rules, and I did not know the correct answer to the Child of Night one. I assumed that Lifelink counted as an ability and that it was considered the source of the lifegain. So I think that one can catch people out because of the specific wording of Rain of Gore.

[@moocow17]

time for some mutate rulings :D

[@UGSHavard]

@@StefanWB their explanation wasn't great but basically lifelink as an ability changes game rules regarding damage dealt by that creature so the game rules give you that life, not the ability

[@AbdielKavash]

@@PhilippGoggle I agree! Adding some red herring examples which look weird, but are actually legal, would spice things up a bit!

[@Vearru]

This was a great concept, but I really hope that there aren’t mistakes like Teferi dying. As we all know Teferi can’t die under Teferi’s protection.

[@kenpachiyugioh1804]

I wanted to comment on the video to boost it but I also want to encourage discourse so please pretend I am making argumentative statements and telling you that you are wrong

[@XanderCrews4Prez]

@@kenpachiyugioh1804 I'll help out by disagreeing with you, and pointing out how obvious OP's comment is. Maybe with a touch of insult sprinkled in.

[@krackencrusader403]

@@XanderCrews4Prez I'm going to fire back with a statement supporting the OP and showing that I clearly didn't read past the first sentence of your comment.

[@MrAskmannen]

Lore wise he cant protect himself, so he would die. I would get away with that if i played a flavor judge, i think :^)

[@lakingpaul]

@@krackencrusader403 I'm making an unrelated comment a year later to let KZbin know it's okay to promote older videos in its algorithm sometimes.

[@vaporygon137]

The "at the beginning of the next end step" line on Marchesa doesn't actually matter though. That's not even the main reason that fool's demise would win in that interaction (assuming you don't put it back in the command zone). Triggered abilities go on the stack in APNAP order, meaning the abilities owned by the active player go on the stack first, but RESOLVE last. If you chose to keep Marchesa in the graveyard, Fool's Demise would return her first and then her ability would fail to find herself in the zone that it expects to, thus failing to return her. The part about the end step has little to no relevance in this situation.

[@ih8people]

It does actually matter somewhat, but has almost no effect on the game. The main triggered ability (the one that is put on the stack first when original Marchesa dies) actually sees the new object that she becomes as she changes controllers, so it creates a delayed triggered ability. But that delayed triggered ability won't be able to find her, sine by the time it triggers, original Marchesa is no longer in the graveyard of the delayed triggered ability's controller. But I can't think of a situation where this would be relevant, apart from playing Judge's Tower

[@johngompers7454]

Came here to post this exact comment.

[@OsvaldoChannel1]

9:57 Hol up... Teferi is phased out though, so even if the damage went through there isn't a Teferi to be dealt damage, so Teferi survives.

[@sourcitrusfruit]

This is a solid video idea, I'd watch more. It's great to have really practical ones like the Tarmagoyf and Bolt example because it happens in tournament play. Ialso noticed that Teferi doesn't take any damage, but that was quite the interaction soup! Haha

[@2007Shockwave]

Been noticing on Arena they have been playing it as spell resolves, state based actions happen, then the spell enters the graveyard. Oh shoot if programmers got that wrong.

[@cscott024]

Fun video, but I don't like framing it as, "Should you call a judge?" You should never be afraid to call a judge if you're not sure how something works. DCI really emphasizes this, because a lot of players think they're being a pain, they're not sure if it's them or their opponent who's right, etc. That's what we're here for, just call us.

[@mstieler8480]

Even if both you and your opponent(s) are both pretty sure interaction is supposed to happen how it does, call a judge to clarify.

[@rurounikreep]

who your gonna call? ghostbus..... the head judge!

[@CardmarketMagic]

Oh yes, we truly hope these videos never disincentivize anyone from calling judges! As someone who has organized tournaments, judges are the most important part of keeping it together and keeping the game fair and accessible to all the players!

[@wastelandcloud4355]

I love weird rules interaction and would love seeing more of these videos, this and AI card battles are my favourite on the channel

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

If you're a fan of rules stuff, check out my Tough Rules & Cool Interactions series. I have over 50 episodes now in it, covering Layers, SBAs, replacement effects, and much more. If you do check it out, please give me some feedback.

[@ridiculous_fox]

I agree with both, but I'd like the AI generated cards to be a little curated. It would be nice if the cards at least function within the rules, which was barely the case so far.

[@mstieler8480]

It kind of reminds me of the "how do you win the game?' puzzles from either Inquest, Duelist, or both, from back in the day. Show board states for you & your opponent, any mana, and any known cards (your hand, both graveyards, your opponent's hand if you have something that reveals it, etc.) and from there figure out what the puzzle was wanting (whether win or get something specific to happen, like pumping a creature up to a certain size, etc.).

[@fish_in_distress]

Maaaan I miss Duelyst

[@Lightning_Lance]

or the challenges in the Duels of the Planeswalkers games. Those were really fun

[@Blockrates]

This looks like a fun series, would absolutely love more!

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

It's a bit of a different style, much less production value, but if you're just wanting to see more things about weird Magic rules and card interactions, I have a series called Tough Rules & Cool Interactions dedicated to these sorts of things with a wide range of complexity.

[@fabiogarzaro8272]

It's amazing to see all this new formats, love to see this channel growing and growing!

[@teamcyeborg]

"Fairbanger" is an interesting way of reading that name

[@MrZerodayz]

Okay, so I think I have a nice little problem, similar to the Tarmogoyf one: Player A has two Dryad Militants in play. Player B casts Fatal Push targeting one of them, holds priority and casts a Shock on top of that, targeting the other Dryad Militant. The stack resolves. Player A puts his creatures into the graveyard. Player B puts both cards into exile since they resolved while at least one Dryad Militant was on the field. The rules "violation" here isn't as easy to catch, because it doesn't help Player B, but the Fatal Push gets put into the graveyard, not exile, because at the time that the card changes zones, the second Dryad Militant is also dead so the replacement effect is gone. If you want to make this one a bit easier to guess, put a Tarmogoyf on the board for Player A next to the Dryad Militants, because that makes it so Player B would actually profit from putting the Fatal Push into the wrong zone.

[@SMFB64]

Following wht you say, wouldn't that mean that if Player A has only one Dryad Militants and you kill it with a fatalPush the fatalPush goes in the graveyard ? But with the tarmogoyf interaction I understood that the lightingStrike card was already put in the graveyar as it's effect resolves. Then with the Dryad Militants case, would'nt the fatalPush try to go to the graveyard before it's effect of killing the creature actualy takes effect, hense FatalPush goes in exile ?

[@DavidSmith-cr7mb]

love these weird rulings vids as well as the staple or stinker videos, keep em coming thanks!

[@ivancalitzcrockart3300]

Love this! Great format and great fun

[@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai]

I’ve only known about this channel for a few weeks, but it’s quickly become one of my favorite Magic channels, and it may even pass MTGGoldfish as my #1, mainly for the real wholesome vibes but also because you guys are always trying new things. I don’t think there’s another Magic channel on here that has this much variety in content. Lots of respect for trying to innovate and create new types of content. Keeps the MTG content hive from getting stale. This was fun to play along with, I have a pretty damn solid grasp on the rules and got most of these right, but I got the Child of Night one wrong. It makes sense in retrospect, because the combat damage is the trigger event that causes you to gain life with lifelink, not the ability itself. But I didn’t know that the ability wasn’t gaining you life. Honestly, it still doesn’t make perfect sense, since technically, from a general logic perspective, the ability _is_ causing you to gain life- without it, you wouldn’t gain that life. But Magic rules don’t always follow logic; the reminder text says specifically *“Damage* dealt by this creature *causes* you to gain that much life.” So the damage is the cause. Not the ability. Weird stuff.

[@CardmarketMagic]

We're thrilled that you like the channel! :D We put a lot of effort into playing around with the content! And don't worry about getting that one wrong... that card wording is truly just a trap 🧐

[@TheeKrix]

You two have such great chemistry together. Great video!

[@Voidoath]

Thanks for the fun video! Magic rules are a complex system, but they (pretty much) always have an answer. Replacement effects, state-based actions and casting cost questions are all both common questions and tricky situations to navigate, but hopefully there's a judge around to help if needed.

[@TheWaffletron9000]

This was a lot of fun to watch! I love how the rules work and breaking them down.

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

If you're interested in more videos covering Magic rules, I have a series dedicated to that. It's called Tough Rules & Cool Interactions. If you check it out, let me know if you like it.

[@barry8937]

This is great topic! More of this please! 🙏🏻 Anika and Carl did really well!

[@makingnoises2327]

The confusion over Rain of Gore comes from misunderstanding how Lifelink works: Lifelink ISN'T "Whenever this creature deals damage, gain that much life." Instead, lifelink says "Damage this creature deals *causes* you to gain that much life." The damage *itself* is causing you to gain life - Lifelink grants that effect *to the damage* that the creature with lifelink deals. It doesn't cause you to gain life directly. That's why Rain of Gore doesn't affect it - it isn't the ability causing you to gain life, it's the damage! And damage isn't a spell or ability.

[@Eckendenker]

Thats also why Lifelink doesn't stack, right?

[@makingnoises2327]

@@Eckendenker Yup! Zebra Unicorn is a great example of a card that has non-lifelink lifelink: giving it lifelink would give you 2 life for each damage, effectively stacking lifelink.

[@Eckendenker]

@@makingnoises2327 Armadillo Cloak is the same right?

[@MrMarnel]

@@EckendenkerSame as the Zebra. Armadillo Cloak doesn't give the creature lifelink, it instead has a triggered ability that gains its controller life whenever the creature deals damage. It's different from Unflinching Courage. Lifelink used to function like that too, but was changed to its current iteration a few years back, probably mostly because the triggered version doesn't save you from lethal when blocking with it but taking damage in the same combat.

[@cocoquake]

I love this new series. Also you and Anika work so well together, more content with the both of you please 😊

[@user-vy2oi3ho7y]

I really like these rules violation videos. They help to clarify the rules in actual game-type sitiations.

[@Bull_1112]

Such a fun video! I’d love to see more like this 😊

[@XypherFTW]

This is a cool idea for a segment, and I agree that adding more moving parts to make it harder to figure out where the violation could be would be a good idea

[@radboy1985]

This was fun! Bit of a mix-up with Teferi phasing out rather than preventing damage, but I'd love to see more of these, especially with commander shenanigans like goad, stealing permanents, cascade, mindslaver, etc.

[@kelseyo402]

I love judge videos. Ive watched a ton and I honestly believe it’s made me a much better player understanding some of the intricacies.

[@MagusFlorren]

🎉 pretty solid format for a video! Loved it. Thanks for making it

[@krenchi319]

Interesting and fun new videos every day, love it

[@zenraged]

This was awesome, please make more of these it helps a lot

[@OchsnerVinzenz]

Wow, this was super insightful! Keep up with stuff like this, as in easy rules, that occasionally happen to be misinterpreted, and tougher ones, as the last 3 examples were. Keep it up, preferrably on a regular basis! Thanks for your great content, I have been subbed to this channel when the sub count only showed 4 digits!

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

I have a series that I try to get 1-2 videos up each week that are dedicated to Magic rules and card interactions. If you think you may like it, it's called Tough Rules & Cool Interactions. If you do check it out, please give me some feedback if you'd like as I'm always looking to add new stuff and make changes to improve it.

[@Quiggles-bf2oh]

That was pretty cool, a fun challenge to test my knowledge of MTG rules.

[@unforseenconsequense]

This was good, I enjoyed learning more about the rules

[@solusquinto3086]

Besides the little "hick up" with Teferi dying while phased out, an entertaining video!

[@MustelineLeif]

These crafted riddles are great! I think it would be a lot of fun to see the Cardmarket crew try out Judge's Tower. The chaos and unpredictability could be super educational.

[@VVheeli]

Oh my brother has some funny stories about Judge’s Tower. Apparently they mark the sleeves of each card to tally how many people died to the card’s rulings. They put in a single basic mountain in their pile, and it had like 5-6 ticks on it. A friend draws it and was confused as how people could die so easily to a Mountain. Plays the mountain, goes to do other effects, immediately called out for not tapping for mana. Mountain claims another victim.

[@Mr2hyper9]

I thoroughly enjoyed this.

[@kareth117]

first video of yours I've seen, but I love this. It's one thing to read a rules explanation and try to understand it, but SEEING it unfold really helps sell the concept. I love this. I definitely want to see more of this. Liked and subbed because of this video :)

[@CardmarketMagic]

Thank you! We'll try hard not to disappoint you in your subscriptions feed 🙂

[@AJKiesel]

That's a fun video. I like the format. tell your boss I want moar!

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

this is a fun idea. through this i think people can see how complex mtg can become the more cards and rulings and timings are involved.

[@Train__]

Very interesting format for a video and would love to see more~ I think it's pretty good that this first video shows a bunch of common weird interactions across multiple formats. It might be nice for some more fringe cases with more moving parts to appear in subsequent videos~!

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

I have a series that focuses on weird card interactions and fringe rules scenarios that are specific to Commander if you're interested in that. A lot of the videos in the series are also applicable outside of EDH, but I try to focus on things you're actually likely to encounter in an average game of Commander.

[@datawulf88]

I really like all the content about ruling in MtG. Great work here! Thanks for these explanations of ruling. 👍

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

If you're looking to see more content focused on rules in Magic, I have a series called Tough Rules & Cool Interactions that might interest you.

[@stardewallie_]

I always press like right at the start of the vid, because I know that this kinda content from this channel is always gonna be good! Keep it up!

[@CardmarketMagic]

That's so kind of you! :D

[@hoodiegal]

This was really fun! The only one I didn't get right was the last one. I'd love to see more of these, they're like little logic puzzles and there's the opportunity to learn about some rules :)

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

That's one of the reasons I became a Magic judge and also starter my Tough Rules & Cool Interactions series, the Magic Comprehensive Rules and how it applies to the tens of thousands of Magic cards that exist and the new ones we get every year, they're like a massive, ever-growing puzzle and I love trying to figure it out. If you're interested in my series, it's called Tough Rules & Cool Interactions. If you do check it out, please give me some feedback, I'm always trying to make some improvements.

[@harriyama]

Back in unglued a creature was printed with "Denimwalk" (can not be blocked if opponent is wearing denim). Someone asked Mark Rosewater "What spell speed is taking off my pants?" Back when there was: spell speed 1 - creatures/sorceries/etc. spell speed 2 - instants spell speed 3 - interrupts spell speed 4 - mana source (like dark ritual) Mark replied something along of the lines of "it's spell speed 5, you can do it at any time even if you don't have priority, as long as you're wearing underwear", meaning taking of your pants is canonically a game action. Meaning if you mindslave someone you can make them take off their pants.

[@22781dave]

EPIC

[@mrsplays9817]

It's like scooping; you can't force someone to concede with Mindslaver and you can't force them to take off their pants. -well, except for that one format, but ante isn't legal anymore.

[@JimmyLangPlays]

i love this vid format, make more of them, the more obscure rules the better ^^

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

It's a bit of a different format than this video, much less production value, but if you're just wanting to see more things about obscure Magic rules and card interactions(specifically for Commander), I have a series called Tough Rules & Cool Interactions dedicated to these sorts of things with a wide range of obscurity.

[@JimmyLangPlays]

@@ThisIsACommanderChannel you got yourself a sub. keep posting

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

@@JimmyLangPlays Awesome! Thanks, glad you liked the videos.

[@imanimason5858]

Enjoyed this video!!! 😃

[@the7569]

As a rules nerd I absolutely loved this video and I would love to see more of it

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

Oh, if you're a Magic rules nerd, I'd love to get your feedback on my series called Tough Rules & Cool Interactions. I cover a wide range of complexity and I'm slowly working up to far more complicated things as I get these other videos out that I'll be able to reference to in the later, more complicated videos.

[@vxicepickxv]

Just pick a few cards from the Judgebreaker commander deck and make questions from there. There's morph, Illusionary Mask, layers upon layers of layers questions, targeting redirection, non targeted redirection, layers, making a blue permanent with no types at all, and more.

[@viktar3341]

I leave my opinion, if anything it will help the algorithm! I love this channel because it has so many different types of content, even songs! So, yes, I would like to see more of this!

[@bananalord3882]

I love all of your videos so much please keep up the good work!!! I hope you guys get all the funding u need!!

[@CardmarketMagic]

That is very kind :) thank you!

[@Lionbug]

7:13 „Fynn the Fair-banger“ xDDD

[@aeksie]

Congrats on 50k!!

[@joejohnson81]

I gotta admit, the lifelink + Rain of Gore interaction has to be one of the most unintuitive things I've seen in magic, but makes a lot of sense after knowing lol. This was a great episode, and would be a great series in my opinion!

[@garrisonlynam9626]

Please more of this!

[@giacomofasulo3861]

This video is fantastic, exactly the kind of content I was looking for.

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

If you're looking for more stuff about Magic rules, I have a series called Tough Rules & Cool Interactions dedicated to that very thing.

[@giacomofasulo3861]

@@ThisIsACommanderChannel I hadn't subscribed yet but I already watched some of your videos and they have less production value than this channel but I still enjoy them very much especially the episode on two heavens as one

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

@@giacomofasulo3861 For sure, I keep things much more simple. I just do the channel as a hobby, so doing the simple stuff takes enough time from me. I wish I could do an episode every other day but it just takes me so much time. Maybe one day the channel grows large enough that I can pay for someone to help out. In the mean time, I hope the videos you've watched so far have helped you out.

[@jesspratt2279]

Great video - hope to see more. Always fun to check your own understanding of the rules and maybe learn something new. Can I suggest the interaction between Nyxbloom Ancient and Kinnan Bonders prodigy next please - someone in my play group always gets this wrong!

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

I actually did a video covering Kinnan and cards with mana increasing replacement effects. If you want to check it out, it's part of my Tough Rules & Cool Interactions series.

[@KorGgenT]

It was a fun video! one little correction here: carl said when it's the active player's turn it "happens first", but what really goes on is that it goes onto the *stack* first. since the stack resolves in reverse order of triggers going on the stack, even if marchesa's ability happened immediately, danika (spelling?) would have received the marchesa instead of carl, since both items go onto the stack first and then the opponent's triggers resolve first.

[@T_Peazy]

This is super cool. I Love this.

[@leverposteifantomet]

Good stuff. Very interesting

[@Brainstorm_brews]

love the idea keep it up!

[@edwardmckinney8675]

All your videos are helpful as well as entertaining. Keep them coming. Shout out to toralf for the mono green tron

[@Renn89]

Really liked this. Sometimes card interaction and wordings can be super confusing

[@treyconover4107]

This was good! I think this could be improved if you had weird interactions that were actually legal. One of my favorites you could use is enchantments only target on the stack, (when you cast them) so if you blink an enchantment you can actually get around effects like hexproof or shroud.

[@lisaparker271]

That was a fun video! I love rulings in MTG! Do Thoralf next!

[@robbydennis2543]

Hey Cardmarket your content is awesome, and we like it do more.

[@Heltipyre]

Its always nice to see weird and confusing interactions.

[@Alexxactly]

My brain hurts now haha! Great video

[@AB-uz8sq]

i really like this video and keep thinking about the format of it. i think one thing that could be fun to watch as a viewer would be for anika to lay out what someone might try to do on a turn, and then carl would have to guess what happens and how everything resolves. as a simple example from, someone would bolt tarmogoyf and carl would have to guess if it lives or dies. instead, here we have almost all of the information but have to guess which part is wrong. being more open ended means more fun interactions to think about.

[@CardmarketMagic]

Anika had kind of missed the assignment in this game :) we are doing it again but I consulted a judge to come up with some exciting rules and Thoralf will have to guess from a much more complete board state. I'm quite excited for the result! 😃

[@CheddarMTG]

If the marchesa did return immediately to its own ability on Carl's turn the fools demise would still work. Triggers resolve in AP/NAP order so the fools demise is on top of the stack.

[@cscott024]

You mean they go on the stack in AP/NAP order. Therefore resolving in the reverse order.

[@CheddarMTG]

@@cscott024 yes thank you

[@theonden5041]

This made me think. A game of judge tower would probably be fun to watch.

[@noeoffman7715]

Great concept

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

As a channel that has an entire series dedicated to explaining rules and card interactions like this, I would love to see more. State-Based Actions, Layers, steps to casting spells, replacement effects, and more. Love this stuff.

[@CardmarketMagic]

We're planning on doing harder ones going forward with more cards on the board :) happy you liked it

[@therealax6]

@@CardmarketMagic You could actually explain a few of those with the examples you have here! For instance, the Tarmogoyf/Lightning Bolt example. When Lightning Bolt is resolving, Tarmogoyf is still a 2/3 with 3 damage marked on it. (Lightning Bolt is on the stack, not the graveyard.) *Nothing happens here.* Then Lightning Bolt is put into the graveyard, so Tarmogoyf becomes a 3/4. Then, after this has finished resolving, when the active player would regain priority, state-based actions are checked and they see a 3/4 with 3 damage marked - nothing happens. It's not that the toughness is boosted first (the damage actually happens first); it's that state-based actions aren't checked until the spell has finished resolving.

[@123456789987o]

A nice format. I would like it to return. It's nice mental training. The more complicated the better however. These were a bit to easy for my taste :D A cool idea would be to mix in some weird (but correct) rule interactions too

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

If you wouldn't mind, I have a series dedicated to rules and card interactions and I would love some feedback on the complexity I've covered so far. 50 episodes in and some have dipped their toes into layers, SBAs, steps to casting spells, and more. I have some really, seriously tough interactions planned for the future but I want to have a good basis of videos to reference to for when I get to those tougher ones.

[@123456789987o]

@@ThisIsACommanderChannel That's cool. Might check it out later!

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

@@123456789987o Cool, thanks!

[@123456789987o]

@@ThisIsACommanderChannel Checked out your content! It's excactly the content I was looking for! Really high class stuff! Thank you!

[@teamcyeborg]

Judge! Anika casted Fateful Absence despite having no lands and no floating mana!

[@Bloody12111993]

Would love to see more vids like this

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

I have a series that covers rules and card interactions like this. It doesn't have the production value as this video, but I do cover all sorts of Magic rules. The series is called Tough Rules & Cool Interactions.

[@CardmarketMagic]

We are now planning on making it a regular series :)

[@shamwhoa]

A rule that really tripped me up when I started playing, is that loss of life does not mean the same thing as damage

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

Correct, but damage does cause loss of life. In addition to this, anything that ever says that it sets your life to a specific number, that actually causes life gain and life loss as well. So anything that would 'care' about life gain would care about that happening. I cover more stuff like this in my Tough Rules & Cool Interactions series.

[@borisbs3731]

This is great!

[@ReederMG]

More of these, please!

[@ThisIsACommanderChannel]

If you're looking for more videos that cover Magic rules, I have a YT series that's dedicated to that sort of stuff. If you think you'd like more of this, check it out, it's called Tough Rules & Cool Interactions.

[@ReederMG]

@@ThisIsACommanderChannel Cool!

[@ThomasBauer95]

great format

[@basilefff]

Good episode!

[@danielamdurer1779]

JUDGE! Teferi phases out, so Questing Beast can't deal damage to it.

[@adrianoamram2140]

Love these

[@abdiasization]

On the Black Rose scenario, does the second trigger(return it to the battlefield under your control at the end of the next end step) would apply in the end step returning her to her controller?

[@Korwinga]

On the last interaction, when multiple triggers are put onto the stack at the same time, they go on in Active Player then Non-Active player (AP/NAP) order (in a multiplayer game, the non-active player priority goes around the table clockwise), so Anika had the timing of when to destroy it correct. However, Marchesa creates a delayed trigger, which means that it wouldn't even try to put the trigger on the stack until the next end step. So, there are multiple layers of things preventing the Marchesa player from getting Marchesa back. If we had an equivalent situation with Fools demise and something that immediately returned itself to the battlefield when it died, then the active player would matter. In that situation, the Fool's demise player would want to ensure that they were the last non-active player, so that their ability goes onto the stack last, thus ensuring that their trigger resolves first.

[@alaxeverything4143]

Here’s a rules riddle that I really like, say you have a Yargle, Glutton of Urborg (9/3). Then you cast Invert // Invent on its invert mode, swapping yargles power and toughness. Then play a tower defense(+0/+5) on the Yargle, what is the Yargles power/toughness? The answer is that it’d be an 8/9 due to how layers work, where when the game “checks” states of creatures, it first takes into account additive/subtractive changes and then checks base power and toughness changes. So the game views Yargle going from a 9/3 to a 9/8 and then an 8/9. Honestly you could make a whole episode on layers since they are so confusing

[@CardmarketMagic]

Love any rules interaction with Yargle!

[@Orrphoiz]

Fynn, the Farebanger: 😏 The Bus driver: 😨

[@markus4gtown]

i like this series before even having watched the video

[@morof_r]

Very nice video, thank you! I had a situation similar to lightning bolt + Tarmogoyf once during a Crimson Vow draft, and we couldn't settle it. It was with Reclusive Taxidermist, a 1/2 that gets +3/+2 if there are four creature cards in your graveyard. If during combat it blocks a 3/3, and there are three creatures in your graveyard, and you are also chump-blocking a 4/4 with another nontoken 1/1 of yours, will Reclusive Taxidermist die or not? Is it like with lightning bolt, and when you check your graveyard there are now four creatures and so Taxidermist doesn't die?

[@Eckendenker]

Damage happens all at the same time, so when the chump hits the graveyard its already too late. It would work with Firststrike.

[@Belena711]

Teferi dying was a mistake. This was really cool, though! I like it. A challenge for you would be to make layers make sense. ;) haha

[@alilhard]

13:25 small detail though in that if there was a replacement effect on dying then that would apply to Marchesa instead of the fool's demise but since both are triggers, even if it wasn't a delayed one, you would have to go by active player, non active player, which would mean that fool's demise's trigger would resolve first to put Marchesa onto Anika's board. Would have been the opposite if Marchesa had been destroyed during Anika's turn.

[@colinkirwan9442]

Commanders actually go to the graveyard now, then you can move them to the command zone. They changed this rule like two years ago so that commanders with death triggers work better. So in this case, the blue enchantment would return to the controller's hand.

[@derekdube3096]

Totally agree with other comments that Teferi is phased out when damage resolves (assuming you cast Teferi's Protection before damage) and cannot be interacted with. BUT ALSO - wouldn't the Fool's Demise fizzle as a state based effect once you trigger the replacement effect of your commander? Or does the commander still hit the graveyard in order to trigger the effect?

[@ICEDNOTBLENDED]

7:12 ah yes, Flynn, the *Fearbanger*

[@gauthierphilippe2715]

i love the energy of this video

[@gauthierphilippe2715]

a great mtg judge channel would be Judging FtW, i recommend if you are interested in this kind of content

[@CardmarketMagic]

Thank you! We'll check it out for inspiration in the next installment :)

[@destinal_in_reality]

Is the Tarmagoyf thing because creatures marked with damage on them don't die until state based actions are checked, and its toughness is larger by then? The spell doesn't go into the graveyard until it's completely done resolving, but the damage marked on Tarmagoyf, lethal for a moment, is not lethal when SBA is checked because *then* the bolt is in grave?

[@Hiccup_NSK]

Good vid!