13 INET GATE INS00104 98/08/02 16:01 薼F[O] August rulings & errata Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 18:45:06 +0100 From: Paul Barclay Subject: [O] August rulings & errata To: Recipients of MTG-L digests Here are the August rulings. General Ruling 2 settles the Licid case once and for all. The ruling on Echo Chamber is a bit odd, but the Rules team seemed quite attached to it for some reason or other. Paul Barclay. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Churchill College, Cambridge, England CB30DS -- (Phone: 0958-980-180) -- -- Official MTG-L Network Representative for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. -- ------- Forwarded message follows ------- August 1998 *Magic*(R) Rulings & Errata A Summary of Recent Rulings compiled by Beth Moursund GENERAL RULES 1) Choosing what _not_ to sacrifice follows the same rule as choosing what to sacrifice: the choice is postponed until the sacrifice is made. This means Cataclysm works exactly how everyone first thought: when it resolves, each player chooses one permanent from each category, then everything not chosen is sacrificed all at once. As usual, the active player announces his or her choices first. If a permanent has more than one type, it can be chosen for any of those types. For example, if you control three Assembly Workers, you can choose one as the land you're not sacrificing, one as the creature, and one as the artifact, thereby keeping all three. 2) An enchantment can't enchant itself. For example, any attempt to move a Licid onto itself will fail. The Licid enchantment will end up with no legal target and therefore will be destroyed as a "rules-triggered" effect. Similarly, Enchantment Alteration can't move an enchantment onto itself, even if the enchantment is also a creature or land. 3) If you control any creatures that must attack, you can't end your main phase without declaring an attack (unless an effect such as Festival's prevents you from doing so). The attack can be a null attack if something prevents the creatures from attacking (such as being tapped). ERRATA 1) Eye of Singularity's second ability should read, "Whenever any permanent comes into play, bury each permanent with the same name as that permanent other than basic lands." (Moving the clause about basic lands to the end prevents the ability from burying basic lands when something like Blood Moon changes cards' names before the ability is played.) SPECIFIC CARD RULINGS 1) Echo Chamber reads, "Put a token creature into play and treat it as a copy of that creature." The token comes into play as a generic creature and immediately gains its new characteristics, rather than coming into play as a copy of the creature. This means it follows the same rules as a permanent that comes into play and then copies another permanent (such as Unstable Shapeshifter), not a permanent that comes into play as copy (such as Clone). For example, using Echo Chamber to copy a Nekrataal doesn't destroy a target creature, and using it to copy a Spike gives you a 0/0 creature with no +1/+1 counters. 2) Tombstone Stairwell creates tokens with "unaffected by summoning sickness" as a base ability. Humility's effect will remove this ability. Destroying the token at end of turn is part of the effect that created it, not one of its abilities, so Humility will not prevent the token from being destroyed. 3) Ankh of Mishra deals damage to a land's controller at the time the Ankh's triggered ability is played. If the land leaves play (due to another trigger or a mana source ability) before the Ankh's ability is played, then the land card has no controller and the Ankh doesn't deal damage. ###