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Philadelphia Prophecy™ Prerelease - Questions we were asked
SPECIFIC CARD QUESTIONS
Coffin Puppets BB3 creature-Zombie
Sacrifice two lands: Return Coffin Puppets to play. Play this ability only during your upkeep, only if Coffin Puppets is in your graveyard, and only if you control a swamp.
Q1. Does Coffin puppets need to have been in play to use its ability during upkeep?
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Steal Strength B1 Instant
Target Creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Another target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Q2.The -1/-1 part of Steal strength is targeted at a 1/1 regenerator. Can it be regenerated to save it?
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Wing Storm 2G Sorcery
Wing Storm deals X damage to each player, where X is twice the number of creatures with flying that player controls.
Q3. Wing Storm: does "that player" mean the caster or each player separately?
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Keldon Berserker R3 Creature-Soldier
Whenever Keldon Berserker attacks, if you control no untapped lands, it gets +3/+0 until end of turn.
Q4. At what point does the condition "When KB attacks..if you control no untapped lands, then KB gets.." take effect? When is the check made for the condition of no untapped lands?
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Thresher Beast GG3 Creature-Beast
Whenever Thresher Beast becomes blocked, defending player sacrifices a land.
Q5. Does it matter how many creatures block it?
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Noxious Field BB1 Enchant Land
Enchanted land has T.: This land deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
Q6.If a land enchanted with Noxious Field is tapped to deal damage, will a creature with protection from black be damaged?
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Chimeric Idol. 3 Artifact
0: Tap all lands you control Chimeric Idol becomes a 3/3 artifact creature until end of turn.
Q7a.If a counter is put on a Chimeric idol, when it reverts to a non-creature artifact does the counter stay on?

Q7b. When a Chimeric Idol comes into play does it have summoning sickness?
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Dual Nature (Enchantment)
Q8. Does Dual Nature's tokens gain all abilities?

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Forgotten Harvest (Enchantment)

Q9.Can you return more than one land from graveyard each upkeep?

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GENERAL QUESTIONS
Q. If attacking creature is blocked by multiple creatures, can attacking creature's controller divide damage to blocking creatures as he chooses?
A. Yes. He may divide damage according to creatures power, unless a blocking creature has banding (then the blocking creatures' controller assigns damage).
Q. Can I target the same creature multiple times (if a card calls for more than one target)?
A. No.
Q. Can I sacrifice an opponent's enchantment that is on one of my creatures?
A. No.
Q. Can I play an "enchant creature" on an animated land?
A. Yes (however, once the land stops being a creature, the enchantment will fall off).
PROCEDURAL QUESTIONS
Q.What happens if my opponent never shows up?
A. 5 min. game win. 10 more min.(total of 15 min.) match win

Q. If I win the first game and we draw the second game (no third game is played due to time constraints), what happens?
A. You win the match.

Q. What is the minimum sized deck?
A. 40 cards for limited events (sealed and booster draft)

Q. What is the maximum land that can be swapped for sealed deck events?
A. 5 Land.
(Can I change which land I want to swap later on in the tournament?)
(A. No)
Q. Is there a one for one swap between your main deck and your sideboard?
A. No. You just have to have at least 40 cards in the playing deck for limited events.
Q. If at end of third game, time runs out, do you go by life total?
A. No. Uncompleted games are counted as if they were never played.
Answers to Specific Card Questions
A1. No. Nothing on the card says so
A2. Regeneration will not save it. It will be a 0/0 and stay a 0/0 even if it is regenerated.
A3. Each player. "You" would mean caster only.
A4. The condition will be checked twice, once when you attack with it and again when the ability resolves. (If its not true when it attacks, it won't trigger). You can tap your lands at the beginning of combat, before announcing your attackers. (see rule 410.8)
A5. No, just the act of blocking triggers the sacrifice no matter no many are assigned to block it.
A6. Yes, the land does the damage (lands are considered colorless) - not the enchantment.
A7a. Yes.
A7b. Yes, if this is the turn that the permanent entered the in-play zone. (If it started your turn in play and under your control, then you can activate it and it can attack).
A8. Yes
A9. No. Triggered only once each upkeep

Thanks to the judging Staff at the Philadelphia Prophecy Prerelease for keeping track of the questions they were asked.
  • Brian Chilcoat
  • Brian Kolins
  • David Taylor
  • Kendall Redburn
The most unusual situation I encountered: Two players could not agree on the number of games they had played.(It was a booster draft) One said three games, the other said two games. I am sure you can imagine the interesting discussion we had about this. (In case you are wondering, it was amicably resolved).Dorian L. Anders

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