Magic: The Gathering

Ancestral Recall is restricted in Vintage tournaments, which menas you can use only one copy of the card in a deck.

You can also use Ancestral Recall in EDH and Highlander tournaments, although these are more casual tournaments.

'Artifact' is a card type, not a creature type. You can't pick 'Artifact' for the purposes of Extinction. Most artifact creatures have a creature type too - construct, myr, etc, but if it doesn't, then it is technically immune to Extinction, like Morphs.

Anything that is not on the Battlefield, is 'not in play'.

This is the German/France/Italy equivalent of the Chronicles set.

Your local cards store should have details of tournaments. you may also find information with regards to tournaments at Wizards of the Coast webpage

To get the mana from a land, you have to tap it yourself. If another effect taps a permanent, then you don't gain that card's effect. The same goes for anything that comes into play tapped, it doesn't mean you automatically get the card's effect, or mana in the case of a land.

I presume that you mean tournament packs.

If so they are random.

The minimum is 60, and there is no hard maximum limit, however you must be able to sufficiently shuffle it to ensure proper randomisation, in three minutes.

The amount of pay being a professional Magic the Gathering player varies, but if your good enough, I would say around $100,000.

Echo is a triggered ability that makes a card require a one-time upkeep payment on the turn after the card entered play.

For example:

Mogg War Marshal. Casting Cost: 1C,1R.

Echo: 1c1r (At the beginning of your upkeep if this card came into your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost)

So you're paying its casting cost, or whatever it lists as its echo cost, for the round/turn after you bring it into play essentially.

While damage is still on the stack, the player who controls that creature has the opportunity to respond to the 'ping' by using the sacrifice outlet or any other instant or ability, if they choose to.

Alpha debuted on the 5th of August, 1993, at the Origins Game Fair.

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If a player dies in a multiplayer game, everything he 'owns' leave the game, no matter who controls them at the time.

'Blistering Firecat' has long since rotated out of Standard format, but it has in no way ever been 'banned', and it can freely be used in any format that allows Onslaught-block cards.

There is no best card. It all depends on how you play and your preferences. In terms of power and toughness, it's the 13/13 Krosan Cloudscraper.

It has a poker deck, a bridge deck and a canasta deck!!

Interrupt is an obsolete game term, and any card that had it, is now an Instant, or an ability that can be played at instant speed.

Counterspell was originally an Interrupt, as were many other counter cards. Any of them, that have been reprinted, will now show as an Instant and even if a card has not been reprinted, its Oracle wording will now show it as an Instant.

'Trample' allows a creature to deal damage to a player even it is blocked. When damage is dealt, it needs only assign 'lethal' damage to the blockers, the rest is dealt to the player. 'Lethal damage' is considered to be damage equal to the blocker's toughness, it does not take 'Protection' or 'Indestructable' into account. So take a situation where an 8/8 trampler is blocked by a 1/1 creature with indestructable, and a 1/1 creature who has protection from the colour of the attacker. The attacker can deal 1 damage to each, and the remaining 6 to the opponent, it doesn't matter that both creatures survive the 'lethal' damage.

As a last note, a creature with both Trample and Deathtouch needs only deal a single point of damage to any blocker, regardless of toughness. So if that same creature above was blocked by two 3/3 creatures, it still can deal just one to each and the rest to the player. Without Deathtouch it would be forced to deal 3 to each, and only 2 to the player.

Yes - a spell is counted as cast, when it is 'cast' and goes on the stack.

So if something triggers from a spell being cast, it will trigger right then and there, before the spell even resolves and before any counterspells can be placed on the stack.

Cards are not 'discarded' from the battlefield. When a spell, ability or cost tells you to discard cards, they must come from your hand.

No, the first player in a game of Magic: The Gathering does not draw a card. This is because the player going first has the advantage of an empty battlefield and can perform some actions before their opponent has any chance to respond. The next player draws a card for their first turn as a way of making up for their disadvantage on the field by having more cards to choose from on their first play.

Creatures with Wither deal damage as -1/-1 counters instead of usual damage. So in the case of a creature with Power 3 and Wither, instead of dealing 3 damage to another creature, it will place three -1/-1 counters on it instead.

Till someone destroys them