Magic: The Gathering

'Prey Upon' requires two valid targets - one creatre you control, and one you do not. There are otherwise no restrictions, apart from the usual things like being unable to target opponent's creatures with Shroud, or Protection from: Green.

Target and Wal-mart are good stores anywhere, Movie Trading co/Vintage stock/V-Stock have a good selection of singles and packs at fair prices (they have excellent sales) however your not garunteed that the sales staff is familiar with MTG. Most comic and games shops will sale them, the best way to find these is to google your area plus comics or your area plus MTG.

yes. If you actually have to ask that you dont deserve to play

Of course, unless the effect specifically requires the target to be untapped.

You'll want around 20 lands, but some deck archetypes can effectively use up to 40, and others can go completely landless. You can use any ratio of creature and non-creature spells from 0:40 to 40:0 (assuming the use of 20 lands), but for a beginner, I would suggest 30 creatures and 10 spells.

you can have any number above 60 cards in a deck you just have to be able to shuffle it with out assistance

If a card's not a land, then it's a spell - a creature on the stack waiting to resolve is a 'creature spell', for example. You can use a 'counter target spell' card against creature spells, instants, artifact spells, etc, the only things you can't use it on are lands, or activated abilities.

There are two major reasons the first is the card ruins the tempo of the game, the general progression allows players to play 'little' stuff early and the 'big' stuff later on but black lotus allows a player to play cards with high mana costs too early in the game for opponents to handle it. The second reason is the price of the card, most players will not spend thousands to play, but the player who do spend thousands to buy 4 black lotuses would have such a significant advantage that the game wouldn't be fun for anyone.

When magic was initially being designed the designers believed that the geographical dispersion of the cards paired with the inherit rareness of rare cards would make it next to impossible for anyone to get more then 2 or 3 copies of a particular rare. They were incorrect, which meant cards that were designed to have a power level that would only be seen every few games were showing up near every game.

Calling it simply a 'banned card' for any one reason does not take into account the different formats in Magic the Gathering. Some formats only allow newer cards, which would automatically disqualify it from use - this is different from calling it 'banned'. Some formats allow older cards, and Black Lotus can be used in some of them - this is the reason why it is so expensive.

Most Magic players will know it is one of the 'Power 9' and much more powerful than many other cards, but it is still legal in some formats, and in the formats that it can't be used in, it is disallowed for other reasons than banned for power alone.

'Standard' format for example allows only cards from the last two blocks, and the current core set. Black Lotus does not belong to any of these, hence it can't be used. Cards are rarely, if ever, banned in this format (Skullclamp managed it) but cards are still disallowed due to age even if there is not an actual banlist.

'Extended' allows a few more sets; four blocks and a few core sets. Black Lotus is still far too old to be allowed.

'Vintage' allows cards from any set. Black Lotus is not banned in this format, although it is restricted to one. Cards are not banned for power reasons in this format, the banned list involves cards that require ante, subgames or manual dexterity, like Chaos Orb.

'Legacy' is a more restrictive version of Vintage, and here, Black Lotus is banned due to its power.

So if you're lucky enough to have a Black Lotus, feel free to enter a Vintage tournament with it. Just don't expect to be able to use it in Standard, Legacy, or Extended, etc.

No, creatures do not tap when they block.

Yes, if a token is put into a hand, library(deck), graveyard or is removed from play the token 'ceases to exist'. The rules of the game only allow for them to exist in the game while on the battle field. That said the token is removed from play when state based actions are checked, meaning triggers do happen(if a card says 'when a creature is put into the graveyard...' the token going to the graveyard will cause that trigger but will still be removed.

Masters Edition is a set of cards exclusively released on MTGO (Magic: the Gathering Online). It contains only reprints of cards released in the physical card game. As of 5/4/2017, there are four Masters Edition sets that have been released.

Whenever a creature with lifelink deals damage, (combat or otherwise) to a creature or player, you gain that much life.

Besides actual flying or reach creatures, the current standard environment has Corrosive Gale, Marrow Shards, Daybreak Ranger, Dispense Justice, Garruk Relentless, Phyrexian Rebirth, Day of Judgement, Divine Reckoning, In a way Gideon Jura, Sunblast Angel, Ratchet Bomb, Steel Hellkite, Argentum Armor, Contaigen Engine, Helvault, Livewire Lash, Lux Cannon, Molten-tail Masticore, Tower of Calamities, worldslayer, and a few other ones so insignificant that I just didn't mention them. Many of these only deal with more specific things, or just destroy permanents in general.

If I were you I'd probably go with Day of Judgement or Ratchet bomb

Give this site a try..limitedinformation.net. It Calculates the final standings of the Swiss rounds, taking intentional draws into consideration, with a breakdown of how many points are needed to make the cut to the Top 8.

Wizards of the Coast are the designers and publishers, but they are a subsidiary company of Hasbro.

Yep, but its a DLC, and you will then most likely will have to defeat Sarkhan the Mad to earn it.

Nothing. The Planeswalker is not a Legendary Creature, and the creature is not a Planeswalker. Therefore neither the Legendary rule or the Planeswalker Uniqueness rule will come into play, even though technically you've got two cards representing the same person (this is still legally achievable in other ways too, such as both Akroma - Angel of Wrath and Angel of Vengeance)

Unless you have the first add-on pack, the Nicol Bolas expansion. The last two decks arent available to you.

For an Artifact deck there is a card that allows you to pay one every time you play an Artifact in order to make your opponent lose life and you gain life. it costs 1blue, 1black, 1white and 1colorless.

There are many flying walls that use white mana.

Wall of Denial, Wall of Reverence, Sunweb, Wall of Shards, Angelic Wall, Wall of Swords, Ageless Sentinels.

Walls (or these days, creatures with Defender) cannot innately block a creature with any kind of evasion like Flying. Only if the Wall has something like Flying, or Reach, can it block a Flying attacker.

Sliver Queen. Any sliver is only as good as the slivers around it, and the Queen is delightfully powerful with any slivers around it.

Sliver Overlord lets you get any sliver out of your deck for 3 colourless mana.

Gemhide sliver is key to many sliver decks as it lets slivers tap for any colour of mana.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth gives all land the basic type 'Swamp' in addition to other types. It is a card's basic type that determines if it can be tapped for coloured mana, and since Urborg gives itself the basic type 'Swamp' too, it means it can be tapped for black mana.

Not sure i understand your question. A phoenix is a recognized creature type of Wizards of the coast. So any and all phoenix creature cards are creature type phoenix.

Hope that helps