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Badgermole Cub with no mana from Gyre Sage
Does Badgermole Cub's mana ability trigger if a creature tapped for mana produces no mana?
For example: if I have Gyre Sage without counters and Badgermole in play, does Gyre Sage produce {G}?
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Can an Aura returned by Brago attach to a creature returning at the same time?
I have a question about how Auras interact with simultaneous zone changes.
Suppose I control Brago, King Eternal and an Aura enchanting it.
Brago deals combat damage and its triggered ability resolves....
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A game of flipping counters, does anyone know the name?
Consider this game:
Both red and blue play counters on an 8×8 square board.
Each counter must be placed on an empty square
Whenever a counter is placed, all adjacent enemy counters (including ...
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Trying to find a memory-type game
I played this game at least a decade ago, but I don't think it was new at the time. There were Memory-style elements, with face-down cards on the table. Half of these cards were People cards and the ...
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What is this 1NT rebid response from Bridge Base?
Playing "Just Play Bridge," I've several times come across a bot responder rebid that I haven't been able to find any reference to elsewhere:
So we have responder rebidding with a new suit ...
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Skip-Bo rules question regarding discards
If a player’s last play from the hand is a discard, and that exhausts the player’s hand, does the player draw five new cards and continue the turn, or does the turn end on the discard to 0 cards?
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Can you cast two Trickbinds at the same time?
In early Magic, there were "Interrupts": spells that resolved "faster than an instant".
This meant that, while players could continue casting other spells, the stack (or "...
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Can Stifle counter morph abilities?
Kheru Spellsnatcher's morph ability allows you to counter a spell.
Now, since the morph ability is considered a "special action," since it's not a spell, it can't be countered by a ...
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Leading Spades in The game of hearts
In hearts, is it better to lead with your higher spades (with the exception of the queen) to draw out all spades.
Lots of players play the low spades first to drain the spades?
Not sure what is the ...
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What is the correct call according to the Italian Bridge Federation’s conventions in this situation?
North opened 1♦ and East overcalled 1♠. What do you bid in South with the above cards?
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What are the odds in Scrabble of getting all vowels or all consonants on a turn?
I often get either 7 vowels or 7 consonants from the tile bag. How common is this?
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Dragon Adventure cards interaction with Acolyte of Bahamut
As best as I can understand reading the rulings, I'm a bit confused as to how Acolyte of Bahamut interacts with dragon cards which have adventures/omens. Acolyte of Bahamut reads:
Commander creatures ...
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Game where players stuff a tiny phone booth with 'people' foam cut-outs
I think I saw ads for this in the mid- maybe late 80's. The 'board' was a object shaped like a telephone booth and the players took turns stuffing it with foam cut-outs of human beings until the booth ...
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Monumental Duel Card Discrepancies
I recently bought the three Monumental Duel boxes (Trade, Exploration, Espionage). In all three, rule books claim there are 12 Era I development cards, 12 Era II development cards, and 6 Era III ...
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Should a face-down corvid plot removed in battle be revealed before being put back in the supply?
The plot tokens in the supply are face down.
The plot tokens on the map can be face down or face up.
The plot tokens on the map can be removed in battle, in which case they go back to the supply, face ...
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Carcassone City Crossing pieces
When I was first introduced Carcassone years ago, someone had a set that had city pieces that allowed two cities to cross but remain separate. It was a printed city piece that had one city bridging ...
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Identify this card game
It's a card game with cards ranging from -2 to 12 inclusive.
The person with the lowest score wins.
You start with a 4x3 board of face down cards.
Each turn you can draw a card and replace one of your ...
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Were my two passes reasonable in the following situation?
Both sides vulnerable at matchpoints, my right hand opponent dealt and opened one heart.
I elected to "trap pass" with the following: ♠ Q8 ♡AKT52 KQJ7 ♣ 76.
Left hand opponent passed, and ...
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Is every possible setup of Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering Game guaranteed to give no significant advantage/disadvantage?
Mapmaker is a 2-4 player game where players act as political parties trying to manipulate election borders to favour their own party. 18 county tokens per player (numbered 1-10 with duplicate pairs ...
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Templating - Trigger a death ability of a creature when that creature enters
This is a hypothetical question regarding rules text templating and how to convey the correct ability to the player.
I want to create a new card that causes the death ability of a creature to trigger ...
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Multiple death triggers with more than two players
I have Missy on the board. Player B has Meathook Massacre II on the board. Player C casts Blasphemous Act. What happens to all of the creatures that die?
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Niko, Light of Hope and continuos type-changing effects
Niko, Light of Hope makes all Shards copies of the creature you exiled. Since this is a copy effect it happens in Layer 1.
Let's say the creature you exiled was an animated Veiled Serpent, all Shards ...
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In Blokus, what happens if a piece was discovered to be incorrectly placed several turns later? [duplicate]
The rules do not state what should happen if a player makes an invalid move e.g. a piece touching another of the same colour along an edge, and no one spots it and several more turns have been played?
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Is "Iono tilting" legal?
I was watching a video from a player with top-8 Regional Championship placements with tips for cleaner play at regionals. In it he suggests slightly tilting cards put to the bottom of the deck with ...
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Bridge. Where both partners have a 7 card suit
Just played at a local game and partner and I got in bidding war. I had AQxxxxxx S, xxx D, AQx H > Bid one S, partner jumped to 3 C, 3S, 4C, 4S. Down 3. Losing 3 D & 3 S.
Partner had 7C, no ...
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Does this Mahjong tournament format exist somewhere?
Is there anything like a poker-style tournament for Mahjong where the tables are 3-4 handed (or 2-handed I guess when only 5 or 2 players remain) and you just play hands constantly with an ante plus ...
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Can I see anywhere the list of updates to the rules?
Is there a place where I can see updated rules for all factions (including e.g. Lord of the Hundreds)?
Also is there a way to see the various updates to the rules? Because this way I could go through ...
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Does any faction earn points when crafting a card that doesn't explicitly show a number in laurels?
In the living rules I read
3.2.2 Crafting Items. Whenever you craft an item (4.1), you score the victory points listed on the card. 🐦
(where the 🐦 refers to the fact that Eyrie makes only one ...
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Looking for the fan made expansion for Chitin I
I was recently doing a megagames series play-through with a friend of mine, we recently finished ogre and started Chitin I. I noticed there was a posted link to a website to a previous fan made ...
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Song of the Dryads
If my commander is enchanted with Imprisoned in the Moon, and I enchant Imprisoned in the Moon with Song of the Dryads, what happens to the commander?
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Change in Skip-Bo rules?
I don't remember the rules having you put a card on each of your discard piles at the beginning of the game but when I played with family over Christmas it was in the rules? Any idea when this was ...
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What to do after discovering a previous invalid move in Qwirkle?
Gameplay
Consider the following sequence of moves in Qwirkle:
Alice plays an invalid move. No one notices. It was an honest mistake and not intentionally deceptive.
Bob plays a move that connects ...
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What to do when a player runs out of chips playing Tripoley?
I recently played the game Tripoley with family. The set only came with 100 chips and with 6 of us playing we each only got 16 chips. My first round was really bad, I think I won 6 chips from the ...
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If zero attacking creatures are declared at the beginning of a combat phase, may that phase still be considered a "Combat Phase"? [duplicate]
Siege Veteran's first ability triggers at the beginning of its controller's combat phase.
But if its controller, formally or substantively, decides not to have any creatures attack that turn - that is,...
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How does Aettir & Priwen works if the equipped creature's controller changes?
Let's suppose my opponent has only one creature in play.
He cast the Artifact - Equipment Aettir and Priwen, immediately equipping his only creature, which is currently tapped and won't attack.
When ...
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What is the worst possible hand that is the nuts?
Following in the mold of What is the worst possible hand that wins at showdown? : What is the worst hand that is guaranteed to win at the river, disregarding any prior deductions about the opponent's ...
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Solve go staircase puzle
Can white play such that their stones in the center of the board above are alive? It's white's turn to move.
The only move that keeps the stones alive that I see is P10, but then then black can ...
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Localized Monopoly variant that included stock investment
When I was a child (mid 1980s to early 1990s), we had a board game up on the wall that was a localized Monopoly variant, in this case for Ashland, KY. I remember it had the various local stores (many ...
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Cribbage pegging score question
Dealer has 9, 7, 6, 6.
Pone has J, J, 4, A.
Pone plays J total = 10.
Dealer plays 7 total = 17.
Pone plays J total = 27.
Dealer has to call GO.
Pone plays remaining 4 and A for 31 Scores 2.
Pone has ...
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Can Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord put a vampire commander onto the battlefield from the command zone?
I've looked around and cannot find any definitive answers on whether the Command Zone is considered part of the hand zone or not.
If I have Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord in play and Edgar Markov in the ...
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If I use Cursed Blast for knockout when both players have 1 prize, what happens?
Dusknoir's Cursed Blast reads:
Once during your turn, you may put 13 damage counters on 1 of your opponent's Pokemon. If you use this Ability, this Pokemon is Knocked Out.
If I put enough damage ...
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In Axis and Allies 1940, can Japanese and American boats share sea zones prior to being formally at war?
I am asking if they can share a sea zone prior to declared conflict
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"Creatures your opponents control" after the ability is activated
My opponent activates Bident of Thassa's ability during my first main phase. After that, I cast Breeches, Eager Pillager and give him Haste. Does Breeches have to attack this turn?
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What is this game that is similar to the Tetris Board Game?
Looking for a game I played last year. I thought it was called "Tetris" but was unable to find it under that name. It is very similar to both the Tetris board game that came out in 2021 and ...
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Does an equipment unattach when it becomes a creature?
Assume: Toph, the First Metalbender on the battlefield, already equipped with Lightning Greaves while I'm in second main ...
When I go to end step Toph's second ability triggers
At the beginning of ...
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Can Flame-Blessed Bolt prevent Undying Malice from resurrecting the creature?
I have a 2/2 creature on the battlefield and my opponent casts Flame-Blessed Bolt on it. Trying to save my creature, I respond with Undying Malice, however Flame-Blessed Bolt has "exile it ...
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Is there a good way to "pull" a weak two bid using another suit?
With only us vulnerable at matchpoints, partner opened two diamonds (weak). I "pulled" to two spades with the following: ♠ AKT964 ♡Q6 ♢A4 ♣ A87. And I regretted it almost soon as I did it, ...
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Returning to hand a creature entering as a copy of another creature
I have a commander deck of Clement, the Worrywort so I return a lot of my creatures to my hand. When I cast a card that can enter as a copy (in this case, Mockingbird) and do have it enter as a copy ...
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Kain, Traitorous Dragoon and Homeward Path interaction
If opponent A controls Kain, Traitorous Dragoon and deals combat damage to opponent B and I, Kain's owner, then activate Homeward Path in response to Kain's combat damage trigger, does opponent B ...
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Which game has a rotating tower with a tiled pattern?
Does anyone know the name of game that had a rotating tower with a tiled pattern that you had to copy onto your own board?
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