Sunday Morning Theros

Brian came over Sunday with his new deck to play some Theros.

 

 

I am still running my great Minotaur Rakdos deck, which matched up nicely with his UW Control deck.

 

 

Our first match was the longest game I have ever played--it went like 30 rounds. Neither of us could find a win condition. He removed all my creatures. When I needed to, I was able to get to his planeswalkers [he had THREE in his deck].

 

 

 

He was able to mill me out in the end.

 

 

 

Brian then went 1-2 against Jack's latest creation which is a very very good deck.

 

We completed our game two in a much more traditional way with me winning after about 8 rounds of fun magic.

 

 

I am very much enjoying my Rakdos deck. I know it needs a lot of work, but even when it looses it still creates some fun moments.

 

We had a lot of rules questions this morning. I am still not sure where the best most official place to go for ruling on this stuff--any suggestions would be awesome. I recently learned from the Magic the Amateuring cast that I am a level zero judge which does give me a lot more confidence on this stuff.

 

In any event, here are the questions we had:

 

 

1. Do Guild Gates have summoning sickness?
   
   
   We ruled that the do not.
2. What happens if you Time Ebb at token--does the token go on the top of your deck or back into your token pile?
   
   
   In this case, Brian cast Time Ebb on my 2/2 Zombie token.
   
   
   
   It was late in the game, we had tons of mana, and it was the only creature on the board.
   
   We ruled it was simply discarded.
   
3. Is a Planeswalker a creature?
   
   
   
   we ruled she was not a creature.
4. When does a Planeswalker pump?
   Whenever she wants to? Ba-Dum-DUM!
   
   We ruled during main & main phase [again]. 
5. Does essence scatter work on a God? Jack cast Nylea, God of the Hunt
   
   
   Brian responded with an Essence Scatter counter,
   
   
   since Jack's devotion to green was less than 5, Nylea was not a creature; however, the card has Creature as a type.
   
   We ruled Essence Scatter did not work. 
6. When does an Enchantment Creature become a Creature?  Brian case Sea God's Revenge
   
   
   on my Kragma Warcaller
   
   
   with Nighthowler equipped as an aura.
   
   
   Does the Nighthowler drop as a creature which can be targeted for removal and thus be counted as part of Sea God's Revenge?
   
   We ruled that the Nighthowler was not a legal target when the sorcery was cast & thus was not removed.

Please leave a comment correct & clarifying any of these rules questions.