I said that to myself when I saw it. Didn't really matter with the scoop, but still, he wasn't as invulnerable as he thought.

@@BlackHeartsHope Kind of like Sauron, when you think about it. :)

​@@Wolfeson28 Sauron also gives you protection from everything? Need to check that card out.

@@Lordidude Lol, no. I meant the part about "he wasn't as invulnerable as he thought" was pretty much like Sauron in the actual stories.

​@@Wolfeson28 wait... people actually pay attention to the cursive text and comics on the cards?

Came here to say exactly this.

Here's to many more, gl out there

Cool deck!

Yep, once you put a spell on the stack you actually just declare your intentions to cast it and therefore can still use mana abilities, it's not a commonly useful rule but it's very relevant with carde like alter and kci.

Good gameses. Thank YOU for sticking around when the nonsense commenced!

@@thrillhouse4151 not a problem. I enjoy his content to the fullest. I had a feeling I was gonna get laser beamed, lol.

Fitting name

GGs!

This isn’t legal in paper Magic, is it?

@@Rihitu-ji7pi It absolutely is. For a more in depth example of what they're talking about with Emry, imagine the world where your opening hand is Island, Lotus Petal, Emry. You play the Island and the Petal, then you cast Emry. As part of that cast, Emry goes on the stack, and we work out the costs - 1U because of her ability - and lock it in. That cost remains even as we sac Petal for one of those mana. In the Gandalf case, you put the spell on the stack, then you pay the costs, and if you have a mana ability that sacrifices Gandalf, that's okay, because you already locked in that the spell is on the stack.

@@Rihitu-ji7piwhen going through the steps to cast a spell, there a legality check to see if it’s legal. At this time it is because Gandalf is in play and his ability to “cast as though it had flash” is allowing it to be legally cast since this step occurs before we activate mana abilities like Alter.

​@@Rihitu-ji7piMagic Arena has each and every rule that "paper Magic" has. They are the same game.

@@Kestral287 Interesting. I didn’t realize you could activate a mana ability and pay the mana to cast a spell simultaneously. I always thought you had to add the mana first, and only once you had enough mana in your mana pool you could cast the spell.

Froidso: "They are too heavy. I wish those weights were never given to me." Gaindalf: "That's what all wish facing such workouts. But that's not for them to decide. The only thing they can decide is how they use the schedules given to them!"

Ughhhh whyyy

So many shenanigans. So many...the dude goes off with a half-eaten, week-old ham sandwich.

Thanks for the sub!

I added semblance anvil in place of the lotr 3 mana mythic and it really paid off

Who cares about the "story" of the stupid picture on the card? How would that improve gameplay? Lmao😂

It’s actually “you shall not pass” because he gives everything flash so when the opponent tries to pass the turn you just pop off and win the game instead

The ring will give you (the player) the ability "Protection from Everything" until your next turn, but only if you cast it. That means that damage from every source to you is prevented, and you can't be the target of any spells or abilities until your next turn starts. There are ways around this. If you make it do that damage can't be prevented; targeting a creature with the Stomp adventure on Bonecrusher Giant, for example, will make your creatures and your effects that damage each opponent (not the ones that target though) still do damage to an opponent with "Protection from Everything" because that damage would be prevented by that effect, but then Stomp made it so that damage can't be prevented. 'Can't' always wins in magic rulings, and the opponent will still lose life equal to the damage done. Might something like that have happened to you? Or did you maybe cheat it in play without casting it, like CovertGoBlue does in this video with Oswald Fiddlebender? That might explain how you still took damage while you thought you should be protected.

Or did you maybe miss that it only lasts until your next turn starts? When you untap after casting it, the effect should be gone ^^'

You didn't take damage, you lost life. Some sagas cause life loss.

Standard follows the standard format in paper. LOTR isn't legal in paper standard.

@@metalhev3989 yeah, that is what I meant. I can only afford to play Arena