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1) The artifact lands are what powered out affinity so quickly. They were the engine to it. Even if they banned DoV and Ravager you could still very easily play Atog affinity since Atog is Ravager without modular. And it would be that dominating. Artifact lands are what powered it out.
2) A multicolored card (gold as you call it) is all colors in its mana cost. (Note: that means cards with split mana symbols from ravnica are also all colors in the mana cost. So yes. Mishra is Black, Blue and Red all at once. Cards that effect any of those colors or don't affect those colors effect mishra.
Two examples: Mishra can't be terror'd because he is black, but he's also blue and red too. But the non-black part of terror doesn't care about the other two colors because he IS black.
You can Pyroblast Mishra because he IS a blue permanent. But he is also a black and red permanent too. But all pyroblast cares about is that some part of his blue so it's very able to destroy him.

You'll get my opinion anyway. It's fun for limited/casual play. Won't be any good in competitive standard. Cost too much.

Now then.

Yes. If the creature is killed by anything AFTER fool's demise has resolved it snaps back into play under your control (yes even if it was your opponents) and fool's demise goes back to it's owners hand (whoever that may be). Fool's Demise does NOT come back if you play it, choose a creature, and in response it either gets put back into it's owner's hand, is removed from game*, or is killed. Then Fool's Demise is 'countered by the game rules' and just 'fizzles' as we say.


* sub-note: I've been getting a lot of questions from my friends about Momentary Blink as it pertains to 'fizzling' spells. yes. You can fizzle a spell with it. Once the creature leaves the game, despite the fact that it comes right back in the same spell, the game "forgets" who it was. And so does every spell/ability that was targetting it.

Uh ok. Wow. DInfiltrator wins the game for confusing Yawgmoth first. You've actually asked a question I'm not sure I know how to answer. I had to look it up.

Since Clone follows copy rules this is an exerpt from the StarCityGames rules questions database.

Clone doesn't copy any effects on the creature -- you just get exactly what's printed on the card and nothing more. So if you copy an animated land, for example, you get a normal, nonanimated land.

I would assume Followed Foosteps follow the rules of Clone and you would get a non-animated land every turn.

Follow up note. I got the chance to talk to a Level 2 Judge around here who agreed with that ruling so I'm pretty confidant that it's right now 3nodding

I have a couple questions:

1)What is the converted mana cost of a face down creature in play or on the stack.

2) Could one respond to a creature being flipped

3) Could one respond to a flip trigger (I.E. Mischivious Quagnar)

If I Commandeer a Dragonstorm with 3 spells played before it, do I also control and can use the copies of dragonstorm since I am now the spell's controller?

Hold on storm is triggered For each spell played that turn so if He has 3 spells already stacked then Commandeer Should trigger for all 3 if not all 4

No. Storm triggers before priority passes. Player A has priority. Plays Dragonstorm with 3 spells played before it as given the example. When dragonstorm goes onto the stack it creates 3 more copies of itself via the storm mechanic. Commandeer can only target ONE spell and each storm copy is in itself a separate spell.



Using those rulings lets then take a look at the wording for Commandeer
"You may remove two blue cards in your hand from the game rather than pay Commandeer's mana cost.
Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact or enchantment, the permanent comes into play under your control.)"

Using the rulings on storm, copies and the oracle text for Commandeer we get the following. (if you need the ruling on priority I can post that)
Player A plays Dragonstorm with 3 copies, the storm triggers and resolves because he is still under priority for playing the initial copy of dragonstorm (this is why countering the initial spell doesn't kill the storm count. If you could respond the storm trigger with spells countering the real spell would kill storm. It doesn't for this reason)
At the time the 3 copies are placed onto the stack player A was the controller of dragonstorm and therefore the controller of the copies. Player B commandeers the real dragonstorm. By then the copies already know Player A is their owner/controller and doesn't care that player B has what created them by the game rules. So player B ends up with one dragonstorm while Player A ends up with the other three. Player A being the active player has his copy dragonstorms resolve one at a time unless player B has responses after Player A passes priority in between resolutions of the copies.