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I was talking with my about the most recent preview card on wizards, Null Profusion.
And the thing is I was wondering, if you have two different effects that do not state your hand size either rising or dropping, but giving it a fixed number. Which one will be the one you follow?
Such as Spellbook.

I don't know what I would answer myself, but I am leaning towards that you ought to go with the spellbook.
But I wanted to make sure.

Does this work with such a simple thing as if you qould remove either from the game until end of turn, the timestamp would be as the one that came into play last is the one to go with, I mean, it does not need to be played to over ride the other? Does it?

And, just a question, did not wizards want that kind of thing to be removed from the game rules. I mean the drastic change in the legendary rule.

It's been awhile. Sorry for the very, very long absence. Life's been busy, and so have I. I've been out of the loop as far as Magic goes, but I'm hoping to jump back into the game (and the new set, of course).

Now as far as Legends and flavor go I pretty much think of it like this...

You are a positive, your opponent is negative. A good chunk of cards are generic (basic lands, for example), and completely non-unique. This means there's no guarantee the positive-negative will fit together quiet right to cancel each other out. However, you play Legend1, and the followinf turn your opponenet plays a copy of Legend1 as well. Now there is a positive Legend1 and a negative Legend1. They are identical, right down to the brand of underwear they've got on. That being said, their own energies are perfectly even, but opposite, so the two cancel each other out perfectly, destroying both originals in the process. Unfortunately, other than a change to the game field, nothing is gained or lost (save perhaps some momentum).

Of course, this whole thing is based loosely on the fact that I love anti-matter. Heh.

Allright, this one involves just a simple stupid question.

Using Pestilence (Or any other card that says Destroy all creatures or deal 1 damage to all creatures and players), This isn't considered Targeting, is it?

I have Skulking Knight (2/2 for 2 mana or 3/3 for 3 mana, when it becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it), and I also have Pestilience out. I deal everything and it's dog 1 damage through Pestilience. Retarded friend A says that that's considered targeting, and that it destroys my Skulking Knight.

I was unsure of this, due to the fact that this is the same friend who makes up rules about stuff just for his own advantage or to hinder myself.

Okay, this is not an easy question to actually articulate.

Look, it's about "slivers".
I was thinking as my pal's sliver.dec was kicking some a**, not that unusual, since it's a T1 sliver.dec that have been built to be fast and effective...
Anyhoo, what I was thinking was this.

The sliver ability "all slivers have".
I was thinking as of so, the sliver Dormant Sliver have as you see "All slivers have defender and "Whenever this creature come into play, draw a card"".

The thing I thought of then was, "do dormant sliver get to draw a card when it comes into play itself?"
I was thinking, do the sliver ability work on itself BEFORE it comes into play? i.e. do the sliver give itself the bonuses before it's actually played?
I feel that a sliver that give slivers a comes into play effect need to be in play for the effect to be acive. It should not, logically, be of use until it has landed... right?
Well, so, I guess that the questions really is "do a dormant sliver make you draw a card when it comes into play?"

I know that I am most likely wrong in wanting it to be no. But hey, I thought I might check it with you, just for the fudge of it. ^^

Harmonic Sliver destroys an Artifact / Enchantment when it comes into play so I see no reason why Dormant wouldn't do so as well.

Legions: Yes. Dormant sliver draws a card when it comes into play itself
Hibiki: No. The workings of a spell are as follows.
A spell is announced. Announced means two things. One. the spell is placed onto the stack. and targets are chosen. A spell is paid for. (yes. targets are chosen before costs are paid. This is why a Bloodshot Cyclops can "chuck" himself at a target) The spell is then actively on the stack and priority passes if the active player doesn't have anymore spells to tack onto the stack.
Now what does this mean for your question?
It means simply that when you blink a creature out that's being targetted with say.....a terror. Terror's target was chosen before the one and one black was even paid. Now, when a permanent leaves the 'in play' zone and travels to ANY other zone the game "forgets" all previous knowledge the card had. (the only exception is phasing in which a card remembers itself when it phases back in) What does 'forgets' mean? Forgets means that all abilities it had or effects it had it doesn't remember doing. All spells or abilities that had a lock on it have forgotten where it went and have lost track of it. So upon resolution those spells and or abilities are 'countered by the game rules for lack of all targets' i.e. fizzled by our terms. Since you can only pick targets ONCE and that's when the spell is played, fizzling a spell like this does not allow that spells controller to pick another legal target.

Important Note: I had to ask a judge before I became one myself about this before going to regionals. If a spell has two targets, lets say uh...plow under. If you momentary blink one land (lets say they're creatures and lands at the time for the sake of the point) plow under STILL resolves. However, it only puts the one land that wasn't blinked on top of its owners library. When the rules for targetting were changed because of 'splice onto arcane' it was ruled that to fizzle a spell for lack of target ALL of its targets had to be illegal.

when my opponent attacks if i block with a creature and my opponent taps it with coral trickster to prevent it from blocking is the creature still blocked or do i take damage from the attacking creature?