4. *An effect of a resolving spell
or ability can also be a
replacement effect. This is
called a self-replacement
effect.
5. How do I recognize a replacement
effect?
● Effects that use the word “instead,” including
regeneration effects
● Effects that use the word “skip”
● Effects that say “[This permanent] enters the
battlefield with...” or “As [this permanent] enters
the battlefield...” or “[This permanent] enters the
battlefield as...” or “[This permanent] enters the
battlefield...” or “[Objects] enter the
battlefield...”
● Prevention effects function identically to
replacement effects.
24. Self-replacement effects
Some replacement effects are not continuous
effects. Rather, they are an effect of a
resolving spell or ability that replace part or
all of that spell or ability’s own effect(s).
Such effects are called self-replacement
effects.
When applying replacement effects to an
event, self-replacement effects are applied
before other replacement effects.
29. Who chooses?
The affected player, or the controller
of the affected object; if the object
has no controller, then owner the
affected object.
30. Order of replacement effects
2) Control changes
3) Copy effects
4) Everything else
1) Self-replacement effects
31. Continue applying effects,
starting from the top of the
list, until there are no more
left to apply.
Note that the application of one
replacement effect may cause
another to no longer apply, or to
newly apply.
32. Alice controls Ghosts
of the Innocent.
Alice also controls
Furnace of Rath.
What happens? Who is the “affected player”?
Then Alice casts Lava
Axe, targeting Ned.
33. The affected player is Ned. Therefore he, not Alice, chooses in
which order to apply the replacement effects.
Two replacement
effects can be applied
to the damage which
Lava Axe deals.
If he applies Ghosts of the Innocent's effect first, Lava Axe's
damage is halved to 2. Then Furnace of Rath's effect applies,
and Lava Axe's damage is doubled to 4.
If he applies Furnace of Rath's replacement effect first, Lava
Axe's damage is doubled to 10. Then Ghosts of the Innocent's
effect halves it to 5.
35. The affected object is Phytohydra. Therefore Alice, its controller,
chooses in which order to apply the replacement effects.
Two replacement
effects can be applied
to the damage which
Inferno deals.
If she applies Phytohydra's replacement effect first, she puts six
+1/+1 counters on Phytohydra. Then there is no longer an event
for Kill-Suit Cultist's effect to replace.
If she applies Kill-Suit Cultist's replacement effect first,
Phytohydra is destroyed. Then there is no longer an event for
Phytohydra's effect to replace.
36. Is Phytohydra's effect a self-replacement
effect? Why or why not?
It is not a self-replacement effect. It does
not replace its own effect.
38. The affected player is Alice. Therefore Alice chooses in which
order to apply the replacement effects.
Two replacement
effects can be applied
to the damage which
Inferno deals.
If she applies Crumbling Sanctuary's replacement effect first, she
exiles 6 cards from her library. Then there is no longer an event
for Divine Presence's effect to replace.
If she applies Divine Presence's replacement effect first, “Inferno
deals 6 damage” is replaced with “Inferno deals 3 damage.”
Then Crumbling Sanctuary's effect applies, and she exiles 3 cards
from her library.
40. The affected player is Alice. Therefore Alice chooses in which
order to apply the replacement effects.
Two replacement
effects can be applied
to the damage which
Inferno deals.
If she applies Pyromancer's Swath's replacement effect first,
“Inferno deals 6 damage” is replaced by “Inferno deals 8
damage.” Then Divine Presence's effect applies and replaces
that with “Inferno deals 3 damage.”
If she applies Divine Presence's replacement effect first, “Inferno
deals 6 damage” is replaced with “Inferno deals 3 damage.”
Then Pyromancer's Swath's effect applies, and replaces that
with “Inferno deals 5 damage.”
41. Doesn't Divine Presences effect mean that no source can
ever be dealt more than 3 damage? Why doesn't Divine
Presence change the “5 damage” to “3 damage”?
If she applies Divine Presence's replacement effect first, “Inferno
deals 6 damage” is replaced with “Inferno deals 3 damage.”
Then Pyromancer's Swath's effect applies, and replaces that
with “Inferno deals 5 damage.”
Each replacement effect can only be
applied ONCE to a particular event.
42. Alice controls a Serra
Angel enchanted with
Mammoth Umbra.
Ned casts Debt of Loyalty
on it.
What happens to Serra Angel? Who
chooses?
Then Ned casts
Murder on it.
43. If she applies Debt of
Loyalty's effect first, then
Serra Angel is regenerated
and Ned gains control of it.
Alice controls Serra Angel, so she chooses the order of the
replacement effects.
If she applies Mammoth
Umbra's effect first, then
she destroys Mammoth
Umbra and Serra Angel isn't
destroyed.
Mammoth Umbra's
effect no longer applies
Debt of
Loyalty's effect no longer
applies.
45. Even though Rhox
Faithmender's replacement
effect didn't apply to the
original event, it can (and
must) be applied to the
modified event.
Only one replacement
affect applies to Alice's
Draw: Words of Worship
replaces it with “You
gain 5 life.”
Alice gains 10 life.
47. Then Doubling Season's
affect is applied.
Gather the Townfolk has
a self-replacement
effect, which must be
applied first.
Alice gets 10 creature tokens; she cannot get only 5.
48. Alice controls Leyline
of the Void.
She casts Specter's Wail
targeting Ned.
What zone does Loxodon Smiter end up in?
Who chooses?
Ned discards
Loxodon Smiter.
49. If he applies Leyline of the
Void's effect first, then
Loxodon Smiter is exiled.
Loxodon Smiter has no controller, but Ned is its owner, so
he chooses the order of the replacement effects.
If he applies Loxodon
Smiter's effect first, then
Loxodon Smiter is put onto
the battlefield.
Loxodon Smiter's effect
no longer applies
Leyline of
the Void's effect no longer
applies.
50. Alice controls Serra
Angel, enchanted by
Infinite Reflection.
She has Dearly Departed
in her graveyard.
Can Champion of the Parish enter the
battlefield with a +1/+1 counter?
She casts Champion
of the Parish.
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51. However, Infinite
Reflection's effect is a copy
effect, so it must be applied
first.
Two replacement effects
could apply to Champion
of the Parish entering the
battlefield.
Then Dearly Departed's
effect no longer applies.
Champion of the Parish cannot enter the battlefield
with a +1/+1 counter.
52. Alice controls
Essence of the Wild.
She casts Goblin Rally. Ned responds with
Gather Specimens.
What happens?
53. Ned gets four 1/1 Goblin tokens.
Gather Specimens' replacement effect must be
applied first because it's a control-changing
replacement effect.
Then Essence of the Wild's replacement effect can no
longer be applied.
55. If he applies Annihilating
Fire's effect first, then
Pulmonic Sliver is exiled.
Ned controls Pulmonic Sliver, so he chooses the order of
the replacement effects.
If he applies Pulmonic
Sliver's effect first, then he
may put on top of his
library.
Pulmonic Sliver's effect
no longer applies
If he does, then
Annihilating Fire's effect
no longer applies.
57. Ned controls Palisade
Giant.
Alice casts Incinerate
targeting Ned.
Where does Incinerate's damage go? Who
decides?
Ned casts Sivvi's Valor
targeting Palisade Giant.
58. After Palisade Giant's
effect is applied, Sivvi's
Valor effect is now
relevant and must be
applied.
Only Palisade Giant's
replacement effect
applies to Incinerate's
damage. There aren't
any choices to make.
Suppose Alice had targeted Palisade Giant instead of Ned?
Incinerate deals 3
damage to Ned.
Then the two replacement effects would apply in the
reverse order, and Incinerate would deal 3 damage to
Palisade Giant.
59. Ned controls Empyrial
Archangel.
Alice casts Incinerate
targeting Ned.
How much damage does Incinerate deal, and
where? Who decides?
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Ned also controls
Sphere of Law.
60. The affected player is Ned. Therefore Ned chooses in which
order to apply the effects.
Two replacement or
prevention effects can
be applied to the
damage which
Incinerate deals to
Ned.
If Ned applies Sphere of Law's effect first, then Incinerate deals 1
damage to him. Then Empyrial Archangel's effect applies, and
Incinerate instead deals 1 damage to it.
If he applies Empyrial Archangel's replacement effect first, then
Incinerate deals 3 damage to it. Sphere of Law's effect no longer
applies.
61. Alice controls Vraska
the Unseen, with 5
loyalty counters.
She also controls
Empyrial Archangel.
Can Ned use Inferno to kill Vraska? Who
decides?
Ned casts Inferno.
62. Planeswalker Redirection Rule
306.7. If noncombat damage would be dealt to a player by a
source controlled by an opponent, that opponent may have that
source deal that damage to a planeswalker the first player
controls instead. This is a redirection effect (see rule 614.9)
and is subject to the normal rules for ordering replacement
effects (see rule 616). The opponent chooses whether to
redirect the damage as the redirection effect is applied.
63. The affected player is Alice. Therefore Alice chooses in which
order to apply the replacement effects.
Two redirection
effects can be applied
to the damage which
Inferno deals to Alice.
If she applies the planeswalker redirection rule first, Ned decides
whether to redirect Inferno's damage from Alice to Vraska. If he
does, then Empyrial Archangel's effect no longer applies. (If he
doesn't, Empyrial Archangel's effect still applies.)
If she applies Empyrial Archangel's replacement effect first,
Inferno's damage is redirected from Alice to Empyrial Archangel.
Then the planeswalker redirection rule no longer applies.
306.
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