iMtG Server: Gathering

Magic (The Gathering) => Rules => Topic started by: Grexis on August 15, 2012, 01:32:27 PM

Title: Discard question
Post by: Grexis on August 15, 2012, 01:32:27 PM
So I activate {jace's archivist} and I have {liliana's caress} on the field do they lose life?
Title: Re: Discard question
Post by: BlackJester on August 15, 2012, 01:48:34 PM
If they had cards in their hand, sure they do.
Title: Re: Discard question
Post by: Grexis on August 15, 2012, 01:54:16 PM
Quote from: BlackJester on August 15, 2012, 01:48:34 PM
If they had cards in their hand, sure they do.
Awesome, because ive wanted this combo to work, but because of the wording discard your hand it made me weary of playing it
Title: Re: Discard question
Post by: Gorzo on August 15, 2012, 09:08:10 PM
My brother has a deck based on this + {unsummon} effects, it's pretty brutal.
Title: Re: Discard question
Post by: Grexis on August 16, 2012, 12:33:01 AM
Quote from: Gorzo on August 15, 2012, 09:08:10 PM
My brother has a deck based on this + {unsummon} effects, it's pretty brutal.
I was thinking of altering my mill deck for the combo. My mill is mono blue that uses {jace's archivist} and {jace's erasure}
Title: Re: Discard question
Post by: Jdogtoocool on August 16, 2012, 03:33:47 PM
How does the archivist actually work? Is it by who has the greatest number of cards amongst all players or just yourself?
Title: Re: Discard question
Post by: Gorzo on August 16, 2012, 03:42:20 PM
Quote from: Jdogtoocool on August 16, 2012, 03:33:47 PM
How does the archivist actually work? Is it by who has the greatest number of cards amongst all players or just yourself?

The top # among all players. Say joe uses his archivist, he had 3 cards. Fred has 3 also. Jimmy had 6. Angela had 5. All players will discard their hands hand and draw 6, equal to the number of cards Jimmy discarded, as he discarded the largest hand.
Title: Re: Discard question
Post by: BlackJester on August 16, 2012, 03:42:33 PM
Quote from: Jdogtoocool on August 16, 2012, 03:33:47 PM
How does the archivist actually work? Is it by who has the greatest number of cards amongst all players or just yourself?
It wouldn't be "the greatest number of cards you discarded."  You only discarded one amount of cards.  ;)
Title: Re: Discard question
Post by: Jdogtoocool on August 16, 2012, 04:09:41 PM
Quote from: Gorzo on August 16, 2012, 03:42:20 PM
Quote from: Jdogtoocool on August 16, 2012, 03:33:47 PM
How does the archivist actually work? Is it by who has the greatest number of cards amongst all players or just yourself?

The top # among all players. Say joe uses his archivist, he had 3 cards. Fred has 3 also. Jimmy had 6. Angela had 5. All players will discard their hands hand and draw 6, equal to the number of cards Jimmy discarded, as he discarded the largest hand.

Right on right on the wording was throwing me off