The Rules Mill

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Beyond Dominia: The Rules Mill

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Welcome to the Rules Mill. I, yer fabulous Guru, will answer all questions as accurately as I can. There are a few others who also help out, whose answers are right on most of the time as well.

You may also want to check D'angelos rules to locate the answer yerself

OR

the DCI Tourney Rules to see what cards are included in each tourney type.

NO posts of a vulgar, obnoxious, or insulting nature.

Please try to spell people's names correctly!!

And for those that miss the chat room, you can still get to it here.

ENGLISH only.

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• Two quick questions By SerraCollector - February 06 - 04:56 pm

• what effects does ground seal hose By jon - February 06 - 04:23 pm

• DQ rule question By Jeremy Royer - February 06 - 04:07 pm

• Chainer: Just to be sure... By Crovax - February 06 - 01:53 pm

• Opposition Question By Idunno - February 06 - 01:12 pm

• Combat damage and response stack question By TSPRT - February 06 - 05:30 am

• Goblin Festival Questions By Blankman - February 05 - 04:36 pm

• Ring of Ma'ruff and Faceless Butcher (et al) By Schmakt - February 05 - 04:35 pm

• Devouring Strossuss By nb - February 05 - 04:34 pm

• fun card word of command and rulings By jjjj - February 05 - 01:26 pm

• Replenish - targets By Bart - February 05 - 11:05 am

• Feldons Cane - Reusable ? By The_hippy - February 05 - 08:26 am

• teferi's response question By Aforitos - February 05 - 08:18 am

• oath w/ blessing and a tormod's crypt By Myles - February 05 - 05:48 am

• Coat of Arms and Goblin Trenches By Scrubby - February 05 - 12:02 am

• Collector's Edition By BWM, phyrexian infiltrator - February 04 - 02:21 pm

• Horsemanship By Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar - February 04 - 02:18 pm

• upkeep of illusions of grandeur By karl marx - February 04 - 12:31 pm

• Sylvan and Alexandria Libraries By Bart - February 04 - 06:28 am

• madness By WD - February 03 - 02:55 pm

• Static abilities By MQN2002 - February 03 - 10:27 am

• Plagiarize By Troll - February 02 - 12:37 pm

• Obsessive Search By Baka - February 01 - 04:26 pm

• Gorilla Shaman By Jon Weitzel - January 31 - 03:14 pm

• A few Questions By Jon Weitzel - January 30 - 03:45 pm

• Sleight of Mind / Whim of Volrath By Browser - January 30 - 03:31 pm

• Stupid green card... By Hetemti - January 30 - 11:41 am

• planor void vs gaes blessing By dddai - January 30 - 09:47 am

• I'm new to magic By paul - January 30 - 09:46 am

• Looking for a Website, help much appreciated By SerraCollector - January 29 - 01:49 pm

• 187 creatures By C. Weston - January 29 - 09:43 am

• Multiplayer (couple) game - Format, rules, ... By Bart - January 29 - 09:38 am

• Hell's Caretaker question - for a friend By Burning Ice, the Elementalist - January 29 - 09:25 am

• Replenish Question By ?? - January 29 - 09:17 am

• -1/-1 and creatures... By Binary_Ladin - January 29 - 07:11 am

• First Strike Question By Gilindon - January 28 - 10:10 pm

• pardic miner By demonlich - January 28 - 06:04 pm

• escape this By Wicked darkman - January 28 - 05:34 pm

• Need Explanation for Madness By Myre Skeleton, lesser Zombie - January 28 - 11:33 am

• Demonic Tutor/Library of Alexandria By Burning Ice, the Elementalist - January 27 - 01:41 am

• Null Rod question By Sodent - January 26 - 10:27 pm

• Radiate and spells that can target multiple card types... By Havraen1 - January 26 - 08:35 pm

• Concede By BWM, phyrexian infiltrator - January 26 - 03:22 pm

• Issues that have been tormenting me. By Paranoid Android - January 25 - 11:53 pm

• Reef Shaman and City of Brass By dope - January 25 - 08:28 am

• about sideboard By bigGuy - January 24 - 11:53 pm

• flashback By newbie - January 24 - 11:13 pm

• Berserk Question... By Giovanni - January 24 - 09:17 pm

• stupid question. By Mooser - January 24 - 03:33 pm

• Balancing Act Q By Deuce - January 23 - 06:25 pm

• charging troll and necra sanctuary By BUGS BUNNY - January 23 - 01:37 pm

• Ceta sanctuary and the new sleight of mind By BUGS BUNNY - January 23 - 01:11 pm

• Wasteland question By Bo - January 21 - 12:46 pm

• is paying life the same as loss of life??? By Curtis Carroll - January 21 - 11:13 am

• Graveyard timing By PMB - January 20 - 10:25 pm

• Armadilo Cloak By Puzdra - January 20 - 10:08 pm

• Where can I find definitions of tournament formats By Iryoolan - January 18 - 04:46 pm

• Stepping Down...who wants to maintain. By Serra - January 18 - 11:15 am

• Soul Link plus Crypt Rats? By Greel, Mindraker - January 18 - 10:08 am

• Gemstone Mine Questions By Looee - January 18 - 10:01 am

• Confused about Mirari By Confused Amateur - January 18 - 02:55 am

• Some Card Questions I have By YY - January 17 - 06:43 pm

• Weird Question By BigChuck - January 17 - 01:10 pm

• So how do you go about becoming a DCI Judge ? By cavalry19D - January 17 - 01:08 pm

• sway of illusion By Goon - January 17 - 12:15 pm

• Personal Agenda By ?? - January 17 - 09:34 am

• Sapphire Medallian and Buyback By Black Knight - January 16 - 08:59 pm

• Exploration questions By the Bye - January 16 - 02:00 pm

• Radiate By NAV - January 16 - 09:46 am

• Demonic Consultation By Fangaar - January 15 - 08:53 pm

• Sylvan Pursuit By GDarius - January 15 - 05:24 pm

• Treetop Villages and Spike Weaver +1/+1 counters By the Bye - January 15 - 05:09 pm

• Pattern of the Disk By paladin_en_ass - January 15 - 11:47 am

• Parallex Wave and Mishra's Factory By Tangled - January 14 - 08:20 pm

• Cumulative Upkeep + Phasing + other stuff By Burning Ice, the Elementalist - January 14 - 12:54 pm

• my head is spinning... By mikey - January 14 - 11:24 am

• Powder Keg and token creatures By Iryoolan - January 13 - 09:05 pm

• Tatoo Ward - sacrifice By Scrubby - January 13 - 07:53 pm

• misdirection vs. donate By dnice - January 13 - 05:37 pm

• Two Tolarian Academy in Play By Looee - January 13 - 05:04 pm

• engineered plague By dd dai - January 13 - 04:19 pm

• Combo with black/arti... By Wicked darkman - January 13 - 02:41 pm

• Question concerning Lotus Vale By Iryoolan - January 13 - 02:14 pm

• Power artifact By Erik - January 13 - 09:44 am

• AEther Flash/Cloudchaser Eagle By sherij - January 13 - 02:40 am

• Ruling: Upkeep question plz Help! By andurin - January 12 - 05:41 pm

• Glacial Chasm + Tidal Warrior By i8piggo - January 12 - 12:22 am

• Protection from Black and No Mercy By Dirty_Dog - January 11 - 08:48 pm

• Masticore + Torment MADDESS By newbie - January 11 - 07:57 pm

• Stacking of Gaia's Blessing By Ivan - January 11 - 04:29 pm

• Animate-Lands and Legacy's Allure By Moppel - Goat of Borg - January 10 - 05:49 pm

• En-kor and Task force By Kilroy - January 10 - 03:15 pm

• Question on Phyrexian Negator By Iryoolan - January 10 - 03:12 pm

• At declaration or on resolution? By Tarquin - January 10 - 10:37 am

• Mask of Intolerance By Tarquin - January 10 - 10:34 am

• Manashort as counterspell... By Wicked darkman - January 08 - 09:02 pm

• Phasing plus counters By Paranoid Android - January 08 - 05:31 pm

• Combat damage question By Tarquin - January 08 - 03:58 pm

• Another Mana Burn Question By bogey - January 08 - 02:12 pm

• inclusive colors? By JoeTzu - January 07 - 08:40 pm

• Wishful Thinking By vyktm - January 07 - 03:32 pm

• Rookie Rule Question By Mark - January 06 - 11:21 pm

• Confusing Card rule By Mark - January 06 - 10:15 pm

• time vault By paladin - January 06 - 01:35 pm

• mana drain By chris - January 06 - 01:19 pm

• Mana Burn By shock_wave36 - January 06 - 12:26 pm

• Animate Dead troubles... By Shinigami - January 06 - 11:33 am

• Nevinyrral's Disk and Hunted Wampus (wump wump) By Tracer Bullet, the DanDan Man - January 06 - 04:44 am

• quirion dryad By Beowulf - January 05 - 03:37 pm

• Teferi's Response vs 2 Wastelands By Rakso, Patriarch & Rules Ayatollah - January 05 - 01:50 pm

• Quick ? about something that may have come up already... By Prodigal Whelp - January 05 - 01:42 pm

• sonic burst By pippen - January 04 - 11:41 am

• come into play effects By d nice - January 04 - 12:18 am

• oath w/ blessing and tormod's crypt By Myles - January 03 - 04:22 pm

• 2 Questions By newbie - January 03 - 12:20 pm

• goblin cadets By pippen - January 02 - 12:35 am

• arcane denial By paladin - January 01 - 10:00 pm

• Another question By paladin - January 01 - 07:25 pm

• Armadillo Cloak + Testament of Faith By :o - January 01 - 06:17 pm

• Oath of Druids and graveyard order. By Gzeiger - January 01 - 05:25 pm

• white borders to black borders? By Sia Ching Hui - December 30 - 10:16 pm

• Questions By newbie - December 30 - 09:21 pm

• Living Death and Clone/Vesuvan Doppelganger By Mogg Maniac - December 30 - 02:02 pm

• combat By d nice - December 29 - 11:35 pm

• Another question from a newbie By hearty - December 29 - 08:27 pm

• Meddling Mage and Fire/Ice By Phoenix il-Vec - December 29 - 12:29 pm

• Gravepact question By FiReaNG3L - December 29 - 12:14 pm

• Dual Lands and Domain Cards By Grimlin - December 28 - 04:55 pm

• how does negator work? By rob - December 28 - 10:16 am

• Cataclysm question By Puschkin, Defiant Vanguard Against The Phyrexian Invasion - December 27 - 10:51 am

• errr newbie question :p By Hearty - December 27 - 12:42 am

• Illusionary Mask question By Burning Ice, the Elementalist - December 26 - 11:41 am

• Washout and Color Changing By Tracer Bullet, the DanDan Man - December 26 - 12:46 am

• Random Questions abut **** Cards By Kileak - December 25 - 03:14 pm

• Conspiracy Question By AHappyClown - December 25 - 03:13 pm

• Teferi's Response question By Rakso, Patriarch & Rules Ayatollah - December 25 - 05:47 am

• Infinity By Matt the Great - December 24 - 09:49 am

• Paying a sacrifice cost By DarkestRitual - December 24 - 09:33 am

• Flashback Rule By Sean Burns - December 23 - 12:26 pm

• Fact or Fiction, Gaea's Blessing, and Brainstorm By Matt Caplan - December 22 - 08:17 pm

• Mirari Question By Jericho - December 22 - 01:56 pm

• Shadow's Christmas Present / Beyond Dominia E-Zine By Shadow - December 22 - 11:48 am

• groupplayproblem and other By Demonlich - December 22 - 01:36 am

• Replenish Timing By soo - December 22 - 01:33 am

• Teferi's Veil By shock_wave - December 21 - 04:41 pm

• Forking a Traumatize By Troll - December 21 - 04:34 pm

• Winter + Static Orb, Library Of Leng By shock_wave - December 21 - 01:34 pm

• Multiple Effects doing the same thing By Burning Ice, the Elementalist - December 21 - 08:11 am

• recuring nightmare+cloud of faries By demonlich - December 19 - 11:03 pm

• order/pyre zombie? By zombie_master - December 19 - 10:20 pm

• Can divert use itself as a target? By confusedguy - December 19 - 12:20 pm

• deadapult & lava Zombie??? By ogsdapogs - December 19 - 03:17 am

• Empty Library Question By Smelly_Cat - December 17 - 11:52 pm

• Question By newbie - December 17 - 07:29 pm

• oathproblem... By Demonlich - December 17 - 03:49 pm

• coat of arms plus yavimaya barbarina....llanowar knight By tekay mcgregor - December 17 - 12:44 pm

• Flagbearers and Opposition By CrAzY - December 17 - 08:29 am

• Question with Standstill By Scrubby - December 17 - 01:01 am

• Question on Cantrips By SerraCollector - December 16 - 10:14 pm

• Ten most commonly misplayed cards By Carl Robichaud - December 16 - 04:00 am

• regarding Auramancer! By ogsdapogs - December 16 - 01:40 am

• Crosis the Purger By lilCrosis - December 15 - 07:56 pm

• Ruling on Morphling By ACS - December 15 - 07:37 pm

• split cards By paladin_en_ass - December 13 - 11:26 am

• Time Vault By Begbie - December 13 - 03:45 am

• Dual lands and type-change effects. By Gzeiger - December 12 - 10:12 am

• Abeyance Timing By soo - December 11 - 10:13 pm

• removing Legecy weapon from the graveyard By jeffrey2d - December 11 - 02:25 pm

• multiplayer chaos By hellion, THE - December 11 - 02:15 pm

• A few "techy" questions... By SpectralShift - December 11 - 12:13 am

• Simple graveyard question By goku00dbz - December 10 - 08:35 pm

• new problem By Demonlich - December 10 - 07:14 pm

• Infiltrator/FTK By dope - December 10 - 04:10 pm

• Dumb Question By Troll - December 10 - 02:26 pm

• Dumb Question By Troll - December 10 - 02:01 pm

• 2 quick ?s By Madman - December 10 - 01:39 pm

• tramisize n geae blessing? By cow - December 09 - 11:40 pm

• A new player's confusion By Wisconsin Slim - December 09 - 11:51 am

• Regeneration Shield? By Iryoolan - December 07 - 10:07 pm

• somnophore and the rack questions By Kzenztor - December 07 - 07:05 pm

• Aether Flash Question By AVANRUDE - December 07 - 05:43 pm

• Snow Covered Lands and the cards associated with them By Lupo - December 07 - 10:42 am

• Questions about Misdirection By soo - December 06 - 03:25 pm

• Cultural Exchange By dope - December 06 - 10:22 am

• gamesituation problem... By demonlich - December 05 - 04:33 pm

• nether void and counters By sterling evolution - December 05 - 02:21 pm

• Oath/Blessing By i8piggo - December 04 - 12:04 am

• is this still legal... By demonlich - December 03 - 06:21 pm

• Drop of Honey with Untargetables By CooberP, the Aura Fracturer of B2Bs - December 03 - 10:32 am

• Question about gaea's blessing and fact or fiction. By OlDSchooL - December 03 - 08:19 am

• Sylvan/Abundance By Moose - December 02 - 10:47 pm

• One rule question... By elementalz - December 02 - 10:15 pm

• City of Brass? By FiReaNG3L - December 02 - 10:09 pm

• Corpse Dance + Plaguelord By C. Weston - December 02 - 08:42 am

• Agenda + Gerrard's Verdict By CrAzY - December 01 - 11:14 am

• Riddle me this. By Paranoid Android - November 30 - 03:41 pm

• Priority By shock_wave36 - November 30 - 12:31 pm

• Cursed scroll and dual lands By Luc, Use The Force - November 29 - 09:24 pm

• washout effects By Latnemele - November 29 - 09:10 pm

• 2 weird questions By Random Scrub!! - November 29 - 12:18 pm

• Additional help shuffling a deck By Big Kavu - November 29 - 07:59 am

• coverted mana cost and "x" By dope - November 29 - 07:10 am

• Forest cards? By Lim-Dul, Black Mage - November 29 - 01:33 am

• 2 Questions By The Pharcyde - November 29 - 01:30 am

• Familiar and Kicker By Newb23 - November 29 - 01:27 am

• Opalescence+humility=confusing... By Luc, Use The Force - November 28 - 11:57 pm

• What and where is Wild Research? By MymuddadropptmewenIwozabubby - November 28 - 11:51 pm

• Orim's Chant and the ever-present stack By GreenTankMan SuperGreen - November 28 - 11:48 pm

• three questions By James Milliner - November 28 - 11:40 pm

• Can you Fork a Demonic Tutor? By Serra - November 28 - 01:36 am

• HELP!!! By Dum-Az Dark Mage - November 27 - 06:52 pm

• Recycle Question By SerraCollector - November 27 - 05:50 pm

• Split card question By Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar - November 27 - 09:25 am

• Abeyance question, harrow dualland question, and 1 about divert By DenverCarver - November 26 - 10:25 am

• Firebolt/Crypt Creeper By bogey - November 26 - 09:33 am

• Endlessly repeatable life gain engine By Denver@$$jack - November 26 - 05:43 am

• Priority and Stack questions By Random Scrub!! - November 26 - 02:33 am

• Memory Lapse w/ Urza's Rage By lotus - November 25 - 12:34 pm

• Words of Wisdom By Blind Seer - November 24 - 11:57 pm

• BattleRoyal cards By Duf - November 24 - 06:55 pm

• Fork and Fire/Ice By Schmakt - November 24 - 04:31 pm

• Agenda + Zombie Infestation By Paul - November 24 - 01:33 pm

• Dromar's Charm and Flagbearers By justme - November 23 - 08:47 pm

• Illusionary Mask rulings By CF - January 18 - 09:09 pm

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