? Question: Are there any Red or Green creatures with the Shadow characteristic, or is this limited to Black, Blue and White creatures? --Answer--
? Question: Certain creatures have Power equal to the number of a certain type of monster in play (e.g., "Dauthi Warlord" and "Swarm of Rats"). If they are the only such cards of their type in play, is their power 0 or 1? --Answer--
? Question: "Swarm of Rats" has power equal to the number of Rat cards the owner has in play. Do the 1/1 Rat tokens summoned by the Lab Rats card add to the power of the Swarm? --Answer--
? Question: We're having trouble understanding how "mana burn" is applied in the game. The rules say that for every point of mana left over in the mana pool the player suffers 1 damage. Why would a player put more in the pool than they were going to use? --Answer--
? Question: When a card refers to an effect that occurs when a spell is cast, can this spell be the summoning of a creature? For example, "Throne of Bone" allows a player to tap one land and gain one life and says "Use this ability only when a black SPELL is successfully cast and only once for each such spell." --Answer--
? Question: Can spells like "Counterspell" and "Mana Leak" be used to disrupt the summoning of creatures? If so, what happens to the creature when its summoning is disrupted? --Answer--
? Question: Can spells like "Counterspell" and "Mana Leak" be used to disrupt healing spells, such as "Natural Spring"? --Answer--
? Question: Can the spell "Kor Chant," which redirects damage to another target, be used to direct the damage to a target that might not otherwise have been legal? For example, could the damage inflicted on a goblin by a bear be redirected to a Shadow creature, like a Soltari? --Answer--
? Question: Phasing (described on pp 1-2 of the Mirage rules) seems to imply that a creature with this characteristic is in play only half the time; i.e., a turn after it is summoned it phases out, and a turn later it phases back in. Is this the case? Does the owner have any control over the phasing ability? --Answer--
? Question: Can the spell "Piracy" (from Portal Second Age) be used to help summon monsters, or only cast other sorts of spells? --Answer--
? Question: "Dominia" and "Dominaria" are both used as the name of the Magic universe, sometimes in the same official material. Which is correct? --Answer--
? Question: "Rats of Rath" have a special ability that allows the owner to tap 1 Black in order to "Destroy target artifact, creature, or land you control." Why would anyone want to destroy a permanent that they control? This does not sound like a very useful ability. --Answer--
? Question: When the rat tokens summoned by the "Lab Rats" sorcery are slain, do they count as creatures in their owners graveyard for purposes of spells affected by this? (e.g., "Soulshriek", where "Target creature you control gets +*/+0 until end of turn, where * is equal to the number of creatures in your graveyard"). --Answer--
? Question: "Crypt Rats" give their owner the ability to "tap X: Crypt Rats deals X damage to each creature and player." Can this ability be used as often as desired? Can it be used defensively during another players turn? Can it be used even if the "Crypt Rats" card is tapped? Presumably, the Crypt Rats themselves are immune to the damage caused by this ability? --Answer--
? Question: "Torture" allows the caster to place -1/-1 counters on a target creature. If the "Torture" enchantment is removed, are the -1/-1 counters also removed, or do they remain on the creature? If the -1/-1 counters reduce the target creatures toughness to 0, is that creature destroyed? --Answer--
? Question: At the bottom of the "Thalakos Scout" card, it says "Choose and discard a card: Return Thalakos Scout to owner's hand." Does this mean an opponent can discard a card to have the scout returned to its owners hand? --Answer--
? Question: Will the special ability of "Rabid Rats" ("tap: Target blocking creatures gets -1/-1 until the end of the turn") slay a target creature whose toughness is reduced to 0? --Answer--
? Question: "Dauthi Jackal" says "Sacrifice Dauthi Jackal: Destroy target blocking creature." Can this be any blocking creature, even one not blocking the jackal? Can the jackal destroy even a non-Shadow creature? And, if the jackal is being blocked by a creature that will destroy it, can it still be sacrificed to use this special ability? --Answer--
? Question: Several of the cards in the Unglued supplement make references to teams. Are any rules available for team play? Are there any special rules available for the Unglued supplement? --Answer--
? Question: Unglued includes some cards with horizontal rather than vertical illustrations (e.g, "Burning Cinder Fury of Crimson Chaos Fire"). Is this the first time this has been done with Magic cards? --Answer--