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Can I flicker Aurelia to get more than two attack phases?
Whenever Aurelia, the Warleader attacks for the first time each turn, untap all creatures you control. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.
If I attack with Aurelia once, then flicker her (e.g. with Acrobatic Maneuver), will her…
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Playing Settlers of Catan with a D12 instead of 2D6
Has anyone tried this?
Does it break the game?
Does it make it easier/quicker?
Assuming a 1 gave no resources to anyone and a 7 still invoked the robber how different a game would this make Settlers?
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Are creatures destroyed if their destruction happens at the same instant they lose "indestructible"?
Scenario:
I play Timber Protector which makes all other Treefolk indestructible (I only have Treefolk in play).
My opponent plays a Day of Judgment.
Does this only destroy the not-indestructible Timber Protector?
or
Does Timber Protector get…
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How exactly do cures affect future infection in Pandemic?
How does finding a cure affect future infections in Pandemic?
Scenario 1) Cure IS found, disease cubes for that same color DO exist on the board, and player draws an infection card matching that color.
Scenario 2) Cure IS found, disease cubes for…
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Can I sacrifice a creature that is only temporarily under my control?
A creature is placed "under my control until the end of turn" through a sorcery spell.
Do I have the option of sacrificing said creature if I cast a "sacrifice a creature" instant, or have a creature or enchantment that has a sacrifice ability?
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What to do when all 3 diplomacy tokens are in use and you need a 4th?
The Cities expansion comes with 3 diplomacy tokens.
In each game there could be 4 (5 with Manneken Pis) ways to get a token:
Age I City card: Residence
Age II City card: Consulate
Age III City card: Embassy
Wonder: Byzantium
side A: 1 token
side…
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Timing of Babylon's (B) and Halicarnassus' special abilities?
Alice has Babylon (B), Bob has Halicarnassus (B).
Alice has built the 2nd wonder stage, so she is able to play her 7th card.
In the 6th turn:
Bob builds a stage of his wonder, so he is able to build one card from the discard pile at the end of the…
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Can I tap a creature with summoning sickness to pay "tap an untapped creature you control" costs?
I have a Chosen of Markov on the battlefield and I played a vampire earlier this turn. Can I tap both to transform Chosen of Markov even though I just played the vampire?
Extra Example: I play Battle Screech to put two 1/1 white bird tokens into…
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Good sites for trading unwanted board/card games and expansions?
I recently bought the Rio Grande/Alea Games Treasure Chest box set to get the Puerto Rico and San Juan expansions, but the boxed set comes with other expansions for games I have never played, and most likely will never play.
I don't want to deal…
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In backgammon, can you resign, and how can you tell when you should?
In backgammon, there comes a time when all pieces have passed each other; there is no more interaction, you are simply rolling it out until you can bear off all of your pieces. If one player is well ahead of the other at getting their pieces into…
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Does mixing decks in Agricola reduce the chance of synergies?
This is in some ways a followup to Is the Complex deck in Agricola strictly better?.
In Agricola, are there many synergies between cards across decks, or do cards which work towards a certain theme tend to be grouped into the same deck?
I kind of…
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Where can I purchase extra wood pieces for Settlers of Catan?
I have two full sets of Settlers of Catan plus one 5-6 player expansion pack. Originally the second set was bought to replace the older one, which was missing a few pieces and cards. However, the epicness of the possibility of a huge SoC game…
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Are tokens copying Essence of the Wild still tokens?
Some of my friends and I got into an argument about Essence of the Wild.
With Essence on the battlefield, I played Fungal Sprouting and put 6 1/1 green saproling creature tokens on to battlefield. These saprolings obviously became Essence of the…
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If there are two Lighthouse Chronologist with three players, will one player be pereptually skipped?
If you would play a game with 3 people (let's call them A, B, and C) and A and B have a Lighthouse chronologist, will this make A get a turn after B, and make B get a turn after A without C getting a turn in between?
So the turns would go:
A end…
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Rules to decide which wonder side (A or B) to play in 7 Wonders?
In the rules it is recommended for the first games to use side A of the wonders only. After these first games (if I understand the rules correctly) players play the side that is at the top of the wonder card they draw. So some would play side A and…
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