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With this (and other dual cards) can I pay the cost of both spells and cast
them both at once? Or are you limited to casting one spell on the card
only?

Thanks
LT.

 

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"MonoJoker" <monojoker@bigjobs.com.au> wrote in message
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> With this (and other dual cards) can I pay the cost of both spells and
> cast
> them both at once? Or are you limited to casting one spell on the card
> only?

Well, if you have a (nonland) card in your hand, you have to name which
spell in your hand you will be playing. It just so happens that
Pain/Suffering, Wax/Wane, Fire/Ice, and so forth have more than one spell on
the same card. But when you declare it, you have to declare which half. Of
course, the fun thing about split cards is their interaction with things
like Isochron Scepter. Stand/Deliver, for example, has a cost of W on the
Stand side and U2 on the Deliver side. Because half of it (Stand) has a cost
of two or less, you can imprint it onto the Scepter. And when you play the
Scepter's ability, you declare which half you're playing. Barring some
possible odd corner cases, you can't play both spells that are on the same
card at the same time. The closest to allowing something like this would be
Entwine.

Erich

 

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MonoJoker <monojoker@bigjobs.com.au> sent:
> With this (and other dual cards) can I pay the cost of both spells and cast
> them both at once? Or are you limited to casting one spell on the card
> only?

One only. It's a card with two spells everywhere except the stack; on
the stack, it's one or the other. See section 505 in the comprehensive
rules for the complete story.

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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, MonoJoker wrote:

> With this (and other dual cards) can I pay the cost of both spells and cast
> them both at once? Or are you limited to casting one spell on the card
> only?

When you play a split card, you announce which side you're playing.
While it's on the stack, the other side is ignored completely. See
rule 505, "Split Cards."

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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:12:23 GMT, MonoJoker <monojoker@bigjobs.com.au> wrote:
>With this (and other dual cards) can I pay the cost of both spells and cast
>them both at once? Or are you limited to casting one spell on the card
>only?

No, split cards are not Entwine. You pick one side or the other, and cast that
side only. While it's on the stack, only that side applies - the other side
doesn't exist. Once it's done resolving and is in your graveyard, only then
does it show both sides again.

Dave
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Oh no! It's MonoJoker!
> With this (and other dual cards) can I pay the cost of both spells and cast
> them both at once? Or are you limited to casting one spell on the card
> only?

One only, sorry.