If my opponent uses "Look at Me, I'm the DCI" to ban Mulldrifter, can I still play cards as if they were Mulldrifters while I'm in "Form of the Mulldrifter"?

This came up in an actual game.

Form of Muldrifter isn’t technically acorn (or eternal), but I’ll give it my best guess. No, you can’t because Look at Me, I’m the DCI created an effect that, for the rest of the game, removes any card with that name in any zone. When the creature card goes to the stack as a card named Mulldrifter, it will get removed by the banning effect.

I think the question about 'exile a card in exile' wants an effect to do things like keep a slow flickered card in exile from returning, stop a suspended card from being cast, or mess with abilities like haunt or imprint. Something like Riftsweeper but without letting things out of exile. I am not sure any elegant text would do this though.

My only solution that’s worked. : )

RE: Exit Through the Grift ShopIn a 2HG Un-game, your teammate is also a player who can bid, aren't they? So if you bid "a million minus 1" and "a million" respectively, does your team get the spell, a million treasure, and end at the same life total? That seems unintended.This question brought to you by @BasicIslands and @minor_deviation on Twitter.

Two problems. 1) Your Two-Headed partner is in your game. 2) You can only bid/spend life you have. EDIT: Players in your game can bid, so #1 isn’t relevant.

Greetings MaRo, big fan, love this game you're a big part in making, and I especially love your enthusiasm for it! It's truly infectious, and your passion clearly shows.

Anyway, as the Officially-Unoffical Un-Rules Manager, I had a question if you have the time. My play group is going to be running an Un-commander night soon where un-cards are totally legal and where we each get to pick a legendary creature, planeswalker, or The Grand Calcutron from an un-set and use that as our commander. I, in the spirit of someone who loves Magic history, am going with Richard Garfield, Ph.D.. Going to do some random number generator table to just increase the randomness, to try to not keep the deck super duper busted and, most importantly, to ensure my turns don't take forever because of decision paralysis. However, this leads me to a few questions about how certain mechanics work when I control Richard Garfield, Ph.D.:

1. Flashback (or really any "cast from the graveyard" effects/abilities, but flashback is the main one). If I have, say, Think Twice in the graveyard and I pay the flashback cost, am I limited to playing it as any card that costs 1U that also has flashback, or can I play it as any card that costs 1U? I'm assuming the former, but wanted to double-check on this point.

2. Alternate casting costs, like delve or madness. I assume that, if I am choosing the pay the alternate cost, it is already too late for me to play a particular card as a different card instead? For example, if I exile 7 cards from the graveyard to delve Treasure Cruise, I can't cast it as Scornful Egotist, right?

3. Suspend, and this is the one I am the least sure about so if you only have time for one rules question (I know you're incredibly incredibly busy making this game we all love, so I completely understand if that's the case), I would love an answer to this. If I have a card suspended and the last time counter comes off allowing me to cast the card, can I cast it as a different card of the same mana cost? For example, if I have Riftwing Cloudskate on suspend and I remove the last time counter, could I cast it as, say, Slime Monster? Also, for this question, does it at all matter if I suspended Cloudskate before or after I cast Richard Garfield, Ph.D.?

Thank you in advance for your help and for your time, and I am really looking forward to all that Magic has to offer! Can I shill for a second for a plane based around the Klondike Gold Rush with Western elements?

1. To use flashback, you must treat the card as a card with the same mana cost, and then pay the flashback costs that actually appears on the card that you are “copying”. 2. Yes, it is too late. Once you start paying additional costs, you’re locked into it being that spell.3. Suspend works similarly to flashback. You can “copy” any spell with the same mana cost and then pay the suspend cost that appears on that “copy”.

Is Jalum Grifter acorn or eternal?

Cards with physical components require an acorn, so if it was in Unfinity it would have an acorn.

Please can I put in a counter-request that mulldrifter *not* get errata to be an elemental fish. The whole concept of the lorwyn elementals is they’re amalgamations of other creatures. If mulldrifter is a fish then all the other elementals should get their component creature types as well (like meadowboon being an elemental fox) when that’s just what non-flamekin elementals look like on lorwyn.

What do others think?Should Muldrifter be creature type Fish?

Can you suspend cards with Richard Garfield, Ph.D.? For example, could you suspend Act of Treason as Rift Bolt? How about a land as Ancestral Vision?

You can cast a card as a spell with suspend. Again, lands fo not work with Richard Garfield PhD.

Mark if or when a card that says “cards and effects your opponents control cannot cause permanents to return from the battlefield to your hand”? (I hate Cyclonic Rift)

It’s a big if. It’s a very hard rule to write that works properly, but doesn’t cause other problems.

How do you feel about cards that care about cards being in exile, but don't bring them back from Exile? Crackling Drake for example, as opposed to something like Riftsweeper.

I’m okay with caring about cards in exile as long as you don’t bring them back (except if you’re the card/effect that exiled them).

Do you think Blue gettting mass bounce (such as Cyclonic Rift and Awoken Horror) might be a bit too efficient of a board-wipe for blue?

Individual cards might be too aggressively costed, but the ability is fine for blue.