What happens if you target Platinum Angel? If you pay all your life, do you lose, or do you get Platinum Angel before that can happen?
Posted By:
hid@n
(8/1/2011 12:47:07 PM)
Things happen in the order that it says them on the card. It says "the high bidder loses life equal to the high bid and gains control of the creature", so first you lose the life, then you gain the creature. So don't bid too much for that Platinum Emperion unless you already control it.
Platinum Angel still works, since losing due to lack of life is a state-based action, which means it isn't checked until something finishes resolving. By the time this has finished resolving, the bidder has control of the Angel, and so is protected from losing.
And if someone bid a million life for control of a platinum angel, I'd just let them have it. That'd mean that they were one removal spell (artifact or creature) away from losing. You'd have to be pretty desperate for that to be a good deal. Unless, I suppose, you have some way of gaining all that life back immediately (Children of Korlis, maybe, or Eternity Vessel/... (see all)
Posted By:
sonorhC
(9/26/2011 8:54:34 AM)
That poor elephant!!
It looks like Dr. Seuss's "If I Ran The Circus"
Posted By:
Steinhauser
(2/17/2012 6:00:13 PM)
Mindslaver
Posted By:
dlgn
(5/21/2012 5:03:56 PM)
@ divine_exodus
Actually, the spell will resolve and do everything on it in the order that it's printed. You lose the life, then gain control of the creature. So you can still lose life bidding for a Platinum Emperion that you don't control. If you do control it, however, you can bid however much life you'd like.
Posted By:
ereidivh
(6/24/2012 10:24:55 AM)
This card looks like it would be a LOT of fun in multiplayer. Think of the politics, the arguments, the insanity and chaos. I love it. :D
Posted By:
Travelsonic
(7/20/2012 7:47:47 AM)
I'm assuming that once the effect resolves, both the life loss and the gaining control of the creature happen at once. Since state-based actions are not checked between these two events, you would not lose if you bid more than your life total on a Platinum Angel. However, I doubt you will ever outbid your opponent, considering he would lose if you did. As for Platinum Emperion, again, the effects happen at once, so I don't think he will save you from the loss of life.
However, at the time the card was made, the game was much simpler and straightforward. None of these technical "loopholes" for all you Johnnies to take advantage of, like poor Brass Man and the infinite tap-untap combos.
Posted By:
CorkBulb
(8/31/2012 1:39:56 AM)
Surprisingly good in some commander games. If your opponent is running a commander that is essential to their strategy (then they're kinda dumb, but also) this ends up being all upside. Either you burn for ~15 or you ruin their game. That said, it's usually more useful to either just steal the commander or tuck the commander
Posted By:
fourismith
(4/1/2013 8:13:14 AM)
You'll pay all your life for Platinum Angel?
I sure Smelt that coming.
Posted By:
BigPimpin
(4/8/2013 10:11:20 PM)
I see your Illicit Auction and would like to put Ink-Treader Nephilim on the block. Oh, and every other creature in play. ;)
Posted By:
Keldane
(5/31/2013 8:18:09 PM)