It's 1 for the reasons you stated, unless option 3) he has 4 mana untapped and makes another saproling.

Here's an unusual situation. I'm playing Modern against an opponent playing Ad Nauseaum combo. He plays Spoils of the Vault naming Lotus Bloom, but before he finds a Lotus Bloom, he runs out of life. He concedes.

Can he concede before his Spoils finishes resolving? I want to see what else is in his deck. In Magic Online, I will indeed get to see, and I wonder if the same applies to paper.

104.3a A player can concede the game at any time. A player who concedes leaves the game immediately. He or she loses the game.

101.1. Whenever a card’s text directly contradicts these rules, the card takes precedence. The card overrides only the rule that applies to that specific situation. The only exception is that a player can concede the game at any time (see rule 104.3a).

712.6. The controller of another player can’t make that player concede. A player may concede the game at any time, even if he or she is controlled by another player. See rule 104.3a.

405.6. Some things that happen during the game don’t use the stack.

405.6g A player may concede the game at any time. That player leaves the game immediately. See rule 104.3a.

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Conceding takes place immediately and is not governed by the stack. You can concede at any point in time and you and your board leave the game immediately.

Sometimes, Magic is really weird. For example:

1) It is an official ruling that taking your pants off is faster than instant speed.

2) It is also an official ruling that you can't force your opponent to take their pants off while controlling them.

3) In addition, they ruled that taking your clothing off in a tournament setting is still subject to public indecency laws.

Each of these is an official ruling from a tournament setting. In fact, three separate tournament settings.

I play magic arena without any pants on all the time.

:Feels good:

Is that a serious answer

Also, how come my Burning Sun's Avatar cannot target my opponent's Shalai, Voice of Plenty? Like yeah, I can't burn him for 3, but I ought to be able to hit his Shalai (?)

For him? Yeah, he's probably **** serious. Have you met mjack? j/k, I know you have.


All of the targets must be legal at the time of casting.

How do you tell which abilities require both targets to be legal and which don't?

Also, any idea about this? viewtopic.php?f=62&t=21981&start=20#p623283

Linguistics; Everything within a single sentence must all be legal together. Separate sentences are treated separately. In Burning Suns Avatar both targets are only separated by a comma.

However, on Seeds of Strength there are three different sentences. If one or two of those targets becomes invalid for any reason, the remaining valid targets will still receive +1/+1 until end of turn.