Oh speaking of furnace of rath I have a little problem with
your infinite
damage combo. On the en-Kor's it says '0: redirect 1 point of
damage...'
this will mean that you can redirect as many points as you like in
1pt
batches. This is simillar to a pestilence. We used to play,
bay 5 black
mana to do 5 pts, pay one to CoP out. This does not work, each
point it
treated separately. You have to finish the point of damage before
you
begin another one. This means that if you have a furnace out
and en-Kors,
and a maniac the maniac will only be able to do 2 pts. (4 after furnace)
You could redirect 10,000 pts to him in 1 pt batches. BUT you
will have to
finish the first 1 pt batch before going to the second. SO if
he takes
leathal damage he is removed after the first pt. thus making
him unable to
be targeted by the other redirections. I am understanding the
damage
resolution stuff much better now. This would mean that you can
not
redirect 10,000 pts to a creature that has only a 1 toughness.
This makes
the redirecters kind of crappy. (not crappy, just not so good anymore).
This redirection is doubled becuase each point of redirection has its
own
damage resolution phase. At the end of any damage resolution
you remove
any creatures receiving leathal damage. This will mean the mogg.
This is
a kind of tricky to think around actually.
We tend to think of damage as bulk, but in the case of redirection
of this
nature it is not the case. In the case of a Simulacrum, it says
_all_
damage is applied to something else. This is a bulk of damage.
So I would check on that infinite combo you have going before
really using
it in a tournement.
Mike