Abyssal persecutor & Death shadow

[Lynx]

Lets share some interesting rulling...

http://www.mtgcast.com/?p=3704

Lets say your opponent is at -10 and you are at 1 and you have a persecutor.
Your opponent attacks you with a 6/6 and a 1/1 and you block with the persecutor which is assigned lethal damage.
What happens? Interesting enough you lose. Here’s why. When damage has finished being dealt, we check state based actions.
When we check them, we see that there is lethal damage on the persecutor and you are at 0 life.
So the game simultaneously puts the persecutor into the graveyard and makes you lose the game.

Death’s shadow has a static ability that alters its power and toughness by giving it -X-X where X is your life total.
Now it seems straight forward, but what happens id your life total is at -10?
If you are at -10, we insert it into the X and we get Death’s Shadow gets -(-10),-(-10).
So we then distribute the negative into the parentheses and get +10,+10.
So your Death’s Shadow would be a 23,23.

[J]-[UN]

What happens when you animate a manland with a Zendikon aura on it? Eg animating Celestial Colonnade enchanted with a Crusher Zendikon, does it become a 4/4 or 4/2 flying trample vigilance?

[Alakazen]

It becomes a 4/4, because the activation to make it a 4/4 has a newer timestamp than the Zendikon aura.  It's all about layers, actually.  This was nothing like the Mirrorweave + Figure of Destiny or Mutavault nonsense we had slightly over a year ago.

[J]-[UN]

Muchos Gracias, senor~

Btw just checking but equipment which have been equipped onto manlands get 'de-equipped' at end of turn right?

[Alakazen]

Yep.  Equipment can only be equipped on creatures.  Enchant creature auras also fall off when the thing they're enchanting are no longer legal, e.g. manlands that turn back to normal.

[ghofigjong]

how about my swamp with wind zendikon, then opponent played spreading seas on the same land...what happens?

[J]-[UN]

2/2 flying island la =.=

[ghofigjong]

I see, tnx