Question 1

Emrakul, the World Anew ruling (2024-06-07)

Accepted Answer

If you discard a card with madness while a spell or ability is resolving, it moves immediately to exile. Continue resolving that spell or ability, noting that the card you discarded is not in your graveyard at this time. Its madness triggered ability will be placed onto the stack once that spell or ability has completely resolved.

Question 2

Emrakul, the World Anew ruling (2024-06-07)

Accepted Answer

Emrakul, the World Anew's triggered ability will resolve before Emrakul does. If Emrakul is countered or otherwise leaves the stack in response to that triggered ability, the triggered ability will still resolve as normal.

Question 3

Emrakul, the World Anew ruling (2024-06-07)

Accepted Answer

Cards are discarded in a Magic game only from a player's hand. Effects that put cards into a player's graveyard from anywhere else do not cause those cards to be discarded.

Question 4

Emrakul, the World Anew ruling (2024-06-07)

Accepted Answer

Casting a spell with madness ignores the timing rules based on the card's card type. For example, you can cast a creature with madness if you discard it during an opponent's turn.

Question 5

Emrakul, the World Anew ruling (2024-06-07)

Accepted Answer

If you discard a card with madness, you discard it into exile instead of into your graveyard. When you do, you can either cast it from exile for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.

Question 6

Emrakul, the World Anew ruling (2024-06-07)

Accepted Answer

A spell cast for its madness cost is put onto the stack like any other spell. It can be countered, copied, and so on. As it resolves, it's put onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card or into its owner's graveyard if it's an instant or sorcery card.

Question 7

Emrakul, the World Anew ruling (2024-06-07)

Accepted Answer

Madness works independently of why you're discarding the card. You could discard it to pay a cost, because a spell or ability tells you to, or because you have too many cards in your hand during your cleanup step. You can't discard a card with madness just because you want to, though.

Question 8

Emrakul, the World Anew ruling (2024-06-07)

Accepted Answer

If you choose not to cast a card with madness when the madness triggered ability resolves, it's put into your graveyard. Madness doesn't give you another chance to cast it later.

Question 9

Emrakul, the World Anew ruling (2024-06-07)

Accepted Answer

A card with madness that's discarded counts as having been discarded even though it's put into exile rather than a graveyard. If it was discarded to pay a cost, that cost is still paid. Abilities that trigger when a card is discarded will still trigger.

Question 10

Emrakul, the World Anew ruling (2024-06-07)

Accepted Answer

If you discard a card with madness to pay the cost of a spell or activated ability, that card's madness triggered ability (and the spell that card becomes, if you choose to cast it) will resolve before the spell or ability the discard paid for.

Question 11

Emrakul, the World Anew ruling (2024-06-07)

Accepted Answer

The control-change effect of Emrakul's first ability lasts indefinitely. It doesn't wear off during the cleanup step or when Emrakul leaves the battlefield.

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