TSMtG Rules Recap ep 022: 6/08/26 - 6/13/26

A weekly recap of MtG rules questions asked in unscripted live conversations: 6/08/26 - 6/13/26 00:00 Notice 00:06 Title 00:12 Earthbending and clone/copy effects 03:53 Designations and the "commander-ness" of a card 05:05 Designations and the "commander-ness" of a card when tracking it across zone changes 07:30 The steps of casting a spell and the order of making payments 14:42 Conditional triggers and the intervening "if" clause 20:52 The timing of checking a spell's legal targets and resolving spells that lost legal targets