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Re:MtGox down by ebbv on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @04:02PM (#5488663)
They should Counterspell that DDoS.
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Re:MtGox down by windsurfer on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @04:08PM (#5488700)
Is this a reference to Magic: The Gathering?
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Re:MtGox down by chimeracoder on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @04:35PM (#5488875)
Yes - the origin of the name "MtGox" is "Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange"[0].

[0]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=16982.0 (CTRL+F "Dude65535")

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Re:MtGox down by ebbv on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @04:10PM (#5488708)
Counterspell UU Interrupt Counters target spell. Uncommon
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Re:MtGox down by Glyptodon on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:00PM (#5489026)
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...
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Re:MtGox down by mpyne on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @04:59PM (#5489021)
Ah yes, the good old days when we got to argue over the fine points of the differences between an "Interrupt" and an "Instant" effect.
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Re:MtGox down by ebbv on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:20PM (#5489191)
Interrupts resolution point which happened within the casting time of Instants or Sorceries. So you could cast an Interrupt "while" an Instant or Sorcery was still casting, but Instants (or Sorceries) had to wait for the current spell to finish casting.

This was of course all ditched when MtG switch to a last in, first out stack model with all instants.

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Re:MtGox down by windsurfer on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @08:21PM (#5490177)
And then added back in when they introduced "Split second" (kind of).
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