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Category Archives: Prevention and Replacement Effects
Divine Deflection prevents and deals a TOTAL of X damage.
With the new card Divine Deflection, the wording can be a little misleading. While one might read it to mean that it prevents X damage to you AND X damage for each creature or planeswalker you control, then deals all … Continue reading
Posted in Planeswalkers, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Source
Tagged Divine Deflection, Slagstorm
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Parallel Lives doesn’t make any tokens. It causes other stuff to make extra tokens.
“If I make an Angel token with Geist of Saint Traft, and I have a Parallel Lives out, why does the token made by Parallel Lives get exiled too?” Easy! Because Parallel Lives doesn’t make any tokens at all. What … Continue reading
Posted in Prevention and Replacement Effects, Triggered Abilities
Tagged Geist of Saint Traft, Mimic Vat, Parallel Lives, Séance
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Prevention effects can only prevent the trample damage that is assigned to a creature.
There are many ways to prevent damage that would be dealt to or by a creature. Some effects specify a specific amount of damage (Abuna Acolyte), some will prevent all damage from specific sources or types of damage (the portion … Continue reading
Posted in Combat Phase, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Uncategorized
Tagged Abuna Acolyte, Festerhide Boar, Ghostly Possession, Soul Parry, Spirit Mantle
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How Flashback and Zeniths interact
When one of the Zenith spells (e.g., Black Sun’s Zenith or Green Sun’s Zenith) from Mirrodin Besieged resolves, it is shuffled into its owner’s library instead of going to the graveyard. While there aren’t many, there are a few ways … Continue reading
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Inquisitor’s Flail does not have a triggered ability, it has static abilities that create replacement effects
Inquisitor’s Flail has two abilities that cause the creature equipped by it to both deal and receive twice as much combat damage as it normally would. These two abilities are not triggers and do not use the stack. These abilities … Continue reading
Posted in Prevention and Replacement Effects, Static Abilities
Tagged Festerhide Boar, Fortress Crab, Hovermyr, Inquisitor's Flail, Riot Devils
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You cannot respond to the choice of creature type with Adaptive Automaton’s ability.
Magic 2012 has introduced a new do-it-yourself lord that give +1/+1 to creatures of a chosen type that you control. The Adaptive Automaton itself also becomes this type, but it does not gain the +1/+1 bonus from its own ability. … Continue reading
Posted in Prevention and Replacement Effects, Static Abilities
Tagged Adaptive Automaton, Daggerback Basilisk, Runeclaw Bear
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What and how to choose a source of damage.
Some effects have you choose a source of damage, often with a specific quality. The choice of a source is made when the spell or ability telling you to choose a source is resolving. For example, if you sacrifice a … Continue reading
Posted in Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities
Tagged Burrenton Forge-Tender
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How Totem Armor Works
Totem Armor is a keyword ability that appears on many auras from Rise of the Eldrazi. It is a static ability that generates a replacement effect. This replacement effect is applied when the enchanted creature would be destroyed by an … Continue reading
What Reflecting Pool can and cannot do
Reflecting Pool‘s ability can make mana of any type of any other land that you control. There are six types of mana; white, blue, black, red, green and colorless. Other restrictions or abilities associated with mana are not part of … Continue reading
Posted in Mana Abilities, Prevention and Replacement Effects
Tagged Reflecting Pool, Vivid Creek
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When the Scars tap lands enter play tapped, and when they don’t
A cycle of five lands that produce two types of mana were printed in Scars of Mirrodin with a static ability that replaces how they enter play. Blackcleave Cliffs would be an example of one of these lands. The gist … Continue reading
Posted in Prevention and Replacement Effects, Static Abilities
Tagged Blackcleave Cliffs
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