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Tag: Oblivion Ring
Banishing Light is not Oblivion Ring: Why Your Trick Doesn’t Work Now
Those of you who remember might remember a little “trick” that could be used to permanently exile a permanent. What you had to do was remove the Ring from the battlefield with its enter the battlefield trigger on the stack. This would cause the leave the battlefield ability to trigger and resolve first (doing nothing), […]
Multiplayer Monday: What happens when a player leaves the game.
Today, we’re covering what happens when a player leaves the game when the game consists of only individual players (not teams). This comes up most frequently in EDH/Commander and any other casual game with a bunch of players in a free-for-all. What happens when Susie is eliminated in the middle of the game, or even […]
Redirect can’t change the target of Oblivion Ring.
Oblivion. Such a fun word. I use to send your permanent into OBLIVION! It’s only natural to want to protect your permanents from this very popular enchantment. While there are lots of -style ways to get your toys back, wouldn’t it be more fun to simply use and send THEIR permanent into OBLIVION? Let’s look […]
You can “flicker” a creature to save it from a removal spell.
I’m excited for . Partially because it was a house at the prerelease, and partially because is one of my favorite cards. But why are both of these things true? Among other things, it’s the fact that they can be used to dodge removal very easily. Let’s use for our example. Ronny casts , and […]
When a card moves from one zone to another it is a new object.
Many effects in Magic will cause a card or permanent to go from one zone to another. One of the most common way this happens is when a permanent in play is destroyed or a card is discarded and it goes to the graveyard. When a card goes from one zone to another it is […]