{"id":683,"date":"2017-03-30T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T09:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/playerexperience\/?p=683"},"modified":"2017-03-31T10:41:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T10:41:45","slug":"card-of-the-month-winding-constrictor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/playerexperience\/2017\/03\/30\/card-of-the-month-winding-constrictor\/","title":{"rendered":"Card of the Month – Winding Constrictor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Written<\/a>

Written by Francesco Scialpi
\nLevel 2, Italy<\/p><\/div>\u00a0<\/b>\u201cI\u2019m just a simple person:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

2\u00b0 turn Winding Constrictor, 3\u00b0 turn Rishkar, Peema Renegade<\/a> and I attack\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Back in September 2014 Khans of Tarkir was released, and deck builders around the world \u00a0tried to find a way to create a deck based on Hardened Scales<\/a>, succeeding only in part. Who could expect that one day Winding Constrictor would be printed\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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Constrictor has a lot of little friends (Walking Ballista<\/a>, Verdurous Gearhulk<\/a>, Rishkar), who all make up the skeleton of a Tier 1 Standard Deck.<\/span><\/p>\n

This creature has toughness = 3, so it doesn\u2019t die from a Shock and, if left alive for 2 or 3 turns, leads to an avalanche of +1\/+1 counters entering the battlefield.<\/span><\/p>\n

As we can see, Constrictor has 2 abilities that increase the number of counters placed on creatures, artifacts and players. Let\u2019s start noticing that these are not triggered abilities, we\u2019re talking about static abilities that generate replacement effects. This has several consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not possible to play in response to Constrictor\u2019s additional counter. If we have a Constrictor on the battlefield, and we cast a Walking Ballista paying 4 mana, Walking Ballista will enter the battlefield as a 3\/3 creature \u2013 it will not enter asa 2\/2 then become a 3\/3. There isn\u2019t any moment where Ballista is a 2\/2 and and can be killed by a Shock.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, you can\u2019t forget the additional counter. When we talk about a \u201cMissed Trigger\u201d infraction, we refer to triggered abilities and not to replacement effects. If a player forgets to put the additional counter, the opponent has to tell them, and a judge that notices what\u2019s happening will take action announcing the mistake. (If you are a spectator, and you realize the error, do not intervene directly, call a judge, eventually after stopping the game)<\/span><\/p>\n

Panharmonicon<\/a> doesn\u2019t duplicate Constrictor\u2019s ability and you can’t counter it with Disallow<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two replacement effects that can be applied to the same event, will apply one after the other, in the order chosen by the player affected by the event or who controls the object influenced by the event. Practically:<\/span><\/p>\n