Well met, everyone! The Harvesttide Festival is underway already but before we join in, there are a few tricks we’ll need to be mindful of. The cards below are all troublemakers; some form of generally detrimental trigger, with fewer of them than sets we’ve seen in the past but a bit more complexity to make […]
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Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Missed Triggers Guide
Welcome adventurers! Judges, players, curious readers, gather round for a guide on triggers you’ll find in Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. Our party isn’t the first treading these dungeons and many traps have long been disarmed… But a small handful of generally detrimental triggers are still lying in wait. By the end of this guide […]
Strixhaven Missed Triggers Guide
Mages and Planeswalkers, judges and players, students all – welcome to Strixhaven! Home to five illustrious magical colleges and the greatest library in the multiverse, it’s certainly the right place to come to if you want to learn something new. We’ve prepared a study guide below that highlights triggered abilities to keep an eye out […]
Kaldheim Missed Triggers Guide
Welcome one and all to Kaldheim! Spellbinding Sagas, capricious changelings, and boastful Berserkers abound. Plus snow. Heaps of the frigid stuff. Thankfully we’ve already done the work of trudging through the set to find cards to watch for, so you’re free to enjoy this guide in warmth and comfort instead. Kaldheim has only one triggered […]
Zendikar Rising Missed Triggers Guide
It’s time to explore Zendikar once more! The Eldrazi have finally vacated the plane, and now the Skyclaves have taken flight, promising new adventures, traps, monsters… And some very interesting mechanics. As we saw in the Throne of Eldraine, the main draws of this set – modular double-faced cards – take up a lot of […]
Core 2021 Missed Triggers Guide
The time has come once again to dive into a new set with the Missed Triggers guide! Core Set 2021 brings us plenty of new (and a few very old) cards and mechanics to play with. They’re uncomplicated for the most part, which is a welcome break from the complexity we’ve seen in some recent […]
Ikoria Missed Triggers Guide
We’re back again with a new set! This time around, Ikoria brings us beasties of all shapes and sizes (sometimes several at once), but as far as triggered abilities go this set is surprisingly tame. Monsters tend towards straightforward approaches like eating you or stepping on you and their cards seem to reflect that. Still, […]
Theros: Beyond Death Missed Triggers Guide
With holiday revelry come and gone, it’s beyond time for us to get things back on track with a new set. And after digging into the full set it looks like we’ve got our work cut out for us – no wonder Klothys had to recruit help to put things back together. Our return to […]
Throne of Eldraine Missed Triggers Guide
Welcome all, players and judges, to Eldraine! Magic has always been about telling a story, so it should be no surprise at all to finally find ourselves in a storybook set. With cards crafted to evoke Arthurian legend or European folklore and only so much space in the title, type line, and rules text at […]
Core 2020: Missed Triggers Guide
Edited 19 July, 2019 It’s that time again: time for a brand new set from Wizards, Core Set 2020! After the whirlwind of rules phenomena we found in Modern Horizons and War of the Spark, this set is a return to fundamentals. With a few surprises, of course; Protection tentatively returning is an exciting twist! […]