{"id":11265,"date":"2024-02-09T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/?p=11265"},"modified":"2025-04-03T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T12:03:58","slug":"murders-at-karlov-manor-missed-triggers-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/2024\/02\/09\/murders-at-karlov-manor-missed-triggers-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Murders at Karlov Manor Missed Triggers Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s something afoot at Karlov Manor, and once we&#8217;ve been invited inside there&#8217;ll be a whole bunch of clues to a murder mystery. As with most sets, there are a few triggered abilities that can throw a wrench into players&#8217; gameplans and earn them some Warnings if they&#8217;re missed. Don&#8217;t worry, though &#8211; we&#8217;re here to guide you past the red herrings to the triggers that are generally detrimental. Grab your best awkwardly-shaped hat and let&#8217;s get to it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Nine cards have one or more triggers that upgrade to a Warning when missed:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/files\/2025\/03\/mkm-111-anzrag-s-rampage.jpg\" alt=\"Magic the Gathering card: Anzrag's Rampage\" class=\"wp-image-11128\" style=\"width:300px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Anzrag%26%238217%3Bs+Rampage&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Anzrag&#8217;s Rampage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:2em\">\u201c[You may put a creature card onto the battlefield]. Return it to your hand at the beginning of the next end step.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and red getting rid of creatures after they&#8217;ve outlived their usefulness. Generally speaking, keeping an extra creature on the battlefield is better than not, so a player who forgets to return the creature to their hand will earn a Warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Aurelia%26%238217%3Bs+Vindicator&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Aurelia&#8217;s Vindicator<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:2em\">\u201cWhen this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owners&#8217; hands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aurelia&#8217;s Vindicator is sort of like Oblivion Ring on a body. While there are certainly some cases in which a player may want to exile some of their own creatures or creature cards, <em>generally<\/em> this is a removal spell attached to a 4\/2 with a bunch of good keywords. If we&#8217;re usually exiling opponents&#8217; stuff, it stands to reason that giving them their stuff back is bad. As such, a player who forgets to return the exiled cards here will receive a Warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Expedited+Inheritance&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Expedited Inheritance<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:2em\">\u201cWhenever a creature is dealt damage, its controller may exile that many cards from the top of their library. They may play those cards until the end of their next turn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The set&#8217;s lone <strong>symmetrical<\/strong> trigger! If Anna controls this enchantment and her own creature is dealt damage, it won&#8217;t upgrade if she forgets to exile cards. It would, however, upgrade if Anna&#8217;s Grizzly Bears dealt damage to Nora&#8217;s Hill Giant. Also, note that there&#8217;s no &#8220;oh they just chose to not exile cards&#8221; option here; the shortcut of &#8220;if they forget to do it, just assume they left things alone&#8221; only applies specifically to scrying or surveilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Festerleech&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Festerleech<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:2em\">&#8220;Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you mill two cards.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ever-contentious self-mill rears its ugly head once more. Since Festerleech itself doesn&#8217;t have any interaction with or benefit from the milled cards, this mill is considered generally detrimental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Harried+Dronesmith&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Harried Dronesmith<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:2em\">\u201c[Make a Thopter token]. Sacrifice it at the beginning of your next end step.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and red making tokens that have to go away at the end of combat. If someone forgets to sacrifice their intrepid Thopter token, they&#8217;ll earn a Warning. Since this trigger undoes a zone change, it doesn&#8217;t expire. As soon as the error is noticed, get that Thopter gone.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/files\/2025\/03\/mkm-87-hunted-bonebrute.jpg\" alt=\"Magic the Gathering card: Hunted Bonebrute\" class=\"wp-image-11128\" style=\"width:300px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>6. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Hunted+Bonebrute&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Hunted Bonebrute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:2em\">\u201cWhen this creature enters, target opponent creates two 1\/1 white Dog creature tokens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many things better than giving your opponent creatures, especially not doing that. If a player forgets to tell their opponent to make some free blockers, that will earn the first player a Warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Nightdrinker+Moroii&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Nightdrinker Moroii<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:2em\">\u201cWhen this creature enters, you lose 3 life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much like the above cardinal rule of &#8220;your opponent having fewer creatures is better,&#8221; having more life is generally better than having less life. If someone plays this creature face-up and forgets to lose 3 life, they&#8217;ll earn an upgraded Missed Trigger &#8211; Warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Public+Thoroughfare&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Public Thoroughfare<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:2em\">\u201cWhen this land enters, sacrifice it unless you tap an untapped artifact or land you control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In what seems to be a recurring theme of triggers in this set, more of a resource is better than less of a resource. A land that asks you to sacrifice another land is usually worse than one that doesn&#8217;t require that. As such, if a player plays a Thoroughfare and doesn&#8217;t sacrifice an artifact or land, they&#8217;ll earn themselves a Warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. Pull, the right half of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Push+%2F%2F+Pull&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Push \/\/ Pull<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:2em\">\u201c[Put creatures from a graveyard onto the battlefield]. Sacrifice them at the beginning of your next end step.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much like Anzrag&#8217;s Rampage and Harried Dronesmith above, Pull sets up a delayed trigger for you to get rid of the recently-returned creatures. A player who neglects to will earn a Warning. Again, the remedy here never expires; ashes to ashes, dust to dust, these creatures <em>will<\/em> be sacrificed when the error is noticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like we&#8217;ve cracked the case of generally detrimental triggers in this set. Our next set will follow us, thematically, through Hollywood &#8211; the sun sets on Murder at Karlov Manor&#8217;s film noir pastiche, and the sun rises on the Western stylings of Outlaws of Thunder Junction! Yeehaw, pardner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something afoot at Karlov Manor, and once we&#8217;ve been invited inside there&#8217;ll be a whole bunch of clues to a murder mystery. As with most sets, there are a few triggered abilities that can throw a wrench into players&#8217; gameplans and earn them some Warnings if they&#8217;re missed. Don&#8217;t worry, though &#8211; we&#8217;re here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"language":[6],"class_list":["post-11265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11447,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions\/11447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11265"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=11265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}