Aurelia and her trusty White Knight attack. After this attack, Aurelia asks herself “Hey, is this the first time I’ve attacked this turn?”, she thinks for a bit. “Why yes Aurelia, yes indeed this is the first time I’ve attacked this turn. ANOTHER!” And she triggers, untapping her White Knight (and herself if she didn’t have vigilance), and inserting another combat phase after this one.

At this point, you, controlling these two creatures, giggle maddly, after watching your opponent drop some amount of life, pleading for mercy, you look over to your Legion’s Initiative during the end of combat step.

Deciding that not enough blood has been spilled on your opponent’s behalf, you activate the ability on Legion’s Initiative. Aurelia and her White Knight disappear from the battlefield. Quiet stands.

As soon as the game leaves this particular combat phase, it remembers that another combat phase has been inserted, so it moves into that combat phase; more specifically, it moves into the beginning of combat step.

Oh! What’s this? Legion’s Initiative’s ability returns your creature during the next beginning of combat? Why, we’re here already! Aurelia and White Knight return with Haste. You, being a good player, decide that hasty creatures are meant to attack. And you do so.

As soon as you finish deciding that you want to attack with both of your creatures, Aurelia charges, and wonders, “Hey, is this the first time I’ve attacked this turn?” and decides, “Why yes, it is the first time I’ve attacked.” And she triggers.

Your opponent thinks differently, “YOU’VE DONE THIS ALREADY!”

The game of Magic(tm) has a very short term memory when it comes to the history of cards. As soon as the cards change zones, and comes back onto the battlefield, they’re treated as -two- different entities, two completely different objects from each other.

Aurelia giggles evily, and gets to smash in one more time after this one, providing that you can’t find another way of “blinking” her again.

Today’s Rules Tip written by Eddie Cheung