Welcome back to Modern Masters Week! Today, we’ll be covering… Soulshift! No points for guessing, I told you that yesterday. Soulshift is another mechanic from Kamigawa block, which was heavily laden with Spirit creatures. Put simply, Soulshift lets you get back OTHER Spirits when your current Spirits end up dead. It’s always followed by a number (for example, “Soulshift 2”), and that number tells you how strong of a Spirit you can bring back. Soulshift 2 means that when Thief of Hope dies, you can return target Spirit card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard to your hand. In the Kamigawa block, that meant that you could daisy-chain Spirits all day, turning your bigger ones into medium ones, and medium ones into smaller ones. It helps you win attrition wars, because your creatures bring back new creatures! But with Modern Masters, there’s an extra level of fun involved: Changelings. There’s a couple of Changeling creatures in this set, and they have all creature types (including Spirit!) in all zones, even the graveyard. Even better, Soulshift doesn’t say Spirit CREATURES, it says Spirit CARDS. What that means is that you can pick up your Blades of Velis Vel, your Wings of Velis Vel, or your Nameless Inversion with Soulshift, since they are also Spirit cards in the graveyard. So if you’re drafting Spirits, snap up those Nameless Inversions – all that Soulshift will have you inverting your opponent’s creatures all day long!

Today’s Rules Tip was written by Trevor Nunez