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Characteristics, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities

Killing Gray Merchant in response to the ETB ability.

April 4, 2014February 5, 2015 | bimmerbot

Gray Merchant only checks devotion as its trigger resolves. You're able to minimize your losses if you can minimize the player's devotion in response to the trigger!

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Tagged Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Characteristics, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities

Responding to evolve by killing the creature that just entered.

April 3, 2014February 5, 2015 | bimmerbot

If a creature that triggered Evolve is gone by the time the trigger resolves, the trigger just uses the last known information about that creature's P/T when it died. That means Doom Blade or Bile Blight will give different outcomes when responding to an Evolve trigger!

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Tagged Bile Blight, Doom Blade, Evolve
Activated Abilities

Springleaf Drum and summoning sickness.

April 2, 2014February 5, 2015 | bimmerbot

"Summoning Sickness" only stops creatures from attacking or being tapped to activate their own abilities that include the Tap or Untap symbol. Being "sick" doesn't prevent tapping a creature to pay the cost of another ability.

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Tagged Springleaf Drum
Tournament Rules

Treat each other with respect, in accordance with the MTR.

April 2, 2014February 5, 2015 | bimmerbot

Being respectful of others isn't just the right thing to do, it's also a requirement of the Magic Tournament Rules.

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Characteristics, Continuous Effects, Resolving spells and abilities

Drown in Sorrow vs. Mutavault.

March 31, 2014February 5, 2015 | bimmerbot

Drown in Sorrow only affects things that are creatures at the moment it resolves. Any creatures that appear later in the turn won't be affected!

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Tagged Drown in Sorrow, Mutavault
Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities

Acolyte’s Reward and changing Devotion.

March 28, 2014February 5, 2015 | bimmerbot

Acolyte's Reward only checks your devotion to white as it resolves (not before, not after). So the amount of damage that will be prevented/dealt is locked in at that moment.

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Tagged Acolyte's Reward
Uncategorized

Their Bile Blight vs. your Pack Rat – Killing your own creature can be good for you.

March 27, 2014February 5, 2015 | bimmerbot

Bile Blight needs its single target to be legal in order to resolve and do anything, so you have the chance to remove that target in response in order to save the rest of your creatures that share a name with it!

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Tagged Bile Blight, Pack Rat
Continuous Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities

Courser of Kruphix and Sphinx’s Revelation.

March 26, 2014February 5, 2015 | bimmerbot

When drawing multiple cards at once while playing with the top card of your library revealed, each draw is interrupted by revealing the next top card before drawing it.

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Tagged Courser of Kruphix, Sphinx's Revelation
Tournament Rules

The importance of shuffling (piles are not enough!)

March 26, 2014February 5, 2015 | bimmerbot

Piles are not random, and therefore aren't actually shuffling. You must use a shuffling method that actually accomplishes randomization (side/mash shuffling, riffle shuffle).

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Tip Categories

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    • Prevention and Replacement Effects (143)
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    • Communication Policy (20)
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