If you’ve drafted before, you might be used to ripping off the pack wrapper, discarding the token or tip card and basic land card from the back of the pack, and feverishly looking through the rest of the cards you opened for that bomb rare. In full Return to Ravnica block drafts, however, that will […]
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Translating Notion Thief into English.
WANTED: A discreet individual interested in a rare opportunity. Must possess uncanny speed, impressive skill with a knife, and the ability to give material form to thoughts. The Gateless need not apply. — ! What a spiffy name for a card. Unfortunately, his rules text is a bit of a chore to read. Translated from […]
Teysa will create a token even if the creature is regenerated or indestructible.
Guild champions were promised to us early on, and most of them deliver. They’re legendary creatures, one from each Ravnica guild, with big splashy effects. One of the first ones revealed was the new . She costs seven mana, but she’s hard to take down, and she dissuades attacks. Her triggered ability destroys creatures that […]
Rot Farm Skeleton’s ability can only be activated from the graveyard.
Generally, a permanent’s abilities only work while the card is on the battlefield, not in any other zone. There are some exceptions. One is if the ability only makes sense in another zone. For instance, has an ability that says it can’t be countered. While it doesn’t explicitly say that it only works while it’s […]
Blood Scrivener and “Draw two cards” effects.
Card drawing can be a pain. Well, more specifically, black card drawing can be a pain. Black has a long history of letting you draw cards for life. From cards like to to , black can draw cards at the cost of life. And Dragon’s Maze brings us the latest card in that theme, . […]
Details for the Dragon’s Maze prerelease event.
It’s prerelease weekend! My favorite weekend of the year. The month of buildup and the weeks of spoilers are over, and now we finally get to get our hands on the new cards. Prereleases are probably the most “casual” sanctioned event (outside of FNM, maybe) a player is going to run across. So if you’re […]
Prerelease week: How Fuse works.
Split cards have always been a fan favorite. Probably for the same reason people love the Charms so much: they give you options. In the past, we had entwine, to let you cast all of the modes a spell has, and now, with Dragon’s Maze, we have Fuse, which lets us cast both sides of […]
Bioshift onto Corpsejack Menace.
You may remember from a few weeks ago that doubles all +1/+1 counters that would be placed on a creature. Let’s return to the lab where we left off, with a Menace on the battlefield alongside a with four +1/+1 counters on it. What happens if we now cast , moving the counters from the […]
Rest in Peace will exile itself when it gets destroyed.
: Really annoying card against graveyard-based strategies… but it can still be destroyed. You might be interested to know where it ends up, though. At the time the Rest in Peace would be destroyed, its effect is still applying, so it’ll be exiled by its own ability rather than go to the graveyard. Thankfully, this […]