Standard will have an odd rotation when Shadows Over Innistrad releases in April, but nothing is changing for Oath of the Gatewatch's release.
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Finding and casting split cards with Bring to Light.
Split cards can be confusing when it comes to questions about converted mana cost. We help clear up exactly how Bring to Light interacts with them!
Illegal Expedition + A lesson in Land Types
Today's tip includes a reminder that not all "Expeditions" are legal in Standard, as well as some tips about the new BFZ lands with two basic land types and how that can work to your benefit!
Whenever You Gain Life: Fun with Triggers
If you love gaining life and getting triggered abilities out of it, you’ll want to run multiple lifelink creatures. Cards like and will trigger for each lifelink creature you control that deals damage (attacking, blocking or otherwise). For example, if you are attacking with 3 s and one – you will deal a total of […]
Hangarback Manifesto (a manifested Walker is not very good)
Turning a manifested Hangarback Walker face up doesn't put counters on it (you can't even pay mana for X), so it will generally die immediately after it turns face up, before you even get a chance to activate its ability.
Make Sure Your Checklist Reflects Your Deck
Here's a rundown of what you can and can't do regarding checklist cards in your deck.
Command Beacon – Commander 2015 Preview Card!
Today we get to share a super secret preview card from Commander 2015!
Multiple Thunderbreak Regents all trigger from one being targeted.
Don't forget that if you control 2 Thunderbreaks, each one will trigger anytime any dragon you control gets targeted by an opponent!
Stony Silence vs. artifact lands.
Stony Silence stops ALL activated abilities of artifacts, including mana abilities. This is in contrast to Pithing Needle, which has an explicit exception for mana abilites.