When in the first main phase of the the active player’s turn the active players says something alone the lines of ‘attack?’ or ‘combat phase’ it indicates that the active player wants to move on to the beginning of combat step, which is within the combat phase, AND is passing priority to the non-active player. […]
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In multiplayer formats “you” means just you, not teammates.
In many multiplayer formats players play together as a team. However even if you share a turn, like in two-headed giant, any time a card’s text refers to ‘you’ it means you and just you. Effect like these are not carried over to affect other players or permanents controlled by other players. For example, if […]
Genesis Wave, Ob Nixilis and multiple triggers. Oh my!
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This article has been slightly updated as of the prerelease of Magic 2014 on July 13; Please refer to the bolded revisions below. is one method to getting multiple cards into play at the same time. The higher the value of X, the more cards you look at that the ‘bigger’ the things […]
What goes into your Total DCI Rating
Your Total DCI rating is comprised of your Constructed Rating (which is Standard, Extended and all Block Constructed formats) your Eternal Rating (which is made up of the Vintage and Legacy formats) and your Limited rating (all sealed and drafts formats). The DCI does keep track of other team formats and 2HG formats, but these […]
What ‘Everything’ in ‘Protection from Everything’ means.
The protection ability is often explained by using the acronym DEBT, which stands for Damage, Enchanting / Equipping, Blocking and Targeting. Protection from : D- Damage from sources of that quality is prevented. E- Enchantments / Equipment of that quality can not enchant / equip the protected permanent. B- The creature with protection can not […]
What determines an object’s color.
The color of objects (cards, spells and permanents) is determined by the mana cost of the card in most cases. Effects like the one generated by or can add to an objects color or change it entirely. Objects with more than color of mana in their mana cost are obviously more than one color. This […]
Damage assignment order is not the same as combat damage assignment.
With the release of Magic 2010, the rules governing how combat damage is dealt with were changed. Because the assignment of combat damage no longer uses the stack, a few other rules were tweaked to keep some of the same feel and strategic gameplay as before. One aspect of these rules changes is the creation […]
What it means to Exchange
The English word ‘exchange’ is pretty straight forward, but in the Magic world there are some specific rules that govern what happens when things are exchanged. First of all, when an effect instructs you to exchange something, in order for that to happen all things mentioned must be able to be exchanged. For example, when […]
What Reflecting Pool can and cannot do
‘s ability can make mana of any type of any other land that you control. There are six types of mana; white, blue, black, red, green and colorless. Other restrictions or abilities associated with mana are not part of its type and will not be applied to mana generated by Reflecting Pool. When determined what […]