Planeswakers go to the graveyard when the no longer have any loyalty counters on them. The number of counters on them will vary depending on how many them came into play with and which of their abilities are played. Counters are also removed when a planeswalker is dealt damage. For each point of damage a […]
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Drawing too many cards in your opening hand is not the same as drawing extra cards.
When you are drawing your opening hand, either before or after a mulligan, drawing too many cards is not considered to be drawing extra cards as long as it is noticed and taken care of right away. Errors like this are fairly common, they are also easily caught and correctable. The technical name for this […]
Copyable values of spells
When a spell is copied by something like or it makes an exact copy, unless the effect that makes the copy allows you to make changes. Most often these effects will allow you to choose new targets, but other values will stay the same. For example, the value of X in the mana cost of […]
Cards removed by Hideaway are cast.
Cards that have been removed from the game by the hideaway ability of one of the Hideaway lands form Lorwyn (for example, ) do end up getting played when their non-mana activated abilities resolve. This means that abilities that trigger when a spell is played will trigger. If was removed from play by a Hideaway […]
How extended combo of Prismatic Omen, Scapeshift and Valakut works.
One combo that you may see at Extended PTQs this season revolves around the Zendikar land and getting multiple Mountains into play at one time. A common method to do this is with , a sorcery which allows you to sacrifice any number of lands and then search your library for that many lands and […]
How Evoke works.
Evoke is a keyword ability that appeared on creature cards in Lorwyn and Morningtide. The keyword ability actually represents two abilities; a static one and a triggered ability. The static ability is what allows you to play the creature via its alternate Evoke cost. This cost can be paid anytime you could play the card […]
Armored Ascension cares about the controller of the Ascension, not the creature
‘s ability that grants +1/+1 to the enchanted creature looks at the number of Plains controlled by the controller of the Armored Ascension, not necessarily the controller of the creature that that Armored Ascension is on. This can matter if a creature is enchanted by Armored Ascension and then this creature is ‘stolen’ by something […]
What gets removed by Mimic Vat when multiple creatures leave the battlefield.
When is in play and multiple creatures go to the graveyard at the same time, Mimic Vats’a ability will trigger once for each of these creatures. Technically these triggered abilities will on on the stack and resolve one at a time, an as each resolve the controller of the Mimic Vat will choose wether or […]
Extended is the current PTQ format
With a new year comes a new format for PTQs. From now until the middle of April PTQs that quality player to play at PT Nagoya will be Extended. Currently the sets in Extended at anything from Lorwyn block forward, or; Lorwyn, Morningtide, Shadowmoor, Eventide, Shards of Alara, Conflux, Alara Reborn, Zendikar, Worldwake, Rise of […]