has an ability that triggers when it deals combat damage to a player. When the ability resolves, the Balefire Dragon itself will deal damage equal to the amount of damage it dealt to the defending player to each creature that player controls. In most cases, this is pretty simple; but as always, this can change […]
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Destroying Gutter Grime will cause all the tokens it created to go to the graveyard.
has an ability that triggers whenever a nontoken creature you control dies. When this triggered ability resolves, you put a slime counter on Gutter Grime and a token creature into play that has power and toughness determined by the number of slime counters on the Gutter Grime. This power and toughness is continually calculated, as […]
Wooden’s Stakes triggered ability resolves before combat damage is dealt.
Abilities that trigger when a creature blocks or becomes blocked will do so in the declaration of blockers step. These abilities will go on the stack and resolve in that step and before the combat damage step. With something like this means that if a Vampire is blocked or blocked by a creature equipped with […]
What players must bring to an event.
While there are some expectations regarding behavior and what players are responsible for when playing in a tournament, the list of things they must bring or provide is not that long. The first thing is that players must provide a DCI number if they have one. If they do not have one, they can obtain […]
Inquisitor’s Flail does not have a triggered ability, it has static abilities that create replacement effects
has two abilities that cause the creature equipped by it to both deal and receive twice as much combat damage as it normally would. These two abilities are not triggers and do not use the stack. These abilities are static ones that create a replacement effect when the equipped creature would both receive and deal […]
Smite the Monstrous checks on resolution.
destroys a targeted creature with a power of four or greater. In order for this spell to be cast, a legal target must be chosen. In other words, the creature must have a power of four or greater when Smite the Monstrous is cast. Somewhat similarly, the targeted creature’s power must be four or greater […]
Back from the Brink has an activated ability, it doesn’t allow you to cast creature spells.
is an enchantment from Innistrad that allows you to reuse creature cards that are in your graveyard. Whenever you could normally cast a sorcery, you can exile a creature card in your graveyard and pay the mana cost of that card to put a token copy of the exiled card onto the battlefield under your […]
Exiling a creature card with Makeshift Mauler or Stitched Drake is an additional cost.
One mechanical theme for some of the blue creatures in Innistrad is that you need to exile one or more creature cards from your graveyard as an additional cost. Examples of cards with this ability are , and . As this is an additional cost, it is paid when you pay all costs when casting […]
What ‘Improperly Determining a Winner’ is.
Improperly Determining a Winner is a when a player offers to use or both players actually use some random factor or method to determine the winner of a match. In the Infraction Procedure Guide, it is an unsporting conduct infraction, as suggesting or actually doing this is considered to be harmful to those players that […]