tnunez, Author at Magic Rules Tips

Communication Policy, Tournament Rules

Tournament Tip: Properly Identifying Cards

March 8, 2019March 8, 2019 | tnunez

How do you 'choose a card name' if you can't remember the card's name?

Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities

Scorchmark vs. Regenerate

March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 | tnunez

What happens when you Regenerate a creature with a Scorchmark aimed at it?

Abilities, Activated Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Costs, Resolving spells and abilities

What’s A Tap Cost, Anyway?

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 | tnunez

Today we discuss the difference between the Tap symbol in a cost, and the word "tap" in a cost!

Abilities, Activated Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Resolving spells and abilities

Omnispell Adept and Timing

March 1, 2019March 1, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Omnispell Adept interacts with various kinds of costs, and how she interacts with Sorceries!

Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Characteristics, Continuous Effects, Copies, Effects, Interaction of Continuous Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities, Type & Subtypes, Type Changing

Mono-Blue Tempo Round 2: Merfolk Trickster

February 27, 2019February 27, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Merfolk Trickster can kill a creature without damaging it (and other fun tricks)!

Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Control / Controller, Copies, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities

Mono-Blue Tempo: Lightning Round!

February 25, 2019February 25, 2019 | tnunez

Learn some of the tricks that Autumn used on their way to a Mythic Championship Win!

Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities, Zones

Objects Entering Simultaneously

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019 | tnunez

How are replacement effects and triggered abilities handled when multiple objects enter the battlefield simultaneously?

Abilities, Combat Phase, Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities, Turn Structure

Multiple Forbidding Spirits

February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 | tnunez

How do multiple triggers from Forbidding Spirit interact, and how can you get around having to pay for them?

Casting / playing a spell or ability, Control / Controller, Effects, One-Shot Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Zones

Cardnapping for Fun and Profit

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Act of Treason (and other temporary-steal effects) work with "flicker" effects!