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Author: tnunez

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?

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Tagged Memoricide, Sorcerous Spyglass, Unmoored Ego
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?

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Tagged Scorchmark
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!

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Tagged Kumena Tyrant of ORazca, Persistent Petitioners, Saruli Caretaker
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!

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Tagged Omnispell Adept
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)!

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Tagged Merfolk Trickster
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!

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Tagged Curious Obsession, Entrancing Melody, Essence Capture, Merfolk Trickster, Pteramander
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?

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Tagged Gruesome Menagerie, Scapeshift
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?

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Tagged Forbidding Spirit, Ghostly Prison
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!

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Tagged Act of Treason, Lumbering Battlement
Abilities, Activated Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Characteristics, Copies, Resolving spells and abilities

All About Prime Speaker Vannifar

February 13, 2019February 22, 2019 | tnunez

Learn what Converted Mana Cost means, how to determine it, and what 'only any time you could cast a sorcery' means!

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Tagged Prime Speaker Vannifar

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