tnunez, Author at Magic Rules Tips

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

Assassin’s Trophy’s Search!

November 21, 2018November 24, 2018 | tnunez

Today we learn about how various things can impact the search instruction on Assassin's Trophy

Underrealm Lich – Not Optional!

November 19, 2018November 18, 2018 | tnunez

Today we talk about Underrealm Lich's groovy card-filtering replacement effect, and how we 'fix' it if things go wrong!

All About Thought Erasure

November 16, 2018November 15, 2018 | tnunez

Informant Alistair closes out Dimir Week with some do's and don'ts on Thought Erasure

Thief of Sanity and Control-Changing

November 14, 2018November 15, 2018 | tnunez

Today we continue Dimir Week with a tip about Thief of Sanity and how it interacts with control-changing effects!

Lazav the Multifarious and Names!

November 12, 2018November 11, 2018 | tnunez

Learn all about how Lazav interacts with cards that refer to themselves by name, with guest contributor Etrata the Silencer!

All About Hypothesizzle!

November 9, 2018November 6, 2018 | tnunez

Good morning and welcome back! Today we'll be talking about a new card from Guilds of Ravnica, and the interesting kind of ability it has. Hypothesizzle lets you draw 2 cards, and if you want to, discard a nonland card to dome a creature for 4 damage. Basically, it lets you pick a 'dead' nonland card in your hand and turn it into a Flame Slash for free. But wait- what's that "When you do" wording in there? Normally, a card like this would say "IF you do" after the discard part, right? Why the different wording?

Expansion vs Kicker

November 7, 2018November 6, 2018 | tnunez

Izzet week continues with a look into Expansion // Explosion!

Ionize vs “Can’t Be Countered”

November 5, 2018November 6, 2018 | tnunez

Hello and welcome back to the one, the only, Rules Tips Blog! It's been a hot-and-spicy minute since we've had any Rules Tips for you folks, but we're back on track and hitting the ground running with Izzet Week- all your Rules Tips this week will involve cards from the bombastic and eccentric chemisters from the Izzet League (specifically, new cards from Guilds of Ravnica). To start with, we'll be talking about Ionize.

Soul-Scar Mage Doesn’t Stack

May 26, 2017 | tnunez

The Lorwyn block was one of my favorites, and Wither was one of the neater abilities to come out of that mega-block; damage from a source with Wither is dealt as -1/-1 counters, rather than marking damage onto a creature. It was like damage that never wore off! We have a sort of throwback to […]