Welcome to Day Four of Kalitas Week! Today we’re covering a pretty simple one rules-wise: How Kalitas interacts with a board-wipe like or . The core question people have in this situation is “do I get zombies? Do they come in and then die too, or do I just not get any?”. The answer is: […]
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Kalitas Week: Kalitas vs Anafenza
Welcome back to Kalitas Week! Today we’ll be looking at another interaction you’re likely to run into: Kalitas vs. other replacement effects. The most common two that you’re likely to find in Standard are going to be and ; both of those cards are also going to replace the “dies” event with exile. The question […]
Kalitas Week: Kalitas Is Not Optional!
Welcome back to Kalitas Week here on the Rules Blog! Today we’re covering another common misconception about the chief: what, exactly, his second ability IS. A lot of people seem to mistakenly think that Kalitas’ ability is a trigger, and subject to the Missed Trigger rules. However, it is not! A trigger will have the […]
Kalitas Week! Who Gets The Tokens?
Good morning and welcome to Kalitas Week here at the Rules Tip Blog. We’ve been noticing an awful lot of questions about the new popping up, so we thought we’d take a whole week to address just questions about Kalitas. Kalitas’ has an ability that sets up a replacement effect: it replaces one event (in […]
How multiple Sylvan Advocates interact.
Each Sylvan Advocate only pumps itself (not other Sylvan Advocates) and your land creatures.
Removing Embodiment of Insight after attackers are declared.
If Embodiment of Insight and a land creature attack, and the Embodiment is removed, the land creature is still untapped and attacking.
How best to kill a Wandering Fumarole with burn spells.
If you're going to try to kill Wandering Fumarole with a burn spell that does 1-3 damage, your best bet is to do it in response to them turning it into a 4/1.
Prerelease Week! Perhaps You’ve Met My Cohort?
Welcome back to the final day of the Oath of the Gatewatch Prerelease Week! Today we’re covering the final mechanic of the set, so you can go to your prereleases this weekend (or tonight, if there’s some midnight events in your area) armed with knowledge. Cohort is similar to Landfall and Constellation- it’s actually what […]
Prerelease Week! With A Little Support From Your Friends
Welcome back to Prerelease Week! Today we’re tackling one of the last two mechanics in the set: Support. Support is actually really simple; some spells will have Support N, as will some creatures. On a spell, “Support N” means “Put a +1/+1 counter on up to each of N target creatures”, when the spell resolves. […]