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Category: Abilities

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
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
Abilities, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities

Sharktocrab and Simic Ascendancy

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 | tnunez

Learn what happens when Sharktocrab enters the battlefield with +1/+1 counters!

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Tagged Hydroid Krasis, Sharktocrab, Simic Ascendancy
Abilities, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities

Teysa Karlov: What Does She Double?

February 8, 2019February 25, 2019 | tnunez

What does Teysa Karlov's ability work on?

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Tagged Teysa Karlov
Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Characteristics, Copies, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities

Guardian Project and the “Legend Rule”

February 6, 2019February 6, 2019 | tnunez

Learn about Intervening Ifs with Guardian Project!

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Tagged Guardian Project
Abilities, Characteristics, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Static Abilities, Type & Subtypes, Type Changing

All About Alpine Moon

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 | tnunez

Learn about Alpine Moon, the Moon that came before it, and how they can ruin an opponent's day!

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Tagged Alpine Moon, Blood Moon, Blood Sun
Abilities, Activated Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Mana Abilities, Priority, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities

What Are Mana Abilities?

February 1, 2019February 1, 2019 | tnunez

Learn what is and is not a Mana Ability, and what that means!

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Tagged Domri Chaos Bringer
Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Characteristics, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities

Riot: Not A Trigger!

January 30, 2019February 1, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Riot interacts (and fails to interact!) with several cards and mechanics

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Tagged Zhur-taa Goblin
Abilities, Characteristics, Effects, One-Shot Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities

Amplifire and CDAs

January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Amplifire works (and doesn't work) with various kinds of creatures and P/T boosts!

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Tagged Amplifire

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Hot Tips!

  • What Protection really means.
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Tip Categories

  • Abilities (873)
    • Activated Abilities (216)
    • Mana Abilities (27)
    • Static Abilities (243)
    • Triggered Abilities (512)
  • Casting / playing a spell or ability (378)
  • Characteristics (168)
  • Combat Phase (132)
  • Control / Controller (48)
  • Copies (48)
  • Costs (87)
  • Effects (244)
    • Continuous Effects (78)
    • Interaction of Continuous Effects (14)
    • One-Shot Effects (23)
    • Prevention and Replacement Effects (143)
  • Keywords (102)
  • Multiplayer (40)
  • Planeswalkers (30)
  • Priority (43)
  • Resolving spells and abilities (440)
  • Source (11)
  • State-Based Actions (47)
  • Tournament Rules (244)
    • Communication Policy (20)
    • Missed Triggers (16)
    • Shortcuts (27)
  • Turn Structure (43)
  • Type & Subtypes (44)
  • Type Changing (27)
  • Uncategorized (112)
  • Zones (43)
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