We’ve gone a level past two-card synergy: now we’re discussing ONE CARD SYNERGY! Or we’re just throwing around the word ‘synergy’ more often than a late-90s office-slogan guy, take your pick. We’re sticking with for today’s tip as well though. Now, you probably know that the game considers each Ashiok you play to be a […]
Category: Abilities
Ashiok and Perilous Vault: Control Synergy
That’s right! MORE SYNERGY! Control decks might have a hard time dealing with swarms of creatures, so they tend to play board-wipe spells like or (, we hardly knew ye…). But wiping the board doesn’t do you much more than buy time if you don’t have a threat of your own! Luckily, Planeswalkers live through […]
Butcher of the Horde and Bloodsoaked Champion: Mardu Synergy
Today’s tip unfortunately doesn’t cover any of the new cards from Fate Reforged, but it’s still quite useful! is a pretty neat card, and it lets you turn your creatures (such as the goblin tokens from ) into value. But Rabblemaster might attack right into your opponent’s Manifest/Morph and die a horrible death. Without Rabblemaster […]
Manifest and Gift of Immortality
Gift of Immortality can return any permanent card that it was attached to if the card was a face-down manifest creature when it died. It can't return an instant or sorcery. Details inside!
Manifest and Athreos
Athreos triggers when any of its controller's creatures die, and no matter what they look like in the graveyard, they can still be returned unless 3 life is paid.
Prerelease Primer: Dash
Welcome back to our Fate Reforged Prerelease Primer! Today we’ll be covering the Mardu’s new (or old, because time travel is weird like that) mechanic: Dash. Raid rewarded you for being aggressive before casting your spells- Dash works well with that, because it makes sure you’re attacking! Dash is an alternate cost (usually a cheaper […]
Containment Priest vs. Flickerwisp
A creature that "flickers" under the purveyance of Containment Priest is not going to be able to come back to the battlefield.
How Arcane Lighthouse works.
Similar to the Archetype cycle, Arcane Lighthouse removes hexproof/shroud and makes sure it can't be regained this turn!
The “lieutenant” abilities know about commanders that are face-down or copying something.
A commander by any other name (or status) is still a commander, as far as the lieutenant abilities are concerned.