Hello again my Magic aficionados! Let’s get spiritual with our next tip, shall we? I’m glad you were able to come to today’s sermon which covers handling triggered abilities. With on the board you might wonder how many tokens you’ll be able to get after a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control. The […]
Category: Abilities
Wall of Essence and Multiple Attackers
Today’s Rules Tip begins with a scenario: You’re at 5 life. Your opponent is attacking you with an and a . You have a lone on your side ready to die for your protection. You block the Hivelord. Damage from the Tormentor goes through and the Wall’s ability triggers- Are you dead? If you guessed […]
How Chain Veil Really Works
The Chain Veil got a lot of speculative discussion after it was spoiled, before the release notes were available. We explain the now-official answer about how it works!
Shield of the Avatar and Multiple Blockers
Wrapping up this week’s tips, we have a fun equipment for creature-heavy decks: . This little toy helps keep your best guy alive by putting a damage-prevention effect around that creature. How much does it prevent? Well, how many buddies does your best creature have? There’s usually strength in numbers, but the Shield makes that […]
Garruk’s Packleader Doesn’t Trigger from Nissa, Worldwaker
New sets usually mean new planeswalkers, and Magic 2015 is no exception! Alongside a fifth Ajani, we also got a new Garruk, and a new Nissa! We last saw a few years ago in Zendikar, where she was hanging out with her elf-buddies and accidentally freeing world-devouring abominations from the beginning of creation. But apparently […]
Rotfeaster Maggot and Seraph of the Masses
This one may have come up for some of you in the past couple of weeks since M15, and it may very well happen to you in the future if it hasn’t! is a common Black creature that eats dead guys. More specifically, when it enters the battlefield it’ll exile a creature card from any […]
Tournament Tuesday: How To Handle a Missed Roaring Primadox Trigger
Welcome back to Tournament Tuesday, where we’re going to cover our favorite topic again: Missed Triggers! Today’s missed trigger discussion is going to be about an uncommon creature from Magic 2015, originally printed in Magic 2013: . Primadox has a trigger that makes you bounce a creature you control to its owner’s hand at the […]
Inferno Fist in Combat: Choices, Choices
Among the new cards we’ve gotten questions about from M15 is a neat little aura called . As with other Auras, it’ll enchant something (in this case, a creature!) and do something neat. What Fist does, specifically, is boost your creature by +2/+0. It also has an ability that lets you sacrifice the Fist to […]
Preeminent Captain Won’t Trigger Military Intelligence
As is usual with the summer Core Set, we’ve gotten back some good old friends from days past. One of those old friends is , a very fun creature that was originally printed with all his Kithkin buddies in Morningtide. Captain has an interesting ability: Whenever he attacks, you can throw down a Soldier creature […]