If you’re not casting Prossh, Jeleva, or Marath, their cast/enter the battlefield abilities won’t do anything.
Category: Abilities
Widespread Panic vs. tutors (and the double whammy vs. Green Sun’s Zenith!)
Don't Panic about tutoring with Widespread Panic! It doesn't force you to shuffle away anything, since the trigger doesn't go on the stack until after the tutor has completely finished resolving (i.e., after you shuffle).
Jeleva only has access to the cards it exiled, not to cards exiled by another Jeleva
Jeleva can only track the cards it exiled when it entered the battlefield as long as it remains on the battlefield. If Jeleva leaves and comes back, it forgets all the previously exiled cards.
How “Protection from a chosen player” works
Protection from a player? What does that even mean?? We explain that for you because of the new unique card True-Name Nemesis!
Daxos of Meletis and Lands
Around here, two or three different people have gotten infected with Daxos fever. There’s multiple commander decks kicking around, and he’s a fun card to play with. He can’t be blocked by bigger creatures, so unless your opponent has chumps to throw his way he’ll get through unimpeded. Once he does, you get to exile […]
Brave the Elements, Gods Willing, and Auras
Back when Zendikar block was still in standard, was one of my favorite cards. We may have that back, but we also have , which grants protection to just one of your creatures, but that creature needn’t be white (plus you get to Scry 1). Now, we’re also in a Standard heavy with Auras and […]
Heroic and Cipher Interactions
Cipher is the mechanic associated with House Dimir from the recent Return to Ravnica block: spells with Cipher allow you to ‘encode’ them onto a creature, and cast a copy of the spell for free every time the creature connects with an opponent. Heroic is one of the mechanics from the more-recent Theros set, which […]
Bestow and Cost Modification
All right, the dust from Theros has more or less settled, and everyone’s got a pretty good feel for the mechanics. But there are some nitpicky things that might not come up often, that you’re unsure how to handle. For example, when does a spell cast for its Bestow cost ‘count’ as the appropriate kind […]
Firedrinker Satyr and Whip of Erebos (lifelink) play well together.
Get the most value out of you Firedrinker Satyr by giving it lifelink! Any damage it deals to anything (including you!) causes you to gain that much life, negating any possible drawback.