Trinisphere and delve are interesting companions. Delve is pretty much the only way to "fool" Trinisphere into letting you cast a spell by paying less than 3 actual mana, because delve lets you pay "exile a card from your graveyard" instead of {1} while making payments!
Category: Abilities
Eidolon of the Great Revel vs. Delve spells.
Delve doesn't actually reduce the cost of a spell; it just changes how you can pay the cost. The converted mana cost of the spell will remain whatever is printed in the top right corner no matter what!
Courser of Kruphix and Drawing Multiple Cards
So, we’ve covered a couple of situations where YOU know what the top few cards of your library are, but your opponent doesn’t, even with on board. Today, we’re covering a situation where Courser makes information a little more symmetrical- drawing many cards! With Scry and and things like that, your top card only actually […]
Courser of Kruphix and Dig Through Time
Welcome back to the penultimate day of Courser Week! Today we’ll look at how Courser functions with an increasingly popular blue card from Khans of Tarkir: . Dig Through Time has you look at the top 7 cards of your library, ship any 2 you want to your hand, and then the rest go to […]
Courser of Kruphix and Scrying
Welcome back! For those of you just tuning in, we’re covering lots of things to do with this week! The Theros block gave us back an old Mirrodin mechanic in Scry. It also gave us Courser- so it’s not uncommon to be Scrying while there’s a Courser on board. SO when that happens, what do […]
Tournament Tuesday: Common Courser of Kruphix Mistakes
Welcome back to our crash course(r) on ! Since today is Tuesday, we’ll be covering some IPG and MTR things about Courser of Kruphix, rather than just your normal Comprehensive Rules stuff. Mainly, we’ll be talking about the more common mistakes people make with Courser, and what the rules say has to happen when those […]
Courser of Kruphix and Fetchlands
All this week, we’ll be covering one specific card: . It’s a commonly played card, and the semi-unique ability it has leads to lots of interesting rules interactions and questions. Every day this week, we’ll cover a different one! Today we’re covering how it works with fetchlands such as , but this also applies to […]
Dragon Throne of Tarkir vs. Blinding Spray
Dragon Throne checks power as the ability resolves, so if you respond to the activation by reducing power below 0, you can actually end up killing the other creatures it was supposed to be pumping!
Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker’s +1 vs. Hero’s Downfall
Who knew that when Wizards of the Coast released an alternate-art version of Form of the Dragon in FTV: Dragons, they were foreshadowing one of ’s abilities: TURNING INTO A DRAGON!! And not just any dragon, but a hasty, indestructible one at that! While this new Sarkhan is certainly fearsome, he’s not invincible. One of […]