While we’re still waiting for the FAQ and the final Comprehensive Rules update bulletin for all the nit-picky details, we wanted to make sure everyone at least has an idea of how the rules are changing. The most noticeable changes are to the Legend Rule and the Planeswalker Uniqueness Rule. Rather than reinvent the wheel, […]
Category: Static Abilities
Goblin Electromancer only reduces the cost of a fused spell by 1.
Before the Izzet, there was Arcane. Before Arcane, there was storm. And before storm, there were split spells! Fresh off the heels of Grand Prix Modern Masters, we come full circle with a look at the Fuse mechanic, a blast from the past in Dragon’s Maze with a little twist involved. Probably no guild benefited […]
With Melek, you will reveal every card you draw, even if drawing multiple cards at a time.
Question: When is drawing 3 cards not drawing 3 cards? The truth is that certain things, although simple and intuitive in the real world, end up not translating so well into Magic-ese, and drawing cards turns out to be one of these things. Since the game can’t handle multiple card draws simultaneously, it ends up […]
Abilities, Activated Abilities, Characteristics, Continuous Effects, Effects, Interaction of Continuous Effects, Keywords, Static Abilities
Melira and Inkmoth Nexus
Infect! Quite the polarizing mechanic in most areas, it was either considered laughably bad or stupidly broken depending on who you were talking to. It’s gained some traction lately with eggs-in-one-basket rush decks, especially in Modern, and it’s possible you might run into a Pod deck running and you want to know how it interacts […]
Voice of Resurgence makes tokens that are always changing size.
is a card that doesn’t seem to have immediate appeal in standard, but is already having an effect in formats like Modern and Legacy. It punishes players who wait for your turn to play a spell, and it replaces itself if and when it dies. But how big can those tokens get? Does it just […]
Scavenging Jace’s Phantasm with Varolz only gets you 1 counter (but Boneyard Wurm is different).
As a general rule, abilities of a creature only work when that creature’s on the battlefield, unless the rules text or common sense suggests that it works in another zone. , for example, has an ability that gives all creature cards in your graveyard scavenge. Scavenge wouldn’t make very much sense if it applied while […]
Melek doesn’t let you cast spells for free.
can do many things. One of the things that you might not realize is that it doesn’t let you play the top card of the deck for free. In Magic, we often combine “You may cast this card” with the second sweetest phrase, “without paying its mana cost” (the first sweetest phrase being “Draw a […]
Runner’s Bane will fall off a creature once its power is 4+.
This one came up quite a lot at our prerelease! is a solid common in Limited, locking down your opponent’s little dudes. It can clear a path for you to swing early on, or it can disable his utility guy. But there’s a deceptively easy way to get rid of it, and it involves hulking […]
Blood Scrivener and “Draw two cards” effects.
Card drawing can be a pain. Well, more specifically, black card drawing can be a pain. Black has a long history of letting you draw cards for life. From cards like to to , black can draw cards at the cost of life. And Dragon’s Maze brings us the latest card in that theme, . […]