Good morning and welcome to Kalitas Week here at the Rules Tip Blog. We’ve been noticing an awful lot of questions about the new popping up, so we thought we’d take a whole week to address just questions about Kalitas. Kalitas’ has an ability that sets up a replacement effect: it replaces one event (in […]
Category: Static Abilities
How multiple Sylvan Advocates interact.
Each Sylvan Advocate only pumps itself (not other Sylvan Advocates) and your land creatures.
Removing Embodiment of Insight after attackers are declared.
If Embodiment of Insight and a land creature attack, and the Embodiment is removed, the land creature is still untapped and attacking.
Prerelease Work! All About Surge!
Welcome back to Prerelease Week! Today we’re going to be discussing Surge- and no, not the 90s citrus soda that’s recently been brought back as proof that the universe is a kind place. Surge, the new mechanic from Oath of the Gatewatch! As we mentioned yesterday, Oath of the Gatewatch is actually designed partially for […]
Devoid 101: Mostly Colorless Spells and You!
Welcome back to Battle for Zendikar mechanics week! Today we’re covering one of the Eldrazi’s mechanics: Devoid. While there’s a fair few truly colorless Eldrazi in this set (such as or ), the majority of the “smaller” ones you’ll encounter in a Limited environment have colored mana costs, just like the original ones from Rise […]
All About Converge
Welcome back! For today’s Battle for Zendikar mechanic tip we’ll be covering Converge! Converge works very similarly to the Sunburst mechanic from Fifth Dawn- the more colors of mana you sink into the spell, the stronger it gets. For Sunburst that meant charge counters and +1/+1 counters; for Converge, it just means more of everything! […]
Mana Leak and Delve
Even more Delve! Yesterday we learned that you can use Delve as a payment for an alternate cost such as Flashback, because Delve is a payment, not an alternate cost itself. So how does Delve interact with additional costs? Well, that depends! If there were a Delve spell with Kicker, you could use Delve to […]
Starfield of Nyx and enchantment creatures.
Oh, . It, comboed with , was the bane of many judges’ and rules gurus’ existence. Even though things have been figured out for a while now (we even have a Gatherer ruling to cover it). But now they’ve brought back “Opalescence” in the form of . It’s not that bad this time, but there […]
Blocking with mana creatures against Archangel of Tithes.
It's possible to block using a mana creature (e.g., Elvish Mystic) and tap that creature to pay the cost for Archangel of Tithes!