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Category: Triggered Abilities

Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Characteristics, Continuous Effects, Copies, Effects, Interaction of Continuous Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities, Type & Subtypes, Type Changing

Mono-Blue Tempo Round 2: Merfolk Trickster

February 27, 2019February 27, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Merfolk Trickster can kill a creature without damaging it (and other fun tricks)!

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Tagged Merfolk Trickster
Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Control / Controller, Copies, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities

Mono-Blue Tempo: Lightning Round!

February 25, 2019February 25, 2019 | tnunez

Learn some of the tricks that Autumn used on their way to a Mythic Championship Win!

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Tagged Curious Obsession, Entrancing Melody, Essence Capture, Merfolk Trickster, Pteramander
Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities, Zones

Objects Entering Simultaneously

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019 | tnunez

How are replacement effects and triggered abilities handled when multiple objects enter the battlefield simultaneously?

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Tagged Gruesome Menagerie, Scapeshift
Abilities, Combat Phase, Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities, Turn Structure

Multiple Forbidding Spirits

February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 | tnunez

How do multiple triggers from Forbidding Spirit interact, and how can you get around having to pay for them?

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Tagged Forbidding Spirit, Ghostly Prison
Abilities, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities

Sharktocrab and Simic Ascendancy

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 | tnunez

Learn what happens when Sharktocrab enters the battlefield with +1/+1 counters!

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Tagged Hydroid Krasis, Sharktocrab, Simic Ascendancy
Abilities, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities

Teysa Karlov: What Does She Double?

February 8, 2019February 25, 2019 | tnunez

What does Teysa Karlov's ability work on?

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Tagged Teysa Karlov
Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Characteristics, Copies, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities

Guardian Project and the “Legend Rule”

February 6, 2019February 6, 2019 | tnunez

Learn about Intervening Ifs with Guardian Project!

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Tagged Guardian Project
Abilities, Activated Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Mana Abilities, Priority, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities

What Are Mana Abilities?

February 1, 2019February 1, 2019 | tnunez

Learn what is and is not a Mana Ability, and what that means!

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Tagged Domri Chaos Bringer
Abilities, Characteristics, Effects, One-Shot Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities

Amplifire and CDAs

January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Amplifire works (and doesn't work) with various kinds of creatures and P/T boosts!

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Tagged Amplifire
Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities

Angel of Grace vs Banefire

January 25, 2019January 25, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Angel of Grace interacts with Banefire, Lifelink, and more!

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Tagged Angel of Grace, Banefire

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