Welcome back to Commander Week! How about that card we got to spoil yesterday, huh? I’m already putting my deck together. However, today we’re going to be looking into a neat little tactic: Reading your cards! Crazy, right? We’ll start with an old favorite of mine, . Mangara is pretty neat- he can exile any […]
Category: Triggered Abilities
Commander Week: Phage the Untouchable (But NOT Uncastable!)
Welcome to Commander Week, 2015! In honor of the deluge of Commander 2015 spoilers (and the release of the decks themselves next week), we’ll be doing a whole week of Commander fun here on the rules blog. First, we’re gonna start with a rather unconventional choice of Commander- . Phage is pretty scary- she’s got […]
Ingest: Your Opponent’s Cards Are Tasty?!
Welcome back to the last day of our Battle for Zendikar mechanics week! Today we’ll be going over the OTHER Eldrazi mechanic from this set: Ingest. Many of the Eldrazi creatures in this set have the keyword Ingest, which means that when they deal combat damage to your opponent you exile the top card of […]
Multiple Thunderbreak Regents all trigger from one being targeted.
Don't forget that if you control 2 Thunderbreaks, each one will trigger anytime any dragon you control gets targeted by an opponent!
Thopter Spy Network draws only one card for multiple artifact creatures dealing damage at once.
Thopter Spy Network is good, but be careful to read it correctly! It triggers whenever "one or more artifact creatures deal damage to an opponent," NOT once for each creature dealing damage.
Liliana doesn’t transform if she dies at the same time as other creatures.
Because of the "if you do" clause, Liliana's trigger won't do anything unless it's able to exile her from the battlefield. If she's already in the graveyard, it can't find her to exile her, so you won't get a transformed planeswalker and you won't get a zombie.
Skullcrack vs. Dragon’s Claw
Sideboard hate: it’s a time-honored tactic to fill your sideboard with narrow cards that totally hose specific decks to improve your matchups. Some are completely devastating ( or against a reanimation strategy, for example), while some are just really good at tripping the deck up. is such a card- part of a cycle commonly called […]
Searing Blaze and Only One Target on Resolution
Most of you should know that you can’t cast a spell (or activate an ability, or place a triggered ability onto the stack) without legal targets. You can’t throw a Doom Blade at nothing just to up your storm count, for example. However, that only applies to when you’re first selecting targets. It’s true that […]
Snapcaster Mage and Delve
Delve has been kicking around the older formats pretty much since day one- was an old favorite in some decks, and was infamously too good for Legacy! Even now, there’s still Delving going around in Legacy and in Modern- and more importantly for today, several of those cards are Instants and Sorceries. What that means […]