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Category: Casting / playing a spell or ability

Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Resolving spells and abilities

Exile everything and all the cards, all at once?

October 3, 2024February 10, 2026 | Stephan Classen

Exiling a cards in lots, with Laelia and more!

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Tagged cascade, discovery, exile until, exiling, laelia, laelia the blade reforged
Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities

Scorchmark vs. Regenerate

March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 | tnunez

What happens when you Regenerate a creature with a Scorchmark aimed at it?

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Tagged Scorchmark
Abilities, Activated Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Costs, Resolving spells and abilities

What’s A Tap Cost, Anyway?

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 | tnunez

Today we discuss the difference between the Tap symbol in a cost, and the word "tap" in a cost!

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Tagged Kumena Tyrant of ORazca, Persistent Petitioners, Saruli Caretaker
Abilities, Activated Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Resolving spells and abilities

Omnispell Adept and Timing

March 1, 2019March 1, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Omnispell Adept interacts with various kinds of costs, and how she interacts with Sorceries!

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Tagged Omnispell Adept
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
Casting / playing a spell or ability, Control / Controller, Effects, One-Shot Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Zones

Cardnapping for Fun and Profit

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Act of Treason (and other temporary-steal effects) work with "flicker" effects!

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Tagged Act of Treason, Lumbering Battlement
Abilities, Activated Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Characteristics, Copies, Resolving spells and abilities

All About Prime Speaker Vannifar

February 13, 2019February 22, 2019 | tnunez

Learn what Converted Mana Cost means, how to determine it, and what 'only any time you could cast a sorcery' means!

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Tagged Prime Speaker Vannifar

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    • Prevention and Replacement Effects (143)
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