has an interesting effect- and in Magic, interesting often means confusing. With cards like floating around, players might get a little hungry thinking about bouncing their opponent’s Precursor team with a single card. Not so fast! As states, the spell is copied for each Golem that spell could target. specifically hits a target with a […]
Category: Casting / playing a spell or ability
Modern Masters Week: Arcane Spells
Welcome to our lead-up to Modern Masters 2015! Hopefully a great many of you will be enjoying the festivities at the Grands Prix in Las Vegas, Utrecht, and Chiba this weekend (nearly the entire Rules Tips Blog team will be at GP Vegas!), and in honor of the new set and the enormous events taking […]
Foul-Tongue Invocation Against an Empty Board
Hey everyone, welcome back. As promised, we’re going to talk about today. Let’s say you’re playing against an aggressive mono-red player. You’ve managed to clear their board, but now they’re just pointing their burn spells at your head. You’re at 3, and they point a at you. All you’re holding is a and a . […]
Silumgar’s Scorn with a Dragon on the Stack
Hi everyone, and welcome back to another week of rules tips! There’s still some Standard situations that come up, so that’s what we’re going to focus on this week. Today, we kick things off with . You’re down to two cards in your hand: a and a . You figure it’s time to drop your […]
Targeting troubles with Dromoka’s Command.
Dromoka's Command has a lot of the word "target" on it, and it can be tricky to know all the legal ways to cast it. Read and absorb some knowledge here!
Manifest and Delve (no, you can’t!)
Delve only functions while you're casting a spell, and turning a creature face-up via manifest isn't casting anything. So you can't benefit from delve when turning a manifested Gurmag Angler face up, for example.
Scrap Mastery vs. Grafdigger’s Cage
You’ve got a graveyard stacked full of artifact creatures and a in your hand. Your opponent has a on the battlefield. What happens? Will your spell exile all your good cards in your graveyard and leave you with nothing? Nope! Fortunately for you, does not care about stuff coming from exile, which is the zone […]
Obstination et rebond
Pendant que nous parlons du Rebond, abordons quelque chose qui FONCTIONNE avec … des coûts additionnels ! Comme vous le savez peut être, il n’est pas possible de de payer plus d’un seul coût alternatif à la fois (Vous ne pouvez donc pas Surcharger un sort lancé gratuitement par le Rebond par exemple). Ce que […]
Exploiter ses adversaires pour le fun et pour profiter !
Pour continuer cette semaine de l’exploitation, nous allons nous intéresser aux interactions les plus farfelues que vous pourrez rencontrer dans l’environnement du limité Dragons de Tarkir: Que se passe-t-il si vous volez la créature de votre adversaire en réponse à l’exploitation. Ça n’arrivera pas souvent, étant donné que la plupart des vols de créatures se […]