Category: Casting / playing a spell or ability

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

All About Hypothesizzle!

| tnunez

Good morning and welcome back! Today we'll be talking about a new card from Guilds of Ravnica, and the interesting kind of ability it has. Hypothesizzle lets you draw 2 cards, and if you want to, discard a nonland card to dome a creature for 4 damage. Basically, it lets you pick a 'dead' nonland card in your hand and turn it into a Flame Slash for free. But wait- what's that "When you do" wording in there? Normally, a card like this would say "IF you do" after the discard part, right? Why the different wording?

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

Ionize vs “Can’t Be Countered”

| tnunez

Hello and welcome back to the one, the only, Rules Tips Blog! It's been a hot-and-spicy minute since we've had any Rules Tips for you folks, but we're back on track and hitting the ground running with Izzet Week- all your Rules Tips this week will involve cards from the bombastic and eccentric chemisters from the Izzet League (specifically, new cards from Guilds of Ravnica). To start with, we'll be talking about Ionize.

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Abilities, Activated Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Effects, One-Shot Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, State-Based Actions, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities, Zones

Tournament Tuesday: Kalitas and Anointed Procession

| tnunez

EDIT: With the release of Ixalan, the rules regarding this interaction have changed. As of that set’s release, effects like Anointed Procession will also apply if a replacement effect  (such as Kalitas’ effect) is creating tokens, no matter why. Even if Kalitas’ ability is replacing a state-based action rather than the effect of a spell or […]

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