What’s the best way to take down an oppressive, metal-armed and invention-stealing jerk? Revolution! Even better than a regular Revolution is a mother-daughter, back-to-back Revolution (check the art for and [/card]Pia’s Revolution[/card]!). Today we’re talking specifically about Chandra’s Revolution, a sorcery that messes up tempo and blasts a creature right in its blastable face. Chandra’s […]
Category: Casting / playing a spell or ability
Playing Multiple Panharmonicons
A while back we covered the basics of how works; what we didn’t cover was how MULTIPLE copies of it work! As you may know, Panharmonicon by itself effectively doubles the value of your various ETB triggers; any time a creature or artifact entering the battlefield would fire a trigger from a permanent of yours, […]
Fusing with Expertise
In Aether Revolt, we got a neat cycle of spells that let you free-cast another spell as one of their effects, like . As we covered during the prerelease week, you’ll pick the card from your hand to cast during the resolution of the Expertise, and then the spell you free-cast will resolve after that. […]
Monstrous Onslaught (the monstrous rules headache!)
Hi everyone, it’s Friday! Time for the weekend, but before we hit the weekend, we have one more tip for you today involving . So your opponent has a 5/5, and just cast the Onslaught to deal five damage among your creatures, and you’re hoping to use to prevent that from happening. Unfortunately, your removal […]
Fatal Push can punish you if you’re careless…
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Rules Tip Blog! If you read , its wording looks a little bit weirder than what you’d expect to see on a card of that type. Instead of being worded like , which can only target a creature with a converted mana cost of three or less, Fatal […]
NOT going infinite: Greenbelt Rampager
is the Rogue Elephant I always wanted as a kid but never had. It is a house of a creature for one mana, with one slight drawback. You can’t keep it on the field unless you can pay the cost of two energy. There is another semi-drawback as well – if you have 2 energy, […]
All About Expertises
To wrap up the week, we’re going to take a look at a cycle of cards, the Expertises, which not only spotlight some of Kaladesh’s important storyline characters but also have a pretty cool effect: As they resolve, you can cast a spell from your hand for “free” (ignoring mana cost, but paying all other […]
Aether Revolt Prerelease Week: Energy Refresher
Welcome back to Aether Revolt Prerelease Week! Today we’re going over another returning mechanic from Kaladesh (and boy is it a doozy): Energy. Lots of spells and abilities from this block will grant you Energy counters. These counters are put on you, the player (much like Poison or Experience counters), and can be spent in […]
Aether Revolt Prerelease Week: Vehicle Refresher
Welcome back to Aether Revolt Prerelease Week! Today we’re going over Vehicles, a returning card type and mechanic from Kaladesh. Vehicles have a unique card frame, including a Power and Toughness box on the bottom right, even though they aren’t creatures… normally. All Vehicles have an ability called “Crew”, which is always followed by a […]