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Category: Characteristics

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

Guardian Project and the “Legend Rule”

February 6, 2019February 6, 2019 | tnunez

Learn about Intervening Ifs with Guardian Project!

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Tagged Guardian Project
Abilities, Characteristics, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Static Abilities, Type & Subtypes, Type Changing

All About Alpine Moon

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 | tnunez

Learn about Alpine Moon, the Moon that came before it, and how they can ruin an opponent's day!

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Tagged Alpine Moon, Blood Moon, Blood Sun
Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Characteristics, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities

Riot: Not A Trigger!

January 30, 2019February 1, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Riot interacts (and fails to interact!) with several cards and mechanics

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Tagged Zhur-taa Goblin
Abilities, Characteristics, Effects, One-Shot Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities

Amplifire and CDAs

January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Amplifire works (and doesn't work) with various kinds of creatures and P/T boosts!

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Tagged Amplifire
Abilities, Activated Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Characteristics, Resolving spells and abilities

Prerelease Primer: Adapt and Overcome

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how to Adapt to any situation with the tried-and-true solution of "just put a bunch of +1/+1 counters on it"!

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Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Characteristics, Continuous Effects, Effects, Interaction of Continuous Effects, Triggered Abilities

Erratic Cyclops and Invert

December 12, 2018December 13, 2018 | tnunez

How does Erratic Cyclops work with Invert and other P/T-switching effects?

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Tagged Erratic Cyclops, Invert
Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Characteristics, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities, Type & Subtypes, Type Changing

Divine Visitation and ‘Specific’ Tokens

December 10, 2018December 10, 2018 | tnunez

Today, learn how Divine Visitation interacts with certain kinds of token-creating effects!

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Tagged Divine Visitation

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Tip Categories

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    • Activated Abilities (216)
    • Mana Abilities (27)
    • Static Abilities (243)
    • Triggered Abilities (512)
  • Casting / playing a spell or ability (378)
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  • Effects (244)
    • Continuous Effects (78)
    • Interaction of Continuous Effects (14)
    • One-Shot Effects (23)
    • Prevention and Replacement Effects (143)
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  • Multiplayer (40)
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    • Communication Policy (20)
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    • Shortcuts (27)
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