Pack Rats can be a bit complicated when it comes to combat and state-based actions, similar to "Lords" that die during combat making your other creatures smaller. Be aware of these subtleties before you throw away a game unknowingly!
Category: Characteristics
If you Whip out an Adephage and get a token, it sticks around.
Whip of Erebos's "exile that thing" trigger isn't copiable, so if you get a token copy of a resurrected Giant Adephage, for example, the token has no obligation to go away at end of turn. Value!
Possibility Storm + Bestow
Possibility Storm cares about the "spell" that was exiled, not the card as it exists in exile. A bestowed card will be exiled as an Enchantment-Aura, so you have to dig for an enchantment card to cast.
Anthousa’s land warriors don’t gain color.
Many of you probably played with at the prerelease, since it was one of the prerelease promos that were given out. Being able to make a small army of your lands can be a strong play. But let’s take a closer look at those lands. What color are they when they become animated? Usually, a […]
Annul can counter an enchantment spell that’s also a creature.
While a card can't be both a creature and a "noncreature," it CAN be a creature and another type often associated with noncreatures. In Theros, every Enchantment Creature is a valid target for Annul.
Doom Blade and Multicolored Creatures
A common mistake I see newer (and some veteran!) players making is misunderstanding how a permanent’s colors work. For example, I’ve seen many a person think that when says it destroys a nonblack creature, what that means is that the creature has to be a color that isn’t black. So, by their logic, an it, […]
Witchstalker only gets one counter for a spell that’s both blue and black.
A discussion of Witchstalker and spells that are more than one color; it still only triggers once per spell.
M14 Rules Changes! Making “indestructible” an ability
In the post-Magic 2014 world, “indestructible” is now a keyworded ability! Instead of cards having the wording “Darksteel Ingot is indestructible”, the Ingot now simply has the ability “indestructible.” The indestructible ability does the exact same thing that “this permanent is indestructible” used to: a permanent with indestructible can’t be destroyed by lethal damage or […]
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Melira and Inkmoth Nexus
Infect! Quite the polarizing mechanic in most areas, it was either considered laughably bad or stupidly broken depending on who you were talking to. It’s gained some traction lately with eggs-in-one-basket rush decks, especially in Modern, and it’s possible you might run into a Pod deck running and you want to know how it interacts […]