Today’s tip unfortunately doesn’t cover any of the new cards from Fate Reforged, but it’s still quite useful! is a pretty neat card, and it lets you turn your creatures (such as the goblin tokens from ) into value. But Rabblemaster might attack right into your opponent’s Manifest/Morph and die a horrible death. Without Rabblemaster […]
Category: Combat Phase
Comeuppance + Comeuppance = a drawn game.
Comeuppance can do cool and weird things in combat (and two players with Comeuppance can result in a draw!). Learn about it here!
Deflecting Palm and lethal damage from combat
Deflecting Palm can pretty easily cause a game to become a draw by preventing and dealing some part of combat damage from multiple attacking creatures.
Wall of Essence and Multiple Attackers
Today’s Rules Tip begins with a scenario: You’re at 5 life. Your opponent is attacking you with an and a . You have a lone on your side ready to die for your protection. You block the Hivelord. Damage from the Tormentor goes through and the Wall’s ability triggers- Are you dead? If you guessed […]
Shield of the Avatar and Multiple Blockers
Wrapping up this week’s tips, we have a fun equipment for creature-heavy decks: . This little toy helps keep your best guy alive by putting a damage-prevention effect around that creature. How much does it prevent? Well, how many buddies does your best creature have? There’s usually strength in numbers, but the Shield makes that […]
Inferno Fist in Combat: Choices, Choices
Among the new cards we’ve gotten questions about from M15 is a neat little aura called . As with other Auras, it’ll enchant something (in this case, a creature!) and do something neat. What Fist does, specifically, is boost your creature by +2/+0. It also has an ability that lets you sacrifice the Fist to […]
Preeminent Captain Won’t Trigger Military Intelligence
As is usual with the summer Core Set, we’ve gotten back some good old friends from days past. One of those old friends is , a very fun creature that was originally printed with all his Kithkin buddies in Morningtide. Captain has an interesting ability: Whenever he attacks, you can throw down a Soldier creature […]
What “attacks if able” really means.
"Attacks if able" is pretty straightforward, until you add other restrictions or requirements! See inside for some more detail.
Brimaz vs. Silent Arbiter.
Against Silent Arbiter, Brimaz can attack by himself, but you still end up with 2 attacking creatures.