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Prerelease Primer: All About Afterlife
Prerelease Week: Orzhov Edition! Get yourself Ravnica ready and learn about Afterlife!
Trostani Discordant and Mind Control effects
Hapatra and Wither: Who’s Putting These Counters?
Welcome back! Today's topic will be the new card, and how she works. On the surface, pretty simply: Whenever you put some -1/-1 counters on a creature, you get a 1/1 deathtouching Snake as a bonus. That's fairly simple with effects like or , which are effects that you control telling you "Hey, put a counter on that thing". That'll trigger Hapatra and grow your Ophiological family. You also only get one Snake per creature you're shrinking; if you were to put 10 -1/-1 counters on a single creature,
Threatened Exertion
Welcome back to the Rules Blog! Today we'll be covering the interaction between effects (such as or ) and Exert. As you may know, many creatures in Amokhet can be Exerted as you attack with them, which makes it so they won't untap normally next turn, but in exchange get some kind of boost or effect. But how does that work with Threaten effects, when you steal your opponent's and Exert it? Will it be locked down during their turn? Hilariously, it will not! Formally, what happens when you Exert
Bomat Courier: No Strength in Numbers!
Welcome back to the Rules Tip Blog! Today we'll be going over a tricky little delivery-robot, . On the surface it's fairly simple; a 1/1 with Haste for 1 mana. Whenever it attacks, you exile the top card of your library face-down. The tricky bit is the third ability: You can pay a red mana, sac the Courier, and ditch your hand to put everything that Courier exiled into their owners' hands (it doesn't just say "YOUR" Hand, because your opponent might have ed it, and you don't get their card!). Basically,
Deciphering Gonti
And welcome back to our last Rules Tip of the week (don't worry, we'll be back again on Monday)! Today we'll be going over . This Aetherborn Rogue will help you to whatever luxury you want... from the top of your opponent's library, that is. When Gonti enters the battlefield, you get to look at the top four cards of an opponent's library and pick the one you like the best. You'll exile it face-down, then put the other three cards on the bottom of that opponent's library in a random order (so just
Emrakul and Controlling Another Player
Welcome back! Eldritch Moon gave us a lot of scary colorless cards, the scariest of which is . Emrakul is the newest in the line of cards that let you control another player during their turn (colloquially called "" effects, after the first such card printed in Mirrodin block!). While it hasn't been that long since we had in Standard, it's much more likely that you'll get an Emrakul pointed at you than a Worst Fears, so let's go over what can and can't be done while you're controlling another player. To
Mirrorwing Dragon And You!
Making spells go wide to hit multiple targets has been used a few times through the history of Red magic, and the most recent addition to that stable comes to us from Eldritch Moon: . ON the surface this seems to function the same as ; when you cast an instant or sorcery that ONLY targets your Dragon, you get a copy for all your other creatures that could legally be targets as well. Using that you can get a lot of value off of your own cards; can draw you a whole new hand of cards, buff spells like