Category: Costs
Electrodominance and X
Prerelease Primer: Quite The Spectacle
Grab some popcorn and take a seat for this three-ring Rules Tip on Spectacle!
All About The “Commander Tax”
Emmara and Convoke
Expansion vs Kicker
Izzet week continues with a look into Expansion // Explosion!
You Can’t Pay For Triggers Multiple Times
Welcome back to the Rules Tips Blog! Today we'll be covering a specific kind of triggered ability: The kind that let you pay for value! For example, there's a cycle of common creatures in Aether Revolt, all of which have "Thriving" in their name- , , , , and . They give you EE when they enter the battlefield, and each time they attack you can pay EE to give them a +1/+1 counter; they bring enough energy to boost themselves once, but if you've got access to energy from somewhere else, you can keep
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. It also needs to have a Converted Mana Cost lower than the Expertise, since all of them let you cast a spell with CMCs up to "1 lower than this spell", effectively. But how can we double up the value
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 a variety of ways. And hey, since they're counters, anything that interacts with counters on a player works on Energy (notably they can be Proliferated, and things like ). A lot
Aether Revolt Prerelease Week: Improvise (Whose Spell Is It Anyway?)
Welcome back to the Aether Revolt Prerelease Week! Today we're going over the other new mechanic of the set: Improvise. For those of you that remember the Ravnica block, Improvise is basically "Convoke, except with artifacts". For those of you who want more details, read on! Improvise is a neat ability present on several spells in the set (or ALL of your non-artifact ones, if you have an ) that allows you a new 'way' to pay for the spell: Tapping artifacts. You go through the normal steps of casting