I can tell you from firsthand experience that can be a nasty card (especially in 2HG!), speeding the game up for better or for worse by halving life totals constantly and completely shutting down lifegain. But wait, you may say! What if I can just set my life total to a new number, so my […]
Category: Effects
Pyromancer’s Gauntlet with Flames of the Firebrand.
Pyromancer's Gauntlet works well with your red spells that would be dealing damage to multiple things at once, and we explain why!
An Enlarge’d creature must be blocked if able, but a single blocker is enough.
Don't confuse "must be blocked if able" on Enlarge with other effects that say "each creature must block this if able"
Test of Faith and Multiple Blockers
Hello, and welcome to the third day of week. Hopefully, after reading today’s article, you’ll have all the knowledge you need on and a random 4/4. And then I cast on my creature. When it comes time to deal damage, my 6/6 is supposed to receive two damage from the Nighthawk and four damage from […]
Test of Faith and Combat Damage Assignment
Hi again, and welcome to part two of week. Today, let’s take a look at how works in combat. You don’t get the counters added to the creature right away. The counters are added as the damage is being prevented. And unless first or double strike is involved, all creatures assign and deal their […]
Test of Faith and Multiple Damage Sources
Hello, and welcome to week, where I’ll be focusing on , an intriguing common recently brought back by Modern Masters. It looks fairly innocent at first, but it can be deceptively confusing. What does do? In short, it sets up a small damage prevention shield around a creature. It prevents up to three points of […]
Blood Scrivener and Miracles – It has to really be the first card.
Miracle states it only applies to the FIRST card you draw each turn. Really, the first one. Whenever Magic involves drawing cards, it’s actually done as individual actions, so when it says to draw 3, it means “draw 1, draw 1, draw 1” in principal. Hence, you have to reveal each of them when is […]
Abilities, Activated Abilities, Continuous Effects, Effects, Mana Abilities, Type & Subtypes, Type Changing
Stony Silence and Artifact Lands
To finish out this week’s Modern flair, let’s talk about a deck called Robots (or back in my crotchety days, “Affinity”). It uses lots of artifacts to make your opponent and his life total very sad. The Legacy version (and the original Standard version) made delightful use of the artifact lands like and pulling double […]
Continuous Effects, Effects, Interaction of Continuous Effects, Type & Subtypes, Type Changing, Uncategorized
Blood Moon and Dryad Arbor
Modern Madness continues, if you hadn’t caught onto this week’s theme. Since the manabases in Modern can get greedy with their shocks and fetches and other color-providing wonder, is a common sideboard hate card to punish those greedy manabases. A whole board of colorfixing goodness, turned into nearly worthless Mountains for the low low price […]