Some of you might be sad that we no longer have the Khans “fetchlands” to help us fix and interact with our Battle For Zendikar duals. Fortunately, there is some news that might perk you up a bit when it comes to fixing. The new Shadows Over Innistrad lands only care if the land you […]
Category: Effects
Altered Ego only gets counters if it copies something.
Hello again, welcome back to the Rules Tips Blog! Don’t you hate it when you cast a card thinking that it’s going to do something and then when it resolves it actually does the opposite of what you want? You might even say that its ego had been altered. That is exactly what you will […]
Goldnight Castigator with Orbs of Warding.
Ah, replacement effects. The bane of many Magic players. We’re going to talk about applying replacement/prevention effects today, when we talk about . Goldnight Castigator looks really good on the first glance – a 4/9 with flying and haste for four mana. At that cost, you know there has to be a drawback, and it’s […]
SOI Prerelease Week! All About Madness
Buckle up everyone, because today’s mechanic is a little deeper than the others! We talked about some crazy stuff happening on Innistrad, and alongside Delirium, we’re also seeing some Madness. Madness is a returning mechanic, and it’s gotten a little face-lift. On the surface it’s really simple; when you discard a card with Madness, you […]
SOI Prerelease Week! Explaining Delirium
Welcome back to Prerelease Week here at the Rules Tips Blog! Today we’re going over one of the new mechanics of Shadows over Innistrad: Delirium. Delirium works somewhat similarly to an old ‘graveyard matters’ ability called Threshold; cards with Threshold got better somehow once you had at least 7 cards in your graveyard. Some were […]
Kalitas Week: Kalitas vs Tokens
Welcome to the last day of our Kalitas Week! This last tip is actually pretty quick-and-simple, and similar to the Anafenza situation: Kalitas simply doesn’t work on tokens! Kalitas specifically calls out “nontoken” (Anafenza doesn’t say it SPECIFICALLY- her ability only works on cards, and by definition that excludes tokens, which are not cards). Tokens […]
Kalitas Week: Kalitas and Board Wipes
Welcome to Day Four of Kalitas Week! Today we’re covering a pretty simple one rules-wise: How Kalitas interacts with a board-wipe like or . The core question people have in this situation is “do I get zombies? Do they come in and then die too, or do I just not get any?”. The answer is: […]
Kalitas Week: Kalitas vs Anafenza
Welcome back to Kalitas Week! Today we’ll be looking at another interaction you’re likely to run into: Kalitas vs. other replacement effects. The most common two that you’re likely to find in Standard are going to be and ; both of those cards are also going to replace the “dies” event with exile. The question […]
Kalitas Week: Kalitas Is Not Optional!
Welcome back to Kalitas Week here on the Rules Blog! Today we’re covering another common misconception about the chief: what, exactly, his second ability IS. A lot of people seem to mistakenly think that Kalitas’ ability is a trigger, and subject to the Missed Trigger rules. However, it is not! A trigger will have the […]