Thalia and Shocklands

Welcome back to the Rules Tips Blog! Today we’ll be doing a Modern Monday tip on how everyone’s favorite gloriously-maned Cathar interacts with Modern’s favorite colorfixing! messes with your opponent’s tempo by making their nonbasic lands, and all of their creatures, come down tapped. That makes it harder to block, and punishes greedy manabases by […]

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Bestow and Sigarda’s Aid

Today we’ll be talking about another card from Eldritch Moon, but in the context of some slightly older cards. is a nifty little trick for decks that like to beef up their creatures- it lets you flash in your Auras as combat tricks or at the end of your opponent’s turn, and it lets you […]

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Setting A Life Total

Welcome back to the Rules Tip Blog! Today we’ll be covering effects that set a life total to a specific number. Right now in Standard we’ve got a few cards that do this, such as and . When a life total is set to a specific number, most people are just going to change their […]

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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 […]

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All About Tree of Perdition

For today’s Rules Tips, we’ll be covering , the anti-backwards sibling of . Like Tree of Redemption, Perdition is a 0/13 Defender for 4 mana with a nifty ability that trades life totals for toughness. Where Redemption swapped its toughness with YOUR life total, Perdition (being black and spooky and all) swaps with an OPPONENT’S […]

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Bibliothèque sylvestre, Dragage et Abondance

Bonjour cher lecteurs ! L’astuce d’aujourd’hui sera simple et couvrira ce qu’il se passe quand vous combinez la et des effets qui remplacent la pioche. Par exemple, le Dragage, qui fonctionne lorsque vous devriez piocher. Cela signifie qu’avec la Bibliothèque, vous pouvez Draguer trois fois d’affilée si vous le souhaitez (en supposant que vous ayez […]

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Remue-méninges et Voleur de notion

Bienvenue ! Aujourd’hui nous allons continuer la semaine avec une astuce pour le Legacy, en l’honneur de la sortie d’Eternal Masters ! n’est pas joué des TONNES en Legacy, mais il peut retourner une partie si vous le jouez au bon moment. L’un de ces moments est contre un Remue-méninges, l’un des sorts de pioche […]

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Sylvan Library and Chains of Mephistopheles

To cap things off, we’re going to leave the realm of reasonable and go absolutely crazy. is already a somewhat weird old enchantment involving draws, so what happens when we pair it with everyone’s favorite confusing old enchantment: ? A whole bucket full of weird. Chains seems a lot more complex than it is: If […]

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