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 […]
Category: Prevention and Replacement Effects
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 […]
Kalitas Week! Who Gets The Tokens?
Good morning and welcome to Kalitas Week here at the Rules Tip Blog. We’ve been noticing an awful lot of questions about the new popping up, so we thought we’d take a whole week to address just questions about Kalitas. Kalitas’ has an ability that sets up a replacement effect: it replaces one event (in […]
Hangarback Walker and Hardened Scales
Hangarback Walker plays well with Hardened Scales... but casting Walker for 0 isn't going to work out well for you.
All about Anafenza, the Foremost’s replacement effect.
Anafenza, the Foremost causes much confusion among players and judges alike, so Nathan Long delves into all the common interactions that involve her in this linked article. Learn and enjoy!
Magic Origins Spoiler! Hallowed Moonlight
Let’s jump right into today’s spoiler! Stick around after the preview to see how it interacts with some common things, though! So how does our new card work against things? Well, let’s go over it! Tokens: Even though you’re probably casting a spell that makes tokens (, , etc), the tokens themselves are not cast. […]
Guile vs. Remand
Since we’re on the topic of odd Modern interactions, let’s propose that a player controls Guile and casts in an attempt to take an opponent’s spell. Both and Guile have replacement effects that affect the spell in question, so which effect wins? In short, Guile’s effect will override , because Remand never actually counters the […]