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 […]
Category: Resolving spells and abilities
Chandra’s Revolution and Illegal Targets
What’s the best way to take down an oppressive, metal-armed and invention-stealing jerk? Revolution! Even better than a regular Revolution is a mother-daughter, back-to-back Revolution (check the art for and [/card]Pia’s Revolution[/card]!). Today we’re talking specifically about Chandra’s Revolution, a sorcery that messes up tempo and blasts a creature right in its blastable face. Chandra’s […]
Playing Multiple Panharmonicons
A while back we covered the basics of how works; what we didn’t cover was how MULTIPLE copies of it work! As you may know, Panharmonicon by itself effectively doubles the value of your various ETB triggers; any time a creature or artifact entering the battlefield would fire a trigger from a permanent of yours, […]
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. […]
Monstrous Onslaught (the monstrous rules headache!)
Hi everyone, it’s Friday! Time for the weekend, but before we hit the weekend, we have one more tip for you today involving . So your opponent has a 5/5, and just cast the Onslaught to deal five damage among your creatures, and you’re hoping to use to prevent that from happening. Unfortunately, your removal […]
Blinking Greenwheel Liberator fuels itself
, like many revolt cards, packs potential if you can satisfy the cost. For the low, low cost of 1G, you can potentially have a 4/3 creature! But in order to get that 4/3 creature, you had to have a permanent you control leave the battlefield that turn. This may seem difficult for some, but […]
Fatal Push can punish you if you’re careless…
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Rules Tip Blog! If you read , its wording looks a little bit weirder than what you’d expect to see on a card of that type. Instead of being worded like , which can only target a creature with a converted mana cost of three or less, Fatal […]
Tout sur les Expertises
Bonjour à tous ! Aujourd’hui, prenons le temps de jeter un oeil à un cycle de cartes, les Expertises, qui mettent en valeur d’importants personnages de l’histoire, mais qui ont aussi un effet plutôt cool. Alors qu’elles se résolvent, vous pouvez lancer un sort de votre main “gratuitement” (en ignorant le coût de mana, mais […]
All About Expertises
To wrap up the week, we’re going to take a look at a cycle of cards, the Expertises, which not only spotlight some of Kaladesh’s important storyline characters but also have a pretty cool effect: As they resolve, you can cast a spell from your hand for “free” (ignoring mana cost, but paying all other […]