What happens if you are saving your 4/4 from a removal spell using Force Away? Do you still get to draw and discard? Only if you also control another 4+ power creature, it turns out. Here's why.
Category: Resolving spells and abilities
Prerelease Primer Week – The Ferocious Temur
Last and certainly not least of the five clans, we have the Temur Frontier. They live in the coldest parts of Tarkir, and revere the savagery of the dragons. Their symbol is a set of dragon’s claws, and their mechanic certainly feels savage! Ferocious is another ability word, like Raid from earlier this week. It […]
Prerelease Primer Week – Delve with the Sultai
The Sultai brood are an opulent and decadent clan of necromancers, naga, and naga necromancers. They revere the ruthlessness of the long-gone dragons, and their symbol is a single dragon’s fang. Even their dead fuel their war machine, thanks to their returning Delve mechanic, first pre-printed in Future Sight. Delve works an awful lot like […]
Goblin Kaboomist: When To Flip Coins
Goblin Kaboomist is a goofy little rare from M15, and one that’s raised quite a few questions so far! Well, more accurately, it seems to have raised one question, multiple times! Kaboomist creates a Land Mine token during the beginning of your upkeep, and that Land Mine can be sacrificed to deal 2 damage to […]
Life’s Legacy: How Many Do You Draw?
Who doesn’t love drawing a bunch of cards? It’s exciting and rewarding- Even if you have to sacrifice a creature to get those draws. But let’s say you have a enchanted by and pumped with a when you cast . You probably guessed that you’re about to draw ten cards- and you would be correct. […]
Spirit Bonds: One Per Customer!
Hello again my Magic aficionados! Let’s get spiritual with our next tip, shall we? I’m glad you were able to come to today’s sermon which covers handling triggered abilities. With on the board you might wonder how many tokens you’ll be able to get after a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control. The […]
Gargoyle Sentinel can dodge Clear a Path.
Clear a Path needs the target to have defender both when you cast it and when it would resolve. Gargoyle Sentinel can make sure the latter part isn't true in order to survive!
Casting Ajani’s Pridemate while you have Staff of the Sun Magus – No counter for you!
The Staves all trigger when a spell is cast, so that trigger must resolve before the spell that caused it to trigger can resolve. If you cast Ajani's Pridemate, you gain the life before it actually enters, so it won't be around to trigger on that life gain and therefore won't gain a counter.
Prerelease Week: Returning mechanics – Fight
Fight returns in M15, and in case you aren't sure how it works, we explain it!