Sudden Storm is just like Frost Breath, but there's a special rules update to make both of those cards work like people expect them to work as of the BNG release!
Category: Resolving spells and abilities
Hero of Leina Tower – You can’t respond between paying X and adding counters.
Hero of Leina Tower's trigger doesn't make you choose how much to pay until it starts resolving. This helps you avoid blowouts with removal!
You have to ask your opponent if they want to pay tribute.
Tribute requires an opponent to choose: To pay, or not to pay! You can't make that choice for them by making assumptions.
What happens if Phenax stops being a creature after you activate it.
Phenax's ability only cares about toughness when the ability resolves. If Phenax doesn't have any at that time, there will be no milling!
Cube week! Clones with Eureka vs. Genesis Wave
Clones can't copy something that they're entering with, but they can copy something that entered just before it during the same spell's resolution!
When it’s missed: Triggers that change the rules
Welcome to our special Christmas Eve edition of Tournament Tuesday, and possibly the most festive entry in our Missed Trigger series! Today we’ll be going over another type of trigger and how the Missed Trigger rules work with that type: triggers that change the rules of the game. What kind of trigger would change the […]
Two Ophiomancer’s probably won’t get you 2 snakes.
Ophiomancer's ability has an "intervening-if" clause, which means you can't really end up with more than one snake no matter how many Ophiomancers you control.
Illusionist’s Bracers and Beetleform Mage
"Activate this ability only once each turn" doesn't mean a copy of that ability can't be created and resolve in the same turn!
Gods, 4 devotion, and evolve.
Gods that enter while you have 4 devotion will be a creature when they enter, even though they aren't entering "as a creature." This is confusing, but we explain how that difference matters for enter-the-battlefield triggered abilities!