Welcome back to the Rules Tips Blog! This week we’ll be discussing the new mechanics from Battle for Zendikar, starting with Awaken today! Awaken is an alternate cost found on Instant and Sorcery spells, costing more than the ‘normal’ cost. If you cast the spell for the alternate “Awaken” cost, you get the added effect […]
Category: Type & Subtypes
Modern Masters Week: I’ve got Soul(shift)
Welcome back to Modern Masters Week! Today, we’ll be covering… Soulshift! No points for guessing, I told you that yesterday. Soulshift is another mechanic from Kamigawa block, which was heavily laden with Spirit creatures. Put simply, Soulshift lets you get back OTHER Spirits when your current Spirits end up dead. It’s always followed by a […]
Modern Masters Week: Arcane Spells
Welcome to our lead-up to Modern Masters 2015! Hopefully a great many of you will be enjoying the festivities at the Grands Prix in Las Vegas, Utrecht, and Chiba this weekend (nearly the entire Rules Tips Blog team will be at GP Vegas!), and in honor of the new set and the enormous events taking […]
Manifest and Gift of Immortality
Gift of Immortality can return any permanent card that it was attached to if the card was a face-down manifest creature when it died. It can't return an instant or sorcery. Details inside!
Manifest and Athreos
Athreos triggers when any of its controller's creatures die, and no matter what they look like in the graveyard, they can still be returned unless 3 life is paid.
Ensoul Artifact – Learn All About It!
Making a 5/5 flyer or 5/5 indestructible creature on turn two brightens my soul. Both options are possible with . works by setting the base power and toughness of any artifact to 5/5 and, if it isn’t already, makes it a creature. The best part about this transformation is that it does not affect the […]
Bestow cards are not auras in your library.
When you're searching your library for an aura card, it has to have aura printed in the type line. A bestow card doesn't qualify!
Abilities, Activated Abilities, Combat Phase, Tournament Rules, Turn Structure, Type & Subtypes, Type Changing
How to Attack with Mutavault
is back in town, and doing fun things! It swings for 2, it gets pumped by , it has the subtypes of Ninja Mutant Turtle- and it taps for mana! What a land. However, some people don’t know how to properly attack with it! You see, to swing with your Mutavault, it has to be […]
Duress can never cause a Theros god to be discarded.
A god card is always a creature card (never a noncreature card). The only exception is while it's on the battlefield and your devotion is less than 5.