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How Battle Cry works.

February 4, 2011February 5, 2015 | krizriktr

Battle Cry is a triggered ability that triggers when the creature with Battle Cry attacks. When this triggered ability resolves, all attacking creatures apart from the creature with the Battle Cry ability will get +1/+0. This effect lasts until the end of turn and does not end when the combat phase does. If an additional […]

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What happens when Blightning resolves.

January 23, 2011February 5, 2015 | krizriktr

When resolves the targeted player will receive three points of damage and discard two card. The cards are discarded by the targeted player even if the damage is prevented or redirected to another player, creature or planeswawlker If the targeted player does not have at least two cards in hand, they will do as much […]

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Genesis Wave, Ob Nixilis and multiple triggers. Oh my!

January 19, 2011February 5, 2015 | krizriktr

IMPORTANT UPDATE: This article has been slightly updated as of the prerelease of Magic 2014 on July 13; Please refer to the bolded revisions below. is one method to getting multiple cards into play at the same time. The higher the value of X, the more cards you look at that the ‘bigger’ the things […]

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You can forget when resolving Memoricide.

January 3, 2011February 5, 2015 | krizriktr

instructs its controller to search for ‘any number’ of the named card in the hand, graveyard and library of the targeted player. ‘Any number’ can mean zero. This means that is is possible for a player to miss, intentionally or not, a copy of the named card in a graveyard. This is a bit different […]

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