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Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities, Zones

Objects Entering Simultaneously

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019 | tnunez

How are replacement effects and triggered abilities handled when multiple objects enter the battlefield simultaneously?

Casting / playing a spell or ability, Control / Controller, Effects, One-Shot Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Zones

Cardnapping for Fun and Profit

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Act of Treason (and other temporary-steal effects) work with "flicker" effects!

Casting / playing a spell or ability, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Zones

Chaos Warp and Commanders

January 11, 2019January 11, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Chaos Warp interacts with Commanders- and how it used to!

Abilities, Effects, Multiplayer, One-Shot Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities, Zones

Commanders and Banishing Light

January 7, 2019 | tnunez

Commander Week! Today we go over how the Commander replacement effect interacts with Oblivion Ring and Banishing Light.

Copies, Effects, One-Shot Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, State-Based Actions, Type & Subtypes, Zones

Copying Double-Faced Cards

December 21, 2018December 24, 2018 | tnunez

How do copy effects work with double-faced cards and transforming?

Abilities, Activated Abilities, Continuous Effects, Effects, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities, Zones

Thief of Sanity and Control-Changing

November 14, 2018November 15, 2018 | tnunez

Today we continue Dimir Week with a tip about Thief of Sanity and how it interacts with control-changing effects!

Abilities, Activated Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Effects, One-Shot Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, State-Based Actions, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities, Zones

Tournament Tuesday: Kalitas and Anointed Procession

May 23, 2017October 16, 2017 | tnunez

EDIT: With the release of Ixalan, the rules regarding this interaction have changed. As of that set’s release, effects like Anointed Procession will also apply if a replacement effect (such as Kalitas’ effect) is creating tokens, no matter why. Even if Kalitas’ ability is replacing a state-based action rather than the effect of a spell or […]

Casting / playing a spell or ability, Characteristics, Resolving spells and abilities, Type & Subtypes, Zones

You Can’t Bounce the Dead!

February 10, 2017 | tnunez

Today we’ll be talking about the wording on some targeted spells and abilities- specifically, things that tell you to “return target creature to its owner’s hand”. They’ve been around since Day One with cards like , allowing you to temporarily get rid of a threat at a low cost, or even to save one of […]

Abilities, Activated Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Control / Controller, Costs, Resolving spells and abilities, Zones

Bomat Courier: No Strength in Numbers!

November 21, 2016 | tnunez

Welcome back to the Rules Tip Blog! Today we’ll be going over a tricky little delivery-robot, . On the surface it’s fairly simple; a 1/1 with Haste for 1 mana. Whenever it attacks, you exile the top card of your library face-down. The tricky bit is the third ability: You can pay a red mana, […]