Each Sylvan Advocate only pumps itself (not other Sylvan Advocates) and your land creatures.
Removing Embodiment of Insight after attackers are declared.
If Embodiment of Insight and a land creature attack, and the Embodiment is removed, the land creature is still untapped and attacking.
How best to kill a Wandering Fumarole with burn spells.
If you're going to try to kill Wandering Fumarole with a burn spell that does 1-3 damage, your best bet is to do it in response to them turning it into a 4/1.
Prerelease Week! Perhaps You’ve Met My Cohort?
Welcome back to the final day of the Oath of the Gatewatch Prerelease Week! Today we’re covering the final mechanic of the set, so you can go to your prereleases this weekend (or tonight, if there’s some midnight events in your area) armed with knowledge. Cohort is similar to Landfall and Constellation- it’s actually what […]
Prerelease Week! With A Little Support From Your Friends
Welcome back to Prerelease Week! Today we’re tackling one of the last two mechanics in the set: Support. Support is actually really simple; some spells will have Support N, as will some creatures. On a spell, “Support N” means “Put a +1/+1 counter on up to each of N target creatures”, when the spell resolves. […]
Prerelease Work! All About Surge!
Welcome back to Prerelease Week! Today we’re going to be discussing Surge- and no, not the 90s citrus soda that’s recently been brought back as proof that the universe is a kind place. Surge, the new mechanic from Oath of the Gatewatch! As we mentioned yesterday, Oath of the Gatewatch is actually designed partially for […]
Prerelease Week! What to Expect When You’re Expecting (Eldrazi)
Welcome back to Prerelease Week! Today we’re doing a little bit of Tournament Tuesday with our Prerelease Week and giving you a little primer on what to expect at your Oath of the Gatewatch prereleases this weekend. We’ll be going over what you’ll be opening, what’s new, and a few tips to maximize your fun! […]
Vryn Wingmare can improve your converge spells
You can pay extra mana for a spell like Radiant Flames only if an external effect is imposing an additional cost to cast it. That's a handy interaction with Vryn Wingmare and the like!
Zada and Tandem Tactics
Tandem Tactics can only trigger Zada if you choose Zada as the single target for it, and the copies will each have a single target as well.