Because of the "if you do" clause, Liliana's trigger won't do anything unless it's able to exile her from the battlefield. If she's already in the graveyard, it can't find her to exile her, so you won't get a transformed planeswalker and you won't get a zombie.
Ugin’s -X ability vs. transformed planeswalkers
A card with no mana cost has CMC of 0, which includes the back face of double-faced cards like the new Planeswalkers from Magic Origins. They also have a color from their color indicator, so they will be exiled by Ugin's -X ability with any value chosen!
Skullcrack vs. Dragon’s Claw
Sideboard hate: it’s a time-honored tactic to fill your sideboard with narrow cards that totally hose specific decks to improve your matchups. Some are completely devastating ( or against a reanimation strategy, for example), while some are just really good at tripping the deck up. is such a card- part of a cycle commonly called […]
Draconic Roar: Only One Target!
Yesterday we talked about , and how your opponent removing their own creature in response to your Blaze won’t save them from taking 3 damage. The reason for that, as we explained, is that the spell still has a legal target (your opponent!), and the game’s rules won’t counter it unless ALL the targets are […]
Searing Blaze and Only One Target on Resolution
Most of you should know that you can’t cast a spell (or activate an ability, or place a triggered ability onto the stack) without legal targets. You can’t throw a Doom Blade at nothing just to up your storm count, for example. However, that only applies to when you’re first selecting targets. It’s true that […]
Mana Leak and Delve
Even more Delve! Yesterday we learned that you can use Delve as a payment for an alternate cost such as Flashback, because Delve is a payment, not an alternate cost itself. So how does Delve interact with additional costs? Well, that depends! If there were a Delve spell with Kicker, you could use Delve to […]
Snapcaster Mage and Delve
Delve has been kicking around the older formats pretty much since day one- was an old favorite in some decks, and was infamously too good for Legacy! Even now, there’s still Delving going around in Legacy and in Modern- and more importantly for today, several of those cards are Instants and Sorceries. What that means […]
Starfield of Nyx and enchantment creatures.
Oh, . It, comboed with , was the bane of many judges’ and rules gurus’ existence. Even though things have been figured out for a while now (we even have a Gatherer ruling to cover it). But now they’ve brought back “Opalescence” in the form of . It’s not that bad this time, but there […]
If Kothophed dies while enchanted by an opponent’s aura, it won’t trigger for the aura.
When a creature dies while it has an aura attached to it, the auras don't technically move to the graveyard with the creature. They wait until they're on the battlefield unattached to be put in the graveyard, immediately AFTER the creature dies. This is rarely relevant, but today you can learn when it matters!