Welcome back to Exploit Week here on the Rules Blog! Today we’ll be covering the OTHER way of messing up Exploit (or trying to, at least): Killing the potential sacrifice. Now, as you learned yesterday, the Exploiting player doesn’t select a creature to sacrifice until the Exploit trigger itself resolves. While many of them will […]
Exploit week: Responding by killing the creature with exploit.
Killing an exploit creature before exploit resolves ensures that the secondary trigger won't be around to trigger when the sacrifice would be made.
How Megamorph Works
We’ve had the third set in the Khans block kicking around for a while now, so most of you are probably familiar with Megamorph. Today we’re going to go into a little more detail about it! For the most part, it works -exactly- like regular Morph. You can cast your Megamorph guy face-down for 3 […]
Enduring Scalelord Combo
The Dromoka brood might have forbidden the Abzan’s ancestor worship, but they sure kept the love of +1/+1 counters! Not only does Bolster bring your weakest creatures up to snuff with the rest, the Dromoka have a lot of fun with counters in general. A perfect example of this is one of their big baddies, […]
Soldier of the Pantheon vs. Yasova Dragonclaw
Today’s tip comes straight from one of my Ask A Judge threads, and is about what protection from multicolored ‘means’. , just like the other four Khans from the Fate Reforged set, has an off-color ability. In the case of Yasova, her ability requires red or blue mana (or some combination thereof), while Yasova herself […]
Strive and Rebound
While we’re still talking Rebound, let’s look at something it DOES work with- additional costs! As you may know, it isn’t possible to pay more than one alternate cost at the same time (So you couldn’t Overload a spell cast for free via Rebound, for example). What you can do, however, is pay as many […]
Temporal Trespass And Rebound
Rebound is always great fun (for the player using it at least!)- you get double the spell, after all. Generally that doubling is factored into the cost, but when you use something like to apply Rebound to ‘normal’ spells, things can get pretty crazy. Who wouldn’t want to double up on their s or their […]
Monastery Siege, et. al. – An explanation of draw step triggers.
Monastery Siege and other draw step triggers can only go on the stack and resolve after you've drawn your card for the turn, making them considerably better than the other way around!
Indestructible, Damage, and Bile Blight
Indestructible is a neat little ability. It does exactly what you’d expect- it means that the permanent in question simply can’t be destroyed, whether that be via lethal damage or a “destroy” effect like or . It does NOT protect against other forms of removal or death, though: exile, the Legend Rule, the Planeswalker Uniqueness […]