Welcome back to Tournament Tuesday, where we’re going to cover our favorite topic again: Missed Triggers! Today’s missed trigger discussion is going to be about an uncommon creature from Magic 2015, originally printed in Magic 2013: . Primadox has a trigger that makes you bounce a creature you control to its owner’s hand at the […]
Mass Calcify, Hunter’s Ambush, and Multicolored Creatures
Keeping with the long tradition of there needing to be some kind of white board wipe somewhere in Standard, M15 gave us back , a 7-mana potentially one-sided board wipe originally printed in Shadowmoor. Conveniently, goes pretty well with another card from M15 (as far as what we’re discussing today, anyway): the green common, . […]
Inferno Fist in Combat: Choices, Choices
Among the new cards we’ve gotten questions about from M15 is a neat little aura called . As with other Auras, it’ll enchant something (in this case, a creature!) and do something neat. What Fist does, specifically, is boost your creature by +2/+0. It also has an ability that lets you sacrifice the Fist to […]
Preeminent Captain Won’t Trigger Military Intelligence
As is usual with the summer Core Set, we’ve gotten back some good old friends from days past. One of those old friends is , a very fun creature that was originally printed with all his Kithkin buddies in Morningtide. Captain has an interesting ability: Whenever he attacks, you can throw down a Soldier creature […]
Cone of Flame NEEDS Three Targets
I’m sure many of you ran into at your local Magic 2015 draft. Hopefully, you were on the casting end, and not the receiving end. Today, we’re going talk about targets and . has three targets: a target creature or player, another target creature or player, and a third target creature or player. You have […]
Tournament Tuesday: Redefinition of USC Major
Some of you who keep a closer ear to the tournament scene might have heard about a change to Unsporting Conduct – Major. Among other things, we’ve upgraded this penalty from a Game Loss to a Match Loss, and now focuses on players who make a toxic or unwelcome environment. To start off with, let’s […]
Elesh Norn vs. Sakura-Tribe Elder, et. al.
You can only activate abilities when you have priority. If your creature enters the battlefield but dies before you get priority, you're not going to have a good time!
What “attacks if able” really means.
"Attacks if able" is pretty straightforward, until you add other restrictions or requirements! See inside for some more detail.
Notion Thief and Dredge
Notion Thief confuses many people, and dredge isn't much better... When the two come together, you get this rules tips blog!