Get the most value out of you Firedrinker Satyr by giving it lifelink! Any damage it deals to anything (including you!) causes you to gain that much life, negating any possible drawback.
Possibility Storm + Bestow
Possibility Storm cares about the "spell" that was exiled, not the card as it exists in exile. A bestowed card will be exiled as an Enchantment-Aura, so you have to dig for an enchantment card to cast.
Use Bow of Nylea to draw a card when a lonely Chronicler of Heroes enters.
will always trigger when it enters the battlefield, even if you don’t have any creatures with +1/+1 counters on them at that time. From a rules perspective, this is because Chronicler of Heroes’ ability doesn’t contain an “intervening if” clause. The ability will trigger even if your Chronicler is all alone when she enters the […]
Duress can never cause a Theros god to be discarded.
A god card is always a creature card (never a noncreature card). The only exception is while it's on the battlefield and your devotion is less than 5.
A bestow creature can’t enter as an aura unless you cast it that way.
An enchantment creature entering from anywhere other than the stack where you paid the bestow cost will always enter as an unattached creature (never an aura).
Cloning/Mimicing your heroic creatures won’t trigger their heroic abilities.
s (cards that copy something as they enter the battlefield), such as , don’t target. No matter how hard you try, when you choose a heroic creature with clones such as these, the heroic trigger’s requirements (1. That it’s a spell you cast, 2. That it targets this creature), won’t be satisfied because why? It’s […]
You can’t ignore your opponent’s errors (except missed triggers).
Sometimes there are times where we make mistakes, that’s why there are judges around to help. As soon as you notice a mistake, you are to call a judge over; they are trained in fixing mistakes that might have been made. However, when the time comes, you can’t ignore your opponent’s mistakes. Doing so is […]
Gods, 4 devotion, and entering the battlefield.
We delve into a tricky rules interaction with gods entering the battlefield while devotion to their color is exactly 4 before they enter.
Whip of Erebos + Aetherling & Obzedat
Whip of Erebos's exile effect only matters if the card would be going anywhere other than exile. If a Whipped card is moving to exile already from its own ability, it can return normally.