This question has come up a few times recently, because the answer doesn’t seem to make sense to everyone. What happens when you attack with a and your opponent responds to the trigger by casting or targeting the Beastmaster? Well the first thing to realize is that the Beastmaster’s power is only checked as its […]
What happens when you attack with two Wild Beastmasters.
is the kind of creature that mono-green decks love. She turns things like , single-target pump spells, into board-pumping game enders. But how do two of them work? The key thing here is when a card refers to itself by name in Magic, it does not mean ‘any object with this name’, it means ‘this […]
You can never purposely ignore a triggered ability you control.
As I detailed a few weeks back, we have a new Missed Triggers policy in effect. A few things changed; mainly we got rid of the whole Lapsing nonsense, and now it is entirely possible to miss a trigger without any penalty, so long as it was not a generally detrimental trigger. But some things […]
If you populate Geist of Saint Traft’s angel token, it’s not attacking but you get to keep it.
As usual, people are seeing if they can use the new token toys to make their even more fun. And like before it, the Populate mechanic gives you some new options with Geist. Unlike Parallel Lives, which makes Geist throw down two tokens, both swinging and temporary, Populate will simply give you another of the […]
How Epic Experiment does (and doesn’t) interact with Goblin Electromancer.
is pretty epic, like a for instants and sorceries. So, again we dredge up the way X spells work with . You decide what X is before you actually pay for the spell, so Electromancer essentially gives you a ‘free’ point to X. If you only have 3 Mountains and 3 Islands with your Electromancer […]
You don’t have to sacrifice a creature when you copy Fling
Ah, good old . The most common question I hear about Fling is the one I’m answering now, and it always gets worse when Fling is around with good ways to copy stuff. provides a repeatable source of spell-copying, and also a repeatable souce of Fling questions. No, you do not have to sacrifice more […]
You can search for Temple Garden with Farseek, but it will be tapped even if you pay 2 life.
Fun fact: The reprinting of led many people to (correctly) believe the ‘shocklands’ were coming back. Now, onto how they interact: Farseek nabs any Plains, Island, Mountain, or Swamp card you want out of your library and puts it onto the battlefield tapped. Prior to us Returning to Ravnica, you were only going to find […]
How to do things randomly
Every now and then, you’ll need to do something ‘randomly’ in Magic. The most common way this’ll come about is by discarding a card randomly, but there’s a few cases where you’ll have to select something to be affected at random (, , etc). So what’s the best method? Many players tend to do ‘random […]
Overloading in Two Headed Giant
Overload does weird things with 2HG. Some of you at the prerelease may have noticed that. See, all of the Overload spells that you aim at other people’s stuff work on everything of that sort you don’t control, if Overloaded. In a normal 2 man game, or a free-for-all, that means it hits your opponents’ […]