Triggered abilities: The difference between “graveyard from the battlefield” and “graveyard from anywhere.”

Now you may be wondering why it is that you shuffle into your graveyard if you mill it, but you don’t get to draw a card if you mill your . It’s pretty simple; they’re a different breed of trigger. Simulacrum has a ‘graveyard from the battlefield’ trigger, meaning it only works if it goes […]

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Cards removed by Hideaway are cast.

Cards that have been removed from the game by the hideaway ability of one of the Hideaway lands form Lorwyn (for example, ) do end up getting played when their non-mana activated abilities resolve. This means that abilities that trigger when a spell is played will trigger. If was removed from play by a Hideaway […]

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