{"id":1029,"date":"2011-09-02T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dcifamily.org\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:07:17","slug":"what-discard-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2011\/09\/what-discard-means\/","title":{"rendered":"What discard means."},"content":{"rendered":"

Discard is not a keyword ability like Trample or Flying, however it is a keyword in that it is defined in the comprehensive rules. In Magic it means to take a card in your hand put it in your graveyard. (Discarding means similar things in other games.)<\/p>\n

Unless specified the person that is discarding a card gets to choose which one to get rid of. There are obviously plenty of effects where a player other than the one doing the discarding gets to choose. Distress<\/a> is an example where what is discarded is not up to the player losing the card.<\/p>\n

Discarding is not always the application of an effect, it is also often the cost associated with playing a spell or ability. In order to pay a cost, you must be able to discard the correct number of cards. You cannot activate Zombie Infestation<\/a>‘s ability if you only have one card in hand.<\/p>\n

To discard your hand means to put all of the cards in your hand into a graveyard. If this is a cost to activate an ability you can discard a hand of zero cards. For example, you can activate Slate of Ancestry<\/a>‘s ability if you do not have any cards in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discard is not a keyword ability like Trample or Flying, however it is a keyword in that it is defined in the comprehensive rules. In Magic it means to take a card in your hand put it in your graveyard. (Discarding means similar things in other games.) Unless specified the person that is discarding a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keywords","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}