{"id":1586,"date":"2011-12-20T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:06:24","slug":"animated-lands-keep-counters-even-when-they-dont-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2011\/12\/animated-lands-keep-counters-even-when-they-dont-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Animated lands &#8216;keep&#8217; counters even when they don&#8217;t matter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a non-creature permanent becomes a creature and gains counters that only apply to creatures, these counters will remain on this permanent even when it is no longer a creature.  For example, if an <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Inkmoth+Nexus&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Inkmoth Nexus<\/a> is animated by its own ability and it gets a +1\/+1 counter from something like <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Gavony+Township&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Gavony Township<\/a>&#8216;s ability, those +1\/+1 counters will remain on the Nexus.  It does not matter that when the current turn ends the Nexus is no longer a creature.  The counters will essentially not matter when the Nexus is not a creature.  However, if it is animated later, the counters will affect the power and toughness of the Nexus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a non-creature permanent becomes a creature and gains counters that only apply to creatures, these counters will remain on this permanent even when it is no longer a creature. For example, if an is animated by its own ability and it gets a +1\/+1 counter from something like &#8216;s ability, those +1\/+1 counters will [&hellip;]<\/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":[38,1],"tags":[590,130],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characteristics","category-uncategorized","tag-gavony-township","tag-inkmoth-nexus","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","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=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}