{"id":2187,"date":"2012-06-18T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:04:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:04:19","slug":"two-paired-stern-mentors-can-only-mill-a-total-of-4-cards-each-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2012\/06\/two-paired-stern-mentors-can-only-mill-a-total-of-4-cards-each-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Two paired Stern Mentors can only mill a total of 4 cards each turn."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img  style='float:left'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Stern Mentor'><\/p><br \/>\nAh, this one reminds me of when Slivers were Standard-legal! This one&#8217;s pretty easy, actually. If you pair a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Stern+Mentor&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Stern Mentor<\/a> to something, both creatures gain the ability to tap to mill 2. So what happens when you pair two Mentors together? Well, not much.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people might think that the abilities &#8216;combine&#8217; to mill for 4, or that they both fire off when you tap them [this was a common misconception with the Slivers especially, since very many of them granted multiple tap abilities]. The real answer is, you&#8217;ll still only be able to mill for 2 with each Mentor. The abilities don&#8217;t &#8216;combine&#8217;, and you can&#8217;t use both at once; they both gain two instances of the &#8220;{T}: Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.&#8221; ability, which is just as redundant as two instances of Flying from pairing two <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Wingcrafter&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Wingcrafter<\/a>s, or two instances of Deathtouch from pairing two <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Nightshade+Peddler&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Nightshade Peddler<\/a>s.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by<br \/>\nTrevor Nu\u00f1ez, Level 1 judge from Roswell, NM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, this one reminds me of when Slivers were Standard-legal! This one&#8217;s pretty easy, actually. If you pair a to something, both creatures gain the ability to tap to mill 2. So what happens when you pair two Mentors together? Well, not much. A lot of people might think that the abilities &#8216;combine&#8217; to mill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[726],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activatedabilities","tag-stern-mentor","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}