{"id":2357,"date":"2012-08-29T22:37:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T03:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:03:41","slug":"torpor-orb-doesnt-stop-clone-effects-or-other-%ca%baas-this-enters%ca%ba-abilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2012\/08\/torpor-orb-doesnt-stop-clone-effects-or-other-%ca%baas-this-enters%ca%ba-abilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Torpor Orb doesn’t stop Clone effects or other \u02baas this enters\u02ba abilities."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>As Scars of Mirrodin’s time in Standard is coming to a close, it seems fitting to give a final hurrah to one of the most confusing cards in the block: Torpor Orb<\/a>! This confusion can be attributed mostly to the difficulty people have in understanding the difference between triggered and static abilities, but once you know the rule, it’s quite simple<\/p>\n

Triggered abilities always begin with \u02baWhen,\u02ba \u02baWhenever,\u02ba or \u02baAt.\u02ba Examples would be Deceiver Exarch<\/a> and Glint Hawk Idol<\/a>. If an ability doesn’t begin with any one of these words, it’s not a triggered ability. <\/p>\n

Abilities like the ones on Phyrexian Metamorph<\/a> and Phyrexian Revoker<\/a>, even though they say \u02baenters the battlefield,\u02ba aren’t triggered abilities because they don’t start with \u02baWhen,\u02ba \u02baWhenever,\u02ba or \u02baAt.\u02ba Torpor Orb can’t stop these abilities from being used. They apply the moment the creature enters without using the stack, and definitely without ever triggering.<\/p>\n

Today’s Rules Tip written by
\nJen Wong, Level 1 judge from Irvine, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Scars of Mirrodin’s time in Standard is coming to a close, it seems fitting to give a final hurrah to one of the most confusing cards in the block: ! This confusion can be attributed mostly to the difficulty people have in understanding the difference between triggered and static abilities, but once you know […]<\/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":[67,17,8],"tags":[658,294],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copies","category-staticabilities","category-triggeredabilities","tag-phyrexian-revoker","tag-torpor-orb","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","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=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}