{"id":2390,"date":"2012-09-20T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:03:41","slug":"mutilates-x-x-wont-apply-to-creatures-that-enter-later-in-the-same-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2012\/09\/mutilates-x-x-wont-apply-to-creatures-that-enter-later-in-the-same-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutilate’s -X\/-X won’t apply to creatures that enter later in the same turn."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>When a resolving effect modifies the characteristics of objects on the battlefield (such as power\/toughness), the permanents that will be affected are “locked in” as the spell\/ability resolves. So when you cast Mutilate<\/a>, it applies -X\/-X to all creatures currently on the battlefield as the spell resolves, and that effect will last until the end of this turn for those specific creatures.<\/p>\n

For example, your opponent controls a Doomed Traveler<\/a> and a Strangleroot Geist<\/a> (with no counters), and you cast Mutilate with 4 swamps. Those creatures each get -4\/-4 until end of turn. The Traveler’s spirit token will enter as a healthy 1\/1, because it wasn’t around to be affected by Mutilate, and the Geist will enter as a healthy 3\/2 for the same reason.<\/p>\n

This is different from Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite<\/a>, whose static ability will apply as long as she’s on the battlefield, and will affect all creatures on the battlefield no matter when they entered.<\/p>\n

Today’s Rules Tip written by
\nJosh Stansfield, L2 judge from Orange, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a resolving effect modifies the characteristics of objects on the battlefield (such as power\/toughness), the permanents that will be affected are “locked in” as the spell\/ability resolves. So when you cast , it applies -X\/-X to all creatures currently on the battlefield as the spell resolves, and that effect will last until the end […]<\/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":[38,25,169],"tags":[771,646],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-characteristics","category-continuouseffects","category-one-shoteffects","tag-mutilate","tag-strangleroot-geist","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","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=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}