{"id":2399,"date":"2012-09-24T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:03:29","slug":"2399","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2012\/09\/2399\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Ravnica Preview Week: Unleash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, in celebration of our Return to the beloved plane of Ravnica, I&#8217;ll be previewing each of the new mechanics! Tuesday is Tournament day, so I&#8217;ll be cramming two abilities onto Friday&#8217;s post. Today, Unleash!<\/p>\n<p>Unleash is the Rakdos mechanic, and it really helps capture the hedonistic, thrillkilling attitude of the Cult of Rakdos. Mechanically speaking, Unleash is a replacement effect, just like other creatures that enter the battlefield with +1\/+1 counters. It replaces the event of &#8220;CARDNAME entering the battlefield&#8221; with &#8220;CARDNAME entering the battlefield with a +1\/+1 counter&#8221;. It&#8217;s very simple in practice; creatures with Unleash have the option for you to have them enter the battlefield with a +1\/+1 counter on them. In exchange for this boost in power, creatures with Unleash cannot block as long as they have a +1\/+1 counter on them [whether or not it came from Unleash; so you can put a +1\/+1 counter on your opponent&#8217;s Unleashed guys to make them unable to block]. <\/p>\n<p>So basically, Unleash lets you pick between a slightly weaker creature that can block, or a stronger creature that&#8217;s only good on offense. There are even a few creatures that get an additional effect from being Unleashed: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Chaos+Imps&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Chaos Imps<\/a> gets Trample as long as it has a +1\/+1 counter on it. So all you Rakdos thrillkillers, party hard this weekend!<\/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>This week, in celebration of our Return to the beloved plane of Ravnica, I&#8217;ll be previewing each of the new mechanics! Tuesday is Tournament day, so I&#8217;ll be cramming two abilities onto Friday&#8217;s post. Today, Unleash! Unleash is the Rakdos mechanic, and it really helps capture the hedonistic, thrillkilling attitude of the Cult of Rakdos. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[148,32,20,33,17],"tags":[774],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-effects","category-keywords","category-preventionandreplacementeffects","category-staticabilities","tag-chaos-imps","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4692,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions\/4692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}