{"id":2500,"date":"2012-10-18T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:03:28","slug":"you-dont-have-to-sacrifice-a-creature-when-you-copy-fling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2012\/10\/you-dont-have-to-sacrifice-a-creature-when-you-copy-fling\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t have to sacrifice a creature when you copy Fling"},"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=Fling'><\/p>Ah, good old <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Fling&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Fling<\/a>. The most common question I hear about Fling is the one I&#8217;m answering now, and it always gets worse when Fling is around with good ways to copy stuff. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Nivix+Guildmage&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Nivix Guildmage<\/a> provides a repeatable source of spell-copying, and also a repeatable souce of Fling questions.<\/p>\n<p>No, you do not have to sacrifice more creatures when you copy Fling, just like you don&#8217;t have to pay 1R when you throw the copy down. The copy is created directly on the stack, not cast; you aren&#8217;t paying for the spell in any stripe, beyond the cost of the copying effect itself, so you definitely aren&#8217;t paying the additional cost of &#8216;sacrifice a creature&#8217;. The copy remembers what the original Fling flung, so the copy will hit just as hard as the original. If you sacrificed a 4\/1 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Frostburn+Weird&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Frostburn Weird<\/a> and copied the Fling, the copy will also deal 4 damage.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by<br \/>\nTrevor Nunez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, good old . The most common question I hear about Fling is the one I&#8217;m answering now, and it always gets worse when Fling is around with good ways to copy stuff. provides a repeatable source of spell-copying, and also a repeatable souce of Fling questions. No, you do not have to sacrifice more [&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":[67,26],"tags":[486],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copies","category-costs","tag-fling","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","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=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}