{"id":2581,"date":"2012-11-02T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:03:16","slug":"you-dont-have-to-pay-for-your-opponents-soul-tithe-if-you-control-sigarda-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2012\/11\/you-dont-have-to-pay-for-your-opponents-soul-tithe-if-you-control-sigarda-3\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t have to pay for your opponent&#8217;s Soul Tithe if you control Sigarda."},"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=Sigarda, Host of Herons'><\/p><p><img  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Soul Tithe'><\/p>If you control <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Sigarda%2C+Host+of+Herons&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Sigarda, Host of Herons<\/a> and your opponent enchants one of your <em>other<\/em> creatures with <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Soul+Tithe&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Soul Tithe<\/a> (obviously they can&#8217;t cast Soul Tithe targeting your Sigarda thanks to hexproof), then when Soul Tithe&#8217;s ability resolves it will ask, &#8220;Wanna pay this thing&#8217;s converted mana cost?&#8221; At that point, you can pay if you really want to, but when you don&#8217;t, it will say, &#8220;Ok, sacrifice this thing then!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Soul Tithe&#8217;s triggered ability is controlled by the opponent who cast and still controls Soul Tithe (even though it&#8217;s attached to your creature), so Sigarda says, &#8220;Nope. There will be no sacrifices here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So I recommend not paying the Tithe, and just carrying on normally. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by<br \/>\nJosh Stansfield, as suggested by reader Chad Galey &#8211; Thanks Chad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you control and your opponent enchants one of your other creatures with (obviously they can&#8217;t cast Soul Tithe targeting your Sigarda thanks to hexproof), then when Soul Tithe&#8217;s ability resolves it will ask, &#8220;Wanna pay this thing&#8217;s converted mana cost?&#8221; At that point, you can pay if you really want to, but when you [&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":[207,15,8],"tags":[708,831],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-control-controller","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","category-triggeredabilities","tag-sigarda","tag-soul-tithe","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","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=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4681,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions\/4681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}