{"id":2743,"date":"2012-11-22T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:03:15","slug":"a-hellion-crucible-can-only-put-a-counter-on-itself-not-any-other-hellion-crucible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2012\/11\/a-hellion-crucible-can-only-put-a-counter-on-itself-not-any-other-hellion-crucible\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hellion Crucible can only put a counter on itself, not any other Hellion Crucible."},"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=Hellion Crucible'><\/p><p><img  style='float:right'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Hellion Crucible'><\/p>You are playing a game of standard and control two <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Hellion+Crucible&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Hellion Crucible<\/a>s, each with a counter. Can you use Hellion Crucible A to put a counter on Hellion Crucible B, so you can sacrifice Crucible B to make the 4\/4 creature that turn? I&#8217;m afraid you can&#8217;t do that.<\/p>\n<p>When a Magic card states the name of the object it wants to do something to (like putting a counter on Hellion Crucible), it normally refers only to itself. For example, Hellion Crucible&#8217;s first ability states: &#8220;Put a pressure counter on Hellion Crucible.&#8221; The ability refers to itself, since its name is Hellion Crucible, and not any other Hellion Crucible on the battlefield (you can think of the ability as saying &#8220;Put a pressure counter on THIS.&#8221;). Due to the naming rules, it is impossible for one Hellion Crucible to put a counter on another Hellion Crucible. To work the way you might want it to, the ability would have to say: &#8220;Put a pressure counter on a card named Hellion Crucible.&#8221; If you don&#8217;t see &#8220;card named&#8221; in the text (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Mirror-Mad+Phantasm&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Mirror-Mad Phantasm<\/a> for an example of that kind of wording), then the object is referring to itself and not any other thing with the same name.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by Michael Swager, L2 from Riverside, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are playing a game of standard and control two s, each with a counter. Can you use Hellion Crucible A to put a counter on Hellion Crucible B, so you can sacrifice Crucible B to make the 4\/4 creature that turn? I&#8217;m afraid you can&#8217;t do that. When a Magic card states the name [&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":[108],"tags":[850,592],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activatedabilities","tag-hellion-crucible","tag-mirror-mad-phantasm","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","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=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}