{"id":2830,"date":"2012-12-14T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:03:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:03:02","slug":"bloodbraid-elf-can-cascade-into-boombust-and-cast-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2012\/12\/bloodbraid-elf-can-cascade-into-boombust-and-cast-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodbraid Elf can cascade into Boom\/Bust and cast Bust."},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>Cascade and split cards are a fun little combination, both in Modern and in Commander. The reason it can be fun is that when Cascade asks a split card what its CMC is, you get two answers; one for each side. As long as ONE of those answers is \u2018low enough\u2019 for that Cascade, you can cast either side. It’s a binary yes\/no question: Does this card have a CMC less than the card that triggered the cascade ability? The answer is “yes” even though the card also has a CMC greater than that.<\/p>\n

So say you cast Bloodbraid Elf<\/a>, and the first card you turn over that has a low enough cost is Boom\/Bust. Bust doesn\u2019t have CMC 3 or less… but Boom does. So you can cast Boom\/Bust, and as is normal for casting a split card, you choose which side to cast as you put it on the stack (and either way, you get to cast it without paying the mana cost). So it\u2019s a perfectly legal (though perhaps a touch mean-spirited) play to cast Bust off Bloodbraid\u2019s cascade.<\/p>\n

Today’s Rules Tip written by Trevor Nu\u00f1ez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cascade and split cards are a fun little combination, both in Modern and in Commander. The reason it can be fun is that when Cascade asks a split card what its CMC is, you get two answers; one for each side. As long as ONE of those answers is \u2018low enough\u2019 for that Cascade, you […]<\/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":[29,38,8],"tags":[94,859],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-characteristics","category-triggeredabilities","tag-bloodbraid-elf","tag-boombust","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","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=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4664,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}