{"id":2842,"date":"2012-12-17T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:03:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:03:02","slug":"sphere-of-safety-vs-volatile-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2012\/12\/sphere-of-safety-vs-volatile-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Sphere of Safety vs. Volatile Rig"},"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=Sphere of Safety'><\/p><p><img  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Volatile Rig'><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Volatile+Rig&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Volatile Rig<\/a> loves attacking. It fact, it has an ability that says it has to attack each turn if able. But what if your opponent has a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Sphere+of+Safety&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Sphere of Safety<\/a> out? Does that mean I <em>have <\/em>to pay every turn to make it attack?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is no. Sphere of Safety adds a cost to creatures that are declared as attackers towards them or a planeswalker they control. And the Rig only attacks if able: you&#8217;re not forced to generate the mana to pay for the extra cost to make it attack, so if you don&#8217;t want the Rig to attack, you don&#8217;t have to pay and it won&#8217;t attack (because it&#8217;s not able). So if you <em>want <\/em>to attack with the Rig, you can, assuming you can pay X. If you don\u2019t or can\u2019t pay X, then the Rig doesn\u2019t have to attack (caveat for multi-player games, where it would still have to attack a different player if able). This could be handy if you want your Rig to be available as a blocker next turn or you&#8217;d rather leave your lands untapped so you can cast spells later on.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by Nathan Long (Welcome to the team!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>loves attacking. It fact, it has an ability that says it has to attack each turn if able. But what if your opponent has a out? Does that mean I have to pay every turn to make it attack? The answer is no. Sphere of Safety adds a cost to creatures that are declared as [&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":[4,25],"tags":[861,860],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-combatphase","category-continuouseffects","tag-sphere-of-safety","tag-volatile-rig","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","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=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}