{"id":3045,"date":"2013-03-01T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:01:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:01:52","slug":"gisela-will-prevent-all-instances-of-1-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/03\/gisela-will-prevent-all-instances-of-1-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Gisela will prevent all instances of 1 damage"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>We already did a general overview of the legendary angel Gisela, Blade of Goldnight<\/a> a while back when she was first released. But that general overview didn’t cover probably the most common question about her, especially in my Commander group: Whether or not she prevents 1 damage.\u00a0 Good old Gisela has two abilities (both are replacement effects) that make her very scary; the first one doubles the damage that would be dealt to any opponent or a permanent they control, while the second prevents half the damage [rounded up] that would be dealt to you or anything you control. Pretty simple; if you swing at your opponent with a 4\/4 and he blocks with a 4\/4, your creature deals 8 damage to his, and his creature only deals 2 damage to yours. Like I said, scary enough as-is, especially in a multi-player EDH game where it’s stupid to try and attack Gisela’s player, but profitable to attack anyone else. But what you’ll see commonly played alongside Gisela are cards like Manabarbs<\/a>, because Gisela will make them doubly painful for you… and painLESS to her. <\/p>\n

See, unlike some cards that prevent half of some amount of damage [like Ghosts of the Innocent<\/a> or Dark Sphere<\/a>], Gisela specifically rounds the prevention <\/em>(not the damage) up. And half of 1 damage, rounded up, is 1 damage that will be prevented. So, any time something tries to deal exactly 1 damage to you or your dudes, Gisela turns 1 damage into 0 damage. Fun, huh?<\/p>\n

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

We already did a general overview of the legendary angel a while back when she was first released. But that general overview didn’t cover probably the most common question about her, especially in my Commander group: Whether or not she prevents 1 damage.\u00a0 Good old Gisela has two abilities (both are replacement effects) that make […]<\/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":[148,32,33,17],"tags":[916],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-effects","category-preventionandreplacementeffects","category-staticabilities","tag-gisela-blade-of-goldnight","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","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=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}