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Chromatic Sphere<\/a> is rather unique. It includes “Draw a card.” in the same ability as “Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.” In other words, you get to draw a card without using the stack as part of a mana ability! It’s so strange, they even had to add a rule about keeping the drawn card face down if you use this ability while in the process of casting a spell or activating an ability, so you don’t know what you’re getting until after you’ve fully paid for the spell. That way you can’t change your mind mid-payment because of the card you drew.<\/p>\n Chromatic Star<\/a>, at a glance, looks like the same card. However, note that the ability that draws you a card is in a different paragraph, and an entirely separate ability. This means a couple things. First, if you cast it on turn 1 and don’t have the mana to activate it, your opponent won’t get as much value from destroying it with Shattering Spree<\/a>. When it goes to the graveyard for any reason, it triggers, and you’ll draw a card when the trigger resolves. Of course that means the opponent has a chance to respond to that trigger, and could possibly Trickbind<\/a> it, perhaps, or just do something while your hand is one card smaller to make sure you don’t draw a counterspell. The other very important thing is that the card must actually hit the graveyard to draw you a card! So if there’s a Rest in Peace around, you can activate a Chromatic Sphere to draw a card, but don’t dare draw when you sacrifice a Chromatic Star, or you’ll experience a very undesirable result (Drawing Extra Cards is a Game Loss penalty at Competitive REL).<\/p>\n So next time you’re playing the Eggs deck and the opponent messes with your graveyard, be sure to mind your Stars and Spheres!<\/p>\n Today’s Rules Tip written by Josh Stansfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These two artifacts look very similar, and both see play in the popular and successful “Eggs” deck in Modern. But since is also a very popular sideboard card, you should be careful to note the difference! is rather unique. It includes “Draw a card.” in the same ability as “Add one mana of any color […]<\/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":[70,8],"tags":[936,937,856],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mana-abilities","category-triggeredabilities","tag-chromatic-sphere","tag-chromatic-star","tag-rest-in-peace","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","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=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p> These two artifacts look very similar, and both see play in the popular and successful “Eggs” deck in Modern. But since Rest in Peace<\/a> is also a very popular sideboard card, you should be careful to note the difference!<\/p>\n