{"id":3176,"date":"2013-04-12T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:55:24","slug":"you-cant-take-4-for-vexing-devil-if-theres-a-torpor-orb-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/04\/you-cant-take-4-for-vexing-devil-if-theres-a-torpor-orb-around\/","title":{"rendered":"You can\u2019t take 4 for Vexing Devil if there\u2019s a Torpor Orb around."},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>Torpor Orb<\/a> is a strange and unique card. It makes things that normally happen simply not happen. So abilities that you might really want to trigger from a creature entering the battlefield… won’t. It will shut down your life gain from Kitchen Finks<\/a> (but doesn’t stop persist) or your card draw from Silvergill Adept<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But it also works the other way. Triggers you’d prefer not to happen… also won’t. So you can cast a Vexing Devil<\/a>, and when it enters the battlefield, its ability will say “Oh hey, shouldn’t I be doing something?” Then it will get a stern glance from Torpor Orb and wither under its gaze. The ability won’t trigger, it won’t go on the stack, and the opponent might be upset that you just got a 4\/3 for R without providing the option to take 4 damage to get rid of it.<\/p>\n

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

is a strange and unique card. It makes things that normally happen simply not happen. So abilities that you might really want to trigger from a creature entering the battlefield… won’t. It will shut down your life gain from (but doesn’t stop persist) or your card draw from . But it also works the other […]<\/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":[17,8],"tags":[294,695],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staticabilities","category-triggeredabilities","tag-torpor-orb","tag-vexing-devil","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","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=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}