{"id":3303,"date":"2013-05-13T09:39:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T16:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:55:09","slug":"plasm-capture-vs-x-spells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/05\/plasm-capture-vs-x-spells\/","title":{"rendered":"Plasm Capture vs. X spells"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>Let me tell you a little secret. X, if it’s not on the stack, is treated as 0. While an X spell is ON the stack, X stops being a variable and starts being a number (Note: the quality of the spell being considered an X spell doesn’t change; it’s still an X spell on the stack; that’s how cards like Frontline Medic<\/a> work!). Once an X spell is on the stack, its CMC (Converted Mana Cost) can then be calculated.<\/p>\n

In short, when Player A counters an X spell with Plasm Capture<\/a>, Player A will be able to perform their own version of \u201cCan\u2019t touch this!\u201d and will also be able to add whatever value X was at the time the spell was countered.<\/p>\n

For example: If you cast Immortal Servitude<\/a> with X=3, and I counter it with Plasm Capture, the mana cost of Immortal Servitude (3{W\/B}{W\/B}{W\/B}) converts to 6, and I will add 6 mana in any combination of colors to my mana pool at the beginning of my next precombat main phase! To go a step further, if you Miracle Bonfire of the Damned<\/a> and pay 4R (choosing 4 for X), the converted mana cost is still determined from the mana cost in the top right corner. Since you chose 4 for X, the mana cost in the top right is treated as {4}{4}R, and I will get 9 mana by countering it with Plasm Capture, even though you only paid 5 mana for it. Crazy, huh?<\/p>\n

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

Let me tell you a little secret. X, if it’s not on the stack, is treated as 0. While an X spell is ON the stack, X stops being a variable and starts being a number (Note: the quality of the spell being considered an X spell doesn’t change; it’s still an X spell on […]<\/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":[29,38,26],"tags":[952],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-characteristics","category-costs","tag-plasm-capture","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","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=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}