{"id":3632,"date":"2013-08-13T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:54:19","slug":"archangel-of-thune-and-multiple-lifelink-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/08\/archangel-of-thune-and-multiple-lifelink-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Archangel of Thune and Multiple Lifelink Creatures"},"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=Archangel of Thune'><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Archangel+of+Thune&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Archangel of Thune<\/a> has the impressive ability of pumping up your entire team whenever you gain life. And since she has lifelink herself, you&#8217;ll never be short of a way of putting +1\/+1 counters on all your creatures &#8212; as long as you\u2019re attacking or blocking, anyway! If your Archangel is the only creature you control that attacks, you will gain 3 life and put one +1\/+1 counter on each creature you control, including the Archangel herself. The triggered ability doesn&#8217;t care about how much life you gain, just how many times you gain life.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you attack with multiple creatures that have lifelink? For example, let&#8217;s suppose you&#8217;re at 20 life and control an Archangel of Thune and a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Dawnstrike+Paladin&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Dawnstrike Paladin<\/a>. If you attack with both of them, they will deal damage simultaneously. You&#8217;ll gain 5 life and go directly from 20 life to 25.<\/p>\n<p>Given that your life total changes once, you might think that the Archangel&#8217;s ability only triggers once. Fortunately for you, and unfortunately for evildoers, the Archangel actually will trigger twice! Each creature with lifelink that deals damage is considered a separate \u201cevent\u201d from the Archangel&#8217;s perspective. So in the scenario above, you&#8217;ll get to put two +1\/+1 triggers on each of your creatures, not just one.<\/p>\n<p>Happy smiting!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by Paul Baranay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>has the impressive ability of pumping up your entire team whenever you gain life. And since she has lifelink herself, you&#8217;ll never be short of a way of putting +1\/+1 counters on all your creatures &#8212; as long as you\u2019re attacking or blocking, anyway! If your Archangel is the only creature you control that attacks, [&hellip;]<\/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":[148,4,8],"tags":[1000],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-combatphase","category-triggeredabilities","tag-archangel-of-thune","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","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=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}