{"id":3752,"date":"2013-09-24T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:52:30","slug":"monstrous-isnt-linked-to-the-counters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/09\/monstrous-isnt-linked-to-the-counters\/","title":{"rendered":"Monstrous Isn&#8217;t Linked to the Counters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?multiverseid=373637&amp;type=card\" width=\"223\" height=\"310\" \/>While this didn&#8217;t come up much at the prerelease (since there&#8217;s no real way to get rid of their +1\/+1 counters in Theros sealed!), I&#8217;ve seen and heard a few players thinking that &#8220;Monstrous&#8221; is linked to the counters themselves. For example, they think that if they remove the +1\/+1 counters from their <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Shipbreaker+Kraken&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Shipbreaker Kraken<\/a> somehow (perhaps with -1\/-1 counters) that it loses &#8220;monstrous&#8221;), and they can make it Monstrous again. This, however, is incorrect!<\/p>\n<p>Once you use the Monstrosity ability (and it resolves), that creature becomes Monstrous, period. Even if the counters are removed somehow, or it gets more, or what-have-you, it stays monstrous. The only way to &#8216;turn off&#8217; that monstrous tag so you can use its ability again is by having it leave the battlefield, so that it becomes a new object. So, you could use <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Cloudshift&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Cloudshift<\/a> on your Kraken so you could tap down some new things (but the original things that Kraken tapped down are no longer on lockdown, since this is a new Kraken!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this didn&#8217;t come up much at the prerelease (since there&#8217;s no real way to get rid of their +1\/+1 counters in Theros sealed!), I&#8217;ve seen and heard a few players thinking that &#8220;Monstrous&#8221; is linked to the counters themselves. For example, they think that if they remove the +1\/+1 counters from their somehow (perhaps [&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":[148,108,20],"tags":[1016],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-activatedabilities","category-keywords","tag-shipbreaker-kraken","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","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=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}