{"id":3766,"date":"2013-10-07T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T17:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:52:30","slug":"faraway-vs-creaturegod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/10\/faraway-vs-creaturegod\/","title":{"rendered":"Far\/\/Away vs. creature\/\/god"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>An indestructible God is a hard card to get rid of. Oddly enough, making it a creature actually makes your job easier! Removing its abilities and dealing lethal damage to it (e.g., Turn \/\/ Burn<\/a>), giving it -X\/-X, and forcing its controller to sacrifice it are just a few of these ways. However, do be careful with the last method: failing to realize exactly what you’re doing can have disastrous consequences!<\/p>\n

Suppose your opponent controls Purphoros, God of the Forge<\/a>, a Hammer of Purphoros<\/a>, and an Ash Zealot<\/a>. Not relishing the prospect of being hit for 8 points of hasty damage, you might want to cast Far \/\/ Away<\/a>, bouncing the Zealot and forcing your opponent to sacrifice Purphoros. However, that would be a hasty mistake. You always follow the instructions on a fuse card in the order that they’re written, so the Zealot is returned to your opponent’s hand first, which reduces your opponent’s devotion to red to less than 5 and reverts Purphoros to being a non-creature quickly enough that when the Away part tries to take effect, it won’t do anything. (Better to instead choose Purphoros as the target of Far: since your opponent’s devotion to red is 5 at the time that Far \/\/ Away begins resolving, the God will be bounced just fine, but will lose sufficient devotion after your opponent is required to sacrifice the hapless Zealot.)<\/p>\n

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

Devotion is checked continuously (not as a state-based action), so it’s possible for a god to become a non-creature in the middle of a resolving spell!<\/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":[25,15],"tags":[1021],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuouseffects","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","tag-far-away","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766","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=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}