{"id":3809,"date":"2013-10-25T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:52:11","slug":"duress-can-never-cause-a-god-to-be-discarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/10\/duress-can-never-cause-a-god-to-be-discarded\/","title":{"rendered":"Duress can never cause a Theros god to be discarded."},"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=Duress'><\/p>With the gods, when they&#8217;re not on the battlefield, their \u201cisn&#8217;t a creature\u201d ability does not apply. This means that in the graveyard you can target them as if they were creatures, and when they&#8217;re in your hand, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Duress&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Duress<\/a> can&#8217;t choose a god since they still have the type \u201cCreature\u201d on them. So regardless what your devotion is, in any zone other than the battlefield, a god card is always a creature card, and can never be a noncreature card.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by Eddie Cheung<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A god card is always a creature card (never a noncreature card). The only exception is while it&#8217;s on the battlefield and your devotion is less than 5.<\/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":[146,122],"tags":[187],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-type-subtypes","category-zones","tag-duress","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809","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=3809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}