{"id":4044,"date":"2014-01-30T13:04:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T21:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=4044"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:51:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:51:39","slug":"what-happens-if-phenax-stops-being-a-creature-after-you-activate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2014\/01\/what-happens-if-phenax-stops-being-a-creature-after-you-activate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens if Phenax stops being a creature after you activate it."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>Mere mortals pale in comparison to Gods. Among the most deceptive of these, is Phenax, God of Deception<\/a>! Phenax changes the way that we destroy our adversaries. He strives to make an opposing mage lose to a lack of library.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say you have a pair of Nightveil Specter<\/a>s alongside the mighty Phenax. You activate his ability, but before it resolves, one of your Specters dies. Phenax stops being a creature while his ability is still on the stack. Though it may seem like nothing important has happened, there is a lot more going on than meets the eye. Phenax\u2019s ability goes to resolve and checks his toughness. Because he is not a creature, he has no power or toughness. This leads to quite the predicament. In fact, Phenax\u2019s ability will resolve, but it will make your opponent mill 0 cards, leading to nothing more than an awkward stare. Only then will you realize that you too have been deceived by the God of Deception.<\/p>\n

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

Phenax’s ability only cares about toughness when the ability resolves. If Phenax doesn’t have any at that time, there will be no milling!<\/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":[108,15],"tags":[1076],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-4044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activatedabilities","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","tag-phenax-god-of-deception","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044","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=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4045,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}