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\nIn addition to the usual features of gods of Theros — being indestructible and requiring devotion to be a creature — Ephara has a unique triggered ability. During each upkeep step (yours and your opponent\u2019s), Ephara\u2019s trigger looks backward in time to see if a creature entered the battlefield under your control on the previous turn. Most of the time, this will be because you cast a creature spell during a main phase on your turn, so Ephara will subsequently let you draw a card during your opponent\u2019s upkeep.<\/p>\n
But… might there be a way to trigger Ephara during your own upkeep as well? To answer that question, we look to the trickiness of her colors, blue and white. Casting a creature with flash, such as Breaching Hippocamp<\/a>, on your opponent\u2019s turn will result in Ephara triggering on your turn. A spell like Advent of the Wurm<\/a> that puts a creature token onto the battlefield will trigger her, as will using the second ability of Triad of Fates<\/a> to make your creature already on the battlefield momentarily disappear and return. In a multiplayer game, with these instant-speed effects, you can potentially draw a card during every single player\u2019s turn!<\/p>\n One last thing that some players might miss. Ephara’s ability says “another creature,” so she can never trigger from herself entering the battlefield, no matter how much devotion you have!<\/p>\n Today’s Rules Tip written by Jen Wong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can take advantage of Ephara’s trigger by using flash creatures or blink effects to draw an extra card on ANY upkeep!<\/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":[8],"tags":[1077,1078],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-triggeredabilities","tag-ephara","tag-god-of-the-polis","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","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=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4050,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}