{"id":420,"date":"2011-02-24T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dcifamily.org\/?p=420"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:09:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:09:43","slug":"counters-remain-on-permanents-even-if-they-dont-do-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2011\/02\/counters-remain-on-permanents-even-if-they-dont-do-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Counters remain on permanents, even if they don&#8217;t do anything."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a non-creature permanent becomes a creature temporarily and receives a counter, that counter will remain even after this permanent stops being a creature.  For example,  if a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Celestial+Colonnade&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Celestial Colonnade<\/a> is &#8216;animated&#8217; by its activated ability and receives either +1\/+1  or -1\/-1 counters, those counters will remain on the Colonnade even after it stops being a creature.  These counters will have no real effect while the Colonnade is not a creature.  However, if the Colonnade were to become a creature again the counters on it will still apply and affect its power and toughness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a non-creature permanent becomes a creature temporarily and receives a counter, that counter will remain even after this permanent stops being a creature. For example, if a is &#8216;animated&#8217; by its activated ability and receives either +1\/+1 or -1\/-1 counters, those counters will remain on the Colonnade even after it stops being a creature. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[142],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-typechanging","tag-celestial-colonnade","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4990,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/4990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}