{"id":4276,"date":"2014-06-26T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:50:32","slug":"make-it-counters-why-not-all-11-effects-are-counters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2014\/06\/make-it-counters-why-not-all-11-effects-are-counters\/","title":{"rendered":"Make it Count(ers): Why Not All +1\/+1 Effects Are Counters"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we’ve probably learned over the years, cards generally do exactly what their Gatherer texts say. But some people still get confused. A major thing that I’ve seen trip people up is confusion about counters. Some people think that a static +1\/+1 bonus (like from Spear of Heliod<\/a>, or Ajani’s Presence<\/a>) also counts as a counter. But that’s not true. There’s only a counter involved if the card says to put a counter on it. Just a general bonus from a card doesn’t mean that you’re putting any counters on the card.<\/p>\n

For instance, if you cast Ajani’s Presence<\/a> on two of your creatures, they’re just getting +1\/+1 (and indestructible) until end of turn. They’re not getting a +1\/+1 counter, so you can’t move it to another creature with Bioshift<\/a> and cards like Chronicler of Heroes<\/a> will not count it towards its triggered ability. So remember: unless the card says that you’re putting a counter on the card, there’s no counters involved, so don’t try to count on things that aren’t counters- because they don’t count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we’ve probably learned over the years, cards generally do exactly what their Gatherer texts say. But some people still get confused. A major thing that I’ve seen trip people up is confusion about counters. Some people think that a static +1\/+1 bonus (like from , or ) also counts as a counter. But that’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,32,169],"tags":[1123,1124],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuouseffects","category-effects","category-one-shoteffects","tag-ajanis-presence","tag-spear-of-heliod","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}