{"id":4302,"date":"2014-07-17T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:50:32","slug":"casting-ajanis-pridemate-while-you-have-staff-of-the-sun-magus-no-counter-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2014\/07\/casting-ajanis-pridemate-while-you-have-staff-of-the-sun-magus-no-counter-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting Ajani&#8217;s Pridemate while you have Staff of the Sun Magus &#8211; No counter for you!"},"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=Ajani%27s Pridemate'><\/p><p><img  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Staff of the Sun Magus'><\/p>I love counters on my creatures. I love them even more when they are given to my creatures and I get to gain life. That\u2019s why so many players might get excited when they see this cool combo. There is a catch, however! Casting Pridemate while having a Staff of the Sun Magus will give you the extra life, but it won\u2019t get the counter in response to itself hitting the battlefield. The staff\u2019s triggered ability triggers from *casting* a spell, so it resolves before the Pridemate enters the battlefield as a creature.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s break this down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You cast Ajani\u2019s Pridemate<\/li>\n<li>The Staff triggers and the ability goes on the stack<\/li>\n<li>The stack resolves top down (last on the stack happens first); you gain one life<\/li>\n<li>Ajani\u2019s Pridemate resolves without a counter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But hey! Just cause it didn\u2019t work this time doesn&#8217;t mean it\u2019s not going to work when you cast your next white spell! Talk about 3 for 1 &#8211; your spell, life and a counter! That\u2019s a combo that wins games, especially in limited formats!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by Daniel Clarke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Staves all trigger when a spell is cast, so that trigger must resolve before the spell that caused it to trigger can resolve. If you cast Ajani&#8217;s Pridemate, you gain the life before it actually enters, so it won&#8217;t be around to trigger on that life gain and therefore won&#8217;t gain a counter.<\/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":[29,15,8],"tags":[162,1131],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","category-triggeredabilities","tag-ajanis-pridemate","tag-staff-of-the-sun-magus","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302","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=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}