{"id":4330,"date":"2014-08-04T11:27:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:49:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:49:39","slug":"mass-calcify-hunters-ambush-and-multicolored-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2014\/08\/mass-calcify-hunters-ambush-and-multicolored-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Calcify, Hunter&#8217;s Ambush, and Multicolored Creatures"},"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=Mass Calcify'><\/p>Keeping with the long tradition of there needing to be some kind of white board wipe somewhere in Standard, M15 gave us back <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Mass+Calcify&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Mass Calcify<\/a>, a 7-mana potentially one-sided board wipe originally printed in Shadowmoor. Conveniently, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Mass+Calcify&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Mass Calcify<\/a> goes pretty well with another card from M15 (as far as what we&#8217;re discussing today, anyway): the green common, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Hunter%26%238217%3Bs+Ambush&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Hunter&#8217;s Ambush<\/a>. Both of them have one thing in common (besides being in M15 and being Magic cards, I mean!): they both do something to all creatures not of a certain color. Mass Calcify destroys all nonwhite creatures, and Hunter&#8217;s Ambush prevents the combat damage of all nongreen creatures that turn. <\/p>\n<p><p><img  style='float:right'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Hunter%27s Ambush'><\/p>So, let&#8217;s take a look at that. I&#8217;ve seen many new players misunderstand what things like &#8220;nongreen&#8221; mean. For example, a multicolored creature. Is <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Xenagos%2C+God+of+Revels&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Xenagos, God of Revels<\/a> &#8220;nongreen&#8221; because he&#8217;s red? Is <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Daxos+of+Meletis&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Daxos of Meletis<\/a> &#8216;nonwhite&#8217; because he is also blue? The answer to both of these is no! &#8220;Nonwhite&#8221; does not mean &#8220;Black, blue, green, or red,&#8221; it means &#8220;Not white.&#8221; If the answer to the question &#8220;Is that a white card&#8221; is &#8220;yes&#8221;, then it&#8217;s white. The fact that it also happens to be blue doesn&#8217;t make it NOT white. So, Mass Calcify will not hit Daxos &#8211; he&#8217;s white, so he&#8217;s fine. Hunter&#8217;s Ambush will let your Xenagos break some faces, because he&#8217;s not nongreen &#8211; he&#8217;s green AND red. <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by Trevor Nunez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping with the long tradition of there needing to be some kind of white board wipe somewhere in Standard, M15 gave us back , a 7-mana potentially one-sided board wipe originally printed in Shadowmoor. Conveniently, goes pretty well with another card from M15 (as far as what we&#8217;re discussing today, anyway): the green common, . 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