{"id":4432,"date":"2014-10-10T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:49:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:49:21","slug":"sarkhan-the-dragonspeakers-1-vs-heros-downfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2014\/10\/sarkhan-the-dragonspeakers-1-vs-heros-downfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker’s +1 vs. Hero’s Downfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/p>Who knew that when Wizards of the Coast released an alternate-art version of Form of the Dragon in FTV: Dragons, they were foreshadowing one of Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker<\/a>\u2019s abilities: TURNING INTO A DRAGON!!<\/strong> And not just any dragon, but a hasty, indestructible one at that! While this new Sarkhan is certainly fearsome, he’s not invincible.<\/p>\n

One of the ways you can deal with Tarkir’s own poster boy is a popular card from the previous block: Hero\u2019s Downfall<\/a>. There’s some nuance to timing this, though. First of all, realize that no matter whether Sarkhan is a not-a-Dragon planeswalker, or a DRAGON!!<\/strong> not-a-planeswalker, he’s still a legal target for Hero\u2019s Downfall because at all times he’s either a planeswalker or a creature. The important part involves the abilities that come alongside his dragonic transformation: if you let the ability resolve, Sarkhan will be indestructible, which means \u201cdestroy\u201d effects like Hero’s Downfall can’t touch him. Don’t think you can use a burn spell to reduce his loyalty to 0, either — since DRAGON!!<\/strong> Sarkhan is no longer a planeswalker for the turn, damage-dealing effects won’t reduce his loyalty. <\/p>\n

However, if you try either of these methods in response to the +1 ability (after the counter is added, before it resolves), Sarkhan in his still-vulnerable planeswalker form will be swiftly sent to the grave. The ability will still resolve, but with no living Sarkhan to DRAGON!!<\/strong>ify, it will simply fail to do anything.<\/p>\n

Today’s Rules Tip written by Jen Wong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who knew that when Wizards of the Coast released an alternate-art version of Form of the Dragon in FTV: Dragons, they were foreshadowing one of \u2019s abilities: TURNING INTO A DRAGON!! And not just any dragon, but a hasty, indestructible one at that! While this new Sarkhan is certainly fearsome, he’s not invincible. One of […]<\/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":[108,29],"tags":[1064,1167],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-4432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activatedabilities","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","tag-heros-downfall","tag-sarkhan-the-dragonspeaker","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432","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=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4434,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions\/4434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}