{"id":454,"date":"2011-03-10T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dcifamily.org\/?p=454"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:09:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:09:42","slug":"unless-they-can-only-work-elsewhere-triggered-abilities-only-work-when-in-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2011\/03\/unless-they-can-only-work-elsewhere-triggered-abilities-only-work-when-in-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Unless they can only work elsewhere, triggered abilities only work when in play."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most triggered abilities only apply when the card with the ability is entering the battlefield, in play, or leaving the battlefield and going to some other zone.  However there are a few triggered abilities that can only work if the card with the ability is in some other zone other than the battlefield.  For example <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Bloodghast&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Bloodghast<\/a>&#8216;s ability can only work when the Bloodghast card is in a graveyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most triggered abilities only apply when the card with the ability is entering the battlefield, in play, or leaving the battlefield and going to some other zone. However there are a few triggered abilities that can only work if the card with the ability is in some other zone other than the battlefield. For example [&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":[1],"tags":[166],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bloodghast","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4980,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}