{"id":456,"date":"2011-03-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dcifamily.org\/?p=456"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:09:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:09:42","slug":"what-and-how-to-choose-a-source-of-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2011\/03\/what-and-how-to-choose-a-source-of-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"What and how to choose a source of damage."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some effects have you choose a source of damage, often with a specific quality.  The choice of a source is made when the spell or ability telling you to choose a source is resolving.  For example, if you sacrifice a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Burrenton+Forge-Tender&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Burrenton Forge-Tender<\/a> to activate its ability, you will choose a red source when this ability resolves.<\/p>\n<p>A source of damage is any permanent in play, spell on the stack, an object referred to by a spell on the stack, a delayed triggered ability that is waiting to trigger, or a replacement effect that is waiting to be applied.  The most common sources of damage chosen are permanents in play or spells on the stack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some effects have you choose a source of damage, often with a specific quality. The choice of a source is made when the spell or ability telling you to choose a source is resolving. For example, if you sacrifice a to activate its ability, you will choose a red source when this ability resolves. A [&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":[33,15],"tags":[167],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preventionandreplacementeffects","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","tag-burrenton-forge-tender","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","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=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4978,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}