{"id":5100,"date":"2015-02-22T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2015-02-18T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T21:45:28","slug":"deflecting-palm-against-lifelink-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2015\/02\/deflecting-palm-against-lifelink-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Deflecting Palm against lifelink creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>Deflecting Palm<\/a> is one of Standard\u2019s most rules intensive cards, which is why, yet again, it makes an appearance here on the Rules Tips blog. Many players might mistakenly assume that when a creature with lifelink\u2019s damage is “redirected,” its controller will still gain life (effectively cancelling the damage). This is not the case. <\/p>\n

If we break Deflecting Palm\u2019s text down, we find that the original source of the damage has its damage prevented. Once the damage is prevented, Deflecting Palm then becomes the source of the damage. The only way that Deflecting Palm could then gain any player life, which would be the Palm’s controller, is if they had a Soulfire Grand Master<\/a> on the board. Next time your opponent tries to gain life from your Deflecting Palm, remember this tip and you’ll find yourself in a better position than you would be otherwise.<\/p>\n

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

Deflecting Palm doesn’t actually redirect damage, as many players commonly say it does. Since it prevents damage then deals damage of its own, lifelink won’t matter for the creature whose damage was prevented.<\/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":[33,331,17],"tags":[1157],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-5100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preventionandreplacementeffects","category-source","category-staticabilities","tag-deflecting-palm","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100","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=5100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5101,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions\/5101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=5100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}