{"id":5159,"date":"2015-04-23T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2015-04-23T08:22:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:22:45","slug":"enduring-scalelord-combo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2015\/04\/enduring-scalelord-combo\/","title":{"rendered":"Enduring Scalelord Combo"},"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=Enduring Scalelord'><\/p>The Dromoka brood might have forbidden the Abzan&#8217;s ancestor worship, but they sure kept the love of +1\/+1 counters! Not only does Bolster bring your weakest creatures up to snuff with the rest, the Dromoka have a lot of fun with counters in general. A perfect example of this is one of their big baddies, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Enduring+Scalelord&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Enduring Scalelord<\/a>. Whenever another creature of yours gets +1\/+1 counters, the Scalelord gets one as well. It&#8217;s not a 1-to-1 ratio; if you Bolster 5 onto your 1\/1, Scalelord still only gets 1 counter. If you put counters on TWO creatures, Scalelord triggers twice, though. But what happens if you get two Scalelords out? Well, all you need is a Bolster and your opponent&#8217;s gonna have a sad time. Every time one of the Scalelords gets a counter, it triggers the OTHER Scalelord, which puts a counter on that one, and triggers the first Scalelord. They&#8217;ll go back and forth like that until you say otherwise (since the trigger is optional!). What this means is that you can make your Scalelords arbitrarily large- they can swing for a few thousand damage if you want them to, and that&#8217;s gonna hurt. Do note that you don&#8217;t need to (and, in fact, shouldn&#8217;t!) do this manually; just demonstrate that the abilities &#8220;loop&#8221;, and say how big you want to make them. Your opponent can interrupt your shortcut if he wants to (for example, he might want to kill one while they&#8217;re small and break the chain). Assuming no interruption, the game just jumps ahead to the end of your loop to save time.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip was written by Trevor Nunez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dromoka brood might have forbidden the Abzan&#8217;s ancestor worship, but they sure kept the love of +1\/+1 counters! Not only does Bolster bring your weakest creatures up to snuff with the rest, the Dromoka have a lot of fun with counters in general. A perfect example of this is one of their big baddies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[148,15,234,13,8],"tags":[1218],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-5159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","category-shortcuts","category-tournamentrules","category-triggeredabilities","tag-enduring-scalelord","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5160,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions\/5160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}