First thing we should always remember when handling triggered abilities is that the trigger event (always written with a \u201cwhenever,\u201d \u201cwhen,\u201d or \u201cat\u201d before it) has to have happened in order for the ability to be placed on the stack. In Raving Dead<\/a>\u2019s case, it had to deal combat damage to the opponent. This should simplify the situation. Let\u2019s have an example: Eric attacks Natalie, who is at 40 life, with Raving Dead<\/a>. Natalie does not block and takes 2 damage. BOOM, trigger event has occurred. Since the damage happened, Natalie is now at 38 life. Next the ability is put on the top of the stack and then resolves. Uh-Oh, looks like Natalie is a 19 life. That\u2019s quite a bit of damage for 2\/6 to deal in a single combat phase! Today’s Rules Tip was written by Daniel Clarke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There has always been some confusion among players with how triggered abilities work. Sometimes the ability is so clearly written it just makes sense. Sometimes however, cards like use language that creates a slight amount of ambiguity as to when an effect takes place. Today we will discuss specifically, and hopefully leave you with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[148,4,15,8],"tags":[1226],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-abilities","category-combatphase","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","category-triggeredabilities","tag-raving-dead","post_format-post-format-aside","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","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=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5181,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions\/5181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKnowing is half the battle (and in this case, half the life total)!<\/p>\n