Let’s say you’re playing against an aggressive mono-red player. You’ve managed to clear their board, but now they’re just pointing their burn spells at your head. You’re at 3, and they point a Lighting Strike<\/a> at you. All you’re holding is a Foul-Tongue Invocation<\/a> and a Dragonlord Silumgar<\/a>. Can you survive?<\/p>\n The answer is yes. You can cast the Invocation, revealing the Dragonlord, targeting your opponent. The life gain is not linked to the targeted player actually sacrificing a creature: to get the life gain, you just need to reveal or control a Dragon when you cast the Invocation. Even if the targeted player can’t sacrifice a creature, you’ll still gain the 4 life.<\/p>\n In this case, to survive, just cast the Invocation, revealing the Dragonlord. Even if they can’t sacrifice a creature, you’ll still gain 4 life, and live to fight for another turn.<\/p>\n Today’s Rules Tip was written by Nathan Long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey everyone, welcome back. As promised, we’re going to talk about today. Let’s say you’re playing against an aggressive mono-red player. You’ve managed to clear their board, but now they’re just pointing their burn spells at your head. You’re at 3, and they point a at you. All you’re holding is a and a . […]<\/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":[29,15],"tags":[1235],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-5294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","tag-foul-tongue-invocation","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294","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=5294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5294\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5294"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=5294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}