{"id":5827,"date":"2015-09-17T16:31:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T23:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2015-09-17T16:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T23:31:47","slug":"stony-silence-vs-artifact-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2015\/09\/stony-silence-vs-artifact-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Stony Silence vs. artifact lands."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>Although the format-destroying \u201cRavager Affinity\u201d Standard deck is a relic of the past, the manabase survives as a shell of its former self even in Modern today. For our purposes, we\u2019ll be looking at how Stony Silence<\/a> can reap you benefits against it — but also fall short in some ways.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with Darksteel Citadel<\/a>, your run-of the mill land that\u2019s also an artifact. Because it always has the \u201cArtifact\u201d card type, it can\u2019t activate any abilities. It can\u2019t even tap for mana, because unlike Pithing Needle<\/a>, Stony Silence doesn\u2019t make any exceptions in determining what abilities it shuts off.<\/p>\n

Next we\u2019ll move on to Inkmoth Nexus<\/a>, the new and infectious kid on the block. Stony Silence cannot prevent Inkmoth from turning into a creature, because it doesn\u2019t gain the \u201cArtifact\u201d type until that ability resolves. Once it\u2019s turned into a creature, though, it stops Inkmoth from re-activating that ability (not very useful) and stops it for tapping for mana (again, not the most efficient use of your mana). Attacking is not an activated ability, however, so it can still attack (and tap as a result of that).<\/p>\n

Last but not least is Blinkmoth Nexus<\/a>. As with Inkmoth, Stony Silence can\u2019t stop your opponent from animating their Blinkmoth, but it stops the animated land from tapping for mana. Importantly, though, Stony Silence will also shut off Blinkmoth\u2019s pumping ability when it\u2019s animated, so your opponent cannot animate Blinkmoth, block a creature, and have it pump itself to a 2\/2. Your opponent would need two Blinkmoths to pull off that feat, one to become an artifact creature to block, and one to remain a non-artifact, non-creature land to pump.<\/p>\n

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

Stony Silence stops ALL activated abilities of artifacts, including mana abilities. This is in contrast to Pithing Needle, which has an explicit exception for mana abilites.<\/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":[1],"tags":[1092,969],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-5827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-darksteel-citadel","tag-stony-silence","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827","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=5827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5828,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=5827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}