{"id":5969,"date":"2016-01-15T06:11:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2016-01-15T06:11:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:11:27","slug":"prerelease-week-perhaps-youve-met-my-cohort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2016\/01\/prerelease-week-perhaps-youve-met-my-cohort\/","title":{"rendered":"Prerelease Week! Perhaps You&#8217;ve Met My Cohort?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to the final day of the Oath of the Gatewatch Prerelease Week! Today we&#8217;re covering the final mechanic of the set, so you can go to your prereleases this weekend (or tonight, if there&#8217;s some midnight events in your area) armed with knowledge. Cohort is similar to Landfall and Constellation- it&#8217;s actually what we call ability words: they mean nothing rules-wise, but exist to lump together thematically similar abilities. With Landfall, the common thread was &#8220;lands entering the battlefield under your control&#8221;, but what each Landfall card DID varied from card to card. With Cohort, the common thread is that all the Cohort abilities have the same cost: Tapping the creature with Cohort, and then also tapping an untapped Ally creature that you control. The second Ally can be brand new- you can tap it even if it has summoning sickness (but the creature with Cohort needs to NOT have summoning sickness). It also has to be <strong>your<\/strong> creature that you tap; you can&#8217;t &#8220;borrow&#8221; your teammate&#8217;s ally to turn Cohort on during a 2HG game. <\/p>\n<p>With that, we&#8217;ve covered all the new mechanics! If you need a refresher, just read over the last 4 articles from this week. Hopefully you have an awesome week full of good friends, good fun, and good pulls! <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Prerelease Tip was written by Trevor Nunez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to the final day of the Oath of the Gatewatch Prerelease Week! Today we&#8217;re covering the final mechanic of the set, so you can go to your prereleases this weekend (or tonight, if there&#8217;s some midnight events in your area) armed with knowledge. Cohort is similar to Landfall and Constellation- it&#8217;s actually what [&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":[148,108,29],"tags":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-5969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-activatedabilities","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969","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=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5970,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions\/5970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}