{"id":5988,"date":"2016-01-30T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=5988"},"modified":"2016-01-28T13:14:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T21:14:37","slug":"how-to-determine-fall-of-the-titans-converted-mana-cost-with-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2016\/01\/how-to-determine-fall-of-the-titans-converted-mana-cost-with-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"How to determine Fall of the Titans’ Converted Mana Cost with Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>It\u2019s a good week for burning things! To wrap up, we\u2019re going to take a look at one of the \u201cstory moment\u201d cards of Oath of the Gatewatch, Fall of the Titans<\/a>. True to its artwork, this card causes two of your opponent\u2019s creatures to die in a blaze of glory at once. You can remember this easier by looking at the double X in its cost – it\u2019s just like two Blaze<\/a>s glued onto each other. However, if you have the assistance of a teammate (or just cast another spell this turn), you can get your Blaze and double it too by paying the surge cost, which reduces XX to a single X!<\/p>\n

Bear in mind, however, that surge only reduces the amount of mana you pay, not the spell\u2019s converted mana cost. So a counterspell like Disdainful Stroke<\/a> that cares about converted mana cost will see any value of X as counting double toward converted mana cost, which means that it can counter Fall of the Titans for X=2 even if you only paid three mana for it! On the other hand, if you can amass a monstrous amount of mana behind your spell, that can make it much harder to counter by effects like Kozilek, the Great Distortion<\/a>. Even Kozilek can\u2019t stop a Fall of the Titans coming his way for any value of X that equals 8 or more, because there are no cards (at the time of this posting) with a converted mana cost of 17 or greater!<\/p>\n

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

If you Surge Fall of the Titans for X=2, it’s a legal target for Disdainful Stroke.<\/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":[29,38,26],"tags":[1289,1288],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-5988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-characteristics","category-costs","tag-disdainful-stroke","tag-fall-of-the-titans","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988","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=5988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5989,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5988\/revisions\/5989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5988"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=5988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}