{"id":5996,"date":"2016-02-02T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2016-02-01T18:33:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T02:33:31","slug":"kalitas-week-kalitas-is-not-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2016\/02\/kalitas-week-kalitas-is-not-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalitas Week: Kalitas Is Not Optional!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to Kalitas Week here on the Rules Blog! Today we’re covering another common misconception about the Traitorous Blood<\/a>chief: what, exactly, his second ability IS. A lot of people seem to mistakenly think that Kalitas’ ability is a trigger, and subject to the Missed Trigger rules. However, it is not! A trigger will have the words “When”, “Whenever”, or “At” on it, and Kalitas lacks all those words. What Kalitas has is a static ability, which creates a replacement effect: it replaces one event with another event. That’s not a trigger, and more importantly: it’s also not optional. Whether you want to or not, you’re gonna have to exile your ‘dying’ creatures so long as your opponent has a Kalitas on board. If your opponent forgets, you HAVE to remind them- to do otherwise is to knowingly allow a rule to be broken in order to gain advantage, and that’s Cheating! Which is bad.<\/p>\n

So, if your opponent doesn’t mention exiling your creature, or forgets to put out a Zombie (which is also part of the replacement effect, and also not optional!), you need to speak up and remind them of their Kalitas. <\/p>\n

Today’s Kalitas Rules Tip was written by Trevor Nunez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to Kalitas Week here on the Rules Blog! Today we’re covering another common misconception about the chief: what, exactly, his second ability IS. A lot of people seem to mistakenly think that Kalitas’ ability is a trigger, and subject to the Missed Trigger rules. However, it is not! A trigger will have the […]<\/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":[148,32,33,17,13],"tags":[1290],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-effects","category-preventionandreplacementeffects","category-staticabilities","category-tournamentrules","tag-kalitas-traitor-of-ghet","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996","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=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5997,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}