{"id":6086,"date":"2016-04-08T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=6086"},"modified":"2016-04-08T09:46:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:46:16","slug":"arlinn-kord-embraced-by-the-moon-cant-activate-another-ability-after-she-transforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2016\/04\/arlinn-kord-embraced-by-the-moon-cant-activate-another-ability-after-she-transforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlinn Kord (Embraced by the Moon) can&#8217;t activate another ability after she transforms."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img  style='float:left'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Arlinn Kord'><\/p><p><img  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Arlinn, Embraced by the Moon'><\/p>To round out the week, we\u2019ll take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Arlinn+Kord&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Arlinn Kord<\/a>, who isn&#8217;t the legendary werewolf creature players have been howling for, but is quite possibly the next best thing. Unlike her werewolf brethren (and precedential flip-walker, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Garruk+Relentless&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Garruk Relentless<\/a>), Arlinn is something special: she can control her transformation, and can even transform back and forth &#8220;at will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One thing to note, however, is that whether your Arlinn is a humble Kord or has become Embraced by the Moon, she&#8217;s still the same permanent, as nothing has caused her to enter or leave the battlefield. Things that change: her name and abilities. Things that stay the same: her converted mana cost (a change from previous rules), her loyalty, her colors (as indicated by the nifty little color indicator dot), her planeswalker type (still Arlinn, so don&#8217;t cast a second one), and any other ongoing effects on her; meaning she&#8217;s still counted as having activated a loyalty ability that turn. Most commonly, if you activate her front face&#8217;s 0 ability and transform her, you cannot activate any of her back face abilities that turn (and good thing, too; she&#8217;d be quite overpowered if you could!).<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip written by Jen Wong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To round out the week, we\u2019ll take a look at , who isn&#8217;t the legendary werewolf creature players have been howling for, but is quite possibly the next best thing. Unlike her werewolf brethren (and precedential flip-walker, ), Arlinn is something special: she can control her transformation, and can even transform back and forth &#8220;at [&hellip;]<\/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":[108,38,77],"tags":[1301],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-6086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activatedabilities","category-characteristics","category-planeswalkers","tag-arlinn-kord","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086","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=6086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6087,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions\/6087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6086"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=6086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}