{"id":6453,"date":"2017-02-10T06:31:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2017-02-10T06:31:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T14:31:47","slug":"you-cant-bounce-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2017\/02\/you-cant-bounce-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can’t Bounce the Dead!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>Today we’ll be talking about the wording on some targeted spells and abilities- specifically, things that tell you to “return target creature to its owner’s hand”. They’ve been around since Day One with cards like Unsummon<\/a>, allowing you to temporarily get rid of a threat at a low cost, or even to save one of your own creatures from a sticky situation. But the wording is very specific- “target creature”. Whenever an effect refers to a card type like that, with just the type, there’s a sort of invisible word ‘permanent’ after it. Unsummon (or a modern counterpart like Drag Under<\/a>) can only ever hit a creature permanent<\/strong> on the battlefield. You won’t be able to use Unsummon to return a creature spell<\/em> from the stack to its owner’s hand, nor can you use it as a pseudo-Recover<\/a> to get a creature card<\/em> back to your hand from the graveyard. The same is true of any other targeted effect: If it can hit spells, it will say ‘creature spell<\/strong>‘. If it can hit cards in a graveyard, it will say ‘creature card in a graveyard’, etc. Remember- the overwhelming majority of the time, cards do exactly what they say and nothing more!<\/p>\n

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

Today we’ll be talking about the wording on some targeted spells and abilities- specifically, things that tell you to “return target creature to its owner’s hand”. They’ve been around since Day One with cards like , allowing you to temporarily get rid of a threat at a low cost, or even to save one of […]<\/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":[29,38,15,146,122],"tags":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-characteristics","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","category-type-subtypes","category-zones","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","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=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6454,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions\/6454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}