{"id":6520,"date":"2017-05-24T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2017-05-23T07:54:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T14:54:38","slug":"fumigate-and-kalitas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2017\/05\/fumigate-and-kalitas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fumigate and Kalitas"},"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=Fumigate'><\/p>Yesterday, we talked a bit about Kalitas (and it was somewhat complicated!), and we&#8217;re still talking about that Zombie-making Vampire everyone loves, but it&#8217;ll be a bit simpler. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Fumigate&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Fumigate<\/a> blasts the board like many other Wraths, and gains you some life for everything it destroys- but what, specifically, does that mean? It has to actually <strong>destroy<\/strong> a creature to gain you some life (so it won&#8217;t gain you any life for the Amonkhet gods, since they&#8217;re Indestructible), but that creature doesn&#8217;t have to end up in the graveyard! &#8220;Destroy&#8221; and &#8220;die&#8221; are actually two different things, they just happen in succession; usually when you destroy something, it dies, because it goes to the graveyard. But in the case of something like good old <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Kalitas%2C+Traitor+of+Ghet&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet<\/a>, the creature in question gets destroyed, and then exiled. It was still destroyed, though, so Fumigate sees that and gains you the life anyway! If you Fumigate your opponent&#8217;s board of 10 creatures while you control a Kalitas, you&#8217;ll destroy everything, gain 11 life (10 from their creatures being destroyed, one from your Kalitas), and make 10 2\/2 Zombies ready to take advantage of that freshly cleared field. Good times! <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip was written by Trevor Nunez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we talked a bit about Kalitas (and it was somewhat complicated!), and we&#8217;re still talking about that Zombie-making Vampire everyone loves, but it&#8217;ll be a bit simpler. blasts the board like many other Wraths, and gains you some life for everything it destroys- but what, specifically, does that mean? It has to actually destroy [&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":[148,32,33,15,17],"tags":[1389,1290],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-6520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-effects","category-preventionandreplacementeffects","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","category-staticabilities","tag-fumigate","tag-kalitas-traitor-of-ghet","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520","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=6520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6524,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions\/6524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6520"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=6520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}