{"id":6529,"date":"2017-05-25T07:23:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2017-05-25T07:23:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:23:13","slug":"recruiter-of-the-guard-and-cdas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2017\/05\/recruiter-of-the-guard-and-cdas\/","title":{"rendered":"Recruiter of the Guard and CDAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>That’s right, kids, today we’re dipping our toes into Legacy (or Commander, I guess)! Recruiter of the Guard<\/a> is a nifty little sort-of-color-shift of Imperial Recruiter<\/a> that was released in Conspiracy 2: Electric Boogaloo (Also known as Take The Crown). Both of them work along the same lines- they’re 3 mana 1\/1s that fetch small creatures from your library. Imperial Recruiter finds things with POWER 2 or less, while the Guard recruits need TOUGHNESS 2 or less. Either way, they dig for an appropriate creature, have you reveal it, and put it into your hand. But how do they work with, say… Tarmogoyf? Or the many *\/* creatures? The answer is: generally, not well. See, things like Tarmogoyf have what’s called a Characteristic-Defining Ability, or CDA. Those abilities function in all zones, and even outside the game. They constantly update, no matter where the card is- so the only way Recruiter of the Guard can find a Tarmogoyf in your deck is if there’s no more than 1 card type among all graveyards. If there’s 2 or more, Tarmogoyf in your library has 3 or more toughness, so you can’t find it! Same with things like Boneyard Wurm<\/a> or Dungrove Elder<\/a>– those abilities work in all zones, so they’ll probably be too big in your library. A fun exception to this is Sewer Nemesis<\/a>– that DOES have a CDA, but it refers to “The chosen player”. There is no ‘chosen player’ while Nemesis isn’t on the battlefield, because you choose a player as it enters. So in all zones but the battlefield, that CDA kinda short-circuits itself, and Sewer Nemesis is a 0\/0 in all those zones- meaning you can<\/strong> find him with your Recruiters! The more you know, eh?<\/p>\n

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

That’s right, kids, today we’re dipping our toes into Legacy (or Commander, I guess)! is a nifty little sort-of-color-shift of that was released in Conspiracy 2: Electric Boogaloo (Also known as Take The Crown). Both of them work along the same lines- they’re 3 mana 1\/1s that fetch small creatures from your library. Imperial Recruiter […]<\/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":[148,38,25,32,15,8],"tags":[1391],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-6529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-characteristics","category-continuouseffects","category-effects","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","category-triggeredabilities","tag-recruiter-of-the-guard","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529","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=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6530,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/6530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}