{"id":6532,"date":"2017-05-26T06:59:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T13:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=6532"},"modified":"2017-05-26T06:59:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T13:59:52","slug":"soul-scar-mage-doesnt-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2017\/05\/soul-scar-mage-doesnt-stack\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul-Scar Mage Doesn’t Stack"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>The Lorwyn block was one of my favorites, and Wither was one of the neater abilities to come out of that mega-block; damage from a source with Wither is dealt as -1\/-1 counters, rather than marking damage onto a creature. It was like damage that never wore off! We have a sort of throwback to that in Amonkhet, thanks to Soul-Scar Mage<\/a>. He might not have Wither printed on him, but the spirit is there- he turns noncombat damage from your sources into -1\/-1 counters. Unlike Wither, this isn’t changing the result of the damage (so if you used Soul-Scar with Soulfire Grand Master<\/a>, your Lightning Bolts wouldn’t gain you any life)- this is because Soul-Scar flat out replaces the damage with “put -1\/-1 counters instead”. It works with any kind of noncombat damage; mostly that’s going to come from your burn spells, but it’d also apply to damage from abilities (such as Chandra, Flamecaller<\/a>‘s -X ability, or the ‘when you exert’ trigger from Glorybringer<\/a>). Now, what happens if you have 2 or 3 or 4 Soul-Scars out? Will your Magma Spray<\/a> start handing out -1\/-1 counters by the fistful? Unfortunately, no. If you have more than one Soul-Scar out, each replacement effect of theirs will want to apply to the damage event, but only one can apply at a time, so your opponent (as controller of the affected object) chooses which to apply first. Once they’ve applied one of the identical replacement effects, the rest can’t apply- the Magma Spray isn’t trying to deal damage anymore, it’s putting -1\/-1 counters on the target. Since there’s no longer a damage event to apply to, the other replacement effects just shrug and walk away! One last bit- Soul-Scar and ‘fight’ effects, like <\/a>. Fight is noncombat damage, so Soul-Scar will apply, but remember that Fighting involves the creatures hitting each other simultaneously. If you have your 2\/2 fight their 3\/3, your 2\/2 will put 2 -1\/-1 counters on their creature at the same time it takes 3 damage- your creature will die! It doesn’t get in the “shrinking” hit of counters ‘first’, so keep that in mind.<\/p>\n

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

The Lorwyn block was one of my favorites, and Wither was one of the neater abilities to come out of that mega-block; damage from a source with Wither is dealt as -1\/-1 counters, rather than marking damage onto a creature. It was like damage that never wore off! We have a sort of throwback to […]<\/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":[148,32,33,15,331,17],"tags":[1392],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-6532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-effects","category-preventionandreplacementeffects","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","category-source","category-staticabilities","tag-soul-scar-mage","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532","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=6532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6533,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6532\/revisions\/6533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6532"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=6532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}