{"id":6633,"date":"2018-12-14T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:57:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T04:57:20","slug":"beamsplitter-mage-and-bounty-of-might","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2018\/12\/beamsplitter-mage-and-bounty-of-might\/","title":{"rendered":"Beamsplitter Mage and Bounty of Might"},"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=Beamsplitter Mage'><\/p>Welcome back to the Rules Tips Blog: Friday Edition! To close out the week, we&#8217;re going to be going over Beamsplitter Mage and how it interacts with a few different spells. Beamsplitter Mage is a 2\/2 for UR that lets you double up your fun with your spells: any Instant or Sorcery you aim at your own Beamsplitter (and ONLY your Beamsplitter) will get you a second copy free of charge, aimed at another creature of yours. Mostly, that&#8217;ll be fairly obvious: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Giant+Growth&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Giant Growth<\/a> your Beamsplitter Mage and also another creature, or <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Sure+Strike&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Sure Strike<\/a> on both of them. Makes combat tricks a lot more fun. <\/p>\n<p>What about a spell that only <em>targets<\/em> Beamsplitter, but does something else as well? Maybe you want to save Beamsplitter and friend from a board wipe or a tricky combat situation with <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Unexplained+Disappearance&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Unexplained Disappearance<\/a> but you&#8217;re worried about that Surveil 1 affecting you. Or maybe you want to throw a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Take+Heart&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Take Heart<\/a> at Beamsplitter And Friend to gain extra life. Both of these are fine! It doesn&#8217;t matter if the spell does stuff to things other than Beamsplitter, so long as Beamsplitter is the only thing being targeted. Well, what if Beamsplitter is targeted more than once? <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Bounty+of+Might&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Bounty of Might<\/a> is the bigger badder version of original Ravnica limited all-star, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Seeds+of+Strength&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Seeds of Strength<\/a>. Because it says &#8220;Target creature&#8221; 3 different times, you can aim all three of those blurbs at the same thing; this could give three creatures +3\/+3 each, or +3\/+3 to one and +6\/+6 to another, or a hefty and terrifying +9\/+9 to one target. And if you go with that last option aimed at Beamsplitter&#8230; it will trigger. It&#8217;s still an instant or sorcery spell that targets only Beamsplitter! So you&#8217;ll be spreading +18\/+18 across two of your creatures; that&#8217;s gonna hurt. <\/p>\n<p>Do note that Beamsplitter must be the only target <em>period<\/em> to trigger, not just &#8216;the only target which is a creature&#8217;. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Gravitic+Punch&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Gravitic Punch<\/a> targets a creature AND a player, so it won&#8217;t trigger your spell-sharing Vedalken buddy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img  style='float:left'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&#038;type=card&#038;name=Beamsplitter Mage'><\/p>\n<p> How does <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Beamsplitter+Mage&#038;width=223&#038;height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Beamsplitter Mage<\/a> work with various kinds of spells?<\/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":[148,29,67,15,8],"tags":[1415],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-6633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-copies","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","category-triggeredabilities","tag-beamsplitter-mage","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633","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=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6634,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}