{"id":6667,"date":"2019-01-15T07:38:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T15:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=6667"},"modified":"2019-01-15T07:38:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T15:38:30","slug":"prerelease-primer-quite-the-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2019\/01\/prerelease-primer-quite-the-spectacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Prerelease Primer: Quite The Spectacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come one, come all, to the Rules Tips Blog! We&#8217;ve got thrills, we&#8217;ve got chills, we&#8217;ve got rules knowledge at affordable prices! Today we&#8217;ll be diving into the hullabaloo of a Cult of Rakdos carnival, and it&#8217;s one hell of sight- one could even call it a Spectacle to behold.<\/p>\n<p>The Rakdos mechanic for Ravnica Allegiance is called Spectacle. It&#8217;ll always appear on cards as Spectacle, followed by a cost; this is an alternative cost you can use to cast the spell as long as any of your opponents have lost life this turn. It doesn&#8217;t matter <em>why<\/em> or <em>how<\/em>&#8211; you can hit them with a creature, you can ping them with a burn spell- if your opponent happens to pay life into something of theirs, like a shockland, it&#8217;ll even turn Spectacle on! However, at the moment there&#8217;s no Instants or Flash spells with Spectacle, so it&#8217;s not super likely they&#8217;ll be enabling Spectacle on your turn themselves. Spectacle also doesn&#8217;t change the timing of when you can cast a spell, it just gives you an alternate cost you can choose to use.<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;ve got the razzle dazzle set up with Spectacle being online- what now? Some of the Spectacle cards reward an aggressive playstyle by being cheaper. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Light+Up+the+Stage&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Light Up the Stage<\/a> drops down to costing only R with Spectacle, for example, which lets you keep the hits coming. Other cards end up costing <strong>more<\/strong> to make a Spectacle of, but they have a bigger effect for it; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Rix+Maadi+Reveler&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Rix Maadi Reveler<\/a> costs more to use via Spectacle, but instead of simply rummaging for one card (as it does when cast normally!), it&#8217;ll dump your hopefully very light hand and draw you 3 new cards. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much more to Spectacle- it&#8217;s as straightforward as it is flashy. Keep the hits coming and you&#8217;ll have your opponents and your audiences rolling in the aisles- though it&#8217;s more from the fire than from the show being a laugh riot! Tune in tomorrow for more Prerelease Primers!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Rules Tip was written by Trevor Nunez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grab some popcorn and take a seat for this three-ring Rules Tip on Spectacle!<\/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":[148,29,26,15,17],"tags":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-6667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abilities","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-costs","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","category-staticabilities","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667","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=6667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6668,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions\/6668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6667"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=6667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}