{"id":885,"date":"2011-07-15T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dcifamily.org\/?p=885"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:07:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:07:52","slug":"what-dies-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2011\/07\/what-dies-means\/","title":{"rendered":"What &#8216;dies&#8217; means."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Magic 2012, a few cards are being written a bit differently.  The word &#8216;dies&#8217; will be used to refer to when a creature on the battlefield goes to the graveyard.  Examples of this new terminology include the text on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Goblin+Arsonist&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Goblin Arsonist<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Sengir+Vampire&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Sengir Vampire<\/a>. This change is similar to when the word &#8216;cast&#8217; was used on cards to indicate when a spell is played.  Both of these changes reflect how players often referred to the game when talking.<\/p>\n<p>Abilities that use this word are triggered abilities, as they all refer to something occurring when a creature goes to a graveyard from the battlefield.  As you can tell from the examples above, it can be used on abilities for when a creature itself goes to a graveyard, or when other creatures go to a graveyard.  &#8216;Dies&#8217; is not used for non-creatures, when a creature goes to a specific graveyard, or when multiple permanents go to a graveyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Magic 2012, a few cards are being written a bit differently. The word &#8216;dies&#8217; will be used to refer to when a creature on the battlefield goes to the graveyard. Examples of this new terminology include the text on and . This change is similar to when the word &#8216;cast&#8217; was used on cards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[353,354],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keywords","tag-goblin-arsonist","tag-sengir-vampire","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/4872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}