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Category: Effects

Activated Abilities, Effects, Interaction of Continuous Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities

Tishana’s Tidebinding Tricks!

March 24, 2024March 24, 2024 | agrachronis
Tishana's Tidebinder

Rules tips and interactions with Tishana's Tidebinder!

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Tagged counter ability, counter activated or triggered ability, tidebinder
Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities

Scorchmark vs. Regenerate

March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 | tnunez

What happens when you Regenerate a creature with a Scorchmark aimed at it?

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Tagged Scorchmark
Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Characteristics, Continuous Effects, Copies, Effects, Interaction of Continuous Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities, Type & Subtypes, Type Changing

Mono-Blue Tempo Round 2: Merfolk Trickster

February 27, 2019February 27, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Merfolk Trickster can kill a creature without damaging it (and other fun tricks)!

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Tagged Merfolk Trickster
Abilities, Casting / playing a spell or ability, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities, Zones

Objects Entering Simultaneously

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019 | tnunez

How are replacement effects and triggered abilities handled when multiple objects enter the battlefield simultaneously?

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Tagged Gruesome Menagerie, Scapeshift
Abilities, Combat Phase, Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Triggered Abilities, Turn Structure

Multiple Forbidding Spirits

February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 | tnunez

How do multiple triggers from Forbidding Spirit interact, and how can you get around having to pay for them?

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Tagged Forbidding Spirit, Ghostly Prison
Casting / playing a spell or ability, Control / Controller, Effects, One-Shot Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Zones

Cardnapping for Fun and Profit

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 | tnunez

Learn how Act of Treason (and other temporary-steal effects) work with "flicker" effects!

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Tagged Act of Treason, Lumbering Battlement
Abilities, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities

Sharktocrab and Simic Ascendancy

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 | tnunez

Learn what happens when Sharktocrab enters the battlefield with +1/+1 counters!

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Tagged Hydroid Krasis, Sharktocrab, Simic Ascendancy
Abilities, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Resolving spells and abilities, Static Abilities, Triggered Abilities

Teysa Karlov: What Does She Double?

February 8, 2019February 25, 2019 | tnunez

What does Teysa Karlov's ability work on?

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Tagged Teysa Karlov
Abilities, Characteristics, Effects, Prevention and Replacement Effects, Static Abilities, Type & Subtypes, Type Changing

All About Alpine Moon

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 | tnunez

Learn about Alpine Moon, the Moon that came before it, and how they can ruin an opponent's day!

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Tagged Alpine Moon, Blood Moon, Blood Sun

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