Borne Upon a Wind is very important here as to not get blown out by permanents with enter the battlefield abilities such as Static Prison and Leyline Binding which the opponent can put into play off Show and Tell to answer Omniscience since you can cast Borne Upon a Wind in response and...
Fortification is an artifact type introduced in Future Sight. A Fortification can be attached to a land following the same rules as an equipment attached to a creature. It uses the fortify keyword, its counterpart to equip. Fortifications were added as a
If the creature receiving the first strike damage in the first damage step is killed and it doesn’t have first or double strike, it dies and doesn’t deal its combat damage. According to the MTG Comprehensive Rules rule 702.7a: “First strike is a static ability that modifies the rules ...
Power and toughness are characteristics unique to creatures in all Magic zones.[1][2] Colloquially they are known as statistics (stats), or size, the latter being referred to in the reminder text for Prototype[3]. The values for power and toughness are d
Static Ability Evergreen Abilities: (static_abilities.StaticAbilities) Other static effects: See Permanents --> Effects below. Spells Everything on the stack, spell or ability, is aplay.Play()object. When it resolves, if it's not countered & its targets are still legal, it callsplay.Play...
Magic consistently tries out new keyword mechanics. Some of these are successful and go on to becomeevergreen mechanics, while others prove too difficult to understand or sometimes even too powerful to continue getting printed. Then there are theabilitiesthat fall in between, the ones that seemingl...
That’s not to mention his other abilities, the most important of which is a static that shuts down opposing artifacts. There are lots of punishing combos with this ability, including some that lock out all your enemy’s lands. Karnreceived a ban in Pioneerpretty recently, and in protest,...
Their static abilities have a constant effect on the game so long as they are in play, they are indestructible, and when you are properly devoted, they can really shine. That is precisely why they are underwhelming as a general: the devotion requirements. Each of them adds one to your ...
Finally, some postprocessing is done to put the lines of a card's ability text into a standardized, canonical form. Lines with multiple keywords are split, and then we put all of the simple keywords first, followed by things like static or activated abilities. A few things always go first...
This can be done traditionally with counterspells or spells that counter abilities, but a more static way to do it is with the card Solemnity. Solemnity prevents counters from being put on players at all and shuts radiation down in its tracks before it ever even gets the chance to start ...