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Star Trek mechanics for Commander explained: beam me up, station, assimilate, battlefront and more, with the rules
U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Galaxy-Class, Star Trek. Art by Pablo Mendoza.
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Sanguine Bond
Enchantment
Gain life, an opponent loses that much. Lifelink creatures and drain pieces turn Sanguine Bond into a second win condition, and players keep pairing it with lifelink enablers in the G'raha Tia deck.
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MTG rules questions, answered
Short, direct answers to the rules questions that stall real Commander games, each tied to the cards involved.
All rules answersDoes Yuna, Grand Summoner's ability trigger when Yuna itself dies?
No, Yuna's second ability only triggers when another permanent you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield. Yuna's own death does not trigger the ability, so you won't get to tutor or put cards onto the battlefield when Yuna itself is destroyed.
Read the full answerCan you combine the miracle cost and overload cost on Cyclonic Rift?
No, you cannot combine them. Per Magic rules, a spell can have only one alternative cost applied. With Lorehold in play, you can cast Cyclonic Rift for via miracle, but this produces the non-overloaded version that returns a single target nonland permanent. To use the overloaded 'return all nonland permanents' mode, you must pay the full .
Read the full answerDoes Doubling Season make a saga skip Chapter I when it re-enters the battlefield?
No. When a saga re-enters with Doubling Season in play, it receives 2 lore counters immediately, which causes both Chapter I and Chapter II to trigger simultaneously on the same turn. Chapter I is not skipped, both chapters fire at once because the lore counters satisfy both thresholds together.
Read the full answerWhat does Tishana's Tidebinder actually target when used against a saga?
Tishana's Tidebinder targets the triggered ability on the stack (such as a chapter ability from a saga like Bahamut), not the permanent itself. Because that ability belongs to a creature, the permanent then loses all its abilities as a consequence of the ability being countered.
Read the full answerWhy does Urza's Saga keep its activated abilities under Blood Moon?
Urza's Saga's chapter-granted abilities survive Blood Moon because the effects that grant those abilities operate in Layer 6 (ability-adding), which is always applied after Layer 4 (type-changing, where Blood Moon operates). This is determined by layer sequencing, not by timestamp priority.
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