Newbie's question: Frozen Shade
Kyle Niedzwiecki
: On the flying shade card, is the +1/+1 for the (b) cumulative per round, or
: does the bonus only apply during the round you attack with it. I've been
: swamped by that card after a good seven rounds, and it's a touch annoying.
: So, just for clarification (since it is a rather cheap card), I just want to
: know if I'm getting screwed or not.
Frozen Shades (and in fact all creatures with "pumpable" effects) lose
their bonuses at the end of the turn, so for each black mana you spend,
the shade gets one additional power and one additional toughness until
the end of the turn.
-KWN
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Kyle Nishioka
: In <3ig33e$b...@hearst.cac.psu.edu>, use...@psu.edu (First M. Lastname) writes:
: >The frozen shade returns to 0/1 at the end of every turn. When I first
: >started a friend of mine thought the same as you. he'd tap a mana
: >every turn and try to boost it up cumutively.
: >
: >Any creature whose power can be boosted that way returns to their
: >original at the end of the turn.
: If that were true, wouldn't the card's text have "Until end of turn" added after
: the cost to power up?
: i.e. RR: +1/+1 Until end of turn
It is implied because the Shade's ability is an instant. All instants
expire at the end of the turn unless it says otherwise.
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Kyle
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Chris Dollin
use...@psu.edu (First M. Lastname) writes:
>The frozen shade returns to 0/1 at the end of every turn. When I first
>started a friend of mine thought the same as you. he'd tap a mana
>every turn and try to boost it up cumutively.
>
>Any creature whose power can be boosted that way returns to their
>original at the end of the turn.
If that were true, wouldn't the card's text have "Until end of turn"
added after the cost to power up?
i.e. RR: +1/+1 Until end of turn
[Spell] Blast WotC.
No. *All* such bonuses are until end-of-turn, unless the card says
otherwise; see the rulebook, pp 23 & 30.
I think that so many people were asking this question that WotC added a
``helpful reminder'' to some cards. Unfortunately the effect of this
is to make people think that cards without the reminder have permanent
boosts.
[Wipes foam from mouth.]
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