With morph coming back in khans, and I know a lot of people in this group didnt play when it was first around, I figured talking about the rules around the mechanic may be useful with the set coming out soon. Its pretty simple, when you morph a creature, in other words, turn it face up, it does NOT use the stack. This means you cannot respond to your opponent morphing their creature. This is to ensure that cards that have an ability when turned face up will trigger. So if a card has an ability that says when this turned face up X happens, that trigger DOES use the stack, and players can respond as normal. Remember, if something says for example, when ~ is turned face up destroy target creature, you choose a target when the trigger goes on the stack, its just like casting a removal spell. Pay the mana, flip your creature, put the trigger on the stack and chose a target, now your opponent may respond. Takes a bit of getting used to as you may want to respond to the morph when you see what the facedown creature is, but you cannot. You can only respond when you have priority (so you still get a chance to kill it with a spell if you didnt block that face down card which just got morphed into a vanilla 6/6 beater). Thats the basics to morph, any questions with specific cards, feel free to ask. Better to understand it now than trying to learn how it works at prerelease/fnm. One more thing, any face down cards that have not been turned face up at the end of the game MUST BE REVEALED to all players. This is to make sure no one is cheating and that the face down creature was in fact a morph card. This is super important at REL-Competetive level (something like a SCG tournament, or the upcoming states). If you accidentally pick up your cards without showing your opponent the face down cards, it is unfortunately a game loss, because there is no one to know for certain which card was face down after it has touched other cards. Im sure at the fnm level it wont be too much of a big deal, just dont do it habitually. I know this is a wall of text, any questions?
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:53:04 +0000
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