In 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering, the second main phase is something of a ♍safe zone. You’ve made it thro𓄧ugh combat unscathed, and are now ready to play some spells and advance your board state.

With Duskmourn: House Of Horr𓄧or, the second main phase became even better with the introduction of survival. If you can get these survivors into the phase alive, you’ll be drowning in value.

What Is Survival?

Survival is a word used to describe triggered abilities that activate under two conditions:

• It must be the beginning of the second main phase.
• The creature with survival must be tapped.

It’s as simple as that. If a creature with survival is tapped when you move into your second main phase, its survival ab🅰ility will trigger. This could be anything, ranging from putting a +1/+1 counter on a creature, exiling cards off the top of yo💟ur library, or even playing a permanent for free.

While the implication is that a creature has swung in combat and survived, it doesn’t matter why a creatur🀅e with survival is tapped. It could be combat, but there are plenty of other ways to ဣtap a creature down that don’t put it at quite as much risk.

It’s important that the creature is tapped at the start of the second main phase. You can’t get to this point in your turn and then tap it to trigger survival, as survival check would have already passed. The latest point for you to tap a creature with survival is the end of the combat phase.

How To Use Survival

As mentioned, how you tap a creature doesn’t matter. Combat is the obvious way, as attacking will tap the creature. But this has the downside of putting your creature at risk of being blocked and killed.

In Standard, there are currently three reliable ways to tap down a creature outside of specific, individual cards: using it to convoke a spell, crewing a Vehicle, or using the saddle ability on a Mount. These are all free to do, which effectively means survival triggers a freeꦉ if you have the way to tap them.

You can’t tap a creature just for the sake of it🥂. It has to be either part of the cost of a spell or ability, 💖or as part of its resolution.

Outside of Standard, the ways to tap a creature only increase. Maybe you turn them into a mana dork with something like Battery Bearer, Cryptolith Rite, or Citanul Hierophants, or tap them as part of the cost of an ability like Springleaf Drum’s.

One important thing to remember is that this ability specifically triggers on the second main phase, rather than the older wording of postcombat main phase. If you gain extra combat and main phases, such as through an Aggravated Assault, your survival abilities will only trigger once, on the second main phase that turn.

The Best Survival Cards

Every card with survival in Duskmourn has the Survivor creature type, which could be enough to make Survivor typal decks a viable thing in the future. Until▨ then, though, th🍸ere are more than a few great survival triggers worth tapping down for.

The absolute star of the mechanic is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kona, Rescue Beastie. Thanks to the myriad ways of becoming tapped without attacking in combat, Kona c♊an throw out permanents for free with alarming regularity. That permanent could be another creature, or it could be something much scarier, like an Omniscience.

Reluctant Role Model is also worth looking at. Tap it down when it enters with a Mount or a Vehicle, and on turn two you could have a 2/2 flier. Each turn, it gets better and ⛎bet𝄹ter as it picks up new abilities, too.

Acrobatic Cheerleader can also get flying just as quickly as Reluctant Ro♓le Model, but 🐟won't pick up the extra counters.

Cynical Loner takes a little bit of work and forethought to get you value, but dumping specific cards into y⛄our graveyard can pay off big time. In Commander, having a way to easily get cards like B⭕rawn and Anger online shouldn’t be sniffed at.