Artifacts in Magic: The Gathering

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Part of the video series: How to Play Magic: The Gathering

Summary: Learn the rules of playing Magic: The Gathering in this free online video clip about the different parts of Magic: The Gathering cards.

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By Mike Lopez
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Mike Lopez has been playing pool in all of its forms for roughly sixteen years. He was the East Carolina University Nine Ball Champion in 1999. He currently is the top ranked player in...read more

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arachne1 said

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on 4/22/2009 Im going to try to fix some of his poor wording and inacuracy. The ways to remove a artifact with industructable is remove from game. It is not vulnerable to cards that state "destroy target artifact." It is vurnable to the effect "target player sacrifises...". If you sacrifise the creature or artifact it goes to the graveyard. Also if the spell has the effect "remove from game" then it is removed form game. You can also send it to the graveyard if it is a artifact creature by reducing it toughness to 0 or less. This sends it to the graveyard and it cant be regenerated. He was wrong about combat damage destroying and indesctructabel creature. Combat dammage will not destory a indestructable creature.

drchia said

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on 9/8/2008 I'm making a personal crusade to count the number of idiotic statements that this moron makes regarding Magic rules. In this disaster: 1) Indestructible isn't limited to artifacts. 2)Basically everything he says about indestructibility is wrong. 3) WTF is an automatic tap enchantment (I guess Curse of Chains...)? Geez, you're a tool...

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Mike Lopez with Expert Village. Today we're going to be discussing Magic: the Gathering the card game. And now we're going to go over the artifact group. Artifacts are colorless spell cards. Which means that the casting costs, as you can see on each of these cards, there is no specific mana requirement other than 3 colorless, 3 colorless, 2 colorless, 2 colorless. This means you can play any mana to play these cards. As you can also see, there are some special abilities for artifacts only. This is indestructible, which is an ability only applying to artifacts. The ability, indestructible, only applies to artifact cards. Usually artifact creature cards. This is not an artifact creature but it does become a creature with this ability down here. What this means is, it can not be destroyed and lethal damage do not destroy it. Lethal damage is direct damage, dealt directly to the creature, from a spell sources. In other words, the only thing that can get rid of this card is a remove from game, an automatic tap enchantment, or combat damage dealt to the creature while it is a creature. This card is an artifact. This means when it comes into play, it is just in play. The reason you are playing it, is to play the ability that comes along with it. Here we have a 3 and a tap, which is the little circle with the arrow, again. This artifact doubles the amount of each type of mana in your mana pool. Which is a very useful card, which is why, once again, has a gold insignia and is a rare. This card up here is an artifact-equipment card. Equipment cards go on creatures. They do not necessarily have to go on artifact creatures, but they all go on creatures. It cost you 3 to put it in play and down here, as we see, it costs you two to equip to the target creature of your choice. However, when that target creature is removed from the game, destroyed, or dies from combat this equipment stays in play. You just need to pay another 2 colorless to put it onto another creature."

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