Evoke Shield in Magic: The Gathering

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 look at the special skill, Evoke. Now certain cards, like this Aethersnipe, has what you call Evoke on it. Now the cost of the Aethersnipe itself is 5 and a blue, for a 4/4 creature. However, this card does have Evoke. This means that you can play this for 1 and 2 blue and when it comes into play, for this ones Evoke, you sacrifice it. Most Evokes, about 75% of them are sacrifice Evokes. The other portion of Evokes usually either deal damage or do a special attribute to your mana. Why you would actually want to play this card for its Evoke cost is because when Aethersnipe comes into play, return target nonland permanent to it's owner's hand. Which means, when this card comes into play, even though you didn't play it for 5 and the 1 to make it actually a creature, you play this little Evoke cost, then it comes into play and target nonbasic land will now be returned into an opponent?s hand of your choosing. Although you did sacrifice this, you removed a land from play. And that is Evoke."