Second Phase of 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. Now, here we've entered into our second main phase. The second main phase is the phase right after combat. Right after combat and damage resolution has been resolved, what you're going to do is if you have manna you can do a number of things. You can, for instance, if you haven't laid a land that turn you can you can lay a land. Sometimes people will hold their land until the second main phase so they can do something during the second main phase depending on what deck they have. For instance, you can tap a land, and play a creature card, in this case the Elvish Eulogist which you sacrifice it, you gain one life for each elf card in your graveyard or you can play tap two, play an instant. You can play an instant at any time during any phase. This is nourish, which allows you to gain six life. You then come over here to your trusty dice and you add six to your life. Then, you can in fact, play a sorcery, instead. Now that you're done with your second main phase, if you decide that you don't want to do anything, you can claim that you are done or finished with your turn. Now, this prepares us for our end phase."