Every blue deck I run ever is going to have to sideboard a couple Turn to Frogs for the next two years, just so I can respond to the activated ability and laugh maniacally.
(And yes, that works; the ability's already on the stack by the time you respond, so it still resolves, bringing your opponent down to 1 life.)
JFM2796
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
When it says "exchange" does it mean that its toughness also becomes equal to your life?
axiobeta
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(8 votes)
This bad@ss tree is in it for the lulz. You step back and prepare your @nus for redemption.
brunsbr103
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(8 votes)
yeah JFM, it's toughness becomes your life total... so boon reflection fun anyone?
Tori_Rofocale
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(3 votes)
This card is so breakablly fun! It has too many uses.
Gaffy00
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Very useful. "What's that? I'm at 2 life and you're attacking with Two Goblins? Hmm..."
That looks like the Whomping Willow to me. I am inherently suspicious of anything from Innistrad that is pretending it's not trying to kill me.
Gcrudaplaneswalker
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(7 votes)
I'd like one of these in my garden.
Tommy9898
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(8 votes)
I just want to point out that I love how they are no longer making the mythics be must have tournament staples. No lotus cobras or baneslayer angels or vengevines in this set.
Unfortunately this card does not say gain life. You are setting your life total to a value not gaining or losing life. Although using something like Unsummon could let you reuse the ability even if it is Turn to Frog (if you live another round).
marwinshieldscale
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
wow.
The_Grizz
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(15 votes)
Funny as hell with Sanguine Bond.
Unfortunately this card does not say gain life.
Fortunately it doesn't need to.
Magic Comprehensive Rule 118.5. If an effect sets a player's life total to a specific number, the player gains or loses the necessary amount of life to end up with the new total.
dudecow
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This pretty much puts the nail in the coffin for any hope RDW had of still being good in Standard. Besides that, so much fun and so comboable! I love this set.
Tanaka348
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Seems overrated, though it still looks like fun.
Nucleon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The various blue cards that switch power and toughness might be handy if this thing ever becomes part of some crazy combo.
DragonicSphinx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Turn to frog? Why not Twisted Image to both win AND draw a card. . . I must make this happen.
Atali
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Twisted Image doesn't work to kill a player, when the Tree's toughness becomes 0, it immediately dies (when state based effects are checked) and isn't there to perform the switch when it's ability resolves.
Laguz
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
RDIGTWMOARN will be the new burn deck (Red Deck Isn't Going To Win Much Of Anything Right Now).
Chamale
★★★☆☆ (4.0/5.0)(10 votes)
Thanks to the rules regarding layering, if you put Giant Growth on this card, and exchange its toughness with a life total of 1, it will be a 3/4 until end of turn and your life total becomes 16.
So, change life totals, in response to it, turn to frog your own tree then Soul Conduit your opponent with a sly grin on your face as you just put them at 1 Life. "Oh... and I guess I attack with Invisible Stalker"
NoobOfLore
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(13 votes)
And there you have it, a tree that can be slain by nothing less than a meteor.
Most bizarre card ever. More Unglued than many Unglued things. And the art is spectacular. Yeah.
K9black
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(6 votes)
Twisted Image works here. In response the the activation of the ability you twisted image the tree. The tree's ability is still on the stack and the the tree's activator will receive the last known toughness of the tree. (Last known information). This is the same reason why if you dismember a spikeshot elder with it's ping ability on the stack it will deal -4 damage (0) to whatever it's target was. (if it's original power was 1)
Nagoragama
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(6 votes)
The art of this card seems to be based on the famous real life tree, the Angel Oak. Do an image search for it and you'll see the incredible likeness.
PEVE_O
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
question about this card: Does the Tree's toughness get reset at end of turn, or is it permanent ?
sonorhC
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Thanks, Chamale, that question just occurred to me, and I was about to come in here to ask.
Ixael
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
From the FAQ: When the ability resolves, Tree of Redemption's toughness will become your former life total and you will gain or lose an amount of life necessary so that your life total equals Tree of Redemption's former toughness. Other effects that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.
Overly Complicated (and expensive) Combo: For simplicity, let's say your life total is 23 You have Tree of Redemption in play, unused. Use it, and your life total drops 10, Tree is now 0/23. Combine with Tainted Sigil to regain the life lost. Be sure to pay the cost for Searing Meditation to off an opponent's creature to trigger your Glissa, the Traitor, to return the sigil to your hand, then reuse it for a net gain of 10. If you have something which allows you to untap the tree, then you can start all over again! Remember, each time you give some life to the tree, you add 10 more to the sigil. :D
Qazior
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Straight from the Innistrad FAQ: * If Tree of Redemption isn't on the battlefield when the ability resolves, the exchange can't happen and the ability will have no effect.
Exchange can't happen unless all objects or characteristics are where they are supposed to be. In this case, the toughness of a creature named Tree of Redemption on the battlefied which's activated ability tries to resolve.
Also see the comprehensive rules entry for "701.8. Exchange" here: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Article.aspx?x=magic/rules
Rendin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card makes all Hatred-type cards that let you pay life in addition to the casting cost essentially free. And hey, look, both of those cards (and the native life gain color, white) are in Doran, the Siege Tower's colors.
GrimjawxRULES
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
If this is really made after the Angel Oak, it should probably have had Hexproof too with all of the disasters the tree has survived. Ah well, Swiftfoot Boots takes care of that problem.
Studoku
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(4 votes)
I think that I shall never see, A combo lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer said that.
Radagast
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wow, this card is deranged! Fun, but crazy - feels like something they would have printed ages ago in Legends or Arabian Nights.
Astraea
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Ah, man, how cool would it be if you could tap this thing and have it switch with your real-life life total.
BAM! I'm a hormonal adolescent again.
Hmm, yeah on second thought....
mahora31
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ NoobOfLore
theres also into the maw of hell. and that nets you a land destruction in one fell swoop.
Dr.Pingas
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(2 votes)
@Atali, any ability that will switch it's power and toughness, or otherwise set it to zero, while it will indeed kill the tree, will also kill the player; the effect is on the stack, and since the ability references the card, it will check its "last-known in-play status", which will show the tree as having zero toughness, thus setting you to zero life.
EDIT: I guess I was a little off, as it says "exchange", and in order to exchange, both things have to be their or it fizzles. For some reason, when I first read it, I mistook the word exchange and thought it just set your life to it's toughness each time. The above still applies, however, assuming you Snakeform it or something to set it's toughness to 1. Just hope they can't untap it.
Also, I really wish they'd change the "any ability that sets a life total actually changes it", I wish it were more absolute so it didn't interact with so much crap. I think it's just wierd the way it is.
Unfinishe
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Question: Suppose I have Tree of Redemption and 1 health . Opponent attacks with a 5/5 flyer, "killing" me. In response can I tap Tree of Redemption and then go up to 13? Or do I HAVE to use it before going down to zero?
@ezuna Rolling stones only gives walls the ability to attack and this is a plant @unfinishe If you have a you can't lose condition in the board (such as platinum angel) you can sit on your 0 or less life total and switch whenever. Otherwise the game recognizes you as "dead" as a statebased effect. Checking when people and creatures die happens before priority is passed making you unable to even activate the ability.
Tree of Redemption + Ranger's Guile / Mask of Avacyn + Twisted Image + Fling ?
hedronMatrix
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Okay, so I know this is a little bigger combo, but make a deck around this, and it could be fun: Tree Of Redemption + Myr Galvanizer + Palladium Myr +Xenograft + any enchantment or artifact that boosts defense. Declare Myr as Creature type.
play. use next turn, when you have 20 life still (ramp it out). continue playing. when life total becomes low, use it, going back to 20 life. works really well with gavony township and mikaeus, the lunarch
@Ezuna
Dorian the seige tower says that the tree of redemption is not a wall.
Here's the link, if anyone is too lazy to google it. This has to be the inspiration for the art, it's just too close. And with a name like 'Angel Oak', it fits.
You try to throw a Shivan Meteor at this guy and he just takes it in stride, and taps to become a 0/20. And then switches back next turn. He is a very versatile card, and with... I think Warmonger's Chariot and Doran, the Siege Tower...
getchyaroksov
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ok....If i read the whole "exchange" thing correctly, where if you have say 20 life and activate the Tree's ability you lose 7 life or take 7 damage, can that damage be prevented? If it can combine this with Master Healer and other healer cards and it could get out of hand. Or am I wrong on the rule wording?
phyrexiantrygon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I just love how all you need is an untap engine of some sort and (at least) one +1/+1 counter to have infinite life...
@getchyaroksov you would lose 7 life, which cannot be prevented
Whoa, with the new mechanic Fateful Hour and Phyrexian Mana http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?output=spoiler&method=visual&action=advanced&text=++
New_Flesh
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(7 votes)
Did anyone else notice the helvault in the background?
Some of the flavor for this card/picture is very subtle, yet beautiful. There's a magnificent 1500 year old tree in South Carolina known as the "Angel Oak" that looks just like the Tree of Redemption. Both are very similar in appearance, and seemingly have corresponding names. Go Google some pictures of the "Angel Oak".
nirvava
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Tree of Redemption plus two Wreath of Geists = bigger and bigger life gains each turn. Not sure why, but the 2 enchantments create exponentially bigger life gains after each use.
justavictim82
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I wonder why no one has thought of a Tree of Redemption and Feed the Pack combo yet... With as much ramp as Green has in this block... it isn't unrealistic at the end of turn 5 to drop 20 2/2 wolf tokens into play... end game.
Negated
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@the guy before me: I've been tuning mine for a while now.
eddned
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is mad.
Klutz42
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hmm... So according to the rules: If you had 10 +1/+1 counters on this bad boy, you'd be able to alternate between adding 10 to your total life, and permanently adding 10 toughness to this thing? Every turn?
Neat!
Goatllama
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Quite possibly the lulziest card in the set. Must equip with Warmonger's Chariot – this tree is going places.
brettuzzi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If this were to be paired with Deadeye Navigator, I suppose you could exchange life totals to bring yourself up to 13, after that resolves blink it for 1U, and then you have 13 life and a 0/13 wall? (rinse, repeat)
Recino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i'm surprised nobody said this but, this combos beautifully with Chalice of Life, and, oddly enough, defensive stance. O_o But seriously, I must combo those cards, and get a few more buffs for our little tree. I'm thinking Green/Blue/Black (black for tutoring).
MindEcho
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ brunsbr103: Boon Reflection does not work becuase you do not actually gain life, you exchange them...
I actually love this card. Throw a few noxious revivals or reclaims in your deck, and you can actually live through just about anything. And with more than one in play, you can take up to 24 damage in a turn and live.
Does anyone see this along with Feed the Pact as a good idea? I can stay alive as long as I want, then when I am ready, sac for 13 2/2 wolf's and bash your head it.
Just a thought.
Layk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Chamale
Since you have to pay 3 for Umbral Mantle this combo would produce diminishing results, throw in Training Grounds and it'll work
Paleopaladin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
saddest panda when they respond to this with Twisted Image.
Ladon---
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(8 votes)
@tcollins, @Paleopaladin, @k9black
From the FAQ: If Tree of Redemption isn't on the battlefield when the ability resolves, the exchange can't happen and the ability will have no effect.
If Tree of Redemption's toughness equals zero, it will go into the graveyard as state based action. That means it takes precedence over anything else resolving on the stack under it. If I {T} and activate the ability, and in response you cast Twisted Image or Inside Out, it'll go on the stack above my activated ability. Your spell resolves, Tree of Redemption has 0 toughness and goes into the graveyard. Then my ability resolves, but the exchange can't happen because it's not on the battlefield and the ability will have no effect.
I hate to see misleading information at the top of the Popular Comments, even if they are funny.
MisteWolfe
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I just built an elf deck with these in it. I don't think I saw anyone mention Emaculate Magistrate. This is my secondary elf deck now, consisting of metalcraft and counters. Put in the Chalice of Life for kicks, and something to make them hold artifact killers. Should prove to be fun. :)
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this yet, but I want to make a dedicated lifegain deck using this as the win condition with Feed the Pack. Run 4 each of the Wardens (Soul Warden, Essence Warden, and Soul's Attendant. Get your life up there, swap it, sac the thing, get a ton of creatures and gain all that life back from the Wardens. Rinse and repeat and enjoy your massive army of 2/2 wolves.
Me, @17 health: "Okay, I'll just cast Sheltering Word and tap the tree in response."
Opponent: "Not funny."
Me, @30 health: "And now I'm going to tap this Chalice of Life over here..."
Mike-C
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I can't WAIT to use Sorin Markov's Ultimate against this and damage the tree down to 1 or even better, nothing & then "convince" my opp to exchange life totals with it. Haha!
salfiert
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
my friends deck runs this, rhox faithmender,sheltering word and feed the pack and fog he can delay the hell out of a game, gets silly high life totals, one game, healer on the field tap tree, sheltering word, up to 53 life, tap again, sheltering word, up to 126 life, 2 turns later another sheltering word, never even had to play feed the pack i just scooped after we calculated he was up to almost 300 life
tcollins
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
*I stand corrected Ladon, thanks for pointing out the error of my ways.
klauth
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@Mike-C: No, dealing damage to it won't lower its toughness, you're just piling damage on to it (remember dealing damage equal to a creature's toughness destroys it but lowering it's toughness to 0 causes it to go to the graveyard regardless of indestructibility). If you want to do what you're saying, you're going to need to at least -0/-12 this tree. 2 Dismembers would take it down to 3 toughness or 3 Grasp of Darknesses to bring it down to 1 toughness
That aside, an activated Beastmaster Ascension (or any other toughness booster for that matter) plus Freed from the Real would let your life (and by extension, its toughness) escalate by 5 everytime you exchange life with him twice in a row.
RobotRollCall
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This might start seeing more play considering Simic's Evolve ability.
Hunter06
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combo's with Doran to have a frightening blocker, lol 4/5 Stars
azure_drake222222
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
4 for a 0/13 is a good uncommon. 4 for a 0/13 that gains you 6 life is a good rare. This is a good mythic.
I sense a Game of Thrones themed deck coming on....
Jezzatron
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
If I attached Ring of Kalonia to this thing... Would I have unlimited life??
Ring gives enchanted creature a +1/+1 counter every turn if green... And another bonus which I can't recall ATM.
Life: 20 Tree 0/13
Attached Ring of Kalonia.. Gain +1/+1 next upkeep. So you'd be 1/14... Keep going until over 20 toughness, tap it. Then tree would be 20 and life be 20..
Wouldn't that work???
Another question - when attacking (obviously not this card) but using it as an example - if I were to attack with this card, would its ability still happen??? Or do tapping abilities not work/activate etc when attacking ???
Zeritanos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I remember back in a casual game where I had this and two Thraben Doomsayers out with a sizeable amount of human tokens on the field. My friend (who was also running a token deck) swung out with an 8/8 Mikaeus and a bunch of his tokens. Luckily, I had more tokens than him, so I blocked the Mikaeus with the tree, making it a 0/5, and tapped it, giving me the fateful hour boost from my Doomsayers. I still lost a bunch of my field, but hey, I only needed four of them to get through during my next turn. Which they did. In retrospect, I really can't see how he thought it would have played out any differently, lol.
Coralus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Door of Destinies, with this, can get pretty crazy. If you are doing a Plant Door deck, Let's say you have 2 counters on the door. this is a 2/15. Swap with your life total of, say... 10, yeah? Because of the two counters, it becomes a 2/12 after the swap. Next turn, if you took no damage, swap your 15 life, with the 12 toughness. This becomes a 2/17. Basically, the amount of counters you get on Door of Destinies, is how much life you gain every other turn, and each counter added by playing another plant is like having a Soul Warden in play. Slow combo but exceptionally annoying if it works!
@Zeritanos Mikaeus does not have wither or infect (which causes damage to creatures to be dealt in the form of -1/-1 counters), so at no point does your tree become a 0/5 - it is a 0/13 with 8 damage marked on it. Thus, the life total switch will set your life total to 13 when the ability resolves, not 5.
The more you know!
Gewb
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Now we know what the -13/-13 on tragic slip is for (:<
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=229765203864591&set=p.229765203864591&type=1 tree in "Peradeniya GARDEN"
JimmyNoobPlayer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
1. Cast Kiora's Follower and Tree of Redemption. 2. Cast Tower Defense. 3. Tap the Tree, untap with the Follower, then tap again. 4. Triton Tactics, then tap it twice again.
Your life and the Tree's toughness will be permanently increased by exactly 13.
start: life=X Tree=13+5 tap: life=18 Tree=X+5 tap again: life=X+5 Tree=18+5 triton: life=X+5 Tree=18+8 tap: life=26 Tree=(X+5)+8 tap again: life=X+13 Tree=26+8, at eot the +8 will wear off.
Comments (108)
(And yes, that works; the ability's already on the stack by the time you respond, so it still resolves, bringing your opponent down to 1 life.)
You step back and prepare your @nus for redemption.
Unfortunately this card does not say gain life. You are setting your life total to a value not gaining or losing life. Although using something like Unsummon could let you reuse the ability even if it is Turn to Frog (if you live another round).
Unfortunately this card does not say gain life.
Fortunately it doesn't need to.
Magic Comprehensive Rule 118.5. If an effect sets a player's life total to a specific number, the player gains or loses the necessary amount of life to end up with the new total.
Besides that, so much fun and so comboable! I love this set.
So, run it with Umbral Mantle and Channel to gain unlimited life.
In fact, run Turn t Frog with this card.
Hell, run Soul Conduit with it.
So, change life totals, in response to it, turn to frog your own tree then Soul Conduit your opponent with a sly grin on your face as you just put them at 1 Life.
"Oh... and I guess I attack with Invisible Stalker"
Either that or tearing out its throat.
(Shivan Meteor, Go For The Throat)
When the ability resolves, Tree of Redemption's toughness will become your former life total and you will gain or lose an amount of life necessary so that your life total equals Tree of Redemption's former toughness. Other effects that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.
Overly Complicated (and expensive) Combo:
For simplicity, let's say your life total is 23
You have Tree of Redemption in play, unused. Use it, and your life total drops 10, Tree is now 0/23. Combine with Tainted Sigil to regain the life lost. Be sure to pay the cost for Searing Meditation to off an opponent's creature to trigger your Glissa, the Traitor, to return the sigil to your hand, then reuse it for a net gain of 10. If you have something which allows you to untap the tree, then you can start all over again! Remember, each time you give some life to the tree, you add 10 more to the sigil. :D
* If Tree of Redemption isn't on the battlefield when the ability resolves, the exchange can't happen and the ability will have no effect.
Exchange can't happen unless all objects or characteristics are where they are supposed to be. In this case, the toughness of a creature named Tree of Redemption on the battlefied which's activated ability tries to resolve.
Also see the comprehensive rules entry for "701.8. Exchange" here:
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Article.aspx?x=magic/rules
A combo lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer said that.
BAM! I'm a hormonal adolescent again.
Hmm, yeah on second thought....
theres also into the maw of hell. and that nets you a land destruction in one fell swoop.
EDIT: I guess I was a little off, as it says "exchange", and in order to exchange, both things have to be their or it fizzles. For some reason, when I first read it, I mistook the word exchange and thought it just set your life to it's toughness each time. The above still applies, however, assuming you Snakeform it or something to set it's toughness to 1. Just hope they can't untap it.
Also, I really wish they'd change the "any ability that sets a life total actually changes it", I wish it were more absolute so it didn't interact with so much crap. I think it's just wierd the way it is.
Suppose I have Tree of Redemption and 1 health .
Opponent attacks with a 5/5 flyer, "killing" me.
In response can I tap Tree of Redemption and then go up to 13?
Or do I HAVE to use it before going down to zero?
Rolling stones only gives walls the ability to attack and this is a plant
@unfinishe
If you have a you can't lose condition in the board (such as platinum angel) you can sit on your 0 or less life total and switch whenever. Otherwise the game recognizes you as "dead" as a statebased effect. Checking when people and creatures die happens before priority is passed making you unable to even activate the ability.
Tree Of Redemption + Myr Galvanizer + Palladium Myr +Xenograft + any enchantment or artifact that boosts defense.
Declare Myr as Creature type.
Warmonger's Chariot and Doran, the Siege Tower for more hilarity.
@Ezuna
Dorian the seige tower says that the tree of redemption is not a wall.
Someone had to bring it up.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/Se44ZSZAA3I/AAAAAAAAkwI/cTvGXidtl2k/s400/angel-oak2.jpg
Here's the link, if anyone is too lazy to google it. This has to be the inspiration for the art, it's just too close. And with a name like 'Angel Oak', it fits.
Also, with Lich this card now reads "Tap and Die: Draw 13 cards"
I didn't know trees had throats. Now I know.
Also, best WTF moment: When I equipped this with a Sword of Feast and Famine
@getchyaroksov
you would lose 7 life, which cannot be prevented
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?output=spoiler&method=visual&action=advanced&text=++
If you had 10 +1/+1 counters on this bad boy, you'd be able to alternate between adding 10 to your total life, and permanently adding 10 toughness to this thing? Every turn?
Neat!
But seriously, I must combo those cards, and get a few more buffs for our little tree.
I'm thinking Green/Blue/Black (black for tutoring).
I actually love this card. Throw a few noxious revivals or reclaims in your deck, and you can actually live through just about anything. And with more than one in play, you can take up to 24 damage in a turn and live.
Does anyone see this along with Feed the Pact as a good idea? I can stay alive as long as I want, then when I am ready, sac for 13 2/2 wolf's and bash your head it.
Just a thought.
Since you have to pay 3 for Umbral Mantle this combo would produce diminishing results, throw in Training Grounds and it'll work
From the FAQ:
If Tree of Redemption isn't on the battlefield when the ability resolves, the exchange can't happen and the ability will have no effect.
If Tree of Redemption's toughness equals zero, it will go into the graveyard as state based action. That means it takes precedence over anything else resolving on the stack under it. If I {T} and activate the ability, and in response you cast Twisted Image or Inside Out, it'll go on the stack above my activated ability. Your spell resolves, Tree of Redemption has 0 toughness and goes into the graveyard. Then my ability resolves, but the exchange can't happen because it's not on the battlefield and the ability will have no effect.
I hate to see misleading information at the top of the Popular Comments, even if they are funny.
not too shabby.
Me, @17 health: "Okay, I'll just cast Sheltering Word and tap the tree in response."
Opponent: "Not funny."
Me, @30 health: "And now I'm going to tap this Chalice of Life over here..."
That aside, an activated Beastmaster Ascension (or any other toughness booster for that matter) plus Freed from the Real would let your life (and by extension, its toughness) escalate by 5 everytime you exchange life with him twice in a row.
4/5 Stars
4 for a 0/13 that gains you 6 life is a good rare.
This is a good mythic.
Ring gives enchanted creature a +1/+1 counter every turn if green... And another bonus which I can't recall ATM.
Life: 20
Tree 0/13
Attached Ring of Kalonia.. Gain +1/+1 next upkeep. So you'd be 1/14... Keep going until over 20 toughness, tap it. Then tree would be 20 and life be 20..
Wouldn't that work???
Another question - when attacking (obviously not this card) but using it as an example - if I were to attack with this card, would its ability still happen??? Or do tapping abilities not work/activate etc when attacking ???
In retrospect, I really can't see how he thought it would have played out any differently, lol.
Why do wolves like to eat trees so much?
Mikaeus does not have wither or infect (which causes damage to creatures to be dealt in the form of -1/-1 counters), so at no point does your tree become a 0/5 - it is a 0/13 with 8 damage marked on it. Thus, the life total switch will set your life total to 13 when the ability resolves, not 5.
The more you know!
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tree in "Peradeniya GARDEN"
2. Cast Tower Defense.
3. Tap the Tree, untap with the Follower, then tap again.
4. Triton Tactics, then tap it twice again.
Your life and the Tree's toughness will be permanently increased by exactly 13.
start: life=X Tree=13+5
tap: life=18 Tree=X+5
tap again: life=X+5 Tree=18+5
triton: life=X+5 Tree=18+8
tap: life=26 Tree=(X+5)+8
tap again: life=X+13 Tree=26+8, at eot the +8 will wear off.
Remember, too, that every redemptive sacrifice needs its avenger.
-Flavor would be awesome
-Karakas + this in Legacy would make amazing control decks.