Base Set: Reimagined Edition: Trinities of Conflict

Winning and Losing

Trinity ways to end the game:

A Player loses when they have zero (0) or less life.
A Player loses when they try to draw a card from an empty library.
A Player wins when they earn a total of seven (7) victory points. Activating a Scene's Climax earns two (2) VP and Planeswalker's Ultimate three (3) VP.

Attacking and Blocking

Trinity between flying, subsurface, and neither (normal).

Flying can only be blocked by other flying and by reach.
Subsurface can't be blocked by flying.
Consequently, a creature with both flying and subsurface can only be blocked by a creature with reach but no flying.

Energies

Trinity between biological, material, and spiritual permanents. Denoted on card as symbol before the type line.

BIO = Most creatures are bio. Dealing with carbon-based lifeforms.
MAT = Artifacts, lands, and some creatures are material. Dealing with material, molecular, nonliving.
SPI = Enchantments and some creatures are spirit. Dealing with spirits, undead, divine, otherwordly, mystical energy.

Typical creature types based on energy:

BIO = Human, Elf, Merfolk, Pyrfolk, Goblin, Gnome, Cat, Dog, Horse, Fish, Beast, Bird, Insect, Plant, Treefolk, Hydra, Wurm, Elephant, Lizard, Dragon, Leviathan, Dinosaur, Mutant, Werewolf,
MAT = Elemental, Construct, Golem, Myr, Wall, Juggernaut, Assembly-Worker, Cyborg, Gargoyle, Thopter, Vehicle, Sphinx, Shapeshifter, Phyrexian
SPI = Spirit, Vampire, Angel, Demon, Undead, God, Avatar, Illusion, Horror, Imp, Devil, Faerie, Nymph, Eldrazi" Psyche

Updated on 22 Aug 2021 by amuseum