you can use those actions to play cards, draw cards, get resources, or make a skill check
You are specifically casting the back side of a battle when it transforms, after the trigger to transform it once it is defeated resolves
Open Dueling If the idea of spending a day playing a tournament doesn't fit into how you prefer to play Magic , or if you have less time and just want to battle as you're available, you can get involved in Open Dueling
Zendikar is one of the most mana-rich lands in the Multiverse, and the set included several important milestones: land-based mechanics like landfall, the completion of the fetch land cycle introduced in Onslaught , and the inclusion of full-art basic lands in a major expansion set
But the Whelp is one of a handful of Laccolith buddies from Nemesis that I always felt sort of enabled the creature control of that set
Using Shark's emotional instability from promising to win for her, he purposely set up his deck to fall over, so that Shark would cheat