This is useful if you want to copy that spell, or otherwise respond to your own spells/abilities. Holding the Ctrl key while adding an item to the stack will cause you to retain priority. Once you pass priority, you cannot go back, so be careful! This is particularly useful with painlands as they’ll tap for colorless, or with Urborg as it will cause whatever land to tap for its “native” color.Ĭtrl + U or Ctrl + Z – Undo the previous mana tap. Holding M while tapping a land for mana will make it automatically use the mana ability printed first on the card. Also note that there’s currently a bug where you can have a convoke card in hand that you may be able to cast, but F8 will still cause you to pass.į10 – Shortcut for choosing “No.” Other Keyboard Shortcuts Use this at the start of the game when Force of Will isn’t in the format. Use this if you pressed one of the above by mistake!į8 – Pass priority for the rest of the game whenever I’m tapped out completely and have nothing I can cast or activate. Also note that sometimes triggers are the same but you care about what order they happen such as evolving two different creatures.į3 – Cancel all previous yields. Use this when you have a Soul Warden and someone casts Lingering Souls. Use this when you have nothing (and don’t want to bluff anything).į7 – Place all like triggers on the stack automatically.
Use this when you’re done for the turn assuming nothing changes, but have a counterspell or something you might want to use.į6 – Pass priority for the rest of the turn, unless you’re prompted to attack or block. Use this when you are done with your precombat main phase but still have other things to do for the turn.į4 – Pass priority for the rest of the turn or until your opponent does anything or you’re prompted to attack or block. Most of these will probably be well known by people who’ve used MTGO a lot, but I thought I was one of those people and I just recently learned a few of these! I’ll start off with keyboard shortcuts. With this in mind, I’m going to outline some of the tricks and shortcuts I’ve learned in my time with MTGO. It is also a very frustrating program with woefully insufficient documentation. It lets us play games with real stakes at any time and in any place. Magic: the Gathering Online is one of the very best tools we have to help us improve.