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7th Ed. Spells and Magic Resistance

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I was just wondering are there any spells that can get around Magic Resistance ability that several units have, Someone in the tactics thread I believe said that a certain spell in Lore of Death can but I can't see how.

By the way I'm a newbie hence silly question :D Well not a newbie to GW, played 40K before seeing the light.
 
JohnnyH5 said:
I was just wondering are there any spells that can get around Magic Resistance ability that several units have, Someone in the tactics thread I believe said that a certain spell in Lore of Death can but I can't see how.

By the way I'm a newbie hence silly question :D Well not a newbie to GW, played 40K before seeing the light.
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If you've got an attacking spell that can affect one enemy unit, then jump to another one (I really have no idea what it's called, but one exists, lol) you can target it at a non-Magic Resistant unit and see if it then jumps across to a Magic Resistant unit - because the spell is already in effect the Magic Resistance is allegedly unable to stop the spell in the normal way.
 
Basically any spell with an area of effect gets passes the MR by, from the Lore of Death that would be Drain Life.
 
As I mentioned in another thread (I suspect the one the poster is referring to), According to the errata, magic resistance requires the unit to be the target of a given spell. That is, a magic resistant unit has to be "targeted" and not just "affected" by a spell for them to get their magic resistance, so if the spell doesn't "target" a unit, as is the case with spells like comet, guardian light, drain life, and various others, then none of the units affected by it are the "target" of the spell (so no magic resistance). To put it another way, if you have to aim the spell at something, the thing you're aiming at gets its magic resistance, otherwise it doesn't.

@starblayde: You're probably thinking of plague (for Skaven), although I think warpath (for O&G) also does that.
 
spacelizard said:
@starblayde: You're probably thinking of plague (for Skaven), although I think warpath (for O&G) also does that.
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Plague, that's the one! I think there was a thread about it on Warseer somewhere.
 
Hey, are you allowed to cast the same spell multiple times in a single magic phase? e.g. urannon's thunderbolt something twice?
 
No, each spell can only be cast once per phase. Unless you have more than once catser with a spell.

E.g. 2 skink priests with uranon's thunderbolt.
 
some army books allow spells to be casted multiple times. some examples are VCand TK.
unless noted otherwise a spell may only be cast once by a wizards in one magic phase.
 
Thanks guys for your help, I now know which Lores to use against my opponents this weekend.
 
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