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The first in a series of challenges I'll be posting. The idea is to see who can break the cards I sugest, this time it's Rings of Brighthearth.

Rings of Brighthearth's ability just screems; "BREAK ME", so that's why I chose it for the first for the series of 'Break This Card' challenges.

The cards in this series of challenges may require some explanation on their rules text and Rings of Brighthearth is no exception. Rings of Brighthearth copies activated abilities, but ALLOT of players confuse activated and trigger abilities, so I'll attempt to explain the difference.

An activated ability is an ability that has a cost to activate. Normally this is a mana cost (:mana2: : xxx does yyy), but it can also be other things (sacrifice a creature: xxx does yyy).

A trigger ability is an ability that activates because something happens. A perfect example are the Ally creatures from the Zendikar block, they all have "whenever xxx or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, yyy happens".

The easiest way to tell the difference is activated abilities have a ":" in their rules text.

Rules:

1) Always have fun
2) Must contain at least 3 Rings of Brighthearth

*EDIT*
dagbaker pointed something out that I thought I should state:
The rings can't be used to copy abilities that produce mana, but they can be used to copy untap abilities that can untap something that produces mana.