Alms of the Vein
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2016-04-08
Cards are discarded in a Magic game only from a player’s hand. Effects that put cards from a player’s library into that player’s graveyard do not cause those cards to be discarded.
2016-04-08
A spell cast for its madness cost is put onto the stack like any other spell. It can be countered, copied, and so on. As it resolves, it’s put onto the battlefield if it’s a permanent card or into its owner’s graveyard if it’s an instant or sorcery card.
2016-04-08
Casting a spell for its madness cost doesn’t change its mana cost or its converted mana cost. You just pay the madness cost instead.
2016-04-08
Effects that cause you to pay more or less for a spell will cause you to pay that much more or less for its madness cost, too.
2016-04-08
Madness works independently of why you’re discarding the card. You could discard it to pay a cost, because a spell or ability tells you to, or even because you have too many cards in your hand at the end of your turn. You can’t discard a card with madness just because you want to, though.
2016-04-08
When you cast a card with madness, it was still discarded. If it was discarded to pay a cost, that cost is still paid. Abilities that trigger when a card is discarded will still trigger.
2016-04-08
If you choose not to cast a card with madness when the madness triggered ability resolves, it’s put into your graveyard. You don’t get another chance to cast it later.
2016-04-08
If you discard a card with madness to pay the cost of a spell or activated ability, that card’s madness trigger (and the spell that card becomes, if you choose to cast it) will resolve before the spell or ability the discard paid for.
2016-04-08
If you discard a card with madness while resolving a spell or ability, it moves immediately to exile. Continue resolving that spell or ability—the card is not in your graveyard at this time. Its madness trigger will be placed onto the stack once that spell or ability has completely resolved.
Betrayal of Flesh
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Bleeding Edge
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-05-03
You may cast Bleeding Edge without choosing a target creature. You’ll just amass 2. However, if you choose a target and that target become illegal before Bleeding Edge resolves, the spell won’t resolve and you won’t amass.
2019-05-03
Army is a new creature type. It’s possible to control a nontoken Army (perhaps a creature with the changeling ability) and, through combinations of other cards, it’s possible to control multiple Army tokens. When instructed to amass, you may put +1/+1 counters on any of your Army creatures, and you may choose a different one each time.
2019-05-03
If you don’t control an Army, the Zombie Army token that you create enters the battlefield as a 0/0 creature. Any abilities that trigger when a creature with a certain power enters the battlefield, such as that of Mentor of the Meek, will see the token enter as a 0/0 creature before it gets +1/+1 counters.
Blighted Bat
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Blighted Fen
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Blood Bairn
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Bloodbond Vampire
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2015-08-25
The ability triggers just once for each life-gaining event, whether it’s 1 life from Drana’s Emissary or 7 life from Nissa’s Renewal.
2015-08-25
A creature with lifelink dealing combat damage is a single life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, the ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once.
2015-08-25
In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won’t cause the ability to trigger, even though it causes your team’s life total to increase.
Boneclad Necromancer
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Cemetery Recruitment
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2016-07-13
If you target a Zombie card in your graveyard, drawing a card is an additional bonus. It doesn’t replace returning the Zombie card to your hand.
Corpse Churn
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2020-11-10
Because Corpse Churn doesn’t target the creature card in your graveyard, you may choose one of the three cards you put there from your library if applicable.
Corrupt
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2004-10-04
The swamps are counted on resolution.
2010-08-15
The life you gain is equal to the damage dealt by Corrupt, not necessarily to the number of Swamps you control (if some or all of the damage is prevented, for example).
2010-08-15
The amount of damage dealt to a creature is not bounded by its toughness, and the amount of damage dealt to a player is not bounded by that player’s life total. For example, if Corrupt deals 6 damage to a 2/2 creature, you’ll gain 6 life.
2013-07-01
Corrupt counts any land you control with the subtype Swamp, not just ones named Swamp.
Cradle of the Accursed
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2017-04-18
Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts.
Creeping Chill
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-10-05
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Creeping Chill causes the opposing team to lose 6 life and you gain 3 life.
Cry of the Carnarium
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-01-25
Cry of the Carnarium’s power-and-toughness-reducing effect affects only creatures on the battlefield at the time it resolves. Creatures that enter the battlefield later in the turn won’t get -2/-2.
2019-01-25
Cry of the Carnarium’s replacement effect affects any creature that would die in the turn, even creatures not on the battlefield as it resolves.
2019-01-25
Creatures that would die after getting -2/-2 will still be on the battlefield when cards are exiled from graveyards. They won’t die, and will instead be exiled after Cry of the Carnarium is entirely finished resolving.
Dead Weight
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Defiant Salvager
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2020-11-10
You can sacrifice Defiant Salvager to activate its own ability. It won’t receive a counter, but abilities that trigger on the sacrifice or watch for a creature dying will see it.
2020-11-10
If you sacrifice an artifact creature to activate Defiant Salvager’s ability, you put one +1/+1 counter on Defiant Salvager, not two.
Disfigure
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Doomed Dissenter
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Douser of Lights
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Duress
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Dusk Feaster
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Essence Extraction
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2016-09-20
If the target creature becomes an illegal target, Essence Extraction doesn’t resolve and you don’t gain life.
Evolving Wilds
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Fathom Fleet Cutthroat
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Festering Mummy
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Foul-Tongue Shriek
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Gateway Plaza
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Gavony Unhallowed
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2016-07-13
If Gavony Unhallowed and another creature you control die simultaneously (perhaps because they were both attacking or blocking), Gavony Unhallowed won’t be on the battlefield as its triggered ability resolves. It can’t be saved by the +1/+1 counter that would have been put on it.
Ghoulcaller's Chant
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Gravedigger
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2009-10-01
A “creature card” is any card with the type creature, even if it has other types such as artifact, enchantment, or land. Older cards of type summon are also creature cards.
Gravewaker
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-07-12
Gravewaker’s ability can be activated only while it’s on the battlefield. It can’t return itself from your graveyard.
Harsh Scrutiny
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2016-09-20
You scry 1 even if that player has no creature card to discard.
Hound of the Farbogs
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2016-04-08
Menace only matters as blockers are chosen. Causing Hound of the Farbogs to gain menace after blockers are chosen won’t cause it to become unblocked.
2016-04-08
The card types in Magic are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal (a card type that appears on some older cards). Supertypes (such as legendary and basic) and subtypes (such as Human and Equipment) are not counted.
2016-04-08
The number of card types matters, not the number of cards. For example, Wicker Witch (an artifact creature) along with Catalog (an instant) and Chaplain’s Blessing (a sorcery) will enable delirium.
2016-04-08
Because you consider only the characteristics of a double-faced card’s front face while it’s not on the battlefield, the types of its back face won’t be counted for delirium.
2016-04-08
In some rare cases, you can have a token or a copy of a spell in your graveyard at the moment that an object’s delirium ability counts the card types among cards in your graveyard, before that token or copy ceases to exist. Because tokens and copies of spells are not cards, even if they are copies of cards, their types will never be counted.
Kagemaro's Clutch
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Liliana of the Veil
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-12-07
You can activate Liliana’s first ability even if some or all players will be unable to discard a card.
2018-12-07
When Liliana’s first ability resolves, first the player whose turn it is chooses a card in hand without revealing it, then each other player in turn order does the same. Then all the chosen cards are discarded at the same time.
2018-12-07
When Liliana’s third ability resolves, you put each permanent the player controls into one of the two piles. For example, you could put a creature into one pile and an Aura enchanting that creature into the other pile.
2018-12-07
A pile can be empty. If the player chooses an empty pile, no permanents will be sacrificed.
Liliana's Elite
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2016-07-13
The ability applies only while Liliana’s Elite is on the battlefield.
March of the Drowned
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-01-19
If an effect refers to a “[subtype] spell” or “[subtype] card,” it refers only to a spell or card that has that subtype. For example, March of the Drowned is a card that benefits Pirates and features Pirates in its illustration, but it isn’t a Pirate card.
Miasmic Mummy
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2017-04-18
When Miasmic Mummy’s triggered ability resolves, first the player whose turn it is chooses a card to discard, then each other player in turn order chooses a card to discard, then all of those cards are discarded simultaneously. No one sees what the other players are discarding before deciding which card to discard.
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-12-07
Any damage dealt to you by a Human will cause Mikaeus’s ability to trigger, including noncombat damage dealt to you by a Human and damage dealt to you by a Human you control.
2018-12-07
If a Human deals damage to you at the same time that Mikaeus is dealt lethal damage, Mikaeus’s triggered ability triggers. That Human will be destroyed even though Mikaeus has left the battlefield.
2018-12-07
If a non-Human creature you control without a +1/+1 counter dies at the same time as Mikaeus, that creature’s undying ability granted by Mikaeus triggers and will return it to the battlefield.
2018-12-07
The +1/+1 bonus that Mikaeus gives to other non-Human creatures you control isn’t a counter. It won’t prevent undying from triggering.
Murder
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Ob Nixilis's Cruelty
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-05-03
The replacement effect from Ob Nixilis’s Cruelty will exile the target creature if it would die this turn for any reason, not just immediately after Ob Nixilis’s Cruelty resolves.
Olivia's Dragoon
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-12-07
You can activate the ability of Olivia’s Dragoon more than once in a turn, even if it already has flying.
Pit Keeper
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Plaguecrafter
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-10-05
As Plaguecrafter’s ability resolves, first the player whose turn it is chooses a creature or planeswalker they control, then each other player in turn order does the same, knowing the choices made before them. Then all the chosen permanents are sacrificed at the same time. Next, each player in the same order who couldn’t sacrifice a permanent chooses a card in hand without revealing it, then the chosen cards are discarded at the same time.
2018-10-05
Each player chooses a permanent to sacrifice from among the creatures and planeswalkers they control. You don’t choose which type of permanent any other player has to sacrifice.
2018-10-05
Plaguecrafter can be the creature its controller sacrifices for its own ability. Don’t be like Plaguecrafter; always wear personal protective equipment when performing dangerous work.
Quag Sickness
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2010-08-15
This ability counts the number of Swamps controlled by Quag Sickness’s controller, not the enchanted creature’s controller (in case they’re different players).
2010-08-15
This bonus is not fixed; it changes as the number of Swamps you control changes.
2010-08-15
The ability cares about lands with the land type Swamp, not necessarily lands named Swamp.
Queen's Bay Soldier
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Rancid Rats
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2016-04-08
Skulk matters only as blockers are chosen. Modifying either creature’s power after blockers are chosen won’t cause the attacking creature to become unblocked.
2016-04-08
If you cause a creature to have 0 power or less, use the actual value (which may be negative) to determine whether it can block or be blocked. A creature with skulk and 0 or less power most likely won’t be blocked, but it won’t deal combat damage and won’t trigger any abilities that trigger when combat damage is dealt.
Returned Reveler
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Rottenheart Ghoul
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Sengir Vampire
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2007-07-15
If Sengir Vampire deals nonlethal damage to a creature and then a different effect or damage source causes that creature to be put into a graveyard later in the turn, Sengir Vampire’s ability will trigger and it will get a +1/+1 counter.
2011-09-22
Each time a creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, check whether Sengir Vampire had dealt any damage to it at any time during that turn. If so, Sengir Vampire’s ability will trigger. It doesn’t matter who controlled the creature or whose graveyard it was put into.
2011-09-22
If Sengir Vampire and a creature it dealt damage to are both put into a graveyard at the same time, Sengir Vampire’s ability will trigger, but it will do nothing when it resolves.
Sinister Possession
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Sorin's Thirst
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-07-12
If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Sorin’s Thirst tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t gain 2 life.
Spark Harvest
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2020-11-10
You must sacrifice exactly one creature or pay an extra {3}{B} to cast this spell; you can’t cast it without paying one of those costs, and you can’t pay either multiple times. Players can respond to Spark Harvest only after it’s been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to stop you from casting this spell or to make it cost more mana.
Stallion of Ashmouth
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2016-04-08
The card types in Magic are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal (a card type that appears on some older cards). Supertypes (such as legendary and basic) and subtypes (such as Human and Equipment) are not counted.
2016-04-08
The number of card types matters, not the number of cards. For example, Wicker Witch (an artifact creature) along with Catalog (an instant) and Chaplain’s Blessing (a sorcery) will enable delirium.
2016-04-08
Because you consider only the characteristics of a double-faced card’s front face while it’s not on the battlefield, the types of its back face won’t be counted for delirium.
2016-04-08
In some rare cases, you can have a token or a copy of a spell in your graveyard at the moment that an object’s delirium ability counts the card types among cards in your graveyard, before that token or copy ceases to exist. Because tokens and copies of spells are not cards, even if they are copies of cards, their types will never be counted.
2016-04-08
Some delirium abilities are activated abilities of permanents. To activate such an ability, there must be four or more card types among cards in your graveyard. The number of card types is not rechecked as the ability resolves.
Stromkirk Patrol
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Swamp
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Terror
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Thorn of the Black Rose
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: ???
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2016-08-23
Being the monarch carries two inherent triggered abilities. “At the beginning of the monarch’s end step, that player draws a card” and “Whenever a creature deals combat damage to the monarch, its controller becomes the monarch.”
2016-08-23
Abilities that trigger whenever you “become the monarch” trigger only if you aren’t already the monarch. For example, if you are already the monarch as Custodi Lich enters the battlefield, its last ability won’t trigger.
2016-08-23
If the triggered ability that causes the monarch to draw a card goes on the stack, and a different player becomes the monarch before that ability resolves, the first player will still draw the card.
2016-08-23
The game starts with no monarch. Once an effect makes one player the monarch, the game will have exactly one monarch from that point forward.
2020-11-10
If combat damage dealt to the monarch causes that player to lose the game, the triggered ability that causes the controller of the attacking creature to become the monarch doesn’t resolve. In most cases, the controller of the attacking creature will still become the monarch as it is likely their turn.
2020-11-10
The game starts with no monarch. Once an effect makes one player the monarch, the game will have exactly one monarch from that point forward. As a player becomes the monarch, the current monarch (if any) ceases being the monarch.
2020-11-10
There are two inherent triggered abilities associated with being the monarch. These triggered abilities have no source and are controlled by the player who was the monarch at the time the abilities triggered. The full texts of these abilities are “At the beginning of the monarch’s end step, that player draws a card” and “Whenever a creature deals combat damage to the monarch, its controller becomes the monarch.”
2020-11-10
If the triggered ability that causes the monarch to draw a card goes on the stack and a different player becomes the monarch before that ability resolves, the first player will still draw the card.
2020-11-10
If the monarch leaves the game during another player’s turn, that player becomes the monarch. If the monarch leaves the game during their turn, the next player in turn order becomes the monarch.
Vampiric Tutor
commander: Legal
duel: Banned
frontier: ???
modern: ???
legacy: Banned
vintage: Restricted
2016-06-08
The “shuffle and put the card on top” is a single action. If an effect causes the top card of the library to be face up, the second card down is not revealed.
Victim of Night
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Voracious Null
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Wander in Death
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal