Abnormal endurance
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-07-13
Abnormal Endurance’s effect works only once. If the targeted creature dies and is then returned to the battlefield, it’s considered to be a new creature. If that new creature dies, it won’t come back.
Cauldron Familiar
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-10-04
You can’t activate Cauldron Familiar’s last ability unless it’s in your graveyard.
2019-10-04
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Cauldron Familiar’s first ability causes the opposing team to lose 1 life twice, and you gain 1 life once.
2019-10-04
If an effect refers to a Food, it means any Food artifact, not just a Food artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Gingerbrute to activate the last ability of Tempting Witch.
Demonic Vigor
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-04-27
Demonic Vigor can enchant a token, but its last ability won’t return the token to your hand.
Lash of thorns
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Moment of craving
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-01-19
If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Moment of Craving tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t gain 2 life.
2018-01-19
The target creature will still be on the battlefield when you gain life, even if its toughness has been reduced to 0 or less. Any abilities it has that interact with gaining life do so as appropriate. If any abilities trigger on you gaining life, the creature will be put into its owner’s graveyard after that ability triggers but before it resolves.
Murder
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Retreat to Hagra
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2015-08-25
A landfall ability triggers whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.
2015-08-25
When a land enters the battlefield under your control, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve.
2015-08-25
If the ability has an additional or replacement effect that depends on the land having a certain basic land type, the ability will check that land’s type as the ability resolves. If, at that time, the land that entered the battlefield is no longer on the battlefield, use its types when it left the battlefield to determine what happens.
Smitten Swordmaster
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-10-04
An adventurer card is a creature card in every zone except the stack, as well as while on the stack if not cast as an Adventure. Ignore its alternative characteristics in those cases. For example, while it’s in your graveyard, Giant Killer is a white creature card whose converted mana cost is 1. It can’t be the target of the triggered ability of Mystic Sanctuary.
2019-10-04
When casting a spell as an Adventure, use the alternative characteristics and ignore all of the card’s normal characteristics. The spell’s color, mana cost, converted mana cost, and so on are determined by only those alternative characteristics. If the spell leaves the stack, it immediately resumes using its normal characteristics.
2019-10-04
If you cast an adventurer card as an Adventure, use only its alternative characteristics to determine whether it’s legal to cast that spell. For example, if Giant Killer is exiled with the last ability of Vivien, Champion of the Wilds, you can’t cast it as Chop Down.
2019-10-04
If a spell is cast as an Adventure, its controller exiles it instead of putting it into its owner’s graveyard as it resolves. For as long as it remains exiled, that player may cast it as a creature spell. If an Adventure spell leaves the stack in any way other than resolving (most likely by being countered or by failing to resolve because its targets have all become illegal), that card won’t be exiled and the spell’s controller won’t be able to cast it as a creature later.
2019-10-04
If an adventurer card ends up in exile for any other reason than by exiling itself while resolving, it won’t give you permission to cast it as a creature spell.
2019-10-04
You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions for the creature spell you cast from exile. Normally, you’ll be able to cast it only during your main phase while the stack is empty.
2019-10-04
If an effect copies an Adventure spell, that copy is exiled as it resolves. It ceases to exist as a state-based action; it’s not possible to cast the copy as a creature.
2019-10-04
If an object becomes a copy of an object that has an Adventure, the copy also has an Adventure. If it changes zones, it will either cease to exist (if it’s a token) or cease to be a copy (if it’s a nontoken permanent), and so you won’t be able to cast it as an Adventure.
2019-10-04
If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose the alternative Adventure name. Consider only the alternative characteristics to determine whether that is an appropriate name to choose.
2019-10-04
Casting a card as an Adventure isn’t casting it for an alternative cost. Effects that allow you to cast a spell for an alternative cost or without paying its mana cost may allow you to apply those to the Adventure.
2019-10-04
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Curry Favor causes the opposing team to lose X life twice, after you gain X life once.
Sovereign's Bite
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Syr Konrad, The grim
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-10-04
If one or more creatures die at the same time as Syr Konrad, its first ability triggers for each of those creatures.
2019-10-04
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Syr Konrad’s first ability causes it to deal 1 damage twice.
Vampire Sovereign
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Witch's Cottage
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-10-04
An Island is a land with the subtype Island, not any land that could produce blue mana. For example, Mystic Sanctuary is an Island, but Castle Vantress isn’t.
2019-10-04
As these lands are entering the battlefield, they check for lands that are already on the battlefield. They won’t see lands that are entering the battlefield at the same time (due to Scapeshift, for example).
2019-10-04
If another effect puts these lands onto the battlefield tapped, they enter tapped, even if you control enough lands with the appropriate basic land type.
bake into a pie
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-10-04
Some spells that instruct you to create a Food token have targets. You can’t cast these spells without choosing all required targets, and if all of those targets become illegal targets, the spell won’t resolve and you won’t create any Food. If some but not all of those targets become illegal, you’ll do as much as possible, including creating Food.
2019-10-04
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures (such as Gingerbrute), it’s never a creature type.
2019-10-04
You can’t sacrifice a Food token to pay multiple costs. For example, you can’t sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate the ability of Tempting Witch.
2019-10-04
Whatever you do, don’t eat the delicious cards.
cauldron's gift
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-10-04
The creature card you return with Cauldron’s Gift may be one that you just put into your graveyard with its adamant ability. This is because Cauldron’s Gift doesn’t target the card that you’ll return.
2019-10-04
No player may take actions between the time you put cards into your graveyard, the time you choose a creature card to return, and the time you return that card to the battlefield.
2019-10-04
If the creature would enter the battlefield with no +1/+1 counters on it, it enters with one +1/+1 counter on it.
2019-10-04
If an instant or sorcery spell has an adamant ability, you perform the spell’s instructions in order. You don’t perform the adamant instruction before the spell resolves or before any other effects printed above it.
2019-10-04
If an effect allows you to cast a spell without paying its mana cost, you can’t choose to cast it and pay unless another rule or effect allows you to cast that spell for a cost. Similarly, you can’t waive a cost reduction unless that effect says you may.
2019-10-04
Adamant effects check what mana was actually spent to cast a spell. If an effect allows you to spend mana “as though it were mana” of any color or type, that allows you to spend mana you couldn’t otherwise spend, but it doesn’t change what mana you spent to cast the spell.
2019-10-04
If you copy a spell that has an adamant ability, no mana was spent to cast the copy at all, so that ability won’t apply.
child of night
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
epicure of blood
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-07-12
The ability of Epicure of Blood triggers just once for each life-gaining event, whether it’s 1 life from Impassioned Orator or 4 life from Dawning Angel. If you gain an amount of life “for each” of something or “equal to the number” of something, that life is gained as one event and the ability of Epicure of Blood triggers only once.
2019-07-12
Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Epicure of Blood’s ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control 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.
2019-07-12
In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won’t cause the ability to trigger, even though it caused your team’s life total to increase.
2019-07-12
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Epicure of Blood’s ability causes the opposing team to lose 1 life twice.
festive funeral
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-10-04
The value of X is determined only as Festive Funeral begins to resolve. The target creature’s power and toughness won’t change if other cards are put into your graveyard later in the turn.
2019-10-04
Festive Funeral is still on the stack while you determine the value of X. It doesn’t contribute to the value of X.
foreboding fruit
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-10-04
If at least three black mana was spent to cast Foreboding Fruit, you’ll create a Food, even if you have another player draw two cards and lose 2 life.
2019-10-04
If an instant or sorcery spell has an adamant ability, you perform the spell’s instructions in order. You don’t perform the adamant instruction before the spell resolves or before any other effects printed above it.
2019-10-04
If an effect allows you to cast a spell without paying its mana cost, you can’t choose to cast it and pay unless another rule or effect allows you to cast that spell for a cost. Similarly, you can’t waive a cost reduction unless that effect says you may.
2019-10-04
Adamant effects check what mana was actually spent to cast a spell. If an effect allows you to spend mana “as though it were mana” of any color or type, that allows you to spend mana you couldn’t otherwise spend, but it doesn’t change what mana you spent to cast the spell.
2019-10-04
If you copy a spell that has an adamant ability, no mana was spent to cast the copy at all, so that ability won’t apply.
2019-10-04
Some spells that instruct you to create a Food token have targets. You can’t cast these spells without choosing all required targets, and if all of those targets become illegal targets, the spell won’t resolve and you won’t create any Food. If some but not all of those targets become illegal, you’ll do as much as possible, including creating Food.
2019-10-04
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures (such as Gingerbrute), it’s never a creature type.
2019-10-04
You can’t sacrifice a Food token to pay multiple costs. For example, you can’t sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate the ability of Tempting Witch.
2019-10-04
Whatever you do, don’t eat the delicious cards.
forever young
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2019-10-04
You choose the order that the creature cards are put on top of your library. You don’t have to reveal this order to other players. Whichever ends up on top will be the card you draw.
2019-10-04
You can cast Forever Young with no targets if you just want to draw a card.
2019-10-04
If you choose any target creature cards and they are all illegal targets by the time Forever Young tries to resolve, the spell won’t resolve. You won’t draw a card.
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.
hired poisoner
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
macabre waltz
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-07-13
If you have no other cards in hand, you’ll have to discard one of the creature cards you return to your hand.
2018-07-13
You may cast Macabre Waltz targeting one or zero creature cards. You’ll still discard a card, even if you target no creature cards.
necromantic thirst
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2005-10-01
The target is chosen just after any creatures dealt lethal damage at the same time that the enchanted creature dealt damage have been put into the graveyard. That might include the enchanted creature itself, if it had trample and was blocked, for example.
ravenous chupacabra
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
reassembling skeleton
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
skymarch bloodletter
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.
swamp
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
unmake the graves
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2014-07-18
The rules for convoke have changed slightly since it last appeared in an expansion. Previously, convoke reduced the cost to cast a spell. Under current rules, you tap creatures at the same time you pay the spell’s costs. Tapping a creature this way is simply another way to pay.
2014-07-18
Convoke doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost.
2014-07-18
When calculating a spell’s total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Convoke applies after the total cost is calculated.
2014-07-18
Because convoke isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
2014-07-18
Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for {1} or one mana of your choice of any of that creature’s colors.
2014-07-18
When using convoke to cast a spell with {X} in its mana cost, first choose the value for X. That choice, plus any cost increases or decreases, will determine the spell’s total cost. Then you can tap creatures you control to help pay that cost. For example, if you cast Chord of Calling (a spell with convoke and mana cost {X}{G}{G}{G}) and choose X to be 3, the total cost is {3}{G}{G}{G}. If you tap two green creatures and two red creatures, you’ll have to pay {1}{G}.
2014-07-18
If a creature you control has a mana ability with {T} in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with convoke will result in the creature being tapped when you pay the spell’s costs. You won’t be able to tap it again for convoke. Similarly, if you sacrifice a creature to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with convoke, that creature won’t be on the battlefield when you pay the spell’s costs, so you won’t be able to tap it for convoke.
vampire neonate
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-07-13
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Vampire Neonate’s ability causes the opposing team to lose 2 life and you to gain 1 life.