Arjun, the Shifting Flame
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: ???
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2015-11-04
Arjun’s triggered ability will resolve before the spell that caused it to trigger.
2015-11-04
After Arjun’s ability triggers, players may cast instants and activate activated abilities. Each time, you cast an instant spell “in response, Arjun’s ability triggers again.
Brainstorm
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: ???
legacy: Legal
vintage: Restricted
2018-03-16
You draw three cards and put two cards back all while Brainstorm is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.
Chasm Skulker
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2014-07-18
If you draw multiple cards, the first ability will trigger that many times. Each of these abilities will cause a +1/+1 counter to be put on Chasm Skulker.
2014-07-18
If enough -1/-1 counters are put on Chasm Skulker at the same time to make its toughness 0 or less, the number of +1/+1 counters on it before it got any -1/-1 counters will be used to determine how many Squid tokens you get. For example, if there are two +1/+1 counters on Chasm Skulker and it gets three -1/-1 counters, you'll get two Squid tokens.
Crown of Empires
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2011-09-22
Whether or not you control the correct artifacts is determined when the ability resolves.
2011-09-22
If any of the named cards stops being an artifact, it won’t be considered by these abilities.
2011-09-22
If you control artifacts named Scepter of Empires and Throne of Empires, the targeted creature won’t be tapped. You’ll just gain control of it.
Dakra Mystic
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2014-04-26
You make the decision after all the cards are revealed. If you decide not to put the cards into their owners’ graveyards, the card each player draws will be the revealed card.
Dominus of Fealty
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2008-08-01
If you already control the targeted permanent when the ability resolves, you still need to choose whether or not to apply the effect. If you choose to apply it, the permanent untaps and gains haste. If you don’t, it doesn’t.
Expedite
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Fevered Visions
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2016-04-08
No player may take any action in between the two steps of Fevered Visions’s triggered ability, so if your opponent has four or more cards in hand after drawing a card, Fevered Visions will deal 2 damage to that player.
Halimar Wavewatch
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2010-06-15
The abilities a leveler grants to itself don’t overwrite any other abilities it may have. In particular, they don’t overwrite the creature’s level up ability; it always has that.
2010-06-15
Effects that set a leveler’s power or toughness to a specific value, including the effects from a level symbol’s ability, apply in timestamp order. The timestamp of each level symbol’s ability is the same as the timestamp of the leveler itself, regardless of when the most recent level counter was put on it.
2010-06-15
Effects that modify a leveler’s power or toughness, such as the effects of Giant Growth or Glorious Anthem, will apply to it no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for counters that change the creature’s power or toughness (such as +1/+1 counters) and effects that switch its power and toughness.
2010-06-15
If another creature becomes a copy of a leveler, all of the leveler’s printed abilities — including those represented by level symbols — are copied. The current characteristics of the leveler, and the number of level counters on it, are not. The abilities, power, and toughness of the copy will be determined based on how many level counters are on the copy.
2010-06-15
A creature’s level is based on how many level counters it has on it, not how many times its level up ability has been activated or has resolved. If a leveler gets level counters due to some other effect (such as Clockspinning) or loses level counters for some reason (such as Vampire Hexmage), its level is changed accordingly.
Highland Lake
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Island
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Izzet Guildgate
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2013-04-15
The subtype Gate has no special rules significance, but other spells and abilities may refer to it.
2013-04-15
Gate is not a basic land type.
Izzet Signet
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Jori En, Ruin Diver
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2016-01-22
Jori En’s ability can trigger only once each turn. The ability will resolve before the second spell resolves. It doesn’t matter if the first spell you cast that turn has resolved, was countered, or is still on the stack.
2016-01-22
Jori En must be on the battlefield in order for the ability to function. Notably, the ability won’t trigger if Jori En is the second spell you cast in a turn.
Metamorphic Alteration
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-07-13
You can choose only a creature on the battlefield.
2018-07-13
Metamorphic Alteration copies exactly what is printed on the chosen creature (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it as any counters on it or any Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on.
2018-07-13
The characteristics that will be copied are determined as Metamorphic Alteration’s effect first begins to apply. If the copiable values of the chosen creature change later, or if that creature leaves the battlefield, the enchanted creature’s characteristics are unaffected.
2018-07-13
If the chosen creature isn’t normally a creature (for example, if the chosen creature is an animated Treetop Village), the enchanted creature becomes a copy of that noncreature permanent. This causes Metamorphic Alteration to be illegally attached, and it’s put into its owner’s graveyard. The previously enchanted creature returns to being itself.
2018-07-13
If the chosen creature is copying something else (for example, if the chosen creature is enchanted by another Metamorphic Alteration), then the enchanted creature becomes a copy of whatever the chosen creature copied.
2018-07-13
If the chosen creature is a token, Metamorphic Alteration copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put the token onto the battlefield. The enchanted creature doesn’t become a token in this case.
2018-07-13
The enchanted creature will be a copy of the chosen creature as it dies, so any “when this creature dies” abilities it gains from the copy effect will trigger. Any “when this creature dies” abilities it normally has will not trigger.
2018-07-13
If Metamorphic Alteration somehow enters the battlefield at the same time as another creature, it can’t have the enchanted creature become a copy of that creature. You may choose only a creature that’s already on the battlefield.
2018-07-13
Metamorphic Alteration can cause a creature to become a copy of itself. This generally has no effect, but if that creature has a pair of linked abilities, the new abilities it has from the copy effect aren’t linked to the abilities it had before.
2018-07-13
The copiable values granted by Metamorphic Alteration are locked in as the creature is chosen. The enchanted creature won’t change if the chosen creature’s copiable values change.
Military Intelligence
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2014-07-18
The creatures don’t have to be attacking the same player or planeswalker.
2014-07-18
Once the ability triggers, it doesn’t matter how many creatures are still attacking when the ability resolves.
Mountain
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-03-16
If a spell or ability causes you to draw multiple cards, Niv-Mizzet’s ability triggers that many times.
2018-03-16
If dealing 1 damage to a permanent or player causes you to draw a card, perhaps because Niv-Mizzet is enchanted by Curiosity, you’ll continue this loop until the loop is interrupted, perhaps by a player losing the game.
Palace Familiar
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Quicksilver Fountain
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2004-12-01
The land stays an Island until the flood counter is removed, even if Quicksilver Fountain leaves the battlefield.
2004-12-01
The timestamp of the land-type-changing ability is set when the triggered ability resolves (so each one has a different timestamp).
Scepter of Empires
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2011-09-22
Whether or not you control the correct artifacts is determined when the ability resolves.
2011-09-22
If any of the named cards stops being an artifact, it won’t be considered by these abilities.
Sea's Claim
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Shivan Reef
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2015-06-22
The damage dealt to you is part of the second mana ability. It doesn’t use the stack and can’t be responded to.
2015-06-22
Like most lands, each land in this cycle is colorless. The damage dealt to you is dealt by a colorless source.
Sidisi's Faithful
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2015-02-25
A creature with exploit “exploits a creature” when the controller of the exploit ability sacrifices a creature as that ability resolves.
2015-02-25
You choose whether to sacrifice a creature and which creature to sacrifice as the exploit ability resolves.
2015-02-25
You can sacrifice the creature with exploit if it’s still on the battlefield. This will cause its other ability to trigger.
2015-02-25
If the creature with exploit isn’t on the battlefield as the exploit ability resolves, you won’t get any bonus from the creature with exploit, even if you sacrifice a creature. Because the creature with exploit isn’t on the battlefield, its other triggered ability won’t trigger.
2015-02-25
You can’t sacrifice more than one creature to any one exploit ability.
Silumgar Sorcerer
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2015-02-25
A creature with exploit “exploits a creature” when the controller of the exploit ability sacrifices a creature as that ability resolves.
2015-02-25
You choose whether to sacrifice a creature and which creature to sacrifice as the exploit ability resolves.
2015-02-25
You can sacrifice the creature with exploit if it’s still on the battlefield. This will cause its other ability to trigger.
2015-02-25
If the creature with exploit isn’t on the battlefield as the exploit ability resolves, you won’t get any bonus from the creature with exploit, even if you sacrifice a creature. Because the creature with exploit isn’t on the battlefield, its other triggered ability won’t trigger.
2015-02-25
You can’t sacrifice more than one creature to any one exploit ability.
Spreading Seas
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2009-10-01
The enchanted land loses its existing land types and any abilities printed on it. It now has the land type Island and has the ability to tap to add {U} to its controller’s mana pool. Spreading Seas doesn’t change the enchanted land’s name or whether it’s legendary, basic, or snow.
Swiftwater Cliffs
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Throne of Empires
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2011-09-22
Whether or not you control the correct artifacts is determined when the ability resolves.
2011-09-22
If any of the named cards stops being an artifact, it won’t be considered by these abilities.
Uncomfortable Chill
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Whirlpool Warrior
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: ???
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
merfolk spy
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2010-08-15
Islandwalk cares about lands with the land type Island, not necessarily lands named Island.
2010-08-15
The second ability triggers just once each time Merfolk Spy deals combat damage to a player, regardless of how much damage it deals.
2010-08-15
After the second ability resolves, the revealed card stops being revealed in its owner’s hand.
2010-08-15
The next time Merfolk Spy deals combat damage to the same player, the card that’s revealed at random may be the same card or may be a different card.