Baithook Angler // Hook-Haunt Drifter
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2021-09-24
Disturb is found only on the front faces of some double-faced cards.
2021-09-24
“Disturb [cost]” means “You may cast this card transformed from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than its mana cost.”
2021-09-24
When you cast a spell using a card's disturb ability, the card is put onto the stack with its back face up. The resulting spell has all the characteristics of that face.
2021-09-24
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a disturb cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of a spell cast using disturb is determined by the mana cost on the front face of the card, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was. (This is a special rule that applies only to transforming double faced-cards, including ones with disturb.)
2021-09-24
A spell cast this way enters the battlefield with its back face up.
2021-09-24
If you copy a permanent spell cast this way (perhaps with a card like Double Major), the copy becomes a token that's a copy of the card's back face, even though it isn't itself a double-faced card.
2021-09-24
The back face of each card with disturb has an ability that instructs its controller to exile if it would be put into a graveyard from anywhere. This includes going to the graveyard from the stack, so if the spell is countered after you cast it using the disturb ability, it will be put into exile.
Consider
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2011-09-22
You may reveal the card even if it's not an instant or sorcery. Whether or not you reveal it, the card stays on top of your library.
2016-07-13
For more information on double-faced cards, see the Shadows over Innistrad mechanics article (http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/shadows-over-innistrad-mechanics).
Devious Cover-Up
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2018-10-05
Devious Cover-Up can't target itself at all. You can't try to counter it with itself and shuffle cards in, and you can't use its effect to shuffle itself into your library.
2018-10-05
You may target zero cards in your graveyard and still shuffle your library.
2018-10-05
A spell that can't be countered is a legal target for Devious Cover-Up. The spell won't be countered when Devious Cover-Up resolves, but you'll still shuffle cards into your library.
Drownyard Amalgam
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Fading Hope
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Falcon Abomination
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2021-09-24
Decayed represents a static ability and a triggered ability. “Decayed” means “This creature can't block” and “When this creature attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.”
2021-09-24
Decayed does not create any attacking requirements. You may choose not to attack with a creature that has decayed.
2021-09-24
Decayed does not grant haste. Creatures with decayed that enter the battlefield during your turn may not attack until your next turn.
2021-09-24
Once a creature with decayed attacks, it will be sacrificed at end of combat, even if it no longer has decayed at that time.
Flip the Switch
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2021-09-24
You will create a Zombie creature token even if the spell's controller pays {4}.
2021-09-24
Decayed represents a static ability and a triggered ability. “Decayed” means “This creature can't block” and “When this creature attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.”
2021-09-24
Decayed does not create any attacking requirements. You may choose not to attack with a creature that has decayed.
2021-09-24
Decayed does not grant haste. Creatures with decayed that enter the battlefield during your turn may not attack until your next turn.
2021-09-24
Once a creature with decayed attacks, it will be sacrificed at end of combat, even if it no longer has decayed at that time.
Galedrifter // Waildrifter
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2021-09-24
When you cast a spell using a card's disturb ability, the card is put onto the stack with its back face up. The resulting spell has all the characteristics of that face.
2021-09-24
Disturb is found only on the front faces of some double-faced cards.
2021-09-24
“Disturb [cost]” means “You may cast this card transformed from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than its mana cost.”
2021-09-24
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a disturb cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of a spell cast using disturb is determined by the mana cost on the front face of the card, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was. (This is a special rule that applies only to transforming double faced-cards, including ones with disturb.)
2021-09-24
A spell cast this way enters the battlefield with its back face up.
2021-09-24
If you copy a permanent spell cast this way (perhaps with a card like Double Major), the copy becomes a token that's a copy of the card's back face, even though it isn't itself a double-faced card.
2021-09-24
The back face of each card with disturb has an ability that instructs its controller to exile if it would be put into a graveyard from anywhere. This includes going to the graveyard from the stack, so if the spell is countered after you cast it using the disturb ability, it will be put into exile.
Island
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Larder Zombie
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Locked in the Cemetery
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2021-09-24
The enchanted creature can still be untapped in other ways. Locked in the Cemetery will remain attached, and the creature will continue to not untap during its controller's untap step.
Memory Deluge
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2021-09-24
Memory Deluge cares about the mana you actually paid to cast it, not its mana cost. If you cast Memory Deluge for {2}{U}{U}, you will look at four cards. If you cast it with flashback for {5}{U}{U}, you will look at seven cards. Any effects that increase or decrease the cost to cast it will also be taken into account.
2021-09-24
If Memory Deluge is copied, no mana was spent to cast the copy, so X will be 0. The amount of mana spent to cast the original spell is not copied. You won't look at any cards from your library as Memory Deluge resolves.
2021-09-24
If an effect allows you to cast Memory Deluge without paying its mana cost, X will be 0. Memory Deluge will resolve, but you won't do anything.
2021-09-24
If an effect requires you to pay some amount of mana to prevent Memory Deluge from being countered, as Flip the Switch does, that mana wasn't spent to cast Memory Deluge and will not be taken into account.
2021-09-24
The effects of Might of the Old Ways happen in the listed order, so the +2/+2 bonus happens before you check the powers of creatures you control. For example, if you control two 2/2 creatures and a 5/5 creatures, choosing one of the 2/2 creatures as the target will allow you to draw a card. Conversely, if you control a 1/1 creature, a 3/3 creature, and a 5/5 creature, targeting either of the two smaller creatures will not allow you to draw a card.
2021-09-24
“Flashback [cost]” means “You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost” and “If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack.”
2021-09-24
You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
2021-09-24
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
2021-09-24
A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
2021-09-24
You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
2021-09-24
If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
Ominous Roost
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Organ Hoarder
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Otherworldly Journey
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2004-12-01
The creature comes back onto the battlefield as a new creature, with one +1/+1 counter on it (plus any other counters that it would normally enter the battlefield with).
2005-08-01
Any Aura attached to the creature is put into its owner’s graveyard as a state-based action. Equipment attached to the creature become unattached but remain on the battlefield.
2005-08-01
If Otherworldly Journey is cast during an end step, the creature won’t return until the beginning of the next end step.
Overwhelmed Archivist // Archive Haunt
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2021-09-24
Disturb is found only on the front faces of some double-faced cards.
2021-09-24
“Disturb [cost]” means “You may cast this card transformed from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than its mana cost.”
2021-09-24
When you cast a spell using a card's disturb ability, the card is put onto the stack with its back face up. The resulting spell has all the characteristics of that face.
2021-09-24
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a disturb cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of a spell cast using disturb is determined by the mana cost on the front face of the card, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was. (This is a special rule that applies only to transforming double faced-cards, including ones with disturb.)
2021-09-24
A spell cast this way enters the battlefield with its back face up.
2021-09-24
If you copy a permanent spell cast this way (perhaps with a card like Double Major), the copy becomes a token that's a copy of the card's back face, even though it isn't itself a double-faced card.
2021-09-24
The back face of each card with disturb has an ability that instructs its controller to exile if it would be put into a graveyard from anywhere. This includes going to the graveyard from the stack, so if the spell is countered after you cast it using the disturb ability, it will be put into exile.
Patrician Geist
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Phantom Carriage
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2021-09-24
Decayed represents a static ability and a triggered ability. “Decayed” means “This creature can't block” and “When this creature attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.”
2021-09-24
Decayed does not create any attacking requirements. You may choose not to attack with a creature that has decayed.
2021-09-24
Decayed does not grant haste. Creatures with decayed that enter the battlefield during your turn may not attack until your next turn.
2021-09-24
Once a creature with decayed attacks, it will be sacrificed at end of combat, even if it no longer has decayed at that time.
2021-09-24
Poppet Factory's first ability removes all abilities from creature tokens you control, including ones they were created with and ones they gained since the last time Poppet Factory transformed.
2021-09-24
As Poppet Factory transforms back into Poppet Stitcher, the effect making your creature tokens 3/3 and making them lose their abilities ends. Their base powers and toughnesses will revert to whatever they were before that effect started applying, although other effects that modify power and/or toughness, such as ones created by Auras, counters, and the like may still apply. They'll also have whatever abilities they had before they lost them.
Shipwreck Sifters
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Silver Bolt
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Skaab Wrangler
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2021-09-24
Since Skaab Wrangler's activated ability doesn't have a tap symbol in its cost, you can tap creatures that haven't been under your control since your most recent turn began (including Skaab Wrangler itself) to pay the cost.
Startle
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2021-09-24
Decayed represents a static ability and a triggered ability. “Decayed” means “This creature can't block” and “When this creature attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.”
2021-09-24
Decayed does not create any attacking requirements. You may choose not to attack with a creature that has decayed.
2021-09-24
Decayed does not grant haste. Creatures with decayed that enter the battlefield during your turn may not attack until your next turn.
2021-09-24
Once a creature with decayed attacks, it will be sacrificed at end of combat, even if it no longer has decayed at that time.
Stormrider Spirit
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
Suspicious Stowaway // Seafaring Werewolf
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2021-09-24
Day and night are designations that the game itself can have. The game starts as neither. Once the game becomes day (or less commonly, night), the game will be exactly one of them—day or night—going back and forth for the rest of the game.
2021-09-24
Before a player untaps their permanents during the untap step, the game checks to see if the day/night designation should change.
2021-09-24
If it is day, and the active player of the previous turn cast no spells during their turn, it becomes night.
2021-09-24
If it is night, and the active player of the previous turn cast two or more spells during their turn, it becomes day.
2021-09-24
For more information about Day and Night and the Daybound and Nightbound abilities, please see the Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Mechanics atricle (https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/innistrad-midnight-hunt-mechanics-2021-09-02).
2021-09-24
Double-faced permanents with daybound transform to their nightbound faces as it becomes night. Similarly, double-faced permanents with nightbound transform to their daybound faces as it becomes day. This happens immediately and is not a state-based action. It happens any time it becomes day or night, not just during the untap step.
2021-09-24
If you cast a spell with daybound during night, that spell will be front face up (that is, daybound face up) on the stack. However, it will enter the battlefield with its back face up (that is, with its nightbound face up). It won't enter with its daybound face up and then transform.
2021-09-24
If it is night, permanents with daybound that enter the battlefield without being cast will enter with their nightbound faces up.
2021-09-24
Permanents with daybound and nightbound can't transform via any means other than their daybound and nightbound abilities. Notably, older cards such as Moonmist that instruct a player to transform permanents don't affect permanents with daybound or nightbound.
2021-09-24
If it's neither day nor night, and a creature with daybound and a creature with nightbound somehow appear on the battlefield at the same time, it becomes day. The creature with nightbound will transform.
Triskaidekaphile
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2021-09-24
Triskaidekaphile's triggered ability will trigger only if you have exactly thirteen cards in your hand as your upkeep starts. If you have fewer cards in your hand, you won't be able to draw cards during your upkeep in time to cause the ability to trigger.
Vivisection
commander: Legal
duel: Legal
frontier: ???
modern: Legal
legacy: Legal
vintage: Legal
2013-04-15
You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures.
2013-04-15
Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.