mtg-db 2.0.0 → 2.1.0

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  1. checksums.yaml +4 -4
  2. data/data/sets/10e.json +2053 -390
  3. data/data/sets/2ed.json +2261 -305
  4. data/data/sets/3ed.json +2137 -309
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  12. data/data/sets/a25.json +2286 -251
  13. data/data/sets/aer.json +3637 -194
  14. data/data/sets/akh.json +3572 -303
  15. data/data/sets/ala.json +2483 -249
  16. data/data/sets/all.json +1185 -199
  17. data/data/sets/apc.json +603 -154
  18. data/data/sets/arb.json +1739 -146
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  20. data/data/sets/arn.json +642 -92
  21. data/data/sets/atq.json +727 -100
  22. data/data/sets/avr.json +1849 -244
  23. data/data/sets/bbd.json +3174 -257
  24. data/data/sets/bfz.json +4401 -300
  25. data/data/sets/bng.json +2719 -165
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  29. data/data/sets/c13.json +3069 -359
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  35. data/data/sets/chk.json +1396 -317
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  37. data/data/sets/cm1.json +240 -18
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  39. data/data/sets/cma.json +2356 -320
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  43. data/data/sets/con.json +1182 -146
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  45. data/data/sets/dd2.json +556 -62
  46. data/data/sets/dd3_dvd.json +390 -63
  47. data/data/sets/dd3_evg.json +271 -62
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  49. data/data/sets/dd3_jvc.json +556 -62
  50. data/data/sets/ddc.json +390 -63
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  61. data/data/sets/ddn.json +650 -82
  62. data/data/sets/ddo.json +387 -66
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  66. data/data/sets/dds.json +579 -65
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  68. data/data/sets/ddu.json +521 -77
  69. data/data/sets/dgm.json +2945 -171
  70. data/data/sets/dis.json +1072 -194
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  72. data/data/sets/dom.json +2654 -282
  73. data/data/sets/drb.json +110 -15
  74. data/data/sets/drk.json +769 -119
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  77. data/data/sets/e01.json +947 -108
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  79. data/data/sets/ema.json +1689 -252
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  81. data/data/sets/eve.json +2054 -180
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  88. data/data/sets/g18.json +10 -5
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  100. data/data/sets/ice.json +2341 -384
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  127. data/data/sets/mor.json +1486 -150
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  129. data/data/sets/mps_grn.json +120 -8
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  131. data/data/sets/mps_rna.json +196 -8
  132. data/data/sets/mps_war.json +143 -8
  133. data/data/sets/mrd.json +1475 -306
  134. data/data/sets/nem.json +588 -144
  135. data/data/sets/nph.json +1729 -179
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  137. data/data/sets/ogw.json +1672 -186
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  140. data/data/sets/pc2.json +1385 -156
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  145. data/data/sets/plc.json +2060 -169
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  147. data/data/sets/po2.json +525 -165
  148. data/data/sets/por.json +649 -222
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  152. data/data/sets/rna.json +2706 -283
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  162. data/data/sets/ss1.json +59 -8
  163. data/data/sets/sth.json +894 -145
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  170. data/data/sets/ugl.json +2482 -0
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  173. data/data/sets/uma_box.json +675 -40
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  176. data/data/sets/ust.json +11302 -0
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  186. data/data/sets/vis.json +1063 -167
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  192. data/data/sets/xln.json +2689 -300
  193. data/data/sets/zen.json +2199 -271
  194. data/lib/mtg-db.rb +1 -1
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data/data/sets/mm2.json CHANGED
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+ "date": "6/15/2010",
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+ "text": "A colored permanent is a permanent with at least one colored mana symbol in its mana cost. Note that effects may cause a colored permanent to become colorless (as Moonlace could), or a colorless permanent to become colored (as Crimson Wisps could)."
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+ {
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+ "date": "6/15/2010",
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+ "text": "Tokens may also be colored permanents. The effect that creates a token states what color it is or whether it’s colorless."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "date": "6/15/2010",
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+ "text": "Lands have no mana cost, so they are colorless unless an effect states otherwise."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "date": "6/15/2010",
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+ "text": "All the colored permanents are sacrificed at the same time."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "date": "7/1/2013",
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+ "text": "All Is Dust doesn’t destroy permanents. Rather, it causes them to be sacrificed. Regeneration, totem armor, and indestructible can’t save permanents from All Is Dust."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "date": "12/7/2018",
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+ "text": "A land card that produces colored mana, even a land with a basic land type, normally has no color."
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+ "date": "6/15/2010",
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+ "text": "Annihilator abilities trigger and resolve during the declare attackers step. The defending player chooses and sacrifices the required number of permanents before they declare blockers. Any creatures sacrificed this way won’t be able to block."
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+ "date": "6/15/2010",
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+ "text": "If a creature with annihilator is attacking a planeswalker, and the defending player chooses to sacrifice that planeswalker, the attacking creature continues to attack. It may be blocked. If it isn’t blocked, it simply won’t deal combat damage to anything."
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+ "text": "Annihilator abilities trigger and resolve during the declare attackers step. The defending player chooses and sacrifices the required number of permanents before they declare blockers. Any creatures sacrificed this way won’t be able to block."
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+ "date": "6/15/2010",
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+ "text": "If a creature with annihilator is attacking a planeswalker, and the defending player chooses to sacrifice that planeswalker, the attacking creature continues to attack. It may be blocked. If it isn’t blocked, it simply won’t deal combat damage to anything."
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+ "date": "12/7/2018",
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+ "text": "Emrakul’s second ability triggers as you cast it, and that ability resolves before the spell itself. It resolves even if that spell is somehow removed from the stack."
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+ "date": "12/7/2018",
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+ "text": "Emrakul can be targeted by spells that try to counter it (such as Ionize). Those spells will resolve, but the part of their effect that would counter Emrakul won’t do anything. Any other effects those spells have will work as normal."
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+ "text": "Emrakul can’t be the target of colored Aura spells, but colored Auras can be put onto the battlefield enchanting it."
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+ "date": "12/7/2018",
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+ "text": "A game that restarts immediately ends the preceding game. The players in that game then immediately begin a new game. No player wins, loses, or draws the original game as a result of Karn’s ability."
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+ "text": "Players can’t move cards between their deck and sideboard before the new game."
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+ "text": "The player who controlled the ability that restarted the game is the starting player in the new game. The new game starts like a game normally does: Each player shuffles their deck (except the cards left in exile by Karn’s ability). Each player’s life total becomes 20 (or the starting life total for whatever format you’re playing). Players draw a hand of seven cards. Players may take mulligans. Players may take actions based on cards in their opening hands, such as those of Leylines."
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+ "text": "After the pregame procedure is complete but before the new game’s first turn, Karn’s ability finishes resolving and the cards left in exile are put onto the battlefield. If this causes any triggered abilities to trigger, those abilities are put onto the stack at the beginning of the first upkeep step."
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+ "date": "6/1/2011",
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+ "text": "A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid."
395
+ },
396
+ {
397
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
398
+ "text": "To calculate the converted mana cost of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1."
399
+ },
400
+ {
401
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
402
+ "text": "As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X."
403
+ },
404
+ {
405
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
406
+ "text": "If you’re at 1 life or less, you can’t pay 2 life."
407
+ },
408
+ {
409
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
410
+ "text": "Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can’t add Phyrexian mana to their mana pools."
411
+ },
412
+ {
413
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
414
+ "text": "You choose the target as part of casting the spell. You choose what attribute the target gains protection from when the spell resolves."
415
+ },
416
+ {
417
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
418
+ "text": "Any Equipment attached to a creature that gains protection from artifacts will become unattached."
419
+ }
420
+ ]
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  },
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  {
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  "name": "Arrest",
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252
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  "loyalty": null,
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  "multiverse_id": 397723,
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  "other_part": null,
255
- "color_indicator": null
447
+ "color_indicator": null,
448
+ "rulings": [
449
+ {
450
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
451
+ "text": "Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text."
452
+ }
453
+ ]
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  },
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  {
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  "name": "Battlegrace Angel",
@@ -280,7 +478,37 @@
280
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  "loyalty": null,
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  "multiverse_id": 397766,
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  "other_part": null,
283
- "color_indicator": null
481
+ "color_indicator": null,
482
+ "rulings": [
483
+ {
484
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
485
+ "text": "If you declare exactly one creature as an attacker, each exalted ability on each permanent you control (including, perhaps, the attacking creature itself) will trigger. The bonuses are given to the attacking creature, not to the permanent with exalted. Ultimately, the attacking creature will wind up with +1/+1 for each of your exalted abilities."
486
+ },
487
+ {
488
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
489
+ "text": "If you attack with multiple creatures, but then all but one are removed from combat, your exalted abilities won’t trigger."
490
+ },
491
+ {
492
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
493
+ "text": "Some effects put creatures onto the battlefield attacking. Since those creatures were never declared as attackers, they’re ignored by exalted abilities. They won’t cause exalted abilities to trigger. If any exalted abilities have already triggered (because exactly one creature was declared as an attacker), those abilities will resolve as normal even though there may now be multiple attackers."
494
+ },
495
+ {
496
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
497
+ "text": "Exalted abilities will resolve before blockers are declared."
498
+ },
499
+ {
500
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
501
+ "text": "Exalted bonuses last until end of turn. If an effect creates an additional combat phase during your turn, a creature that attacked alone during the first combat phase will still have its exalted bonuses in that new phase. If a creature attacks alone during the second combat phase, all your exalted abilities will trigger again."
502
+ },
503
+ {
504
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
505
+ "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, a creature “attacks alone” if it’s the only creature declared as an attacker by your entire team. If you control that attacking creature, your exalted abilities will trigger but your teammate’s exalted abilities won’t."
506
+ },
507
+ {
508
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
509
+ "text": "Battlegrace Angel could cause a creature to have multiple instances of lifelink. For example, a creature you control that already has lifelink could attack alone while you control Battlegrace Angel, or a creature you control could attack alone while you control more than one Battlegrace Angel. If a creature has multiple instances of lifelink, they are redundant. You’ll still only gain life equal to the damage dealt."
510
+ }
511
+ ]
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  },
285
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  {
286
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  "name": "Celestial Purge",
@@ -304,7 +532,13 @@
304
532
  "loyalty": null,
305
533
  "multiverse_id": 397699,
306
534
  "other_part": null,
307
- "color_indicator": null
535
+ "color_indicator": null,
536
+ "rulings": [
537
+ {
538
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
539
+ "text": "Lands are colorless (even if their frames have some colored elements to them). You can’t target a Swamp, a Mountain, or any other land with Celestial Purge (unless some other effect has turned that land black or red)."
540
+ }
541
+ ]
308
542
  },
309
543
  {
310
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  "name": "Conclave Phalanx",
@@ -332,7 +566,37 @@
332
566
  "loyalty": null,
333
567
  "multiverse_id": 397812,
334
568
  "other_part": null,
335
- "color_indicator": null
569
+ "color_indicator": null,
570
+ "rulings": [
571
+ {
572
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
573
+ "text": "You can tap an untapped creature you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn to convoke a spell."
574
+ },
575
+ {
576
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
577
+ "text": "Convoke doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost."
578
+ },
579
+ {
580
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
581
+ "text": "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."
582
+ },
583
+ {
584
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
585
+ "text": "Because convoke isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs."
586
+ },
587
+ {
588
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
589
+ "text": "Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for {1} or one mana of your choice of any of that creature’s colors."
590
+ },
591
+ {
592
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
593
+ "text": "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 Worldsoul Colossus (a spell with convoke and mana cost {X}{G}{W}) and choose X to be 3, the total cost is {3}{G}{W}. If you tap two green creatures and two white creatures, you’ll have to pay {1}."
594
+ },
595
+ {
596
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
597
+ "text": "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 before 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."
598
+ }
599
+ ]
336
600
  },
337
601
  {
338
602
  "name": "Court Homunculus",
@@ -359,7 +623,8 @@
359
623
  "loyalty": null,
360
624
  "multiverse_id": 397776,
361
625
  "other_part": null,
362
- "color_indicator": null
626
+ "color_indicator": null,
627
+ "rulings": []
363
628
  },
364
629
  {
365
630
  "name": "Daybreak Coronet",
@@ -386,7 +651,17 @@
386
651
  "loyalty": null,
387
652
  "multiverse_id": 397798,
388
653
  "other_part": null,
389
- "color_indicator": null
654
+ "color_indicator": null,
655
+ "rulings": [
656
+ {
657
+ "date": "5/1/2007",
658
+ "text": "If all other Auras attached to the enchanted creature stop enchanting it, Daybreak Coronet will be attached to an illegal permanent and will be put into its owner’s graveyard."
659
+ },
660
+ {
661
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
662
+ "text": "If multiple Auras are entering the battlefield at the same time, you choose which player or permanent each enchants before any of them enter the battlefield. This means that Daybreak Coronet can’t be put onto the battlefield enchanting a creature that’s not enchanted before the Auras all enter the battlefield."
663
+ }
664
+ ]
390
665
  },
391
666
  {
392
667
  "name": "Dispatch",
@@ -411,7 +686,13 @@
411
686
  "loyalty": null,
412
687
  "multiverse_id": 397781,
413
688
  "other_part": null,
414
- "color_indicator": null
689
+ "color_indicator": null,
690
+ "rulings": [
691
+ {
692
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
693
+ "text": "If you control three or more artifacts when Dispatch resolves, you’ll tap the creature, then exile it."
694
+ }
695
+ ]
415
696
  },
416
697
  {
417
698
  "name": "Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite",
@@ -441,7 +722,13 @@
441
722
  "loyalty": null,
442
723
  "multiverse_id": 397880,
443
724
  "other_part": null,
444
- "color_indicator": null
725
+ "color_indicator": null,
726
+ "rulings": [
727
+ {
728
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
729
+ "text": "If a second Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite comes under your control, you’ll put one into its owner’s graveyard due to the “legend rule” at the same time that any of your opponents’ creatures getting -4/-4 are put into their owner’s graveyard for having 0 or less toughness."
730
+ }
731
+ ]
445
732
  },
446
733
  {
447
734
  "name": "Fortify",
@@ -467,7 +754,17 @@
467
754
  "loyalty": null,
468
755
  "multiverse_id": 397874,
469
756
  "other_part": null,
470
- "color_indicator": null
757
+ "color_indicator": null,
758
+ "rulings": [
759
+ {
760
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
761
+ "text": "You choose the mode as you cast Fortify, not as it resolves."
762
+ },
763
+ {
764
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
765
+ "text": "Creatures that come under your control after Fortify resolves won’t get the chosen bonus."
766
+ }
767
+ ]
471
768
  },
472
769
  {
473
770
  "name": "Hikari, Twilight Guardian",
@@ -496,7 +793,17 @@
496
793
  "loyalty": null,
497
794
  "multiverse_id": 397790,
498
795
  "other_part": null,
499
- "color_indicator": null
796
+ "color_indicator": null,
797
+ "rulings": [
798
+ {
799
+ "date": "12/1/2004",
800
+ "text": "You may choose not to exile Hikari."
801
+ },
802
+ {
803
+ "date": "12/1/2004",
804
+ "text": "If you exile Hikari, it leaves the battlefield before the spell that triggered it resolves its ability, so it will be unaffected by that spell."
805
+ }
806
+ ]
500
807
  },
501
808
  {
502
809
  "name": "Indomitable Archangel",
@@ -523,7 +830,8 @@
523
830
  "loyalty": null,
524
831
  "multiverse_id": 397727,
525
832
  "other_part": null,
526
- "color_indicator": null
833
+ "color_indicator": null,
834
+ "rulings": []
527
835
  },
528
836
  {
529
837
  "name": "Iona, Shield of Emeria",
@@ -553,7 +861,17 @@
553
861
  "loyalty": null,
554
862
  "multiverse_id": 397800,
555
863
  "other_part": null,
556
- "color_indicator": null
864
+ "color_indicator": null,
865
+ "rulings": [
866
+ {
867
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
868
+ "text": "Iona’s third ability includes permanent spells (artifacts, creatures, enchantments, and planeswalkers), not just instant and sorcery spells. It does not include lands or abilities (such as cycling or unearth)."
869
+ },
870
+ {
871
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
872
+ "text": "Once the color is chosen, it’s too late for opponents to respond by casting spells of that color. Iona is not yet in the battlefield at the time the color is chosen, so, for example, there’s no way for an opponent to destroy it by casting Doom Blade if the chosen color is black."
873
+ }
874
+ ]
557
875
  },
558
876
  {
559
877
  "name": "Kami of Ancient Law",
@@ -579,7 +897,8 @@
579
897
  "loyalty": null,
580
898
  "multiverse_id": 397892,
581
899
  "other_part": null,
582
- "color_indicator": null
900
+ "color_indicator": null,
901
+ "rulings": []
583
902
  },
584
903
  {
585
904
  "name": "Kor Duelist",
@@ -606,7 +925,8 @@
606
925
  "loyalty": null,
607
926
  "multiverse_id": 397675,
608
927
  "other_part": null,
609
- "color_indicator": null
928
+ "color_indicator": null,
929
+ "rulings": []
610
930
  },
611
931
  {
612
932
  "name": "Leyline of Sanctity",
@@ -631,7 +951,13 @@
631
951
  "loyalty": null,
632
952
  "multiverse_id": 397677,
633
953
  "other_part": null,
634
- "color_indicator": null
954
+ "color_indicator": null,
955
+ "rulings": [
956
+ {
957
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
958
+ "text": "A player’s “opening hand” is the hand of cards the player has after all players have taken mulligans and “scryed” if applicable. If players have any cards in hand that allow actions to be taken with them from a player’s opening hand, the starting player takes all such actions first in any order, followed by each other player in turn order. Then the first turn begins."
959
+ }
960
+ ]
635
961
  },
636
962
  {
637
963
  "name": "Mighty Leap",
@@ -655,7 +981,13 @@
655
981
  "loyalty": null,
656
982
  "multiverse_id": 397681,
657
983
  "other_part": null,
658
- "color_indicator": null
984
+ "color_indicator": null,
985
+ "rulings": [
986
+ {
987
+ "date": "7/13/2018",
988
+ "text": "Giving a creature flying after it’s already been blocked won’t change or undo that block. If you want to affect what can block the creature, you must cast Mighty Leap during the declare attackers step at the latest."
989
+ }
990
+ ]
659
991
  },
660
992
  {
661
993
  "name": "Mirran Crusader",
@@ -682,7 +1014,8 @@
682
1014
  "loyalty": null,
683
1015
  "multiverse_id": 397737,
684
1016
  "other_part": null,
685
- "color_indicator": null
1017
+ "color_indicator": null,
1018
+ "rulings": []
686
1019
  },
687
1020
  {
688
1021
  "name": "Mirror Entity",
@@ -709,7 +1042,25 @@
709
1042
  "loyalty": null,
710
1043
  "multiverse_id": 397806,
711
1044
  "other_part": null,
712
- "color_indicator": null
1045
+ "color_indicator": null,
1046
+ "rulings": [
1047
+ {
1048
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
1049
+ "text": "Activating the ability with X = 0 will cause all creatures you control to become 0/0 and be put into the graveyard."
1050
+ },
1051
+ {
1052
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
1053
+ "text": "Activating the ability for a second time in the same turn will overwrite the first activation. For example, if you activate the ability with X = 4, then activate it with X = 1, each of your creatures will be 1/1."
1054
+ },
1055
+ {
1056
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
1057
+ "text": "You apply power/toughness changing effects in a series of sublayers in the following order: (a) effects from characteristic-defining abilities; (b) effects that set power and/or toughness to a specific number or value; (c) effects that modify power and/or toughness but don’t set power and/or toughness to a specific number or value; (d) changes from counters; (e) effects that switch a creature’s power and toughness. This card’s effect is always applied in (b), which means that effects applied in sublayer (c), (d), or (e) will not be overwritten; they will be applied to the new value."
1058
+ },
1059
+ {
1060
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
1061
+ "text": "Examples of creature types include Sliver, Goblin, and Soldier. Creature types appear after the dash on the type line of creatures."
1062
+ }
1063
+ ]
713
1064
  },
714
1065
  {
715
1066
  "name": "Moonlit Strider",
@@ -736,7 +1087,8 @@
736
1087
  "loyalty": null,
737
1088
  "multiverse_id": 397803,
738
1089
  "other_part": null,
739
- "color_indicator": null
1090
+ "color_indicator": null,
1091
+ "rulings": []
740
1092
  },
741
1093
  {
742
1094
  "name": "Myrsmith",
@@ -763,7 +1115,8 @@
763
1115
  "loyalty": null,
764
1116
  "multiverse_id": 397779,
765
1117
  "other_part": null,
766
- "color_indicator": null
1118
+ "color_indicator": null,
1119
+ "rulings": []
767
1120
  },
768
1121
  {
769
1122
  "name": "Oblivion Ring",
@@ -788,7 +1141,25 @@
788
1141
  "loyalty": null,
789
1142
  "multiverse_id": 397760,
790
1143
  "other_part": null,
791
- "color_indicator": null
1144
+ "color_indicator": null,
1145
+ "rulings": [
1146
+ {
1147
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
1148
+ "text": "If Oblivion Ring leaves the battlefield before its first ability has resolved, its second ability will trigger and do nothing. Then its first ability will resolve and exile the targeted nonland permanent forever."
1149
+ },
1150
+ {
1151
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
1152
+ "text": "If there are no nonland permanents on the battlefield other than an Oblivion Ring, and the card it exiled was another Oblivion Ring, casting a third Oblivion Ring will result in an involuntary infinite loop that will end the game in a draw (unless someone chooses to break it by putting another nonland permanent onto the battlefield or destroying one of the Oblivion Rings, for example)."
1153
+ },
1154
+ {
1155
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
1156
+ "text": "If the exiled card is an Aura, that card’s owner chooses what it will enchant as it comes back onto the battlefield. An Aura put onto the battlefield this way doesn’t target anything, but the Aura’s enchant ability restricts what it can be attached to. If the Aura can’t legally be attached to anything, it remains exiled forever."
1157
+ },
1158
+ {
1159
+ "date": "7/1/2012",
1160
+ "text": "Auras attached to the exiled permanent will be put into their owners’ graveyards. Equipment attached to the exiled permanent will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled permanent will cease to exist."
1161
+ }
1162
+ ]
792
1163
  },
793
1164
  {
794
1165
  "name": "Otherworldly Journey",
@@ -814,7 +1185,21 @@
814
1185
  "loyalty": null,
815
1186
  "multiverse_id": 397855,
816
1187
  "other_part": null,
817
- "color_indicator": null
1188
+ "color_indicator": null,
1189
+ "rulings": [
1190
+ {
1191
+ "date": "12/1/2004",
1192
+ "text": "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)."
1193
+ },
1194
+ {
1195
+ "date": "8/1/2005",
1196
+ "text": "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."
1197
+ },
1198
+ {
1199
+ "date": "8/1/2005",
1200
+ "text": "If Otherworldly Journey is cast during an end step, the creature won’t return until the beginning of the next end step."
1201
+ }
1202
+ ]
818
1203
  },
819
1204
  {
820
1205
  "name": "Raise the Alarm",
@@ -838,7 +1223,8 @@
838
1223
  "loyalty": null,
839
1224
  "multiverse_id": 397666,
840
1225
  "other_part": null,
841
- "color_indicator": null
1226
+ "color_indicator": null,
1227
+ "rulings": []
842
1228
  },
843
1229
  {
844
1230
  "name": "Skyhunter Skirmisher",
@@ -865,7 +1251,8 @@
865
1251
  "loyalty": null,
866
1252
  "multiverse_id": 397835,
867
1253
  "other_part": null,
868
- "color_indicator": null
1254
+ "color_indicator": null,
1255
+ "rulings": []
869
1256
  },
870
1257
  {
871
1258
  "name": "Spectral Procession",
@@ -889,7 +1276,25 @@
889
1276
  "loyalty": null,
890
1277
  "multiverse_id": 397841,
891
1278
  "other_part": null,
892
- "color_indicator": null
1279
+ "color_indicator": null,
1280
+ "rulings": [
1281
+ {
1282
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1283
+ "text": "If an effect reduces the cost to cast a spell by an amount of generic mana, it applies to a monocolored hybrid spell only if you’ve chosen a method of paying for it that includes generic mana."
1284
+ },
1285
+ {
1286
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1287
+ "text": "A card with a monocolored hybrid mana symbol in its mana cost is each of the colors that appears in its mana cost, regardless of what mana was spent to cast it. Thus, Spectral Procession is white even if you spend six blue mana to cast it."
1288
+ },
1289
+ {
1290
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1291
+ "text": "A card with monocolored hybrid mana symbols in its mana cost has a converted mana cost equal to the highest possible cost it could be cast for. Its converted mana cost never changes. Thus, Spectral Procession has a converted mana cost of 6, even if you spend {W}{W}{W} to cast it."
1292
+ },
1293
+ {
1294
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1295
+ "text": "If a cost includes more than one monocolored hybrid mana symbol, you can choose a different way to pay for each symbol. For example, you can pay for Spectral Procession by spending {W}{W}{W}, {2}{W}{W}, {4}{W}, or {6}."
1296
+ }
1297
+ ]
893
1298
  },
894
1299
  {
895
1300
  "name": "Sunlance",
@@ -913,7 +1318,13 @@
913
1318
  "loyalty": null,
914
1319
  "multiverse_id": 397862,
915
1320
  "other_part": null,
916
- "color_indicator": null
1321
+ "color_indicator": null,
1322
+ "rulings": [
1323
+ {
1324
+ "date": "2/1/2007",
1325
+ "text": "This is the timeshifted version of Strafe."
1326
+ }
1327
+ ]
917
1328
  },
918
1329
  {
919
1330
  "name": "Sunspear Shikari",
@@ -940,7 +1351,13 @@
940
1351
  "loyalty": null,
941
1352
  "multiverse_id": 397801,
942
1353
  "other_part": null,
943
- "color_indicator": null
1354
+ "color_indicator": null,
1355
+ "rulings": [
1356
+ {
1357
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
1358
+ "text": "If all Equipment attached to Sunspear Shikari somehow becomes unequipped after it deals combat damage in the first combat damage step, it won’t assign combat damage in the second combat damage step."
1359
+ }
1360
+ ]
944
1361
  },
945
1362
  {
946
1363
  "name": "Taj-Nar Swordsmith",
@@ -967,7 +1384,8 @@
967
1384
  "loyalty": null,
968
1385
  "multiverse_id": 397873,
969
1386
  "other_part": null,
970
- "color_indicator": null
1387
+ "color_indicator": null,
1388
+ "rulings": []
971
1389
  },
972
1390
  {
973
1391
  "name": "Terashi's Grasp",
@@ -993,7 +1411,8 @@
993
1411
  "loyalty": null,
994
1412
  "multiverse_id": 397891,
995
1413
  "other_part": null,
996
- "color_indicator": null
1414
+ "color_indicator": null,
1415
+ "rulings": []
997
1416
  },
998
1417
  {
999
1418
  "name": "Waxmane Baku",
@@ -1020,7 +1439,8 @@
1020
1439
  "loyalty": null,
1021
1440
  "multiverse_id": 397732,
1022
1441
  "other_part": null,
1023
- "color_indicator": null
1442
+ "color_indicator": null,
1443
+ "rulings": []
1024
1444
  },
1025
1445
  {
1026
1446
  "name": "Aethersnipe",
@@ -1047,7 +1467,17 @@
1047
1467
  "loyalty": null,
1048
1468
  "multiverse_id": 397746,
1049
1469
  "other_part": null,
1050
- "color_indicator": null
1470
+ "color_indicator": null,
1471
+ "rulings": [
1472
+ {
1473
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
1474
+ "text": "If you cast this card for its evoke cost, you may put the sacrifice trigger and the regular enters-the-battlefield trigger on the stack in either order. The one put on the stack last will resolve first."
1475
+ },
1476
+ {
1477
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
1478
+ "text": "Aethersnipe can be the target of its own ability. If it’s the only nonland permanent on the battlefield, it must be the target of its ability."
1479
+ }
1480
+ ]
1051
1481
  },
1052
1482
  {
1053
1483
  "name": "Air Servant",
@@ -1074,7 +1504,8 @@
1074
1504
  "loyalty": null,
1075
1505
  "multiverse_id": 397847,
1076
1506
  "other_part": null,
1077
- "color_indicator": null
1507
+ "color_indicator": null,
1508
+ "rulings": []
1078
1509
  },
1079
1510
  {
1080
1511
  "name": "Argent Sphinx",
@@ -1101,7 +1532,21 @@
1101
1532
  "loyalty": null,
1102
1533
  "multiverse_id": 397887,
1103
1534
  "other_part": null,
1104
- "color_indicator": null
1535
+ "color_indicator": null,
1536
+ "rulings": [
1537
+ {
1538
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
1539
+ "text": "If you activate Argent Sphinx’s metalcraft ability, Argent Sphinx will return to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step no matter how many artifacts you control at that time."
1540
+ },
1541
+ {
1542
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
1543
+ "text": "If you activate Argent Sphinx’s metalcraft ability during a turn’s end step, Argent Sphinx will return to the battlefield at the beginning of the following turn’s end step."
1544
+ },
1545
+ {
1546
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
1547
+ "text": "If you control an Argent Sphinx owned by another player and activate its ability, Argent Sphinx will return to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step. You’ll retain control of it indefinitely."
1548
+ }
1549
+ ]
1105
1550
  },
1106
1551
  {
1107
1552
  "name": "Cloud Elemental",
@@ -1128,7 +1573,8 @@
1128
1573
  "loyalty": null,
1129
1574
  "multiverse_id": 397744,
1130
1575
  "other_part": null,
1131
- "color_indicator": null
1576
+ "color_indicator": null,
1577
+ "rulings": []
1132
1578
  },
1133
1579
  {
1134
1580
  "name": "Cryptic Command",
@@ -1156,7 +1602,17 @@
1156
1602
  "loyalty": null,
1157
1603
  "multiverse_id": 397793,
1158
1604
  "other_part": null,
1159
- "color_indicator": null
1605
+ "color_indicator": null,
1606
+ "rulings": [
1607
+ {
1608
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
1609
+ "text": "You choose both modes as you cast Cryptic Command. You must choose two different modes."
1610
+ },
1611
+ {
1612
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
1613
+ "text": "Look at both chosen modes to determine how many targets Cryptic Command has, if any. If it has at least one target, and all its targets are illegal when it tries to resolve, then it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. For example, if you choose the second and fourth modes, and the permanent is an illegal target when Cryptic Command tries to resolve, you won’t draw a card."
1614
+ }
1615
+ ]
1160
1616
  },
1161
1617
  {
1162
1618
  "name": "Faerie Mechanist",
@@ -1185,7 +1641,8 @@
1185
1641
  "loyalty": null,
1186
1642
  "multiverse_id": 397888,
1187
1643
  "other_part": null,
1188
- "color_indicator": null
1644
+ "color_indicator": null,
1645
+ "rulings": []
1189
1646
  },
1190
1647
  {
1191
1648
  "name": "Flashfreeze",
@@ -1209,7 +1666,8 @@
1209
1666
  "loyalty": null,
1210
1667
  "multiverse_id": 397775,
1211
1668
  "other_part": null,
1212
- "color_indicator": null
1669
+ "color_indicator": null,
1670
+ "rulings": []
1213
1671
  },
1214
1672
  {
1215
1673
  "name": "Guile",
@@ -1238,7 +1696,41 @@
1238
1696
  "loyalty": null,
1239
1697
  "multiverse_id": 397696,
1240
1698
  "other_part": null,
1241
- "color_indicator": null
1699
+ "color_indicator": null,
1700
+ "rulings": [
1701
+ {
1702
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
1703
+ "text": "Guile’s second ability replaces “counter [a certain spell]” with “exile [a certain spell] and you may cast it without paying its mana cost.” You have the option to cast it immediately upon its exile. If you choose not to, it remains exiled and you don’t get another chance to cast it. If the spell or ability that tried to counter the spell has additional effects, it then continues to resolve."
1704
+ },
1705
+ {
1706
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
1707
+ "text": "Exiling the spell is mandatory. Casting it is not."
1708
+ },
1709
+ {
1710
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
1711
+ "text": "A spell exiled this way was never actually countered."
1712
+ },
1713
+ {
1714
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
1715
+ "text": "If a spell or ability you control attempts to counter a spell that can’t be countered, it doesn’t. Since the spell wouldn’t be countered, Guile’s ability has no effect on it. The spell will continue to resolve normally."
1716
+ },
1717
+ {
1718
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
1719
+ "text": "The last ability triggers when the Incarnation is put into its owner’s graveyard from any zone, not just from on the battlefield."
1720
+ },
1721
+ {
1722
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
1723
+ "text": "Although this ability triggers when the Incarnation is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, it doesn’t *specifically* trigger on leaving the battlefield, so it doesn’t behave like other leaves-the-battlefield abilities. The ability will trigger from the graveyard."
1724
+ },
1725
+ {
1726
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
1727
+ "text": "If the Incarnation had lost this ability while on the battlefield (due to Lignify, for example) and then was destroyed, the ability would still trigger and it would get shuffled into its owner’s library. However, if the Incarnation lost this ability when it was put into the graveyard (due to Yixlid Jailer, for example), the ability wouldn’t trigger and the Incarnation would remain in the graveyard."
1728
+ },
1729
+ {
1730
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
1731
+ "text": "If the Incarnation is removed from the graveyard after the ability triggers but before it resolves, it will remain in its new zone when its owner shuffles their library. Similarly, if a replacement effect has the Incarnation move to a different zone instead of being put into the graveyard, the ability won’t trigger at all."
1732
+ }
1733
+ ]
1242
1734
  },
1243
1735
  {
1244
1736
  "name": "Helium Squirter",
@@ -1266,7 +1758,8 @@
1266
1758
  "loyalty": null,
1267
1759
  "multiverse_id": 397903,
1268
1760
  "other_part": null,
1269
- "color_indicator": null
1761
+ "color_indicator": null,
1762
+ "rulings": []
1270
1763
  },
1271
1764
  {
1272
1765
  "name": "Hurkyl's Recall",
@@ -1290,7 +1783,17 @@
1290
1783
  "loyalty": null,
1291
1784
  "multiverse_id": 397868,
1292
1785
  "other_part": null,
1293
- "color_indicator": null
1786
+ "color_indicator": null,
1787
+ "rulings": [
1788
+ {
1789
+ "date": "10/4/2004",
1790
+ "text": "Retrieves all artifacts owned by the target player regardless of who controls them. Ignores artifacts owned by other players even if target player has control of them."
1791
+ },
1792
+ {
1793
+ "date": "10/4/2004",
1794
+ "text": "It only returns artifacts which are on the battlefield."
1795
+ }
1796
+ ]
1294
1797
  },
1295
1798
  {
1296
1799
  "name": "Inexorable Tide",
@@ -1306,7 +1809,7 @@
1306
1809
  "mana_cost": "3UU",
1307
1810
  "converted_mana_cost": 5,
1308
1811
  "oracle_text": [
1309
- "Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)"
1812
+ "Whenever you cast a spell, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)"
1310
1813
  ],
1311
1814
  "flavor_text": "\"See how gratefully this world accepts our blessings.\"\n—Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur",
1312
1815
  "power": null,
@@ -1314,7 +1817,33 @@
1314
1817
  "loyalty": null,
1315
1818
  "multiverse_id": 397762,
1316
1819
  "other_part": null,
1317
- "color_indicator": null
1820
+ "color_indicator": null,
1821
+ "rulings": [
1822
+ {
1823
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
1824
+ "text": "You can choose any player that has a counter, including yourself."
1825
+ },
1826
+ {
1827
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
1828
+ "text": "You can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can’t choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them, such as suspended cards or a Lightning Storm on the stack."
1829
+ },
1830
+ {
1831
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
1832
+ "text": "You don’t have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since “any number” includes zero, you don’t have to choose any permanents at all, and you don’t have to choose any players at all."
1833
+ },
1834
+ {
1835
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
1836
+ "text": "If a permanent chosen this way has multiple kinds of counters on it, only a single new counter is put on that permanent."
1837
+ },
1838
+ {
1839
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
1840
+ "text": "Players can respond to the spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it’s too late for anyone to respond."
1841
+ },
1842
+ {
1843
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
1844
+ "text": "Whenever you cast a spell, Inexorable Tide’s ability triggers and goes on the stack on top of it. It will resolve (and you’ll proliferate) before the spell resolves."
1845
+ }
1846
+ ]
1318
1847
  },
1319
1848
  {
1320
1849
  "name": "Mana Leak",
@@ -1338,7 +1867,8 @@
1338
1867
  "loyalty": null,
1339
1868
  "multiverse_id": 397773,
1340
1869
  "other_part": null,
1341
- "color_indicator": null
1870
+ "color_indicator": null,
1871
+ "rulings": []
1342
1872
  },
1343
1873
  {
1344
1874
  "name": "Mulldrifter",
@@ -1366,7 +1896,25 @@
1366
1896
  "loyalty": null,
1367
1897
  "multiverse_id": 397764,
1368
1898
  "other_part": null,
1369
- "color_indicator": null
1899
+ "color_indicator": null,
1900
+ "rulings": [
1901
+ {
1902
+ "date": "7/13/2018",
1903
+ "text": "Evoke is an alternative cost to cast the spell with evoke. It can’t be combined with other alternative costs, such as casting a spell “without paying its mana cost.”"
1904
+ },
1905
+ {
1906
+ "date": "7/13/2018",
1907
+ "text": "To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as an evoke cost) you’re paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The converted mana cost of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was."
1908
+ },
1909
+ {
1910
+ "date": "7/13/2018",
1911
+ "text": "If a creature with evoke enters the battlefield without being cast, you won’t have to sacrifice it."
1912
+ },
1913
+ {
1914
+ "date": "7/13/2018",
1915
+ "text": "The ability that causes you to sacrifice an evoked creature is a triggered ability. Players may respond to this triggered ability while the creature is still on the battlefield."
1916
+ }
1917
+ ]
1370
1918
  },
1371
1919
  {
1372
1920
  "name": "Narcolepsy",
@@ -1393,7 +1941,17 @@
1393
1941
  "loyalty": null,
1394
1942
  "multiverse_id": 397802,
1395
1943
  "other_part": null,
1396
- "color_indicator": null
1944
+ "color_indicator": null,
1945
+ "rulings": [
1946
+ {
1947
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
1948
+ "text": "Narcolepsy’s triggered ability has an “intervening ‘if’ clause.” That means (1) the ability triggers only if the enchanted creature is untapped as any player’s upkeep begins, and (2) the ability does nothing if the enchanted creature is already tapped by the time it resolves."
1949
+ },
1950
+ {
1951
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
1952
+ "text": "Narcolepsy doesn’t keep the enchanted creature continually tapped. The creature untaps during its controller’s untap step as normal, then is tapped when Narcolepsy’s ability resolves during that upkeep. The creature may be tapped in response (for example, if it has an activated ability with {T} in its cost)."
1953
+ }
1954
+ ]
1397
1955
  },
1398
1956
  {
1399
1957
  "name": "Novijen Sages",
@@ -1422,7 +1980,13 @@
1422
1980
  "loyalty": null,
1423
1981
  "multiverse_id": 397663,
1424
1982
  "other_part": null,
1425
- "color_indicator": null
1983
+ "color_indicator": null,
1984
+ "rulings": [
1985
+ {
1986
+ "date": "5/1/2006",
1987
+ "text": "To activate the activated ability, either remove two +1/+1 counters from a single creature you control or remove one +1/+1 counter from each of two different creatures you control."
1988
+ }
1989
+ ]
1426
1990
  },
1427
1991
  {
1428
1992
  "name": "Qumulox",
@@ -1449,7 +2013,8 @@
1449
2013
  "loyalty": null,
1450
2014
  "multiverse_id": 397877,
1451
2015
  "other_part": null,
1452
- "color_indicator": null
2016
+ "color_indicator": null,
2017
+ "rulings": []
1453
2018
  },
1454
2019
  {
1455
2020
  "name": "Remand",
@@ -1474,7 +2039,17 @@
1474
2039
  "loyalty": null,
1475
2040
  "multiverse_id": 397881,
1476
2041
  "other_part": null,
1477
- "color_indicator": null
2042
+ "color_indicator": null,
2043
+ "rulings": [
2044
+ {
2045
+ "date": "10/1/2005",
2046
+ "text": "The countered spell goes to its owner’s hand from the stack. It never hits the graveyard."
2047
+ },
2048
+ {
2049
+ "date": "2/1/2007",
2050
+ "text": "If you Remand a card that was cast with flashback, the card will still be exiled."
2051
+ }
2052
+ ]
1478
2053
  },
1479
2054
  {
1480
2055
  "name": "Repeal",
@@ -1499,7 +2074,8 @@
1499
2074
  "loyalty": null,
1500
2075
  "multiverse_id": 397667,
1501
2076
  "other_part": null,
1502
- "color_indicator": null
2077
+ "color_indicator": null,
2078
+ "rulings": []
1503
2079
  },
1504
2080
  {
1505
2081
  "name": "Somber Hoverguard",
@@ -1526,7 +2102,8 @@
1526
2102
  "loyalty": null,
1527
2103
  "multiverse_id": 397831,
1528
2104
  "other_part": null,
1529
- "color_indicator": null
2105
+ "color_indicator": null,
2106
+ "rulings": []
1530
2107
  },
1531
2108
  {
1532
2109
  "name": "Steady Progress",
@@ -1542,7 +2119,7 @@
1542
2119
  "mana_cost": "2U",
1543
2120
  "converted_mana_cost": 3,
1544
2121
  "oracle_text": [
1545
- "Proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)",
2122
+ "Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)",
1546
2123
  "Draw a card."
1547
2124
  ],
1548
2125
  "flavor_text": "\"More of that strange oil . . . It's probably nothing.\"",
@@ -1551,7 +2128,33 @@
1551
2128
  "loyalty": null,
1552
2129
  "multiverse_id": 397805,
1553
2130
  "other_part": null,
1554
- "color_indicator": null
2131
+ "color_indicator": null,
2132
+ "rulings": [
2133
+ {
2134
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
2135
+ "text": "You can choose any player that has a counter, including yourself."
2136
+ },
2137
+ {
2138
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
2139
+ "text": "You can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can’t choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them, such as suspended cards or a Lightning Storm on the stack."
2140
+ },
2141
+ {
2142
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
2143
+ "text": "You don’t have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since “any number” includes zero, you don’t have to choose any permanents at all, and you don’t have to choose any players at all."
2144
+ },
2145
+ {
2146
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
2147
+ "text": "If a permanent chosen this way has multiple kinds of counters on it, only a single new counter is put on that permanent."
2148
+ },
2149
+ {
2150
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
2151
+ "text": "Players can respond to the spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it’s too late for anyone to respond."
2152
+ },
2153
+ {
2154
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
2155
+ "text": "This spell has no targets. You can cast it even if there are no players or permanents with counters on them. If you do, you’ll simply draw a card as it resolves."
2156
+ }
2157
+ ]
1555
2158
  },
1556
2159
  {
1557
2160
  "name": "Stoic Rebuttal",
@@ -1576,7 +2179,17 @@
1576
2179
  "loyalty": null,
1577
2180
  "multiverse_id": 397765,
1578
2181
  "other_part": null,
1579
- "color_indicator": null
2182
+ "color_indicator": null,
2183
+ "rulings": [
2184
+ {
2185
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
2186
+ "text": "Stoic Rebuttal’s metalcraft ability functions while Stoic Rebuttal is on the stack."
2187
+ },
2188
+ {
2189
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
2190
+ "text": "For the purpose of determining whether the cost reduction applies, the number of artifacts you control is checked as you cast Stoic Rebuttal, before your last chance to activate mana abilities to pay for it. For example, if you control three artifacts, you could determine that Stoic Rebuttal costs {U}{U} to cast, then sacrifice one of those artifacts to activate a mana ability."
2191
+ }
2192
+ ]
1580
2193
  },
1581
2194
  {
1582
2195
  "name": "Surrakar Spellblade",
@@ -1603,7 +2216,21 @@
1603
2216
  "loyalty": null,
1604
2217
  "multiverse_id": 397735,
1605
2218
  "other_part": null,
1606
- "color_indicator": null
2219
+ "color_indicator": null,
2220
+ "rulings": [
2221
+ {
2222
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
2223
+ "text": "If you cast an instant or sorcery spell, Surrakar Spellblade’s first ability triggers and goes on the stack on top of it. The ability will resolve before the spell does."
2224
+ },
2225
+ {
2226
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
2227
+ "text": "When Surrakar Spellblade’s second ability resolves, you either draw a card for each charge counter on it or you draw no cards at all."
2228
+ },
2229
+ {
2230
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
2231
+ "text": "If Surrakar Spellblade leaves the battlefield after its second ability triggers but before it resolves, its last existence on the battlefield is checked to determine how many charge counters were on it."
2232
+ }
2233
+ ]
1607
2234
  },
1608
2235
  {
1609
2236
  "name": "Telling Time",
@@ -1627,7 +2254,13 @@
1627
2254
  "loyalty": null,
1628
2255
  "multiverse_id": 397728,
1629
2256
  "other_part": null,
1630
- "color_indicator": null
2257
+ "color_indicator": null,
2258
+ "rulings": [
2259
+ {
2260
+ "date": "10/1/2005",
2261
+ "text": "If there are fewer than three cards in your library, follow the instructions in the order given for any cards that are there."
2262
+ }
2263
+ ]
1631
2264
  },
1632
2265
  {
1633
2266
  "name": "Tezzeret the Seeker",
@@ -1657,7 +2290,33 @@
1657
2290
  "loyalty": "4",
1658
2291
  "multiverse_id": 397700,
1659
2292
  "other_part": null,
1660
- "color_indicator": null
2293
+ "color_indicator": null,
2294
+ "rulings": [
2295
+ {
2296
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
2297
+ "text": "The first ability can target zero, one, or two artifacts. You may activate it with no targets just to put a loyalty counter on Tezzeret."
2298
+ },
2299
+ {
2300
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
2301
+ "text": "For the second ability, you choose the value of X when you activate it. You don’t look through your library until the ability resolves. (In other words, you can’t look through your library, decide what artifact card you want, and then determine what X is.) You can’t choose an X that’s greater than the number of loyalty counters on Tezzeret."
2302
+ },
2303
+ {
2304
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
2305
+ "text": "The third ability affects all artifacts you control, including artifacts that are already creatures."
2306
+ },
2307
+ {
2308
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
2309
+ "text": "The third ability causes artifacts you control to become creatures in addition to their other card types."
2310
+ },
2311
+ {
2312
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
2313
+ "text": "A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature is subject to the “summoning sickness” rule: It can only attack, and its {T} abilities can only be activated, if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn."
2314
+ },
2315
+ {
2316
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
2317
+ "text": "The effect from the ability overwrites other effects that set power and/or toughness if and only if those effects existed before the ability resolved. It will not overwrite effects that modify power or toughness (whether from a static ability, counters, or a resolved spell or ability), nor will it overwrite effects that set power and toughness which come into existence after the ability resolves. Effects that switch the creature’s power and toughness are always applied after any other power or toughness changing effects, including this one, regardless of the order in which they are created."
2318
+ }
2319
+ ]
1661
2320
  },
1662
2321
  {
1663
2322
  "name": "Tezzeret's Gambit",
@@ -1674,7 +2333,7 @@
1674
2333
  "converted_mana_cost": 4,
1675
2334
  "oracle_text": [
1676
2335
  "({UP} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)",
1677
- "Draw two cards, then proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)"
2336
+ "Draw two cards, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)"
1678
2337
  ],
1679
2338
  "flavor_text": null,
1680
2339
  "power": null,
@@ -1682,7 +2341,29 @@
1682
2341
  "loyalty": null,
1683
2342
  "multiverse_id": 397670,
1684
2343
  "other_part": null,
1685
- "color_indicator": null
2344
+ "color_indicator": null,
2345
+ "rulings": [
2346
+ {
2347
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
2348
+ "text": "A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid."
2349
+ },
2350
+ {
2351
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
2352
+ "text": "To calculate the converted mana cost of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1."
2353
+ },
2354
+ {
2355
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
2356
+ "text": "As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X."
2357
+ },
2358
+ {
2359
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
2360
+ "text": "If you’re at 1 life or less, you can’t pay 2 life."
2361
+ },
2362
+ {
2363
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
2364
+ "text": "Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can’t add Phyrexian mana to their mana pools."
2365
+ }
2366
+ ]
1686
2367
  },
1687
2368
  {
1688
2369
  "name": "Thoughtcast",
@@ -1707,7 +2388,8 @@
1707
2388
  "loyalty": null,
1708
2389
  "multiverse_id": 397804,
1709
2390
  "other_part": null,
1710
- "color_indicator": null
2391
+ "color_indicator": null,
2392
+ "rulings": []
1711
2393
  },
1712
2394
  {
1713
2395
  "name": "Thrummingbird",
@@ -1727,7 +2409,7 @@
1727
2409
  "converted_mana_cost": 2,
1728
2410
  "oracle_text": [
1729
2411
  "Flying",
1730
- "Whenever Thrummingbird deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)"
2412
+ "Whenever Thrummingbird deals combat damage to a player, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)"
1731
2413
  ],
1732
2414
  "flavor_text": null,
1733
2415
  "power": "1",
@@ -1735,7 +2417,29 @@
1735
2417
  "loyalty": null,
1736
2418
  "multiverse_id": 397860,
1737
2419
  "other_part": null,
1738
- "color_indicator": null
2420
+ "color_indicator": null,
2421
+ "rulings": [
2422
+ {
2423
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
2424
+ "text": "You can choose any player that has a counter, including yourself."
2425
+ },
2426
+ {
2427
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
2428
+ "text": "You can choose any permanent that has a counter, including ones controlled by opponents. You can’t choose cards in any zone other than the battlefield, even if they have counters on them, such as suspended cards or a Lightning Storm on the stack."
2429
+ },
2430
+ {
2431
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
2432
+ "text": "You don’t have to choose every permanent or player that has a counter, only the ones you want to add another counter to. Since “any number” includes zero, you don’t have to choose any permanents at all, and you don’t have to choose any players at all."
2433
+ },
2434
+ {
2435
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
2436
+ "text": "If a permanent chosen this way has multiple kinds of counters on it, only a single new counter is put on that permanent."
2437
+ },
2438
+ {
2439
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
2440
+ "text": "Players can respond to the spell or ability whose effect includes proliferating. Once that spell or ability starts to resolve, however, and its controller chooses which permanents and players will get new counters, it’s too late for anyone to respond."
2441
+ }
2442
+ ]
1739
2443
  },
1740
2444
  {
1741
2445
  "name": "Vapor Snag",
@@ -1759,7 +2463,8 @@
1759
2463
  "loyalty": null,
1760
2464
  "multiverse_id": 397738,
1761
2465
  "other_part": null,
1762
- "color_indicator": null
2466
+ "color_indicator": null,
2467
+ "rulings": []
1763
2468
  },
1764
2469
  {
1765
2470
  "name": "Vendilion Clique",
@@ -1790,7 +2495,8 @@
1790
2495
  "loyalty": null,
1791
2496
  "multiverse_id": 397824,
1792
2497
  "other_part": null,
1793
- "color_indicator": null
2498
+ "color_indicator": null,
2499
+ "rulings": []
1794
2500
  },
1795
2501
  {
1796
2502
  "name": "Vigean Graftmage",
@@ -1819,7 +2525,8 @@
1819
2525
  "loyalty": null,
1820
2526
  "multiverse_id": 397829,
1821
2527
  "other_part": null,
1822
- "color_indicator": null
2528
+ "color_indicator": null,
2529
+ "rulings": []
1823
2530
  },
1824
2531
  {
1825
2532
  "name": "Water Servant",
@@ -1846,7 +2553,13 @@
1846
2553
  "loyalty": null,
1847
2554
  "multiverse_id": 397694,
1848
2555
  "other_part": null,
1849
- "color_indicator": null
2556
+ "color_indicator": null,
2557
+ "rulings": [
2558
+ {
2559
+ "date": "8/15/2010",
2560
+ "text": "You can activate Water Servant’s second ability even if doing so would cause Water Servant’s power to be less than 0."
2561
+ }
2562
+ ]
1850
2563
  },
1851
2564
  {
1852
2565
  "name": "Wings of Velis Vel",
@@ -1874,7 +2587,13 @@
1874
2587
  "loyalty": null,
1875
2588
  "multiverse_id": 397897,
1876
2589
  "other_part": null,
1877
- "color_indicator": null
2590
+ "color_indicator": null,
2591
+ "rulings": [
2592
+ {
2593
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
2594
+ "text": "Examples of creature types include Sliver, Goblin, and Soldier. Creature types appear after the dash on the type line of creatures."
2595
+ }
2596
+ ]
1878
2597
  },
1879
2598
  {
1880
2599
  "name": "Bitterblossom",
@@ -1901,7 +2620,17 @@
1901
2620
  "loyalty": null,
1902
2621
  "multiverse_id": 397701,
1903
2622
  "other_part": null,
1904
- "color_indicator": null
2623
+ "color_indicator": null,
2624
+ "rulings": [
2625
+ {
2626
+ "date": "4/1/2008",
2627
+ "text": "The effect is mandatory. You’ll lose 1 life even if you have only 1 life left."
2628
+ },
2629
+ {
2630
+ "date": "4/1/2008",
2631
+ "text": "The life loss isn’t a payment. You’ll get a token even if you had 0 life (and another effect is stopping you from losing the game)."
2632
+ }
2633
+ ]
1905
2634
  },
1906
2635
  {
1907
2636
  "name": "Bloodthrone Vampire",
@@ -1927,7 +2656,17 @@
1927
2656
  "loyalty": null,
1928
2657
  "multiverse_id": 397715,
1929
2658
  "other_part": null,
1930
- "color_indicator": null
2659
+ "color_indicator": null,
2660
+ "rulings": [
2661
+ {
2662
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
2663
+ "text": "You can sacrifice Bloodthrone Vampire to activate its own ability, but it won’t be on the battlefield to get the bonus."
2664
+ },
2665
+ {
2666
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
2667
+ "text": "If you sacrifice an attacking or blocking creature during the declare blockers step, it won’t deal combat damage. If you wait until the combat damage step, but the creature you wish to sacrifice is dealt lethal damage, it’ll be destroyed before you get a chance to sacrifice it."
2668
+ }
2669
+ ]
1931
2670
  },
1932
2671
  {
1933
2672
  "name": "Bone Splinters",
@@ -1952,7 +2691,21 @@
1952
2691
  "loyalty": null,
1953
2692
  "multiverse_id": 397770,
1954
2693
  "other_part": null,
1955
- "color_indicator": null
2694
+ "color_indicator": null,
2695
+ "rulings": [
2696
+ {
2697
+ "date": "3/14/2017",
2698
+ "text": "You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you can’t cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you can’t sacrifice additional creatures."
2699
+ },
2700
+ {
2701
+ "date": "3/14/2017",
2702
+ "text": "Once you begin to cast Bone Splinters, no player may take actions until you’re done. Notably, opponents can’t try to remove the creature you wish to sacrifice."
2703
+ },
2704
+ {
2705
+ "date": "3/14/2017",
2706
+ "text": "You can cast Bone Splinters targeting the creature you intend to sacrifice for its cost. This is because targets are chosen before costs are paid. Bone Splinters won’t resolve as it tries to resolve in this case."
2707
+ }
2708
+ ]
1956
2709
  },
1957
2710
  {
1958
2711
  "name": "Daggerclaw Imp",
@@ -1979,7 +2732,8 @@
1979
2732
  "loyalty": null,
1980
2733
  "multiverse_id": 397813,
1981
2734
  "other_part": null,
1982
- "color_indicator": null
2735
+ "color_indicator": null,
2736
+ "rulings": []
1983
2737
  },
1984
2738
  {
1985
2739
  "name": "Dark Confidant",
@@ -2006,7 +2760,8 @@
2006
2760
  "loyalty": null,
2007
2761
  "multiverse_id": 397731,
2008
2762
  "other_part": null,
2009
- "color_indicator": null
2763
+ "color_indicator": null,
2764
+ "rulings": []
2010
2765
  },
2011
2766
  {
2012
2767
  "name": "Death Denied",
@@ -2032,7 +2787,8 @@
2032
2787
  "loyalty": null,
2033
2788
  "multiverse_id": 397718,
2034
2789
  "other_part": null,
2035
- "color_indicator": null
2790
+ "color_indicator": null,
2791
+ "rulings": []
2036
2792
  },
2037
2793
  {
2038
2794
  "name": "Deathmark",
@@ -2056,7 +2812,8 @@
2056
2812
  "loyalty": null,
2057
2813
  "multiverse_id": 397787,
2058
2814
  "other_part": null,
2059
- "color_indicator": null
2815
+ "color_indicator": null,
2816
+ "rulings": []
2060
2817
  },
2061
2818
  {
2062
2819
  "name": "Devouring Greed",
@@ -2083,7 +2840,8 @@
2083
2840
  "loyalty": null,
2084
2841
  "multiverse_id": 397661,
2085
2842
  "other_part": null,
2086
- "color_indicator": null
2843
+ "color_indicator": null,
2844
+ "rulings": []
2087
2845
  },
2088
2846
  {
2089
2847
  "name": "Dismember",
@@ -2108,7 +2866,29 @@
2108
2866
  "loyalty": null,
2109
2867
  "multiverse_id": 397830,
2110
2868
  "other_part": null,
2111
- "color_indicator": null
2869
+ "color_indicator": null,
2870
+ "rulings": [
2871
+ {
2872
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
2873
+ "text": "A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid."
2874
+ },
2875
+ {
2876
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
2877
+ "text": "To calculate the converted mana cost of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1."
2878
+ },
2879
+ {
2880
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
2881
+ "text": "As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X."
2882
+ },
2883
+ {
2884
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
2885
+ "text": "If you’re at 1 life or less, you can’t pay 2 life."
2886
+ },
2887
+ {
2888
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
2889
+ "text": "Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can’t add Phyrexian mana to their mana pools."
2890
+ }
2891
+ ]
2112
2892
  },
2113
2893
  {
2114
2894
  "name": "Dread Drone",
@@ -2135,7 +2915,8 @@
2135
2915
  "loyalty": null,
2136
2916
  "multiverse_id": 397833,
2137
2917
  "other_part": null,
2138
- "color_indicator": null
2918
+ "color_indicator": null,
2919
+ "rulings": []
2139
2920
  },
2140
2921
  {
2141
2922
  "name": "Duskhunter Bat",
@@ -2162,7 +2943,8 @@
2162
2943
  "loyalty": null,
2163
2944
  "multiverse_id": 397791,
2164
2945
  "other_part": null,
2165
- "color_indicator": null
2946
+ "color_indicator": null,
2947
+ "rulings": []
2166
2948
  },
2167
2949
  {
2168
2950
  "name": "Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder",
@@ -2192,7 +2974,21 @@
2192
2974
  "loyalty": null,
2193
2975
  "multiverse_id": 397748,
2194
2976
  "other_part": null,
2195
- "color_indicator": null
2977
+ "color_indicator": null,
2978
+ "rulings": [
2979
+ {
2980
+ "date": "9/25/2006",
2981
+ "text": "The second ability is a state trigger. Once it triggers, it won’t trigger again as long as the ability is on the stack. If the ability is countered and the trigger condition is still true, it will immediately trigger again."
2982
+ },
2983
+ {
2984
+ "date": "9/25/2006",
2985
+ "text": "When the second ability resolves, Endrek Sahr will be sacrificed regardless of how many Thrulls you control at that time, even if it’s less than seven."
2986
+ },
2987
+ {
2988
+ "date": "9/25/2006",
2989
+ "text": "Face-down spells are creature spells, but they have converted mana cost 0."
2990
+ }
2991
+ ]
2196
2992
  },
2197
2993
  {
2198
2994
  "name": "Ghostly Changeling",
@@ -2219,7 +3015,8 @@
2219
3015
  "loyalty": null,
2220
3016
  "multiverse_id": 397705,
2221
3017
  "other_part": null,
2222
- "color_indicator": null
3018
+ "color_indicator": null,
3019
+ "rulings": []
2223
3020
  },
2224
3021
  {
2225
3022
  "name": "Grim Affliction",
@@ -2235,7 +3032,7 @@
2235
3032
  "mana_cost": "2B",
2236
3033
  "converted_mana_cost": 3,
2237
3034
  "oracle_text": [
2238
- "Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, then proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)"
3035
+ "Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)"
2239
3036
  ],
2240
3037
  "flavor_text": "Even the small wounds let hope bleed out.",
2241
3038
  "power": null,
@@ -2243,7 +3040,13 @@
2243
3040
  "loyalty": null,
2244
3041
  "multiverse_id": 397899,
2245
3042
  "other_part": null,
2246
- "color_indicator": null
3043
+ "color_indicator": null,
3044
+ "rulings": [
3045
+ {
3046
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
3047
+ "text": "You may choose the creature you put the -1/-1 counter on to get another -1/-1 counter when proliferating."
3048
+ }
3049
+ ]
2247
3050
  },
2248
3051
  {
2249
3052
  "name": "Instill Infection",
@@ -2268,7 +3071,8 @@
2268
3071
  "loyalty": null,
2269
3072
  "multiverse_id": 397820,
2270
3073
  "other_part": null,
2271
- "color_indicator": null
3074
+ "color_indicator": null,
3075
+ "rulings": []
2272
3076
  },
2273
3077
  {
2274
3078
  "name": "Midnight Banshee",
@@ -2295,7 +3099,8 @@
2295
3099
  "loyalty": null,
2296
3100
  "multiverse_id": 397799,
2297
3101
  "other_part": null,
2298
- "color_indicator": null
3102
+ "color_indicator": null,
3103
+ "rulings": []
2299
3104
  },
2300
3105
  {
2301
3106
  "name": "Nameless Inversion",
@@ -2323,7 +3128,17 @@
2323
3128
  "loyalty": null,
2324
3129
  "multiverse_id": 397861,
2325
3130
  "other_part": null,
2326
- "color_indicator": null
3131
+ "color_indicator": null,
3132
+ "rulings": [
3133
+ {
3134
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
3135
+ "text": "If a creature loses all creature types but then gains a new creature type later in the turn, it will be that new creature type."
3136
+ },
3137
+ {
3138
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
3139
+ "text": "Examples of creature types include Sliver, Goblin, and Soldier. Creature types appear after the dash on the type line of creatures."
3140
+ }
3141
+ ]
2327
3142
  },
2328
3143
  {
2329
3144
  "name": "Necroskitter",
@@ -2350,7 +3165,21 @@
2350
3165
  "loyalty": null,
2351
3166
  "multiverse_id": 397683,
2352
3167
  "other_part": null,
2353
- "color_indicator": null
3168
+ "color_indicator": null,
3169
+ "rulings": [
3170
+ {
3171
+ "date": "8/1/2008",
3172
+ "text": "It doesn’t matter whose graveyard the creature is put into. It matters only that an opponent controlled it when it left the battlefield."
3173
+ },
3174
+ {
3175
+ "date": "8/1/2008",
3176
+ "text": "It doesn’t matter how many -1/-1 counters were on the creature when it was put into a graveyard from the battlefield, as long as it had at least one."
3177
+ },
3178
+ {
3179
+ "date": "8/1/2008",
3180
+ "text": "The card returns to the battlefield without any -1/-1 counters on it (unless some other effect causes it to enter the battlefield with some)."
3181
+ }
3182
+ ]
2354
3183
  },
2355
3184
  {
2356
3185
  "name": "Plagued Rusalka",
@@ -2376,7 +3205,8 @@
2376
3205
  "loyalty": null,
2377
3206
  "multiverse_id": 397906,
2378
3207
  "other_part": null,
2379
- "color_indicator": null
3208
+ "color_indicator": null,
3209
+ "rulings": []
2380
3210
  },
2381
3211
  {
2382
3212
  "name": "Profane Command",
@@ -2404,7 +3234,13 @@
2404
3234
  "loyalty": null,
2405
3235
  "multiverse_id": 397713,
2406
3236
  "other_part": null,
2407
- "color_indicator": null
3237
+ "color_indicator": null,
3238
+ "rulings": [
3239
+ {
3240
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
3241
+ "text": "The value chosen for X applies to each X in the spell’s effect. You pay {X} only once."
3242
+ }
3243
+ ]
2408
3244
  },
2409
3245
  {
2410
3246
  "name": "Puppeteer Clique",
@@ -2433,7 +3269,37 @@
2433
3269
  "loyalty": null,
2434
3270
  "multiverse_id": 397839,
2435
3271
  "other_part": null,
2436
- "color_indicator": null
3272
+ "color_indicator": null,
3273
+ "rulings": [
3274
+ {
3275
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3276
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
3277
+ },
3278
+ {
3279
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3280
+ "text": "The persist ability triggers when the permanent is put into a graveyard. Its last known information (that is, how the creature last existed on the battlefield) is used to determine whether it had a -1/-1 counter on it."
3281
+ },
3282
+ {
3283
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3284
+ "text": "If a permanent has multiple instances of persist, they’ll each trigger separately, but the redundant instances will have no effect. If one instance returns the card to the battlefield, the next to resolve will do nothing."
3285
+ },
3286
+ {
3287
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3288
+ "text": "If a token with no -1/-1 counters on it has persist, the ability will trigger when the token is put into the graveyard. However, the token will cease to exist and can’t return to the battlefield."
3289
+ },
3290
+ {
3291
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3292
+ "text": "When a permanent with persist returns to the battlefield, it’s a new object with no memory of or connection to its previous existence."
3293
+ },
3294
+ {
3295
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3296
+ "text": "If multiple creatures with persist are put into the graveyard at the same time (due to combat damage or a spell that destroys all creatures, for example), the active player (the player whose turn it is) puts all of their persist triggers on the stack in any order, then each other player in turn order does the same. The last trigger put on the stack is the first one that resolves. That means that in a two-player game, the nonactive player’s persist creatures will return to the battlefield first, then the active player’s persist creatures do the same. The creatures return to the battlefield one at a time."
3297
+ },
3298
+ {
3299
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3300
+ "text": "If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner’s graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won’t trigger and the card won’t return to the battlefield. That’s because persist checks the creature’s existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point."
3301
+ }
3302
+ ]
2437
3303
  },
2438
3304
  {
2439
3305
  "name": "Reassembling Skeleton",
@@ -2460,7 +3326,8 @@
2460
3326
  "loyalty": null,
2461
3327
  "multiverse_id": 397819,
2462
3328
  "other_part": null,
2463
- "color_indicator": null
3329
+ "color_indicator": null,
3330
+ "rulings": []
2464
3331
  },
2465
3332
  {
2466
3333
  "name": "Scavenger Drake",
@@ -2487,7 +3354,8 @@
2487
3354
  "loyalty": null,
2488
3355
  "multiverse_id": 397811,
2489
3356
  "other_part": null,
2490
- "color_indicator": null
3357
+ "color_indicator": null,
3358
+ "rulings": []
2491
3359
  },
2492
3360
  {
2493
3361
  "name": "Scuttling Death",
@@ -2514,7 +3382,8 @@
2514
3382
  "loyalty": null,
2515
3383
  "multiverse_id": 397740,
2516
3384
  "other_part": null,
2517
- "color_indicator": null
3385
+ "color_indicator": null,
3386
+ "rulings": []
2518
3387
  },
2519
3388
  {
2520
3389
  "name": "Shrivel",
@@ -2538,7 +3407,13 @@
2538
3407
  "loyalty": null,
2539
3408
  "multiverse_id": 397857,
2540
3409
  "other_part": null,
2541
- "color_indicator": null
3410
+ "color_indicator": null,
3411
+ "rulings": [
3412
+ {
3413
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
3414
+ "text": "Only creatures on the battlefield as Shrivel resolves are affected."
3415
+ }
3416
+ ]
2542
3417
  },
2543
3418
  {
2544
3419
  "name": "Sickle Ripper",
@@ -2565,7 +3440,8 @@
2565
3440
  "loyalty": null,
2566
3441
  "multiverse_id": 397834,
2567
3442
  "other_part": null,
2568
- "color_indicator": null
3443
+ "color_indicator": null,
3444
+ "rulings": []
2569
3445
  },
2570
3446
  {
2571
3447
  "name": "Sign in Blood",
@@ -2589,7 +3465,8 @@
2589
3465
  "loyalty": null,
2590
3466
  "multiverse_id": 397739,
2591
3467
  "other_part": null,
2592
- "color_indicator": null
3468
+ "color_indicator": null,
3469
+ "rulings": []
2593
3470
  },
2594
3471
  {
2595
3472
  "name": "Spread the Sickness",
@@ -2605,7 +3482,7 @@
2605
3482
  "mana_cost": "4B",
2606
3483
  "converted_mana_cost": 5,
2607
3484
  "oracle_text": [
2608
- "Destroy target creature, then proliferate. (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then give each another counter of a kind already there.)"
3485
+ "Destroy target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)"
2609
3486
  ],
2610
3487
  "flavor_text": "Life is ephemeral. Phyrexia is eternal.",
2611
3488
  "power": null,
@@ -2613,7 +3490,17 @@
2613
3490
  "loyalty": null,
2614
3491
  "multiverse_id": 397823,
2615
3492
  "other_part": null,
2616
- "color_indicator": null
3493
+ "color_indicator": null,
3494
+ "rulings": [
3495
+ {
3496
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
3497
+ "text": "If the creature is an illegal target when Spread the Sickness tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t proliferate."
3498
+ },
3499
+ {
3500
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
3501
+ "text": "If the creature regenerates or has indestructible when Spread the Sickness resolves, you’ll still proliferate."
3502
+ }
3503
+ ]
2617
3504
  },
2618
3505
  {
2619
3506
  "name": "Surgical Extraction",
@@ -2638,7 +3525,33 @@
2638
3525
  "loyalty": null,
2639
3526
  "multiverse_id": 397706,
2640
3527
  "other_part": null,
2641
- "color_indicator": null
3528
+ "color_indicator": null,
3529
+ "rulings": [
3530
+ {
3531
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
3532
+ "text": "A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid."
3533
+ },
3534
+ {
3535
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
3536
+ "text": "To calculate the converted mana cost of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1."
3537
+ },
3538
+ {
3539
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
3540
+ "text": "As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X."
3541
+ },
3542
+ {
3543
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
3544
+ "text": "If you’re at 1 life or less, you can’t pay 2 life."
3545
+ },
3546
+ {
3547
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
3548
+ "text": "Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can’t add Phyrexian mana to their mana pools."
3549
+ },
3550
+ {
3551
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
3552
+ "text": "“Any number of cards” means just that. If you wish, you can choose to leave some or all of the cards with the same name as the targeted card, including that card, in the zone they’re in."
3553
+ }
3554
+ ]
2642
3555
  },
2643
3556
  {
2644
3557
  "name": "Thief of Hope",
@@ -2665,7 +3578,8 @@
2665
3578
  "loyalty": null,
2666
3579
  "multiverse_id": 397785,
2667
3580
  "other_part": null,
2668
- "color_indicator": null
3581
+ "color_indicator": null,
3582
+ "rulings": []
2669
3583
  },
2670
3584
  {
2671
3585
  "name": "Vampire Lacerator",
@@ -2692,7 +3606,13 @@
2692
3606
  "loyalty": null,
2693
3607
  "multiverse_id": 397845,
2694
3608
  "other_part": null,
2695
- "color_indicator": null
3609
+ "color_indicator": null,
3610
+ "rulings": [
3611
+ {
3612
+ "date": "3/16/2018",
3613
+ "text": "Whether an opponent has 10 or less life is checked only as Vampire Lacerator’s ability resolves."
3614
+ }
3615
+ ]
2696
3616
  },
2697
3617
  {
2698
3618
  "name": "Vampire Outcasts",
@@ -2719,7 +3639,8 @@
2719
3639
  "loyalty": null,
2720
3640
  "multiverse_id": 397674,
2721
3641
  "other_part": null,
2722
- "color_indicator": null
3642
+ "color_indicator": null,
3643
+ "rulings": []
2723
3644
  },
2724
3645
  {
2725
3646
  "name": "Waking Nightmare",
@@ -2745,7 +3666,8 @@
2745
3666
  "loyalty": null,
2746
3667
  "multiverse_id": 397687,
2747
3668
  "other_part": null,
2748
- "color_indicator": null
3669
+ "color_indicator": null,
3670
+ "rulings": []
2749
3671
  },
2750
3672
  {
2751
3673
  "name": "Banefire",
@@ -2770,7 +3692,21 @@
2770
3692
  "loyalty": null,
2771
3693
  "multiverse_id": 397676,
2772
3694
  "other_part": null,
2773
- "color_indicator": null
3695
+ "color_indicator": null,
3696
+ "rulings": [
3697
+ {
3698
+ "date": "7/13/2018",
3699
+ "text": "To determine whether it can be countered and its damage can be prevented, Banefire checks the number you chose for X, not the amount of mana you actually spent or the amount of damage it will actually deal."
3700
+ },
3701
+ {
3702
+ "date": "7/13/2018",
3703
+ "text": "Banefire can be targeted by spells that try to counter it regardless of what the value of X is. If X is 5 or more, those spells will still resolve, but the part of their effect that would counter Banefire won’t do anything. Any other effects those spells have will work as normal."
3704
+ },
3705
+ {
3706
+ "date": "7/13/2018",
3707
+ "text": "If its target is illegal by the time Banefire tries to resolve, the spell isn’t countered, but it doesn’t resolve. The target won’t be dealt damage."
3708
+ }
3709
+ ]
2774
3710
  },
2775
3711
  {
2776
3712
  "name": "Blades of Velis Vel",
@@ -2798,7 +3734,13 @@
2798
3734
  "loyalty": null,
2799
3735
  "multiverse_id": 397754,
2800
3736
  "other_part": null,
2801
- "color_indicator": null
3737
+ "color_indicator": null,
3738
+ "rulings": [
3739
+ {
3740
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
3741
+ "text": "Examples of creature types include Sliver, Goblin, and Soldier. Creature types appear after the dash on the type line of creatures."
3742
+ }
3743
+ ]
2802
3744
  },
2803
3745
  {
2804
3746
  "name": "Blood Ogre",
@@ -2826,7 +3768,8 @@
2826
3768
  "loyalty": null,
2827
3769
  "multiverse_id": 397759,
2828
3770
  "other_part": null,
2829
- "color_indicator": null
3771
+ "color_indicator": null,
3772
+ "rulings": []
2830
3773
  },
2831
3774
  {
2832
3775
  "name": "Bloodshot Trainee",
@@ -2853,7 +3796,13 @@
2853
3796
  "loyalty": null,
2854
3797
  "multiverse_id": 397671,
2855
3798
  "other_part": null,
2856
- "color_indicator": null
3799
+ "color_indicator": null,
3800
+ "rulings": [
3801
+ {
3802
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
3803
+ "text": "Once Bloodshot Trainee’s ability is activated, it will resolve as normal even if Bloodshot Trainee’s power is less than 4 by the time the ability resolves."
3804
+ }
3805
+ ]
2857
3806
  },
2858
3807
  {
2859
3808
  "name": "Brute Force",
@@ -2877,7 +3826,13 @@
2877
3826
  "loyalty": null,
2878
3827
  "multiverse_id": 397729,
2879
3828
  "other_part": null,
2880
- "color_indicator": null
3829
+ "color_indicator": null,
3830
+ "rulings": [
3831
+ {
3832
+ "date": "2/1/2007",
3833
+ "text": "This is the timeshifted version of Giant Growth."
3834
+ }
3835
+ ]
2881
3836
  },
2882
3837
  {
2883
3838
  "name": "Burst Lightning",
@@ -2902,7 +3857,8 @@
2902
3857
  "loyalty": null,
2903
3858
  "multiverse_id": 397662,
2904
3859
  "other_part": null,
2905
- "color_indicator": null
3860
+ "color_indicator": null,
3861
+ "rulings": []
2906
3862
  },
2907
3863
  {
2908
3864
  "name": "Combust",
@@ -2927,7 +3883,33 @@
2927
3883
  "loyalty": null,
2928
3884
  "multiverse_id": 397783,
2929
3885
  "other_part": null,
2930
- "color_indicator": null
3886
+ "color_indicator": null,
3887
+ "rulings": [
3888
+ {
3889
+ "date": "8/15/2010",
3890
+ "text": "Combust can be targeted by spells and abilities that try to counter it (such as Cancel). Those spells and abilities will resolve, but the part of their effect that would counter Combust won’t do anything. Any other effects those spells and abilities have will work as normal."
3891
+ },
3892
+ {
3893
+ "date": "8/15/2010",
3894
+ "text": "If the targeted creature is an illegal target by the time Combust would resolve, Combust won’t resolve for having an illegal target."
3895
+ },
3896
+ {
3897
+ "date": "8/15/2010",
3898
+ "text": "Spells that create prevention effects affecting the targeted creature can still be cast, and abilities that create prevention effects affecting the targeted creature can still be activated. However, damage prevention shields (including those created before Combust was cast) don’t have any effect on the damage dealt by Combust. If such a prevention effect has an additional effect, the additional effect will still work (if possible)."
3899
+ },
3900
+ {
3901
+ "date": "8/15/2010",
3902
+ "text": "If a static ability would prevent damage from being dealt to the targeted creature, it fails to prevent the damage dealt by Combust. If that ability has an additional effect that doesn’t depend on the amount of damage prevented, that additional effect will still work. It’s applied just once as Combust resolves."
3903
+ },
3904
+ {
3905
+ "date": "8/15/2010",
3906
+ "text": "Effects that replace or redirect damage without using the word “prevent” aren’t affected by Combust; they’ll work as normal."
3907
+ },
3908
+ {
3909
+ "date": "8/15/2010",
3910
+ "text": "If a creature is dealt lethal damage by Combust, it can still regenerate. If it does, the damage marked on it will be removed from it."
3911
+ }
3912
+ ]
2931
3913
  },
2932
3914
  {
2933
3915
  "name": "Comet Storm",
@@ -2952,7 +3934,25 @@
2952
3934
  "loyalty": null,
2953
3935
  "multiverse_id": 397758,
2954
3936
  "other_part": null,
2955
- "color_indicator": null
3937
+ "color_indicator": null,
3938
+ "rulings": [
3939
+ {
3940
+ "date": "3/1/2010",
3941
+ "text": "The number of targets you choose for Comet Storm is one more than the number of times it’s kicked. First you declare how many times you’re going to kick the spell (at the same time you declare the value of X), then you choose the targets accordingly, then you pay the costs. No player can respond between the time you declare how many times you’ll kick the spell and the time you choose the targets."
3942
+ },
3943
+ {
3944
+ "date": "3/1/2010",
3945
+ "text": "Each target you choose must be different."
3946
+ },
3947
+ {
3948
+ "date": "3/1/2010",
3949
+ "text": "For example, if you want Comet Storm to deal 4 damage to each of three different targets, that means X is 4 and you’re kicking the spell twice. You’ll pay a mana cost of {4}{R}{R}, plus a kicker cost of {1}, plus another kicker cost of {1}, for a total of {6}{R}{R}."
3950
+ },
3951
+ {
3952
+ "date": "3/1/2010",
3953
+ "text": "As long as any of its targets are legal at the time Comet Storm resolves, Comet Storm will deal X damage to each of those legal targets."
3954
+ }
3955
+ ]
2956
3956
  },
2957
3957
  {
2958
3958
  "name": "Dragonsoul Knight",
@@ -2980,7 +3980,21 @@
2980
3980
  "loyalty": null,
2981
3981
  "multiverse_id": 397859,
2982
3982
  "other_part": null,
2983
- "color_indicator": null
3983
+ "color_indicator": null,
3984
+ "rulings": [
3985
+ {
3986
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
3987
+ "text": "When Dragonsoul Knight’s activated ability resolves, Dragonsoul Knight will gain flying and trample in addition to its other abilities. However, becoming a Dragon will make it lose all other creature types. It will no longer be a Human or a Knight."
3988
+ },
3989
+ {
3990
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
3991
+ "text": "If Dragonsoul Knight gains flying after blockers have been declared, it won’t cause those blocks to change."
3992
+ },
3993
+ {
3994
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
3995
+ "text": "You can activate Dragonsoul Knight’s ability more than once during a turn. The second time it resolves, it will probably have no visible effect other than giving Dragonsoul Knight another +5/+3."
3996
+ }
3997
+ ]
2984
3998
  },
2985
3999
  {
2986
4000
  "name": "Fiery Fall",
@@ -3005,7 +4019,25 @@
3005
4019
  "loyalty": null,
3006
4020
  "multiverse_id": 397692,
3007
4021
  "other_part": null,
3008
- "color_indicator": null
4022
+ "color_indicator": null,
4023
+ "rulings": [
4024
+ {
4025
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
4026
+ "text": "Unlike the normal cycling ability, basic landcycling doesn’t allow you to draw a card. Instead, it lets you search your library for a basic land card. You don’t choose the type of basic land card you’ll find until you’re performing the search. After you choose a basic land card in your library, you reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library."
4027
+ },
4028
+ {
4029
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
4030
+ "text": "Basic landcycling is a form of cycling. Any ability that triggers on a card being cycled also triggers on a card being basic landcycled. Any ability that stops a cycling ability from being activated also stops a basic landcycling ability from being activated."
4031
+ },
4032
+ {
4033
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
4034
+ "text": "Basic landcycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with basic landcycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not."
4035
+ },
4036
+ {
4037
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
4038
+ "text": "You can choose not to find a basic land card, even if there is one in your library."
4039
+ }
4040
+ ]
3009
4041
  },
3010
4042
  {
3011
4043
  "name": "Goblin Fireslinger",
@@ -3032,7 +4064,8 @@
3032
4064
  "loyalty": null,
3033
4065
  "multiverse_id": 397850,
3034
4066
  "other_part": null,
3035
- "color_indicator": null
4067
+ "color_indicator": null,
4068
+ "rulings": []
3036
4069
  },
3037
4070
  {
3038
4071
  "name": "Goblin War Paint",
@@ -3059,7 +4092,8 @@
3059
4092
  "loyalty": null,
3060
4093
  "multiverse_id": 397864,
3061
4094
  "other_part": null,
3062
- "color_indicator": null
4095
+ "color_indicator": null,
4096
+ "rulings": []
3063
4097
  },
3064
4098
  {
3065
4099
  "name": "Gorehorn Minotaurs",
@@ -3086,7 +4120,8 @@
3086
4120
  "loyalty": null,
3087
4121
  "multiverse_id": 397809,
3088
4122
  "other_part": null,
3089
- "color_indicator": null
4123
+ "color_indicator": null,
4124
+ "rulings": []
3090
4125
  },
3091
4126
  {
3092
4127
  "name": "Gut Shot",
@@ -3111,7 +4146,29 @@
3111
4146
  "loyalty": null,
3112
4147
  "multiverse_id": 397673,
3113
4148
  "other_part": null,
3114
- "color_indicator": null
4149
+ "color_indicator": null,
4150
+ "rulings": [
4151
+ {
4152
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
4153
+ "text": "A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid."
4154
+ },
4155
+ {
4156
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
4157
+ "text": "To calculate the converted mana cost of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1."
4158
+ },
4159
+ {
4160
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
4161
+ "text": "As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X."
4162
+ },
4163
+ {
4164
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
4165
+ "text": "If you’re at 1 life or less, you can’t pay 2 life."
4166
+ },
4167
+ {
4168
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
4169
+ "text": "Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can’t add Phyrexian mana to their mana pools."
4170
+ }
4171
+ ]
3115
4172
  },
3116
4173
  {
3117
4174
  "name": "Hellkite Charger",
@@ -3138,7 +4195,25 @@
3138
4195
  "loyalty": null,
3139
4196
  "multiverse_id": 397761,
3140
4197
  "other_part": null,
3141
- "color_indicator": null
4198
+ "color_indicator": null,
4199
+ "rulings": [
4200
+ {
4201
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
4202
+ "text": "You decide whether to pay {5}{R}{R} as Hellkite Charger’s ability resolves."
4203
+ },
4204
+ {
4205
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
4206
+ "text": "If you pay {5}{R}{R}, the new combat phase immediately follows the current combat phase. There is no main phase in between."
4207
+ },
4208
+ {
4209
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
4210
+ "text": "Hellkite Charger’s ability may trigger multiple times in the same turn, since its own ability gives it multiple chances to attack. Each time it resolves, you may create an additional combat phase."
4211
+ },
4212
+ {
4213
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
4214
+ "text": "If two Hellkite Chargers attack at the same time, both of their abilities trigger. If you pay {5}{R}{R} for each, two new combat phases will be created. However, all attacking creatures untap as those abilities resolve, not as the combat phases start. Any creature that attacks in the second combat phase will remain tapped during the third combat phase."
4215
+ }
4216
+ ]
3142
4217
  },
3143
4218
  {
3144
4219
  "name": "Incandescent Soulstoke",
@@ -3166,7 +4241,8 @@
3166
4241
  "loyalty": null,
3167
4242
  "multiverse_id": 397752,
3168
4243
  "other_part": null,
3169
- "color_indicator": null
4244
+ "color_indicator": null,
4245
+ "rulings": []
3170
4246
  },
3171
4247
  {
3172
4248
  "name": "Inner-Flame Igniter",
@@ -3193,7 +4269,21 @@
3193
4269
  "loyalty": null,
3194
4270
  "multiverse_id": 397884,
3195
4271
  "other_part": null,
3196
- "color_indicator": null
4272
+ "color_indicator": null,
4273
+ "rulings": [
4274
+ {
4275
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
4276
+ "text": "Counts resolutions, not activations. Any such abilities that are still on the stack won’t count toward the total."
4277
+ },
4278
+ {
4279
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
4280
+ "text": "When the ability resolves, it counts the number of times that same ability from that this creature has already resolved that turn. It doesn’t matter who controlled the creature or the previous abilities when they resolved. A copy of this ability (created by Rings of Brighthearth, for example) will count toward the total. Abilities from other creatures with the same name don’t count towards the total. Neither does an ability that’s been countered."
4281
+ },
4282
+ {
4283
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
4284
+ "text": "You get the bonus only the third time the ability resolves. You won’t get the bonus the fourth, fifth, sixth, or any subsequent times."
4285
+ }
4286
+ ]
3197
4287
  },
3198
4288
  {
3199
4289
  "name": "Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker",
@@ -3223,7 +4313,29 @@
3223
4313
  "loyalty": null,
3224
4314
  "multiverse_id": 397698,
3225
4315
  "other_part": null,
3226
- "color_indicator": null
4316
+ "color_indicator": null,
4317
+ "rulings": [
4318
+ {
4319
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
4320
+ "text": "The token copies exactly what was printed on the creature and nothing else (unless that creature was copying something else or was a token; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that creature was tapped or untapped, whether it had any counters on it or Auras and/or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on."
4321
+ },
4322
+ {
4323
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
4324
+ "text": "If the copied creature had {X} in its mana cost, X is 0."
4325
+ },
4326
+ {
4327
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
4328
+ "text": "If the copied creature was copying something else, the tokens enter the battlefield as whatever that creature was copying."
4329
+ },
4330
+ {
4331
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
4332
+ "text": "If the copied creature is a token, the tokens created by Kiki-Jiki’s ability copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put it onto the battlefield."
4333
+ },
4334
+ {
4335
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
4336
+ "text": "Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the tokens enter the battlefield. Any “As [this creature] enters the battlefield” or “[This creature] enters the battlefield with” abilities of the copied creature will also work."
4337
+ }
4338
+ ]
3227
4339
  },
3228
4340
  {
3229
4341
  "name": "Lightning Bolt",
@@ -3247,7 +4359,8 @@
3247
4359
  "loyalty": null,
3248
4360
  "multiverse_id": 397722,
3249
4361
  "other_part": null,
3250
- "color_indicator": null
4362
+ "color_indicator": null,
4363
+ "rulings": []
3251
4364
  },
3252
4365
  {
3253
4366
  "name": "Skarrgan Firebird",
@@ -3275,7 +4388,13 @@
3275
4388
  "loyalty": null,
3276
4389
  "multiverse_id": 397867,
3277
4390
  "other_part": null,
3278
- "color_indicator": null
4391
+ "color_indicator": null,
4392
+ "rulings": [
4393
+ {
4394
+ "date": "2/1/2006",
4395
+ "text": "You can activate Skarrgan Firebird’s last ability if an opponent was dealt damage by any source, even if you didn’t control that source."
4396
+ }
4397
+ ]
3279
4398
  },
3280
4399
  {
3281
4400
  "name": "Smash to Smithereens",
@@ -3299,7 +4418,13 @@
3299
4418
  "loyalty": null,
3300
4419
  "multiverse_id": 397795,
3301
4420
  "other_part": null,
3302
- "color_indicator": null
4421
+ "color_indicator": null,
4422
+ "rulings": [
4423
+ {
4424
+ "date": "6/22/2015",
4425
+ "text": "Smash to Smithereens targets only the artifact, not any player. If that artifact becomes an illegal target by the time Smash to Smithereens tries to resolve, Smash to Smithereens won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. No damage will be dealt."
4426
+ }
4427
+ ]
3303
4428
  },
3304
4429
  {
3305
4430
  "name": "Smokebraider",
@@ -3326,7 +4451,21 @@
3326
4451
  "loyalty": null,
3327
4452
  "multiverse_id": 397725,
3328
4453
  "other_part": null,
3329
- "color_indicator": null
4454
+ "color_indicator": null,
4455
+ "rulings": [
4456
+ {
4457
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
4458
+ "text": "The mana can be two mana of the same color, or one mana of each of two different colors. The mana can’t be colorless."
4459
+ },
4460
+ {
4461
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
4462
+ "text": "You can use this mana to pay an alternative cost (such as evoke) or additional cost incurred while casting an Elemental spell. It’s not limited to just that spell’s mana cost."
4463
+ },
4464
+ {
4465
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
4466
+ "text": "The mana can’t be spent to activate activated abilities of Elemental sources that aren’t on the battlefield."
4467
+ }
4468
+ ]
3330
4469
  },
3331
4470
  {
3332
4471
  "name": "Soulbright Flamekin",
@@ -3353,7 +4492,21 @@
3353
4492
  "loyalty": null,
3354
4493
  "multiverse_id": 397730,
3355
4494
  "other_part": null,
3356
- "color_indicator": null
4495
+ "color_indicator": null,
4496
+ "rulings": [
4497
+ {
4498
+ "date": "3/16/2018",
4499
+ "text": "You add eight red mana only the third time Soulbright Flamekin’s ability resolves in a turn. You won’t get the bonus the fourth, fifth, sixth, or any subsequent times in that same turn."
4500
+ },
4501
+ {
4502
+ "date": "3/16/2018",
4503
+ "text": "When Soulbright Flamekin’s ability resolves, it counts the number of times that same ability from that same creature has already resolved that turn. A copy of this ability (created by Rings of Brighthearth, for example) will count toward the total. Abilities from other creatures with the same name don’t count towards the total. Neither does an ability that’s been countered."
4504
+ },
4505
+ {
4506
+ "date": "3/16/2018",
4507
+ "text": "Soulbright Flamekin’s ability uses the stack and can be responded to. Because it has a target, it’s not a mana ability, even if you know that it will produce mana."
4508
+ }
4509
+ ]
3357
4510
  },
3358
4511
  {
3359
4512
  "name": "Spikeshot Elder",
@@ -3380,7 +4533,13 @@
3380
4533
  "loyalty": null,
3381
4534
  "multiverse_id": 397883,
3382
4535
  "other_part": null,
3383
- "color_indicator": null
4536
+ "color_indicator": null,
4537
+ "rulings": [
4538
+ {
4539
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
4540
+ "text": "How much damage Spikeshot Elder deals as a result of its ability is determined by its power as that ability resolves. If Spikeshot Elder is no longer on the battlefield at that time, its last existence on the battlefield is checked to determine its power."
4541
+ }
4542
+ ]
3384
4543
  },
3385
4544
  {
3386
4545
  "name": "Spitebellows",
@@ -3407,7 +4566,33 @@
3407
4566
  "loyalty": null,
3408
4567
  "multiverse_id": 397664,
3409
4568
  "other_part": null,
3410
- "color_indicator": null
4569
+ "color_indicator": null,
4570
+ "rulings": [
4571
+ {
4572
+ "date": "4/1/2008",
4573
+ "text": "Evoke doesn’t change the timing of when you can cast the creature that has it. If you could cast that creature spell only when you could cast a sorcery, the same is true for cast it with evoke."
4574
+ },
4575
+ {
4576
+ "date": "4/1/2008",
4577
+ "text": "If a creature spell cast with evoke changes controllers before it enters the battlefield, it will still be sacrificed when it enters the battlefield. Similarly, if a creature cast with evoke changes controllers after it enters the battlefield but before its sacrifice ability resolves, it will still be sacrificed. In both cases, the controller of the creature at the time it left the battlefield will control its leaves-the-battlefield ability."
4578
+ },
4579
+ {
4580
+ "date": "4/1/2008",
4581
+ "text": "When you cast a spell by paying its evoke cost, its mana cost doesn’t change. You just pay the evoke cost instead."
4582
+ },
4583
+ {
4584
+ "date": "4/1/2008",
4585
+ "text": "Effects that cause you to pay more or less to cast a spell will cause you to pay that much more or less while casting it for its evoke cost, too. That’s because they affect the total cost of the spell, not its mana cost."
4586
+ },
4587
+ {
4588
+ "date": "4/1/2008",
4589
+ "text": "Whether evoke’s sacrifice ability triggers when the creature enters the battlefield depends on whether the spell’s controller chose to pay the evoke cost, not whether they actually paid it (if it was reduced or otherwise altered by another ability, for example)."
4590
+ },
4591
+ {
4592
+ "date": "4/1/2008",
4593
+ "text": "If you’re casting a spell “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t use its evoke ability."
4594
+ }
4595
+ ]
3411
4596
  },
3412
4597
  {
3413
4598
  "name": "Splinter Twin",
@@ -3434,7 +4619,57 @@
3434
4619
  "loyalty": null,
3435
4620
  "multiverse_id": 397816,
3436
4621
  "other_part": null,
3437
- "color_indicator": null
4622
+ "color_indicator": null,
4623
+ "rulings": [
4624
+ {
4625
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4626
+ "text": "Splinter Twin grants an activated ability to the enchanted creature. That creature’s controller (who is not necessarily the Aura’s controller) can activate it. The creature’s controller is the player who gets the token."
4627
+ },
4628
+ {
4629
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4630
+ "text": "The token that’s put onto the battlefield copies exactly what’s printed on the enchanted creature (unless that creature is copying something else or it’s a token; see below), plus it has haste. It doesn’t copy whether the enchanted creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras attached to it, or whether it’s been affected by any noncopy effects that changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on. In particular, it doesn’t copy the ability granted to the enchanted creature by Splinter Twin."
4631
+ },
4632
+ {
4633
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4634
+ "text": "If the enchanted creature is copying something else when the ability resolves (for example, if it’s a Renegade Doppelganger), then the token enters the battlefield as a copy of whatever the enchanted creature is copying, plus it has haste."
4635
+ },
4636
+ {
4637
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4638
+ "text": "If the enchanted creature is a token, the new token copies the characteristics of the original token as stated by the effect that put it onto the battlefield, plus it has haste."
4639
+ },
4640
+ {
4641
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4642
+ "text": "If the enchanted creature has {X} in its mana cost (such as Protean Hydra), X is considered to be zero."
4643
+ },
4644
+ {
4645
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4646
+ "text": "Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the enchanted creature will trigger when the token is put onto the battlefield. Any “as [this creature] enters the battlefield” or “[this creature] enters the battlefield with” abilities of the enchanted creature will also work."
4647
+ },
4648
+ {
4649
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4650
+ "text": "The token will not be kicked, even if the creature it’s copying was."
4651
+ },
4652
+ {
4653
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4654
+ "text": "If you activate the ability and the enchanted creature leaves the battlefield before the ability resolves, you still get a token. The enchanted creature’s last existence on the battlefield is checked to see what it was (specifically, if it was itself or if it was copying something else)."
4655
+ },
4656
+ {
4657
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4658
+ "text": "The token is exiled at the beginning of the next end step regardless of who controls it at that time, or whether Splinter Twin or the enchanted creature is still on the battlefield at that time."
4659
+ },
4660
+ {
4661
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4662
+ "text": "If the ability is activated during a turn’s end step, the token will be exiled at the beginning of the following turn’s end step."
4663
+ },
4664
+ {
4665
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4666
+ "text": "If the token isn’t exiled when the delayed triggered ability resolves (due to Stifle, perhaps), it remains on the battlefield indefinitely. It continues to have haste."
4667
+ },
4668
+ {
4669
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
4670
+ "text": "If the enchanted creature is legendary, you will have to put either the original creature or the token into the graveyard as a state-based action."
4671
+ }
4672
+ ]
3438
4673
  },
3439
4674
  {
3440
4675
  "name": "Stormblood Berserker",
@@ -3462,7 +4697,8 @@
3462
4697
  "loyalty": null,
3463
4698
  "multiverse_id": 397712,
3464
4699
  "other_part": null,
3465
- "color_indicator": null
4700
+ "color_indicator": null,
4701
+ "rulings": []
3466
4702
  },
3467
4703
  {
3468
4704
  "name": "Thunderblust",
@@ -3490,7 +4726,37 @@
3490
4726
  "loyalty": null,
3491
4727
  "multiverse_id": 397848,
3492
4728
  "other_part": null,
3493
- "color_indicator": null
4729
+ "color_indicator": null,
4730
+ "rulings": [
4731
+ {
4732
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4733
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
4734
+ },
4735
+ {
4736
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4737
+ "text": "The persist ability triggers when the permanent is put into a graveyard. Its last known information (that is, how the creature last existed on the battlefield) is used to determine whether it had a -1/-1 counter on it."
4738
+ },
4739
+ {
4740
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4741
+ "text": "If a permanent has multiple instances of persist, they’ll each trigger separately, but the redundant instances will have no effect. If one instance returns the card to the battlefield, the next to resolve will do nothing."
4742
+ },
4743
+ {
4744
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4745
+ "text": "If a token with no -1/-1 counters on it has persist, the ability will trigger when the token is put into the graveyard. However, the token will cease to exist and can’t return to the battlefield."
4746
+ },
4747
+ {
4748
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4749
+ "text": "When a permanent with persist returns to the battlefield, it’s a new object with no memory of or connection to its previous existence."
4750
+ },
4751
+ {
4752
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4753
+ "text": "If multiple creatures with persist are put into the graveyard at the same time (due to combat damage or a spell that destroys all creatures, for example), the active player (the player whose turn it is) puts all of their persist triggers on the stack in any order, then each other player in turn order does the same. The last trigger put on the stack is the first one that resolves. That means that in a two-player game, the nonactive player’s persist creatures will return to the battlefield first, then the active player’s persist creatures do the same. The creatures return to the battlefield one at a time."
4754
+ },
4755
+ {
4756
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4757
+ "text": "If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner’s graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won’t trigger and the card won’t return to the battlefield. That’s because persist checks the creature’s existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point."
4758
+ }
4759
+ ]
3494
4760
  },
3495
4761
  {
3496
4762
  "name": "Tribal Flames",
@@ -3514,7 +4780,21 @@
3514
4780
  "loyalty": null,
3515
4781
  "multiverse_id": 397842,
3516
4782
  "other_part": null,
3517
- "color_indicator": null
4783
+ "color_indicator": null,
4784
+ "rulings": [
4785
+ {
4786
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
4787
+ "text": "To determine the number of basic land types among lands you control, look at the lands you have on the battlefield and ask yourself whether the subtypes Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest appear within that group. The number of times you say yes (topping out at five) tells you how powerful your domain abilities will be."
4788
+ },
4789
+ {
4790
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
4791
+ "text": "How many lands you control of a particular basic land type is irrelevant to a domain ability, as long as that number is greater than zero. As far as domain is concerned, ten Forests is the same as one Forest."
4792
+ },
4793
+ {
4794
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
4795
+ "text": "A number of nonbasic lands have basic land types. Domain abilities don’t count the number of lands you control — they count the number of basic land types among lands you control, even if that means checking the same land twice. For example, if you control a Tundra, an Overgrown Tomb, and a Madblind Mountain, you’ll have a Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest among the lands you control. Your domain abilities will be maxed out."
4796
+ }
4797
+ ]
3518
4798
  },
3519
4799
  {
3520
4800
  "name": "Viashino Slaughtermaster",
@@ -3542,7 +4822,8 @@
3542
4822
  "loyalty": null,
3543
4823
  "multiverse_id": 397882,
3544
4824
  "other_part": null,
3545
- "color_indicator": null
4825
+ "color_indicator": null,
4826
+ "rulings": []
3546
4827
  },
3547
4828
  {
3548
4829
  "name": "Wildfire",
@@ -3566,7 +4847,8 @@
3566
4847
  "loyalty": null,
3567
4848
  "multiverse_id": 397825,
3568
4849
  "other_part": null,
3569
- "color_indicator": null
4850
+ "color_indicator": null,
4851
+ "rulings": []
3570
4852
  },
3571
4853
  {
3572
4854
  "name": "Worldheart Phoenix",
@@ -3593,7 +4875,21 @@
3593
4875
  "loyalty": null,
3594
4876
  "multiverse_id": 397724,
3595
4877
  "other_part": null,
3596
- "color_indicator": null
4878
+ "color_indicator": null,
4879
+ "rulings": [
4880
+ {
4881
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
4882
+ "text": "Casting Worldheart Phoenix from your graveyard by paying its alternative cost doesn’t change when you can cast it. You can cast it only at the normal time you could cast a creature spell."
4883
+ },
4884
+ {
4885
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
4886
+ "text": "If you cast Worldheart Phoenix this way, it is a spell and can be countered."
4887
+ },
4888
+ {
4889
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
4890
+ "text": "As soon as you start to cast Worldheart Phoenix from your graveyard, the card moves onto the stack. At that point, it’s too late for an opponent to prevent you from casting it by removing it from your graveyard."
4891
+ }
4892
+ ]
3597
4893
  },
3598
4894
  {
3599
4895
  "name": "Wrap in Flames",
@@ -3617,7 +4913,21 @@
3617
4913
  "loyalty": null,
3618
4914
  "multiverse_id": 397720,
3619
4915
  "other_part": null,
3620
- "color_indicator": null
4916
+ "color_indicator": null,
4917
+ "rulings": [
4918
+ {
4919
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4920
+ "text": "You may target zero, one, two, or three creatures."
4921
+ },
4922
+ {
4923
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4924
+ "text": "The “can’t block” effect applies to each of the targeted creatures — and only those creatures — even if Wrap in Flames deals no damage to one or more of them (due to a prevention effect, for example) or Wrap in Flames deals damage to a different creature (due to a redirection effect)."
4925
+ },
4926
+ {
4927
+ "date": "6/15/2010",
4928
+ "text": "If any of the targeted creatures is an illegal target by the time Wrap in Flames resolves, it won’t be dealt damage and will be able to block. The other targeted creatures will still be affected."
4929
+ }
4930
+ ]
3621
4931
  },
3622
4932
  {
3623
4933
  "name": "Algae Gharial",
@@ -3644,7 +4954,8 @@
3644
4954
  "loyalty": null,
3645
4955
  "multiverse_id": 397854,
3646
4956
  "other_part": null,
3647
- "color_indicator": null
4957
+ "color_indicator": null,
4958
+ "rulings": []
3648
4959
  },
3649
4960
  {
3650
4961
  "name": "All Suns' Dawn",
@@ -3668,7 +4979,21 @@
3668
4979
  "loyalty": null,
3669
4980
  "multiverse_id": 397741,
3670
4981
  "other_part": null,
3671
- "color_indicator": null
4982
+ "color_indicator": null,
4983
+ "rulings": [
4984
+ {
4985
+ "date": "12/1/2004",
4986
+ "text": "All Suns’ Dawn can have from zero to five targets, one for each color."
4987
+ },
4988
+ {
4989
+ "date": "12/1/2004",
4990
+ "text": "You can target two blue-and-white multicolored cards by choosing one as the blue card and one as the white card."
4991
+ },
4992
+ {
4993
+ "date": "12/1/2004",
4994
+ "text": "You choose the color each target must be when you choose it as a target, so if the card you targeted as a blue card is red when All Suns’ Dawn resolves, the card is an illegal target, even if the spell doesn’t target another red card."
4995
+ }
4996
+ ]
3672
4997
  },
3673
4998
  {
3674
4999
  "name": "Ant Queen",
@@ -3694,7 +5019,8 @@
3694
5019
  "loyalty": null,
3695
5020
  "multiverse_id": 397821,
3696
5021
  "other_part": null,
3697
- "color_indicator": null
5022
+ "color_indicator": null,
5023
+ "rulings": []
3698
5024
  },
3699
5025
  {
3700
5026
  "name": "Aquastrand Spider",
@@ -3722,7 +5048,8 @@
3722
5048
  "loyalty": null,
3723
5049
  "multiverse_id": 397697,
3724
5050
  "other_part": null,
3725
- "color_indicator": null
5051
+ "color_indicator": null,
5052
+ "rulings": []
3726
5053
  },
3727
5054
  {
3728
5055
  "name": "Bestial Menace",
@@ -3746,7 +5073,8 @@
3746
5073
  "loyalty": null,
3747
5074
  "multiverse_id": 397840,
3748
5075
  "other_part": null,
3749
- "color_indicator": null
5076
+ "color_indicator": null,
5077
+ "rulings": []
3750
5078
  },
3751
5079
  {
3752
5080
  "name": "Commune with Nature",
@@ -3770,7 +5098,13 @@
3770
5098
  "loyalty": null,
3771
5099
  "multiverse_id": 397767,
3772
5100
  "other_part": null,
3773
- "color_indicator": null
5101
+ "color_indicator": null,
5102
+ "rulings": [
5103
+ {
5104
+ "date": "12/1/2004",
5105
+ "text": "If you don’t reveal a creature card, put all the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order."
5106
+ }
5107
+ ]
3774
5108
  },
3775
5109
  {
3776
5110
  "name": "Cytoplast Root-Kin",
@@ -3799,7 +5133,8 @@
3799
5133
  "loyalty": null,
3800
5134
  "multiverse_id": 397684,
3801
5135
  "other_part": null,
3802
- "color_indicator": null
5136
+ "color_indicator": null,
5137
+ "rulings": []
3803
5138
  },
3804
5139
  {
3805
5140
  "name": "Gnarlid Pack",
@@ -3826,7 +5161,8 @@
3826
5161
  "loyalty": null,
3827
5162
  "multiverse_id": 397863,
3828
5163
  "other_part": null,
3829
- "color_indicator": null
5164
+ "color_indicator": null,
5165
+ "rulings": []
3830
5166
  },
3831
5167
  {
3832
5168
  "name": "Karplusan Strider",
@@ -3852,7 +5188,8 @@
3852
5188
  "loyalty": null,
3853
5189
  "multiverse_id": 397846,
3854
5190
  "other_part": null,
3855
- "color_indicator": null
5191
+ "color_indicator": null,
5192
+ "rulings": []
3856
5193
  },
3857
5194
  {
3858
5195
  "name": "Kavu Primarch",
@@ -3880,7 +5217,37 @@
3880
5217
  "loyalty": null,
3881
5218
  "multiverse_id": 397843,
3882
5219
  "other_part": null,
3883
- "color_indicator": null
5220
+ "color_indicator": null,
5221
+ "rulings": [
5222
+ {
5223
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5224
+ "text": "You can tap an untapped creature you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn to convoke a spell."
5225
+ },
5226
+ {
5227
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5228
+ "text": "Convoke doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost."
5229
+ },
5230
+ {
5231
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5232
+ "text": "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."
5233
+ },
5234
+ {
5235
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5236
+ "text": "Because convoke isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs."
5237
+ },
5238
+ {
5239
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5240
+ "text": "Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for {1} or one mana of your choice of any of that creature’s colors."
5241
+ },
5242
+ {
5243
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5244
+ "text": "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 Worldsoul Colossus (a spell with convoke and mana cost {X}{G}{W}) and choose X to be 3, the total cost is {3}{G}{W}. If you tap two green creatures and two white creatures, you’ll have to pay {1}."
5245
+ },
5246
+ {
5247
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5248
+ "text": "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 before 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."
5249
+ }
5250
+ ]
3884
5251
  },
3885
5252
  {
3886
5253
  "name": "Kozilek's Predator",
@@ -3907,7 +5274,8 @@
3907
5274
  "loyalty": null,
3908
5275
  "multiverse_id": 397716,
3909
5276
  "other_part": null,
3910
- "color_indicator": null
5277
+ "color_indicator": null,
5278
+ "rulings": []
3911
5279
  },
3912
5280
  {
3913
5281
  "name": "Matca Rioters",
@@ -3934,7 +5302,25 @@
3934
5302
  "loyalty": null,
3935
5303
  "multiverse_id": 397886,
3936
5304
  "other_part": null,
3937
- "color_indicator": null
5305
+ "color_indicator": null,
5306
+ "rulings": [
5307
+ {
5308
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
5309
+ "text": "To determine the number of basic land types among lands you control, look at the lands you have on the battlefield and ask yourself whether the subtypes Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest appear within that group. The number of times you say yes (topping out at five) tells you how powerful your domain abilities will be."
5310
+ },
5311
+ {
5312
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
5313
+ "text": "How many lands you control of a particular basic land type is irrelevant to a domain ability, as long as that number is greater than zero. As far as domain is concerned, ten Forests is the same as one Forest."
5314
+ },
5315
+ {
5316
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
5317
+ "text": "A number of nonbasic lands have basic land types. Domain abilities don’t count the number of lands you control — they count the number of basic land types among lands you control, even if that means checking the same land twice. For example, if you control a Tundra, an Overgrown Tomb, and a Madblind Mountain, you’ll have a Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest among the lands you control. Your domain abilities will be maxed out."
5318
+ },
5319
+ {
5320
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
5321
+ "text": "Matca Rioters’ ability is a “characteristic-defining ability.” It applies at all times in all zones."
5322
+ }
5323
+ ]
3938
5324
  },
3939
5325
  {
3940
5326
  "name": "Mutagenic Growth",
@@ -3959,7 +5345,29 @@
3959
5345
  "loyalty": null,
3960
5346
  "multiverse_id": 397717,
3961
5347
  "other_part": null,
3962
- "color_indicator": null
5348
+ "color_indicator": null,
5349
+ "rulings": [
5350
+ {
5351
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
5352
+ "text": "A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid."
5353
+ },
5354
+ {
5355
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
5356
+ "text": "To calculate the converted mana cost of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1."
5357
+ },
5358
+ {
5359
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
5360
+ "text": "As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X."
5361
+ },
5362
+ {
5363
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
5364
+ "text": "If you’re at 1 life or less, you can’t pay 2 life."
5365
+ },
5366
+ {
5367
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
5368
+ "text": "Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can’t add Phyrexian mana to their mana pools."
5369
+ }
5370
+ ]
3963
5371
  },
3964
5372
  {
3965
5373
  "name": "Nest Invader",
@@ -3986,7 +5394,8 @@
3986
5394
  "loyalty": null,
3987
5395
  "multiverse_id": 397901,
3988
5396
  "other_part": null,
3989
- "color_indicator": null
5397
+ "color_indicator": null,
5398
+ "rulings": []
3990
5399
  },
3991
5400
  {
3992
5401
  "name": "Noble Hierarch",
@@ -4014,7 +5423,8 @@
4014
5423
  "loyalty": null,
4015
5424
  "multiverse_id": 397709,
4016
5425
  "other_part": null,
4017
- "color_indicator": null
5426
+ "color_indicator": null,
5427
+ "rulings": []
4018
5428
  },
4019
5429
  {
4020
5430
  "name": "Overwhelm",
@@ -4039,7 +5449,37 @@
4039
5449
  "loyalty": null,
4040
5450
  "multiverse_id": 397693,
4041
5451
  "other_part": null,
4042
- "color_indicator": null
5452
+ "color_indicator": null,
5453
+ "rulings": [
5454
+ {
5455
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5456
+ "text": "You can tap an untapped creature you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn to convoke a spell."
5457
+ },
5458
+ {
5459
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5460
+ "text": "Convoke doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost."
5461
+ },
5462
+ {
5463
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5464
+ "text": "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."
5465
+ },
5466
+ {
5467
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5468
+ "text": "Because convoke isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs."
5469
+ },
5470
+ {
5471
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5472
+ "text": "Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for {1} or one mana of your choice of any of that creature’s colors."
5473
+ },
5474
+ {
5475
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5476
+ "text": "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 Worldsoul Colossus (a spell with convoke and mana cost {X}{G}{W}) and choose X to be 3, the total cost is {3}{G}{W}. If you tap two green creatures and two white creatures, you’ll have to pay {1}."
5477
+ },
5478
+ {
5479
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5480
+ "text": "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 before 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."
5481
+ }
5482
+ ]
4043
5483
  },
4044
5484
  {
4045
5485
  "name": "Overwhelming Stampede",
@@ -4063,7 +5503,13 @@
4063
5503
  "loyalty": null,
4064
5504
  "multiverse_id": 397788,
4065
5505
  "other_part": null,
4066
- "color_indicator": null
5506
+ "color_indicator": null,
5507
+ "rulings": [
5508
+ {
5509
+ "date": "8/15/2010",
5510
+ "text": "You check the power of your creatures as Overwhelming Stampede resolves. For example, if you control a 2/1 creature, a 2/2 creature, a 2/4 creature, a 4/1 creature, a 5/5 creature, and a 5/6 creature at that time, each of your creatures gets +5/+5 and gains trample until end of turn."
5511
+ }
5512
+ ]
4067
5513
  },
4068
5514
  {
4069
5515
  "name": "Pelakka Wurm",
@@ -4091,7 +5537,8 @@
4091
5537
  "loyalty": null,
4092
5538
  "multiverse_id": 397763,
4093
5539
  "other_part": null,
4094
- "color_indicator": null
5540
+ "color_indicator": null,
5541
+ "rulings": []
4095
5542
  },
4096
5543
  {
4097
5544
  "name": "Plummet",
@@ -4115,7 +5562,8 @@
4115
5562
  "loyalty": null,
4116
5563
  "multiverse_id": 397786,
4117
5564
  "other_part": null,
4118
- "color_indicator": null
5565
+ "color_indicator": null,
5566
+ "rulings": []
4119
5567
  },
4120
5568
  {
4121
5569
  "name": "Primeval Titan",
@@ -4142,7 +5590,13 @@
4142
5590
  "loyalty": null,
4143
5591
  "multiverse_id": 397688,
4144
5592
  "other_part": null,
4145
- "color_indicator": null
5593
+ "color_indicator": null,
5594
+ "rulings": [
5595
+ {
5596
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
5597
+ "text": "You may find any land cards, not just basic land cards."
5598
+ }
5599
+ ]
4146
5600
  },
4147
5601
  {
4148
5602
  "name": "Rampant Growth",
@@ -4166,7 +5620,17 @@
4166
5620
  "loyalty": null,
4167
5621
  "multiverse_id": 397794,
4168
5622
  "other_part": null,
4169
- "color_indicator": null
5623
+ "color_indicator": null,
5624
+ "rulings": [
5625
+ {
5626
+ "date": "10/4/2004",
5627
+ "text": "The land does not count toward your one per turn limit because it was put onto the battlefield by an effect."
5628
+ },
5629
+ {
5630
+ "date": "10/4/2004",
5631
+ "text": "Because the “search” requires you to find a card with certain characteristics, you don’t have to find the card if you don’t want to."
5632
+ }
5633
+ ]
4170
5634
  },
4171
5635
  {
4172
5636
  "name": "Root-Kin Ally",
@@ -4194,7 +5658,37 @@
4194
5658
  "loyalty": null,
4195
5659
  "multiverse_id": 397659,
4196
5660
  "other_part": null,
4197
- "color_indicator": null
5661
+ "color_indicator": null,
5662
+ "rulings": [
5663
+ {
5664
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5665
+ "text": "You can tap an untapped creature you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn to convoke a spell."
5666
+ },
5667
+ {
5668
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5669
+ "text": "Convoke doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost."
5670
+ },
5671
+ {
5672
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5673
+ "text": "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."
5674
+ },
5675
+ {
5676
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5677
+ "text": "Because convoke isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs."
5678
+ },
5679
+ {
5680
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5681
+ "text": "Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for {1} or one mana of your choice of any of that creature’s colors."
5682
+ },
5683
+ {
5684
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5685
+ "text": "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 Worldsoul Colossus (a spell with convoke and mana cost {X}{G}{W}) and choose X to be 3, the total cost is {3}{G}{W}. If you tap two green creatures and two white creatures, you’ll have to pay {1}."
5686
+ },
5687
+ {
5688
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5689
+ "text": "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 before 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."
5690
+ }
5691
+ ]
4198
5692
  },
4199
5693
  {
4200
5694
  "name": "Scatter the Seeds",
@@ -4219,7 +5713,37 @@
4219
5713
  "loyalty": null,
4220
5714
  "multiverse_id": 397665,
4221
5715
  "other_part": null,
4222
- "color_indicator": null
5716
+ "color_indicator": null,
5717
+ "rulings": [
5718
+ {
5719
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5720
+ "text": "You can tap an untapped creature you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn to convoke a spell."
5721
+ },
5722
+ {
5723
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5724
+ "text": "Convoke doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost."
5725
+ },
5726
+ {
5727
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5728
+ "text": "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."
5729
+ },
5730
+ {
5731
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5732
+ "text": "Because convoke isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs."
5733
+ },
5734
+ {
5735
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5736
+ "text": "Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for {1} or one mana of your choice of any of that creature’s colors."
5737
+ },
5738
+ {
5739
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5740
+ "text": "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 Worldsoul Colossus (a spell with convoke and mana cost {X}{G}{W}) and choose X to be 3, the total cost is {3}{G}{W}. If you tap two green creatures and two white creatures, you’ll have to pay {1}."
5741
+ },
5742
+ {
5743
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5744
+ "text": "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 before 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."
5745
+ }
5746
+ ]
4223
5747
  },
4224
5748
  {
4225
5749
  "name": "Scion of the Wild",
@@ -4245,7 +5769,8 @@
4245
5769
  "loyalty": null,
4246
5770
  "multiverse_id": 397894,
4247
5771
  "other_part": null,
4248
- "color_indicator": null
5772
+ "color_indicator": null,
5773
+ "rulings": []
4249
5774
  },
4250
5775
  {
4251
5776
  "name": "Scute Mob",
@@ -4271,7 +5796,13 @@
4271
5796
  "loyalty": null,
4272
5797
  "multiverse_id": 397751,
4273
5798
  "other_part": null,
4274
- "color_indicator": null
5799
+ "color_indicator": null,
5800
+ "rulings": [
5801
+ {
5802
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
5803
+ "text": "Scute Mob’s ability has an “intervening ‘if’ clause.” That means (1) the ability won’t trigger at all unless you control five or more lands as your upkeep starts, and (2) the ability will do nothing if you control fewer than five lands by the time it resolves."
5804
+ }
5805
+ ]
4275
5806
  },
4276
5807
  {
4277
5808
  "name": "Simic Initiate",
@@ -4298,7 +5829,8 @@
4298
5829
  "loyalty": null,
4299
5830
  "multiverse_id": 397895,
4300
5831
  "other_part": null,
4301
- "color_indicator": null
5832
+ "color_indicator": null,
5833
+ "rulings": []
4302
5834
  },
4303
5835
  {
4304
5836
  "name": "Sundering Vitae",
@@ -4323,7 +5855,37 @@
4323
5855
  "loyalty": null,
4324
5856
  "multiverse_id": 397792,
4325
5857
  "other_part": null,
4326
- "color_indicator": null
5858
+ "color_indicator": null,
5859
+ "rulings": [
5860
+ {
5861
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5862
+ "text": "You can tap an untapped creature you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn to convoke a spell."
5863
+ },
5864
+ {
5865
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5866
+ "text": "Convoke doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost."
5867
+ },
5868
+ {
5869
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5870
+ "text": "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."
5871
+ },
5872
+ {
5873
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5874
+ "text": "Because convoke isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs."
5875
+ },
5876
+ {
5877
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5878
+ "text": "Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for {1} or one mana of your choice of any of that creature’s colors."
5879
+ },
5880
+ {
5881
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5882
+ "text": "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 Worldsoul Colossus (a spell with convoke and mana cost {X}{G}{W}) and choose X to be 3, the total cost is {3}{G}{W}. If you tap two green creatures and two white creatures, you’ll have to pay {1}."
5883
+ },
5884
+ {
5885
+ "date": "10/5/2018",
5886
+ "text": "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 before 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."
5887
+ }
5888
+ ]
4327
5889
  },
4328
5890
  {
4329
5891
  "name": "Sylvan Bounty",
@@ -4348,7 +5910,25 @@
4348
5910
  "loyalty": null,
4349
5911
  "multiverse_id": 397658,
4350
5912
  "other_part": null,
4351
- "color_indicator": null
5913
+ "color_indicator": null,
5914
+ "rulings": [
5915
+ {
5916
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
5917
+ "text": "Unlike the normal cycling ability, basic landcycling doesn’t allow you to draw a card. Instead, it lets you search your library for a basic land card. You don’t choose the type of basic land card you’ll find until you’re performing the search. After you choose a basic land card in your library, you reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library."
5918
+ },
5919
+ {
5920
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
5921
+ "text": "Basic landcycling is a form of cycling. Any ability that triggers on a card being cycled also triggers on a card being basic landcycled. Any ability that stops a cycling ability from being activated also stops a basic landcycling ability from being activated."
5922
+ },
5923
+ {
5924
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
5925
+ "text": "Basic landcycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with basic landcycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not."
5926
+ },
5927
+ {
5928
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
5929
+ "text": "You can choose not to find a basic land card, even if there is one in your library."
5930
+ }
5931
+ ]
4352
5932
  },
4353
5933
  {
4354
5934
  "name": "Tarmogoyf",
@@ -4374,7 +5954,25 @@
4374
5954
  "loyalty": null,
4375
5955
  "multiverse_id": 397682,
4376
5956
  "other_part": null,
4377
- "color_indicator": null
5957
+ "color_indicator": null,
5958
+ "rulings": [
5959
+ {
5960
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
5961
+ "text": "The ability that defines Tarmogoyf’s power and toughness works in all zones, not just the battlefield. If Tarmogoyf is in your graveyard, it will count itself."
5962
+ },
5963
+ {
5964
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
5965
+ "text": "Tarmogoyf counts card types, not cards. If the only card in all graveyards is a single artifact creature, Tarmogoyf will be 2/3. If the only cards in all graveyards are ten artifact creatures, Tarmogoyf will still be 2/3."
5966
+ },
5967
+ {
5968
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
5969
+ "text": "The card types that can appear on cards in a graveyard are artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal. Legendary, basic, and snow are supertypes, not card types."
5970
+ },
5971
+ {
5972
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
5973
+ "text": "If an instant or sorcery spell deals damage to Tarmogoyf or lowers its toughness, that spell is put into its owner’s graveyard before state-based actions are performed. If that spell is the first of its type to enter a graveyard, it will raise Tarmogoyf’s toughness before the game checks to see if Tarmogoyf dies."
5974
+ }
5975
+ ]
4378
5976
  },
4379
5977
  {
4380
5978
  "name": "Thrive",
@@ -4398,7 +5996,13 @@
4398
5996
  "loyalty": null,
4399
5997
  "multiverse_id": 397695,
4400
5998
  "other_part": null,
4401
- "color_indicator": null
5999
+ "color_indicator": null,
6000
+ "rulings": [
6001
+ {
6002
+ "date": "10/4/2004",
6003
+ "text": "It means X different creatures. You can’t give more than one +1/+1 counter to a creature with this spell."
6004
+ }
6005
+ ]
4402
6006
  },
4403
6007
  {
4404
6008
  "name": "Tukatongue Thallid",
@@ -4424,7 +6028,8 @@
4424
6028
  "loyalty": null,
4425
6029
  "multiverse_id": 397749,
4426
6030
  "other_part": null,
4427
- "color_indicator": null
6031
+ "color_indicator": null,
6032
+ "rulings": []
4428
6033
  },
4429
6034
  {
4430
6035
  "name": "Vines of Vastwood",
@@ -4449,7 +6054,13 @@
4449
6054
  "loyalty": null,
4450
6055
  "multiverse_id": 397747,
4451
6056
  "other_part": null,
4452
- "color_indicator": null
6057
+ "color_indicator": null,
6058
+ "rulings": [
6059
+ {
6060
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
6061
+ "text": "This is not the same as hexproof. If, for example, you target one of your opponent’s creatures, your opponents won’t be able to target their own creature with spells or abilities."
6062
+ }
6063
+ ]
4453
6064
  },
4454
6065
  {
4455
6066
  "name": "Wolfbriar Elemental",
@@ -4476,7 +6087,8 @@
4476
6087
  "loyalty": null,
4477
6088
  "multiverse_id": 397878,
4478
6089
  "other_part": null,
4479
- "color_indicator": null
6090
+ "color_indicator": null,
6091
+ "rulings": []
4480
6092
  },
4481
6093
  {
4482
6094
  "name": "Agony Warp",
@@ -4501,7 +6113,13 @@
4501
6113
  "loyalty": null,
4502
6114
  "multiverse_id": 397784,
4503
6115
  "other_part": null,
4504
- "color_indicator": null
6116
+ "color_indicator": null,
6117
+ "rulings": [
6118
+ {
6119
+ "date": "3/14/2017",
6120
+ "text": "The two targets may be the same creature or they may be different creatures."
6121
+ }
6122
+ ]
4505
6123
  },
4506
6124
  {
4507
6125
  "name": "Apocalypse Hydra",
@@ -4520,7 +6138,7 @@
4520
6138
  "converted_mana_cost": 2,
4521
6139
  "oracle_text": [
4522
6140
  "Apocalypse Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. If X is 5 or more, it enters the battlefield with an additional X +1/+1 counters on it.",
4523
- "{1}{R}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Apocalypse Hydra: Apocalypse Hydra deals 1 damage to any target."
6141
+ "{1}{R}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Apocalypse Hydra: It deals 1 damage to any target."
4524
6142
  ],
4525
6143
  "flavor_text": null,
4526
6144
  "power": "0",
@@ -4528,7 +6146,17 @@
4528
6146
  "loyalty": null,
4529
6147
  "multiverse_id": 397885,
4530
6148
  "other_part": null,
4531
- "color_indicator": null
6149
+ "color_indicator": null,
6150
+ "rulings": [
6151
+ {
6152
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
6153
+ "text": "For example, if X is 4, Apocalypse Hydra enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it, but if X is 5, it enters the battlefield with ten +1/+1 counters on it."
6154
+ },
6155
+ {
6156
+ "date": "2/1/2009",
6157
+ "text": "The first ability checks the number you chose for X, not the amount of mana you actually spent."
6158
+ }
6159
+ ]
4532
6160
  },
4533
6161
  {
4534
6162
  "name": "Boros Swiftblade",
@@ -4555,7 +6183,8 @@
4555
6183
  "loyalty": null,
4556
6184
  "multiverse_id": 397870,
4557
6185
  "other_part": null,
4558
- "color_indicator": null
6186
+ "color_indicator": null,
6187
+ "rulings": []
4559
6188
  },
4560
6189
  {
4561
6190
  "name": "Drooling Groodion",
@@ -4581,7 +6210,8 @@
4581
6210
  "loyalty": null,
4582
6211
  "multiverse_id": 397818,
4583
6212
  "other_part": null,
4584
- "color_indicator": null
6213
+ "color_indicator": null,
6214
+ "rulings": []
4585
6215
  },
4586
6216
  {
4587
6217
  "name": "Electrolyze",
@@ -4606,7 +6236,21 @@
4606
6236
  "loyalty": null,
4607
6237
  "multiverse_id": 397832,
4608
6238
  "other_part": null,
4609
- "color_indicator": null
6239
+ "color_indicator": null,
6240
+ "rulings": [
6241
+ {
6242
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
6243
+ "text": "You divide the damage as you cast Electrolyze, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage. In other words, as you cast Electrolyze, you choose whether to have it deal 2 damage to a single target, or deal 1 damage to each of two targets."
6244
+ },
6245
+ {
6246
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
6247
+ "text": "If Electrolyze targets two creatures and one becomes an illegal target, the remaining target is dealt 1 damage, not 2. You’ll still draw a card."
6248
+ },
6249
+ {
6250
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
6251
+ "text": "If all chosen targets are illegal as Electrolyze tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. No damage will be dealt and you won’t draw a card."
6252
+ }
6253
+ ]
4610
6254
  },
4611
6255
  {
4612
6256
  "name": "Ethercaste Knight",
@@ -4634,7 +6278,8 @@
4634
6278
  "loyalty": null,
4635
6279
  "multiverse_id": 397889,
4636
6280
  "other_part": null,
4637
- "color_indicator": null
6281
+ "color_indicator": null,
6282
+ "rulings": []
4638
6283
  },
4639
6284
  {
4640
6285
  "name": "Ghost Council of Orzhova",
@@ -4663,7 +6308,21 @@
4663
6308
  "loyalty": null,
4664
6309
  "multiverse_id": 397844,
4665
6310
  "other_part": null,
4666
- "color_indicator": null
6311
+ "color_indicator": null,
6312
+ "rulings": [
6313
+ {
6314
+ "date": "2/1/2006",
6315
+ "text": "Sacrificing Ghost Council of Orzhova to its own ability means it will wind up in the graveyard, not exiled."
6316
+ },
6317
+ {
6318
+ "date": "2/1/2006",
6319
+ "text": "When Ghost Council of Orzhova is exiled, any Auras or Equipment on it fall off and any counters on it are removed. When it returns to the battlefield, it comes back untapped and is treated as a new version of the card."
6320
+ },
6321
+ {
6322
+ "date": "2/1/2006",
6323
+ "text": "Normally, Ghost Council of Orzhova will return to the battlefield at the end of the same turn it’s exiled. But if it’s exiled during the End step, it’s too late to return it this turn. It has to wait to return to the battlefield until the next End step."
6324
+ }
6325
+ ]
4667
6326
  },
4668
6327
  {
4669
6328
  "name": "Glassdust Hulk",
@@ -4691,7 +6350,13 @@
4691
6350
  "loyalty": null,
4692
6351
  "multiverse_id": 397807,
4693
6352
  "other_part": null,
4694
- "color_indicator": null
6353
+ "color_indicator": null,
6354
+ "rulings": [
6355
+ {
6356
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
6357
+ "text": "Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not."
6358
+ }
6359
+ ]
4695
6360
  },
4696
6361
  {
4697
6362
  "name": "Horde of Notions",
@@ -4720,7 +6385,13 @@
4720
6385
  "loyalty": null,
4721
6386
  "multiverse_id": 397680,
4722
6387
  "other_part": null,
4723
- "color_indicator": null
6388
+ "color_indicator": null,
6389
+ "rulings": [
6390
+ {
6391
+ "date": "10/1/2007",
6392
+ "text": "This ability does not allow you to pay the evoke cost of the targeted Elemental card."
6393
+ }
6394
+ ]
4724
6395
  },
4725
6396
  {
4726
6397
  "name": "Lorescale Coatl",
@@ -4746,7 +6417,17 @@
4746
6417
  "loyalty": null,
4747
6418
  "multiverse_id": 397836,
4748
6419
  "other_part": null,
4749
- "color_indicator": null
6420
+ "color_indicator": null,
6421
+ "rulings": [
6422
+ {
6423
+ "date": "3/16/2018",
6424
+ "text": "If a spell or ability causes you to draw multiple cards, Lorescale Coatl’s ability triggers that many times."
6425
+ },
6426
+ {
6427
+ "date": "3/16/2018",
6428
+ "text": "If a spell or ability causes you to put cards in your hand without specifically using the word “draw,” Lorescale Coatl’s ability won’t trigger."
6429
+ }
6430
+ ]
4750
6431
  },
4751
6432
  {
4752
6433
  "name": "Mystic Snake",
@@ -4773,7 +6454,8 @@
4773
6454
  "loyalty": null,
4774
6455
  "multiverse_id": 397714,
4775
6456
  "other_part": null,
4776
- "color_indicator": null
6457
+ "color_indicator": null,
6458
+ "rulings": []
4777
6459
  },
4778
6460
  {
4779
6461
  "name": "Necrogenesis",
@@ -4797,7 +6479,13 @@
4797
6479
  "loyalty": null,
4798
6480
  "multiverse_id": 397745,
4799
6481
  "other_part": null,
4800
- "color_indicator": null
6482
+ "color_indicator": null,
6483
+ "rulings": [
6484
+ {
6485
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
6486
+ "text": "If the targeted card is removed from the graveyard before the ability resolves, the ability doesn’t resolve. You won’t get a Saproling token."
6487
+ }
6488
+ ]
4801
6489
  },
4802
6490
  {
4803
6491
  "name": "Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind",
@@ -4828,7 +6516,17 @@
4828
6516
  "loyalty": null,
4829
6517
  "multiverse_id": 397851,
4830
6518
  "other_part": null,
4831
- "color_indicator": null
6519
+ "color_indicator": null,
6520
+ "rulings": [
6521
+ {
6522
+ "date": "3/16/2018",
6523
+ "text": "If a spell or ability causes you to draw multiple cards, Niv-Mizzet’s ability triggers that many times."
6524
+ },
6525
+ {
6526
+ "date": "3/16/2018",
6527
+ "text": "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."
6528
+ }
6529
+ ]
4832
6530
  },
4833
6531
  {
4834
6532
  "name": "Pillory of the Sleepless",
@@ -4856,7 +6554,13 @@
4856
6554
  "loyalty": null,
4857
6555
  "multiverse_id": 397890,
4858
6556
  "other_part": null,
4859
- "color_indicator": null
6557
+ "color_indicator": null,
6558
+ "rulings": [
6559
+ {
6560
+ "date": "3/16/2018",
6561
+ "text": "The controller of the enchanted creature will lose 1 life, not the controller of Pillory of the Sleepless."
6562
+ }
6563
+ ]
4860
6564
  },
4861
6565
  {
4862
6566
  "name": "Plaxcaster Frogling",
@@ -4884,7 +6588,8 @@
4884
6588
  "loyalty": null,
4885
6589
  "multiverse_id": 397822,
4886
6590
  "other_part": null,
4887
- "color_indicator": null
6591
+ "color_indicator": null,
6592
+ "rulings": []
4888
6593
  },
4889
6594
  {
4890
6595
  "name": "Savage Twister",
@@ -4908,7 +6613,8 @@
4908
6613
  "loyalty": null,
4909
6614
  "multiverse_id": 397814,
4910
6615
  "other_part": null,
4911
- "color_indicator": null
6616
+ "color_indicator": null,
6617
+ "rulings": []
4912
6618
  },
4913
6619
  {
4914
6620
  "name": "Shadowmage Infiltrator",
@@ -4936,7 +6642,8 @@
4936
6642
  "loyalty": null,
4937
6643
  "multiverse_id": 397858,
4938
6644
  "other_part": null,
4939
- "color_indicator": null
6645
+ "color_indicator": null,
6646
+ "rulings": []
4940
6647
  },
4941
6648
  {
4942
6649
  "name": "Sigil Blessing",
@@ -4960,7 +6667,13 @@
4960
6667
  "loyalty": null,
4961
6668
  "multiverse_id": 397756,
4962
6669
  "other_part": null,
4963
- "color_indicator": null
6670
+ "color_indicator": null,
6671
+ "rulings": [
6672
+ {
6673
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
6674
+ "text": "If the targeted creature becomes an illegal target by the time Sigil Blessing resolves, the entire spell won’t resolve. Your other creatures won’t get +1/+1."
6675
+ }
6676
+ ]
4964
6677
  },
4965
6678
  {
4966
6679
  "name": "Vengeful Rebirth",
@@ -4985,7 +6698,25 @@
4985
6698
  "loyalty": null,
4986
6699
  "multiverse_id": 397721,
4987
6700
  "other_part": null,
4988
- "color_indicator": null
6701
+ "color_indicator": null,
6702
+ "rulings": [
6703
+ {
6704
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
6705
+ "text": "You can return a land card to your hand with Vengeful Rebirth. It just won’t deal any damage to the target permanent or player if you do."
6706
+ },
6707
+ {
6708
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
6709
+ "text": "If the target permanent or player becomes an illegal target but the target card in your graveyard doesn’t, Vengeful Rebirth will still return that card from your graveyard to your hand, but it won’t deal any damage. Vengeful Rebirth will then be exiled."
6710
+ },
6711
+ {
6712
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
6713
+ "text": "If the target card in your graveyard becomes an illegal target but the target permanent or player doesn’t, Vengeful Rebirth won’t return that card to your hand and it won’t deal any damage (because you didn’t return a nonland card to your hand this way). Vengeful Rebirth will still be exiled."
6714
+ },
6715
+ {
6716
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
6717
+ "text": "If both targets are illegal, Vengeful Rebirth doesn’t resolve. It will be put into your graveyard."
6718
+ }
6719
+ ]
4989
6720
  },
4990
6721
  {
4991
6722
  "name": "Wrecking Ball",
@@ -5009,7 +6740,8 @@
5009
6740
  "loyalty": null,
5010
6741
  "multiverse_id": 397789,
5011
6742
  "other_part": null,
5012
- "color_indicator": null
6743
+ "color_indicator": null,
6744
+ "rulings": []
5013
6745
  },
5014
6746
  {
5015
6747
  "name": "Ashenmoor Gouger",
@@ -5036,7 +6768,8 @@
5036
6768
  "loyalty": null,
5037
6769
  "multiverse_id": 397691,
5038
6770
  "other_part": null,
5039
- "color_indicator": null
6771
+ "color_indicator": null,
6772
+ "rulings": []
5040
6773
  },
5041
6774
  {
5042
6775
  "name": "Creakwood Liege",
@@ -5064,7 +6797,17 @@
5064
6797
  "loyalty": null,
5065
6798
  "multiverse_id": 397875,
5066
6799
  "other_part": null,
5067
- "color_indicator": null
6800
+ "color_indicator": null,
6801
+ "rulings": [
6802
+ {
6803
+ "date": "8/1/2008",
6804
+ "text": "The abilities are separate and cumulative. If another creature you control is both of the listed colors, it will get a total of +2/+2."
6805
+ },
6806
+ {
6807
+ "date": "8/1/2008",
6808
+ "text": "Since the token is black and green, it will get +2/+2 from Creakwood Liege as long as the Liege is on the battlefield."
6809
+ }
6810
+ ]
5068
6811
  },
5069
6812
  {
5070
6813
  "name": "Dimir Guildmage",
@@ -5093,7 +6836,8 @@
5093
6836
  "loyalty": null,
5094
6837
  "multiverse_id": 397704,
5095
6838
  "other_part": null,
5096
- "color_indicator": null
6839
+ "color_indicator": null,
6840
+ "rulings": []
5097
6841
  },
5098
6842
  {
5099
6843
  "name": "Fulminator Mage",
@@ -5120,7 +6864,8 @@
5120
6864
  "loyalty": null,
5121
6865
  "multiverse_id": 397686,
5122
6866
  "other_part": null,
5123
- "color_indicator": null
6867
+ "color_indicator": null,
6868
+ "rulings": []
5124
6869
  },
5125
6870
  {
5126
6871
  "name": "Hearthfire Hobgoblin",
@@ -5147,7 +6892,8 @@
5147
6892
  "loyalty": null,
5148
6893
  "multiverse_id": 397856,
5149
6894
  "other_part": null,
5150
- "color_indicator": null
6895
+ "color_indicator": null,
6896
+ "rulings": []
5151
6897
  },
5152
6898
  {
5153
6899
  "name": "Nobilis of War",
@@ -5175,7 +6921,13 @@
5175
6921
  "loyalty": null,
5176
6922
  "multiverse_id": 397733,
5177
6923
  "other_part": null,
5178
- "color_indicator": null
6924
+ "color_indicator": null,
6925
+ "rulings": [
6926
+ {
6927
+ "date": "8/1/2008",
6928
+ "text": "This is a static ability. Attacking creatures you control will get +2/+0 from the moment they’re declared as attackers (or enter the battlefield attacking) until the moment the combat phase ends, they’re removed from combat, or Nobilis of War leaves the battlefield, whichever comes first."
6929
+ }
6930
+ ]
5179
6931
  },
5180
6932
  {
5181
6933
  "name": "Restless Apparition",
@@ -5202,7 +6954,37 @@
5202
6954
  "loyalty": null,
5203
6955
  "multiverse_id": 397774,
5204
6956
  "other_part": null,
5205
- "color_indicator": null
6957
+ "color_indicator": null,
6958
+ "rulings": [
6959
+ {
6960
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6961
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
6962
+ },
6963
+ {
6964
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6965
+ "text": "The persist ability triggers when the permanent is put into a graveyard. Its last known information (that is, how the creature last existed on the battlefield) is used to determine whether it had a -1/-1 counter on it."
6966
+ },
6967
+ {
6968
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6969
+ "text": "If a permanent has multiple instances of persist, they’ll each trigger separately, but the redundant instances will have no effect. If one instance returns the card to the battlefield, the next to resolve will do nothing."
6970
+ },
6971
+ {
6972
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6973
+ "text": "If a token with no -1/-1 counters on it has persist, the ability will trigger when the token is put into the graveyard. However, the token will cease to exist and can’t return to the battlefield."
6974
+ },
6975
+ {
6976
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6977
+ "text": "When a permanent with persist returns to the battlefield, it’s a new object with no memory of or connection to its previous existence."
6978
+ },
6979
+ {
6980
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6981
+ "text": "If multiple creatures with persist are put into the graveyard at the same time (due to combat damage or a spell that destroys all creatures, for example), the active player (the player whose turn it is) puts all of their persist triggers on the stack in any order, then each other player in turn order does the same. The last trigger put on the stack is the first one that resolves. That means that in a two-player game, the nonactive player’s persist creatures will return to the battlefield first, then the active player’s persist creatures do the same. The creatures return to the battlefield one at a time."
6982
+ },
6983
+ {
6984
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6985
+ "text": "If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner’s graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won’t trigger and the card won’t return to the battlefield. That’s because persist checks the creature’s existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point."
6986
+ }
6987
+ ]
5206
6988
  },
5207
6989
  {
5208
6990
  "name": "Selesnya Guildmage",
@@ -5230,7 +7012,8 @@
5230
7012
  "loyalty": null,
5231
7013
  "multiverse_id": 397808,
5232
7014
  "other_part": null,
5233
- "color_indicator": null
7015
+ "color_indicator": null,
7016
+ "rulings": []
5234
7017
  },
5235
7018
  {
5236
7019
  "name": "Shrewd Hatchling",
@@ -5259,7 +7042,17 @@
5259
7042
  "loyalty": null,
5260
7043
  "multiverse_id": 397898,
5261
7044
  "other_part": null,
5262
- "color_indicator": null
7045
+ "color_indicator": null,
7046
+ "rulings": [
7047
+ {
7048
+ "date": "8/1/2008",
7049
+ "text": "If you cast a spell that’s both of the listed colors, both abilities will trigger. You’ll remove a total of two -1/-1 counters from the Hatchling."
7050
+ },
7051
+ {
7052
+ "date": "8/1/2008",
7053
+ "text": "If there are no -1/-1 counters on it when the triggered ability resolves, the ability does nothing. There is no penalty for not being able to remove a counter."
7054
+ }
7055
+ ]
5263
7056
  },
5264
7057
  {
5265
7058
  "name": "Swans of Bryn Argoll",
@@ -5287,7 +7080,29 @@
5287
7080
  "loyalty": null,
5288
7081
  "multiverse_id": 397778,
5289
7082
  "other_part": null,
5290
- "color_indicator": null
7083
+ "color_indicator": null,
7084
+ "rulings": [
7085
+ {
7086
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7087
+ "text": "The source of combat damage is the creature that deals it."
7088
+ },
7089
+ {
7090
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7091
+ "text": "If a spell is causing damage to be dealt, that spell will always identify the source of the damage. In most cases, the source is the spell itself. For example, Burn Trail says “Burn Trail deals 3 damage to any target.”"
7092
+ },
7093
+ {
7094
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7095
+ "text": "If an ability is causing damage to be dealt, that ability will always identify the source of the damage. The ability itself is never the source. However, the source of the ability is often the source of the damage. For example, Knollspine Invocation’s ability says “Knollspine Invocation deals X damage to any target.”"
7096
+ },
7097
+ {
7098
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7099
+ "text": "If the source of the damage is a permanent, Swans of Bryn Argoll checks who that permanent’s controller is at the time that damage is prevented. If the permanent has left the battlefield by then, its last known information is used. If the source of the damage is a spell, its controller is obvious. If the source of the damage is a card from some other zone (such as a cycled Gempalm Incinerator), Swans of Bryn Argoll checks its owner rather than its controller."
7100
+ },
7101
+ {
7102
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7103
+ "text": "If a creature with wither would deal damage to Swans of Bryn Argoll, that damage is treated just like any other damage. It’s prevented, and the creature’s controller draws cards. Swans of Bryn Argoll doesn’t get any -1/-1 counters."
7104
+ }
7105
+ ]
5291
7106
  },
5292
7107
  {
5293
7108
  "name": "Wilt-Leaf Liege",
@@ -5316,7 +7131,13 @@
5316
7131
  "loyalty": null,
5317
7132
  "multiverse_id": 397852,
5318
7133
  "other_part": null,
5319
- "color_indicator": null
7134
+ "color_indicator": null,
7135
+ "rulings": [
7136
+ {
7137
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7138
+ "text": "The abilities are separate and cumulative. If another creature you control is both of the listed colors, it will get a total of +2/+2."
7139
+ }
7140
+ ]
5320
7141
  },
5321
7142
  {
5322
7143
  "name": "Alloy Myr",
@@ -5343,7 +7164,8 @@
5343
7164
  "loyalty": null,
5344
7165
  "multiverse_id": 397796,
5345
7166
  "other_part": null,
5346
- "color_indicator": null
7167
+ "color_indicator": null,
7168
+ "rulings": []
5347
7169
  },
5348
7170
  {
5349
7171
  "name": "Blinding Souleater",
@@ -5370,7 +7192,8 @@
5370
7192
  "loyalty": null,
5371
7193
  "multiverse_id": 397810,
5372
7194
  "other_part": null,
5373
- "color_indicator": null
7195
+ "color_indicator": null,
7196
+ "rulings": []
5374
7197
  },
5375
7198
  {
5376
7199
  "name": "Cathodion",
@@ -5397,7 +7220,17 @@
5397
7220
  "loyalty": null,
5398
7221
  "multiverse_id": 397827,
5399
7222
  "other_part": null,
5400
- "color_indicator": null
7223
+ "color_indicator": null,
7224
+ "rulings": [
7225
+ {
7226
+ "date": "10/4/2004",
7227
+ "text": "The ability is never a mana ability."
7228
+ },
7229
+ {
7230
+ "date": "1/25/2011",
7231
+ "text": "You get the mana whether you want it or not. If you don’t spend it, it will disappear at the end of the current step (or phase)."
7232
+ }
7233
+ ]
5401
7234
  },
5402
7235
  {
5403
7236
  "name": "Chimeric Mass",
@@ -5422,7 +7255,25 @@
5422
7255
  "loyalty": null,
5423
7256
  "multiverse_id": 397782,
5424
7257
  "other_part": null,
5425
- "color_indicator": null
7258
+ "color_indicator": null,
7259
+ "rulings": [
7260
+ {
7261
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7262
+ "text": "If the number of charge counters on Chimeric Mass changes while it is a creature, its power and toughness will change accordingly."
7263
+ },
7264
+ {
7265
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7266
+ "text": "If you activate Chimeric Mass’s last ability while it has no charge counters on it, it will become a 0/0 creature and be put into its owner’s graveyard as a state-based action."
7267
+ },
7268
+ {
7269
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7270
+ "text": "Activating the last ability while Chimeric Mass is a creature will override any effects that set its power and/or toughness to another number, but effects that modify power and/or toughness without directly setting them will still apply."
7271
+ },
7272
+ {
7273
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7274
+ "text": "For example, say you activate the last ability of a Chimeric Mass with three charge counters on it. After it resolves, you cast Giant Growth targeting it. It’s now 6/6. Then Diminish (“Target creature becomes 1/1 until end of turn”) is cast targeting it. Once Diminish resolves, Chimeric Mass would be 4/4. Activating Chimeric Mass’s last ability a second time would make it 6/6 again until end of turn."
7275
+ }
7276
+ ]
5426
7277
  },
5427
7278
  {
5428
7279
  "name": "Copper Carapace",
@@ -5449,7 +7300,8 @@
5449
7300
  "loyalty": null,
5450
7301
  "multiverse_id": 397849,
5451
7302
  "other_part": null,
5452
- "color_indicator": null
7303
+ "color_indicator": null,
7304
+ "rulings": []
5453
7305
  },
5454
7306
  {
5455
7307
  "name": "Cranial Plating",
@@ -5477,7 +7329,8 @@
5477
7329
  "loyalty": null,
5478
7330
  "multiverse_id": 397869,
5479
7331
  "other_part": null,
5480
- "color_indicator": null
7332
+ "color_indicator": null,
7333
+ "rulings": []
5481
7334
  },
5482
7335
  {
5483
7336
  "name": "Culling Dais",
@@ -5502,7 +7355,13 @@
5502
7355
  "loyalty": null,
5503
7356
  "multiverse_id": 397780,
5504
7357
  "other_part": null,
5505
- "color_indicator": null
7358
+ "color_indicator": null,
7359
+ "rulings": [
7360
+ {
7361
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7362
+ "text": "As Culling Dais’s last ability resolves, its last existence on the battlefield is checked to determine how many charge counters were on it."
7363
+ }
7364
+ ]
5506
7365
  },
5507
7366
  {
5508
7367
  "name": "Darksteel Axe",
@@ -5530,7 +7389,17 @@
5530
7389
  "loyalty": null,
5531
7390
  "multiverse_id": 397685,
5532
7391
  "other_part": null,
5533
- "color_indicator": null
7392
+ "color_indicator": null,
7393
+ "rulings": [
7394
+ {
7395
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
7396
+ "text": "Darksteel Axe itself has indestructible, not the creature it’s equipping."
7397
+ },
7398
+ {
7399
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
7400
+ "text": "Although Darksteel Axe has indestructible, it can still be put into the graveyard for other reasons. The most likely reason is if it’s sacrificed."
7401
+ }
7402
+ ]
5534
7403
  },
5535
7404
  {
5536
7405
  "name": "Etched Champion",
@@ -5557,7 +7426,13 @@
5557
7426
  "loyalty": null,
5558
7427
  "multiverse_id": 397710,
5559
7428
  "other_part": null,
5560
- "color_indicator": null
7429
+ "color_indicator": null,
7430
+ "rulings": [
7431
+ {
7432
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7433
+ "text": "“Protection from all colors” means protection from white, from blue, from black, from red, and from green. (In other words, it doesn’t just mean “protection from objects that have all five colors.”)"
7434
+ }
7435
+ ]
5561
7436
  },
5562
7437
  {
5563
7438
  "name": "Etched Monstrosity",
@@ -5585,7 +7460,8 @@
5585
7460
  "loyalty": null,
5586
7461
  "multiverse_id": 397872,
5587
7462
  "other_part": null,
5588
- "color_indicator": null
7463
+ "color_indicator": null,
7464
+ "rulings": []
5589
7465
  },
5590
7466
  {
5591
7467
  "name": "Etched Oracle",
@@ -5613,7 +7489,8 @@
5613
7489
  "loyalty": null,
5614
7490
  "multiverse_id": 397838,
5615
7491
  "other_part": null,
5616
- "color_indicator": null
7492
+ "color_indicator": null,
7493
+ "rulings": []
5617
7494
  },
5618
7495
  {
5619
7496
  "name": "Everflowing Chalice",
@@ -5639,7 +7516,13 @@
5639
7516
  "loyalty": null,
5640
7517
  "multiverse_id": 397679,
5641
7518
  "other_part": null,
5642
- "color_indicator": null
7519
+ "color_indicator": null,
7520
+ "rulings": [
7521
+ {
7522
+ "date": "3/1/2010",
7523
+ "text": "If Everflowing Chalice has no charge counters on it, you can still activate its last ability. That ability is still a mana ability, even though it produces no mana as it resolves."
7524
+ }
7525
+ ]
5643
7526
  },
5644
7527
  {
5645
7528
  "name": "Expedition Map",
@@ -5663,7 +7546,13 @@
5663
7546
  "loyalty": null,
5664
7547
  "multiverse_id": 397742,
5665
7548
  "other_part": null,
5666
- "color_indicator": null
7549
+ "color_indicator": null,
7550
+ "rulings": [
7551
+ {
7552
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
7553
+ "text": "You may find any land card, not just a basic land card."
7554
+ }
7555
+ ]
5667
7556
  },
5668
7557
  {
5669
7558
  "name": "Flayer Husk",
@@ -5691,7 +7580,8 @@
5691
7580
  "loyalty": null,
5692
7581
  "multiverse_id": 397826,
5693
7582
  "other_part": null,
5694
- "color_indicator": null
7583
+ "color_indicator": null,
7584
+ "rulings": []
5695
7585
  },
5696
7586
  {
5697
7587
  "name": "Frogmite",
@@ -5718,7 +7608,8 @@
5718
7608
  "loyalty": null,
5719
7609
  "multiverse_id": 397893,
5720
7610
  "other_part": null,
5721
- "color_indicator": null
7611
+ "color_indicator": null,
7612
+ "rulings": []
5722
7613
  },
5723
7614
  {
5724
7615
  "name": "Glint Hawk Idol",
@@ -5743,7 +7634,29 @@
5743
7634
  "loyalty": null,
5744
7635
  "multiverse_id": 397876,
5745
7636
  "other_part": null,
5746
- "color_indicator": null
7637
+ "color_indicator": null,
7638
+ "rulings": [
7639
+ {
7640
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7641
+ "text": "The creature type “Bird” was inadvertently omitted from each of Glint Hawk Idol’s abilities. It has received errata to correct this omission; when either of its abilities resolves, it will become a Bird artifact creature."
7642
+ },
7643
+ {
7644
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7645
+ "text": "If Glint Hawk Idol becomes a creature before you begin a turn with it under your control, it will be affected by “summoning sickness.”"
7646
+ },
7647
+ {
7648
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7649
+ "text": "If Glint Hawk Idol and another artifact enter the battlefield under your control at the same time, Glint Hawk Idol’s first ability will trigger. You may have it become a creature, but since it will be affected by “summoning sickness,” it won’t be able to attack that turn."
7650
+ },
7651
+ {
7652
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7653
+ "text": "If either of Glint Hawk Idol’s two abilities resolve while it’s a creature, that ability will override any effects that set its power and/or toughness to another number, but effects that modify power and/or toughness without directly setting them will still apply."
7654
+ },
7655
+ {
7656
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7657
+ "text": "For example, say one of Glint Hawk Idol’s abilities has resolved and it’s a 2/2 creature. You cast Giant Growth targeting it. It’s now 5/5. Then Diminish (“Target creature becomes 1/1 until end of turn”) is cast targeting it. Once Diminish resolves, Glint Hawk Idol would be 4/4. Activating Glint Hawk Idol’s last ability at this point would make it 5/5 again until end of turn."
7658
+ }
7659
+ ]
5747
7660
  },
5748
7661
  {
5749
7662
  "name": "Gust-Skimmer",
@@ -5770,7 +7683,8 @@
5770
7683
  "loyalty": null,
5771
7684
  "multiverse_id": 397669,
5772
7685
  "other_part": null,
5773
- "color_indicator": null
7686
+ "color_indicator": null,
7687
+ "rulings": []
5774
7688
  },
5775
7689
  {
5776
7690
  "name": "Kitesail",
@@ -5797,7 +7711,8 @@
5797
7711
  "loyalty": null,
5798
7712
  "multiverse_id": 397896,
5799
7713
  "other_part": null,
5800
- "color_indicator": null
7714
+ "color_indicator": null,
7715
+ "rulings": []
5801
7716
  },
5802
7717
  {
5803
7718
  "name": "Lodestone Golem",
@@ -5824,7 +7739,21 @@
5824
7739
  "loyalty": null,
5825
7740
  "multiverse_id": 397736,
5826
7741
  "other_part": null,
5827
- "color_indicator": null
7742
+ "color_indicator": null,
7743
+ "rulings": [
7744
+ {
7745
+ "date": "3/1/2010",
7746
+ "text": "The ability affects each spell that’s not an artifact spell, including your own."
7747
+ },
7748
+ {
7749
+ "date": "3/1/2010",
7750
+ "text": "The ability affects the total cost of each nonartifact spell, but it doesn’t change that spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost. The extra mana also doesn’t change how many times you kicked the spell or what the value of X is (if applicable)."
7751
+ },
7752
+ {
7753
+ "date": "3/1/2010",
7754
+ "text": "When determining a spell’s total cost, effects that increase the cost are applied before effects that reduce the cost."
7755
+ }
7756
+ ]
5828
7757
  },
5829
7758
  {
5830
7759
  "name": "Lodestone Myr",
@@ -5852,7 +7781,8 @@
5852
7781
  "loyalty": null,
5853
7782
  "multiverse_id": 397769,
5854
7783
  "other_part": null,
5855
- "color_indicator": null
7784
+ "color_indicator": null,
7785
+ "rulings": []
5856
7786
  },
5857
7787
  {
5858
7788
  "name": "Long-Forgotten Gohei",
@@ -5877,7 +7807,13 @@
5877
7807
  "loyalty": null,
5878
7808
  "multiverse_id": 397711,
5879
7809
  "other_part": null,
5880
- "color_indicator": null
7810
+ "color_indicator": null,
7811
+ "rulings": [
7812
+ {
7813
+ "date": "12/1/2004",
7814
+ "text": "The cost reduction applies to the total cost of the Arcane spell, including any additional costs from cards spliced onto it. However, the cost reduction applies only once to each Arcane spell. For example, if you cast an Arcane spell with mana cost {R} and splice onto it a card whose splice cost is {1}{U}, then the spell costs {U}{R} to cast. If you cast an Arcane spell with mana cost {4}{U} and splice onto it a card whose splice cost is {1}{R}, the spell costs {4}{U}{R} to cast."
7815
+ }
7816
+ ]
5881
7817
  },
5882
7818
  {
5883
7819
  "name": "Mortarpod",
@@ -5905,7 +7841,13 @@
5905
7841
  "loyalty": null,
5906
7842
  "multiverse_id": 397797,
5907
7843
  "other_part": null,
5908
- "color_indicator": null
7844
+ "color_indicator": null,
7845
+ "rulings": [
7846
+ {
7847
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
7848
+ "text": "If you sacrifice the equipped creature to deal 1 damage to a target permanent or player, the damage is dealt by the creature as it last existed on the battlefield."
7849
+ }
7850
+ ]
5909
7851
  },
5910
7852
  {
5911
7853
  "name": "Mox Opal",
@@ -5931,7 +7873,8 @@
5931
7873
  "loyalty": null,
5932
7874
  "multiverse_id": 397719,
5933
7875
  "other_part": null,
5934
- "color_indicator": null
7876
+ "color_indicator": null,
7877
+ "rulings": []
5935
7878
  },
5936
7879
  {
5937
7880
  "name": "Myr Enforcer",
@@ -5958,7 +7901,8 @@
5958
7901
  "loyalty": null,
5959
7902
  "multiverse_id": 397865,
5960
7903
  "other_part": null,
5961
- "color_indicator": null
7904
+ "color_indicator": null,
7905
+ "rulings": []
5962
7906
  },
5963
7907
  {
5964
7908
  "name": "Precursor Golem",
@@ -5986,7 +7930,41 @@
5986
7930
  "loyalty": null,
5987
7931
  "multiverse_id": 397708,
5988
7932
  "other_part": null,
5989
- "color_indicator": null
7933
+ "color_indicator": null,
7934
+ "rulings": [
7935
+ {
7936
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7937
+ "text": "The second ability triggers whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell that targets only one Golem and no other object or player. That Golem can be Precursor Golem itself, one of the Golem tokens it created, or any other Golem. It doesn’t matter who controls the Golem."
7938
+ },
7939
+ {
7940
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7941
+ "text": "If an instant or sorcery spell has multiple targets, but it’s targeting the same Golem with all of them (such as Agony Warp targeting the same Golem twice), Precursor Golem’s last ability will trigger."
7942
+ },
7943
+ {
7944
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7945
+ "text": "Any Golem that couldn’t be targeted by the original spell (due to shroud, protection abilities, targeting restrictions, or any other reason) is just ignored by Precursor Golem’s second ability."
7946
+ },
7947
+ {
7948
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7949
+ "text": "The controller of the spell that caused Precursor Golem’s second ability to trigger also controls all the copies. That player chooses the order the copies are put onto the stack. The original spell will be on the stack beneath those copies and will resolve last."
7950
+ },
7951
+ {
7952
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7953
+ "text": "The copies that Precursor Golem’s second ability creates are created on the stack, so they’re not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell (like Precursor Golem’s second ability itself) won’t trigger."
7954
+ },
7955
+ {
7956
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7957
+ "text": "If the spell that’s copied is modal (that is, it says “Choose one —” or the like), the copies will have the same mode. Their controller can’t choose a different one."
7958
+ },
7959
+ {
7960
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7961
+ "text": "If the spell that’s copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast (like Fireball does), the copies have the same value of X."
7962
+ },
7963
+ {
7964
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
7965
+ "text": "The controller of a copy can’t choose to pay any additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy too."
7966
+ }
7967
+ ]
5990
7968
  },
5991
7969
  {
5992
7970
  "name": "Runed Servitor",
@@ -6013,7 +7991,8 @@
6013
7991
  "loyalty": null,
6014
7992
  "multiverse_id": 397772,
6015
7993
  "other_part": null,
6016
- "color_indicator": null
7994
+ "color_indicator": null,
7995
+ "rulings": []
6017
7996
  },
6018
7997
  {
6019
7998
  "name": "Rusted Relic",
@@ -6037,7 +8016,17 @@
6037
8016
  "loyalty": null,
6038
8017
  "multiverse_id": 397837,
6039
8018
  "other_part": null,
6040
- "color_indicator": null
8019
+ "color_indicator": null,
8020
+ "rulings": [
8021
+ {
8022
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
8023
+ "text": "If Rusted Relic stops being a creature during combat (because you lose control of one or more artifacts, perhaps), it is removed from combat and will not deal or be dealt combat damage. Creatures it was blocking remain blocked. It won’t re-enter that combat, even if you wind up controlling three or more artifacts again during that combat phase."
8024
+ },
8025
+ {
8026
+ "date": "1/1/2011",
8027
+ "text": "Whether Rusted Relic has “summoning sickness” is based on how long you have continuously controlled it, not on how long it has continuously been a creature."
8028
+ }
8029
+ ]
6041
8030
  },
6042
8031
  {
6043
8032
  "name": "Sickleslicer",
@@ -6065,7 +8054,8 @@
6065
8054
  "loyalty": null,
6066
8055
  "multiverse_id": 397771,
6067
8056
  "other_part": null,
6068
- "color_indicator": null
8057
+ "color_indicator": null,
8058
+ "rulings": []
6069
8059
  },
6070
8060
  {
6071
8061
  "name": "Skyreach Manta",
@@ -6093,7 +8083,8 @@
6093
8083
  "loyalty": null,
6094
8084
  "multiverse_id": 397702,
6095
8085
  "other_part": null,
6096
- "color_indicator": null
8086
+ "color_indicator": null,
8087
+ "rulings": []
6097
8088
  },
6098
8089
  {
6099
8090
  "name": "Spellskite",
@@ -6120,7 +8111,41 @@
6120
8111
  "loyalty": null,
6121
8112
  "multiverse_id": 397743,
6122
8113
  "other_part": null,
6123
- "color_indicator": null
8114
+ "color_indicator": null,
8115
+ "rulings": [
8116
+ {
8117
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
8118
+ "text": "You can activate Spellskite’s ability even if Spellskite wouldn’t be a legal target for the spell or ability. However, the target of that spell or ability will remain unchanged."
8119
+ },
8120
+ {
8121
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
8122
+ "text": "If changing one target of a spell or ability to Spellskite would make other targets of that spell or ability illegal, the targets remain unchanged."
8123
+ },
8124
+ {
8125
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
8126
+ "text": "If the spell or ability has multiple instances of the word “target,” you choose which target you’re changing to Spellskite when Spellskite’s ability resolves."
8127
+ },
8128
+ {
8129
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
8130
+ "text": "By activating Spellskite’s ability multiple times, you can change each target of a spell or ability with multiple instances of the word “target” to Spellskite, one at a time."
8131
+ },
8132
+ {
8133
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
8134
+ "text": "The target of the spell or ability won’t change unless Spellskite fulfills all the targeting criteria, even if multiple instances of the word “target” are used. For example, you can’t change both targets of Arc Trail to Spellskite."
8135
+ },
8136
+ {
8137
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
8138
+ "text": "If a spell or ability has multiple targets but doesn’t use the word “target” multiple times, such as Fulgent Distraction, you can only successfully change one of the targets to Spellskite."
8139
+ },
8140
+ {
8141
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
8142
+ "text": "If a spell or ability has a variable number of targets, you can’t change the number of targets."
8143
+ },
8144
+ {
8145
+ "date": "6/1/2011",
8146
+ "text": "If Spellskite leaves the battlefield before its ability resolves, the targets remain unchanged."
8147
+ }
8148
+ ]
6124
8149
  },
6125
8150
  {
6126
8151
  "name": "Sphere of the Suns",
@@ -6145,7 +8170,8 @@
6145
8170
  "loyalty": null,
6146
8171
  "multiverse_id": 397904,
6147
8172
  "other_part": null,
6148
- "color_indicator": null
8173
+ "color_indicator": null,
8174
+ "rulings": []
6149
8175
  },
6150
8176
  {
6151
8177
  "name": "Sunforger",
@@ -6173,7 +8199,21 @@
6173
8199
  "loyalty": null,
6174
8200
  "multiverse_id": 397900,
6175
8201
  "other_part": null,
6176
- "color_indicator": null
8202
+ "color_indicator": null,
8203
+ "rulings": [
8204
+ {
8205
+ "date": "10/1/2005",
8206
+ "text": "You can’t pay the cost of the second ability unless Sunforger is attached to a creature."
8207
+ },
8208
+ {
8209
+ "date": "10/1/2005",
8210
+ "text": "Any card you find must be legally castable (for example, you have to be able to choose a legal target for it). If you can’t find a castable card (or choose not to), nothing happens and you shuffle your library."
8211
+ },
8212
+ {
8213
+ "date": "10/1/2005",
8214
+ "text": "The card is cast from your library, not your hand. You choose modes, pay additional costs, choose targets, etc. for the spell as normal when casting it. Any X in the mana cost will be 0. Alternative costs can’t be paid."
8215
+ }
8216
+ ]
6177
8217
  },
6178
8218
  {
6179
8219
  "name": "Tumble Magnet",
@@ -6198,7 +8238,8 @@
6198
8238
  "loyalty": null,
6199
8239
  "multiverse_id": 397755,
6200
8240
  "other_part": null,
6201
- "color_indicator": null
8241
+ "color_indicator": null,
8242
+ "rulings": []
6202
8243
  },
6203
8244
  {
6204
8245
  "name": "Wayfarer's Bauble",
@@ -6222,7 +8263,8 @@
6222
8263
  "loyalty": null,
6223
8264
  "multiverse_id": 397703,
6224
8265
  "other_part": null,
6225
- "color_indicator": null
8266
+ "color_indicator": null,
8267
+ "rulings": []
6226
8268
  },
6227
8269
  {
6228
8270
  "name": "Azorius Chancery",
@@ -6248,7 +8290,13 @@
6248
8290
  "loyalty": null,
6249
8291
  "multiverse_id": 397866,
6250
8292
  "other_part": null,
6251
- "color_indicator": null
8293
+ "color_indicator": null,
8294
+ "rulings": [
8295
+ {
8296
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
8297
+ "text": "If this land enters the battlefield and you control no other lands, its ability will force you to return it to your hand."
8298
+ }
8299
+ ]
6252
8300
  },
6253
8301
  {
6254
8302
  "name": "Blinkmoth Nexus",
@@ -6274,7 +8322,25 @@
6274
8322
  "loyalty": null,
6275
8323
  "multiverse_id": 397660,
6276
8324
  "other_part": null,
6277
- "color_indicator": null
8325
+ "color_indicator": null,
8326
+ "rulings": [
8327
+ {
8328
+ "date": "12/1/2004",
8329
+ "text": "Blinkmoth Nexus gains the creature type “Blinkmoth” when it becomes a creature. This means that it ends up with three types (land, artifact, and creature), plus one creature subtype (Blinkmoth)."
8330
+ },
8331
+ {
8332
+ "date": "12/1/2004",
8333
+ "text": "The “target Blinkmoth gets +1/+1” ability can target any creature with the creature type Blinkmoth."
8334
+ },
8335
+ {
8336
+ "date": "8/1/2008",
8337
+ "text": "A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn’t matter how long the permanent has been a creature."
8338
+ },
8339
+ {
8340
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
8341
+ "text": "Activating the ability that turns it into a creature while it’s already a creature will override any effects that set its power and/or toughness to a specific number. However, any effect that raises or lowers power and/or toughness (such as the effect created by Giant Growth, Glorious Anthem, or a +1/+1 counter) will continue to apply."
8342
+ }
8343
+ ]
6278
8344
  },
6279
8345
  {
6280
8346
  "name": "Boros Garrison",
@@ -6300,7 +8366,13 @@
6300
8366
  "loyalty": null,
6301
8367
  "multiverse_id": 397817,
6302
8368
  "other_part": null,
6303
- "color_indicator": null
8369
+ "color_indicator": null,
8370
+ "rulings": [
8371
+ {
8372
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
8373
+ "text": "If this land enters the battlefield and you control no other lands, its ability will force you to return it to your hand."
8374
+ }
8375
+ ]
6304
8376
  },
6305
8377
  {
6306
8378
  "name": "Darksteel Citadel",
@@ -6326,7 +8398,13 @@
6326
8398
  "loyalty": null,
6327
8399
  "multiverse_id": 397853,
6328
8400
  "other_part": null,
6329
- "color_indicator": null
8401
+ "color_indicator": null,
8402
+ "rulings": [
8403
+ {
8404
+ "date": "7/18/2014",
8405
+ "text": "Although Darksteel Citadel is an artifact, it can’t be cast as a spell. Playing it follows the normal rules for playing a land."
8406
+ }
8407
+ ]
6330
8408
  },
6331
8409
  {
6332
8410
  "name": "Dimir Aqueduct",
@@ -6352,7 +8430,13 @@
6352
8430
  "loyalty": null,
6353
8431
  "multiverse_id": 397672,
6354
8432
  "other_part": null,
6355
- "color_indicator": null
8433
+ "color_indicator": null,
8434
+ "rulings": [
8435
+ {
8436
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
8437
+ "text": "If this land enters the battlefield and you control no other lands, its ability will force you to return it to your hand."
8438
+ }
8439
+ ]
6356
8440
  },
6357
8441
  {
6358
8442
  "name": "Eldrazi Temple",
@@ -6377,7 +8461,13 @@
6377
8461
  "loyalty": null,
6378
8462
  "multiverse_id": 397690,
6379
8463
  "other_part": null,
6380
- "color_indicator": null
8464
+ "color_indicator": null,
8465
+ "rulings": [
8466
+ {
8467
+ "date": "4/8/2016",
8468
+ "text": "The mana generated by the last ability can’t be spent to activate abilities of Eldrazi sources that aren’t on the battlefield."
8469
+ }
8470
+ ]
6381
8471
  },
6382
8472
  {
6383
8473
  "name": "Evolving Wilds",
@@ -6401,7 +8491,8 @@
6401
8491
  "loyalty": null,
6402
8492
  "multiverse_id": 397871,
6403
8493
  "other_part": null,
6404
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8494
+ "color_indicator": null,
8495
+ "rulings": []
6405
8496
  },
6406
8497
  {
6407
8498
  "name": "Eye of Ugin",
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6428
8519
  "loyalty": null,
6429
8520
  "multiverse_id": 397726,
6430
8521
  "other_part": null,
6431
- "color_indicator": null
8522
+ "color_indicator": null,
8523
+ "rulings": [
8524
+ {
8525
+ "date": "3/1/2010",
8526
+ "text": "Eye of Ugin doesn’t have a mana ability."
8527
+ },
8528
+ {
8529
+ "date": "3/1/2010",
8530
+ "text": "Eye of Ugin’s second ability lets you find any colorless creature card in your deck, such as an artifact creature card that has no colored mana symbols in its mana cost, or a creature card that’s become colorless due to Mycosynth Lattice."
8531
+ },
8532
+ {
8533
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
8534
+ "text": "Mistform Ultimus and creatures with changeling are Eldrazi. If they become colorless, possibly due to Mycosynth Lattice, Eye of Ugin would reduce the cost to cast them by {2}."
8535
+ }
8536
+ ]
6432
8537
  },
6433
8538
  {
6434
8539
  "name": "Golgari Rot Farm",
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6454
8559
  "loyalty": null,
6455
8560
  "multiverse_id": 397879,
6456
8561
  "other_part": null,
6457
- "color_indicator": null
8562
+ "color_indicator": null,
8563
+ "rulings": [
8564
+ {
8565
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
8566
+ "text": "If this land enters the battlefield and you control no other lands, its ability will force you to return it to your hand."
8567
+ }
8568
+ ]
6458
8569
  },
6459
8570
  {
6460
8571
  "name": "Gruul Turf",
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6480
8591
  "loyalty": null,
6481
8592
  "multiverse_id": 397689,
6482
8593
  "other_part": null,
6483
- "color_indicator": null
8594
+ "color_indicator": null,
8595
+ "rulings": [
8596
+ {
8597
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
8598
+ "text": "If this land enters the battlefield and you control no other lands, its ability will force you to return it to your hand."
8599
+ }
8600
+ ]
6484
8601
  },
6485
8602
  {
6486
8603
  "name": "Izzet Boilerworks",
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6506
8623
  "loyalty": null,
6507
8624
  "multiverse_id": 397707,
6508
8625
  "other_part": null,
6509
- "color_indicator": null
8626
+ "color_indicator": null,
8627
+ "rulings": [
8628
+ {
8629
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
8630
+ "text": "If this land enters the battlefield and you control no other lands, its ability will force you to return it to your hand."
8631
+ }
8632
+ ]
6510
8633
  },
6511
8634
  {
6512
8635
  "name": "Orzhov Basilica",
@@ -6532,7 +8655,13 @@
6532
8655
  "loyalty": null,
6533
8656
  "multiverse_id": 397902,
6534
8657
  "other_part": null,
6535
- "color_indicator": null
8658
+ "color_indicator": null,
8659
+ "rulings": [
8660
+ {
8661
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
8662
+ "text": "If this land enters the battlefield and you control no other lands, its ability will force you to return it to your hand."
8663
+ }
8664
+ ]
6536
8665
  },
6537
8666
  {
6538
8667
  "name": "Rakdos Carnarium",
@@ -6558,7 +8687,13 @@
6558
8687
  "loyalty": null,
6559
8688
  "multiverse_id": 397753,
6560
8689
  "other_part": null,
6561
- "color_indicator": null
8690
+ "color_indicator": null,
8691
+ "rulings": [
8692
+ {
8693
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
8694
+ "text": "If this land enters the battlefield and you control no other lands, its ability will force you to return it to your hand."
8695
+ }
8696
+ ]
6562
8697
  },
6563
8698
  {
6564
8699
  "name": "Selesnya Sanctuary",
@@ -6584,7 +8719,13 @@
6584
8719
  "loyalty": null,
6585
8720
  "multiverse_id": 397734,
6586
8721
  "other_part": null,
6587
- "color_indicator": null
8722
+ "color_indicator": null,
8723
+ "rulings": [
8724
+ {
8725
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
8726
+ "text": "If this land enters the battlefield and you control no other lands, its ability will force you to return it to your hand."
8727
+ }
8728
+ ]
6588
8729
  },
6589
8730
  {
6590
8731
  "name": "Simic Growth Chamber",
@@ -6610,6 +8751,12 @@
6610
8751
  "loyalty": null,
6611
8752
  "multiverse_id": 397757,
6612
8753
  "other_part": null,
6613
- "color_indicator": null
8754
+ "color_indicator": null,
8755
+ "rulings": [
8756
+ {
8757
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
8758
+ "text": "If this land enters the battlefield and you control no other lands, its ability will force you to return it to your hand."
8759
+ }
8760
+ ]
6614
8761
  }
6615
8762
  ]