mtg-db 2.0.0 → 2.1.0

data/data/sets/mps_rna.json

@@ -27,7 +27,17 @@
     "loyalty": "5",
     "multiverse_id": 460122,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "4/27/2018",
+        "text": "A token created by Karn’s last ability will count itself, so it’ll be at least 1/1."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "4/27/2018",
+        "text": "Karn is colorless but not an artifact. The Construct tokens created by Karn’s last ability don’t count Karn."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Tamiyo, the Moon Sage",
@@ -57,7 +67,33 @@
     "loyalty": "4",
     "multiverse_id": 460123,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "5/1/2012",
+        "text": "Tamiyo’s first ability tracks the permanent, but not its controller. If the permanent changes controllers before its first controller’s next untap step has come around, then it won’t untap during its new controller’s next untap step."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/1/2012",
+        "text": "The number of tapped creatures the player controls is determined when Tamiyo’s second ability resolves."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/1/2012",
+        "text": "Tamiyo’s third ability creates one emblem with two abilities."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/1/2012",
+        "text": "If you activate Tamiyo’s third ability when she has eight loyalty counters on her, she’ll be put into your graveyard before the emblem is created. She won’t return to your hand."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/1/2012",
+        "text": "Cards that are put into your graveyard can be returned to your hand by the emblem’s ability even if they were never in your hand."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "7/1/2013",
+        "text": "The ability can target a tapped permanent. If the targeted permanent is already tapped when it resolves, that permanent just remains tapped and doesn’t untap during its controller’s next untap step."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Sorin Markov",
@@ -87,7 +123,73 @@
     "loyalty": "4",
     "multiverse_id": 460124,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "If the targeted permanent or player is an illegal target by the time Sorin’s first ability resolves, the entire ability doesn’t resolve. You won’t gain life."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "For a player’s life total to become 10, what actually happens is that the player gains or loses the appropriate amount of life. For example, if the targeted opponent’s life total is 4 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to gain 6 life; alternately, if the targeted player’s life total is 17 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to lose 7 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "Sorin’s third ability allows you to control another player. This effect applies to the next turn that the affected player actually takes."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "The player who is being controlled is still the active player."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "While controlling another player, you also continue to make your own choices and decisions."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "While controlling another player, you make all choices and decisions that player is allowed to make or is told to make during that turn. For example:\r\n    -- You choose which lands the other player plays.\r\n    -- You choose which spells the other player casts, and make all decisions as those spells are cast and as they resolve. For example, you choose the value of X for that player's Earthquake, the target for that player's Lightning Bolt, what mana that player spends to cast Day of Judgment, and what card that player gets with Diabolic Tutor.\r\n    -- You choose which activated abilities the other player activates, and make all decisions as those abilities are activated and as they resolve. For example, you can have your opponent sacrifice their creatures to their Vampire Aristocrat or have your opponent's Caller of Gales give one of your creatures flying.\r\n    -- You make all decisions for the other player's triggered abilities, including what they target and any decisions made when they resolve.\r\n    -- You choose which creatures controlled by the other player attack, who or what they attack, and how they assign their combat damage.\r\n    -- You make any choices and decisions that player would make for any other reason. For example, you could cast Fact or Fiction, choose that player to divide the revealed cards into piles, and thus divide those cards into piles yourself."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "You can’t make the affected player concede. That player may choose to concede at any time, even while you’re controlling their turn."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "You can’t make any illegal decisions or illegal choices — you can’t do anything that player couldn’t do. You can’t make choices or decisions for that player that aren’t called for by the game rules or by any cards, permanents, spells, abilities, and so on. If an effect causes another player to make decisions that the affected player would normally make (such as Master Warcraft does), that effect takes precedence. (In other words, if the affected player wouldn’t make a decision, you wouldn’t make that decision on their behalf.) You also can’t make any choices or decisions for the player that would be called for by the tournament rules (such as whether to take an intentional draw or whether to call a judge)."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "You can use only the affected player’s resources (cards, mana, and so on) to pay costs for that player; you can’t use your own. Similarly, you can use the affected player’s resources only to pay that player’s costs; you can’t spend them on your costs."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "You only control the player. You don’t control any of the other player’s permanents, spells, or abilities."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "If the player affected by Sorin’s third ability skips their next turn, the ability will wait. You’ll control the next turn the affected player actually takes."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "Multiple player-controlling effects that affect the same player overwrite each other. The last one to be created is the one that works."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "You could gain control of yourself using Sorin’s third ability, but unless you do so to overwrite someone else’s player-controlling effect, this doesn’t do anything."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/15/2010",
+        "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, Sorin’s second ability causes the targeted opponent’s team’s life total to become 10. Only the targeted player is actually considered to have actually gained or lost life."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "7/13/2016",
+        "text": "While controlling another player, you can see all cards in the game that player can see. This includes cards in that player’s hand, face-down cards that player controls, and any cards in that player’s library the player may look at."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "7/13/2016",
+        "text": "Controlling a player doesn’t allow you to look at that player’s sideboard. If an effect instructs that player to choose a card from outside the game, you can’t have that player choose any card."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Jaya Ballard",
@@ -117,7 +219,25 @@
     "loyalty": "5",
     "multiverse_id": 460125,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "4/27/2018",
+        "text": "Mana produced by Jaya’s first ability can be spent among any number of instant and/or sorcery spells."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "4/27/2018",
+        "text": "You choose how many cards to discard while Jaya’s second ability is resolving. You can choose to discard zero cards this way (and then draw zero cards) if you wish."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "4/27/2018",
+        "text": "Jaya’s emblem doesn’t grant you permission to do anything with instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard except cast them. For example, you can’t cycle instant or sorcery cards with cycling from your graveyard."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2018",
+        "text": "Because it’s a loyalty ability, Jaya’s first ability isn’t a mana ability. It can be activated only any time you could cast a sorcery. It uses the stack and can be responded to."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Ajani, Mentor of Heroes",
@@ -147,7 +267,17 @@
     "loyalty": "4",
     "multiverse_id": 460126,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "4/26/2014",
+        "text": "You announce how many counters will be placed on each target creature as you activate Ajani’s first ability. Each target must receive at least one counter."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "4/26/2014",
+        "text": "If one or more, but not all, of the targets of the first ability are illegal when that ability tries to resolve, no counters will be placed on illegal targets. You can’t change the distribution you announced when you activated the ability; the excess counters are just lost."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Dack Fayden",
@@ -177,7 +307,29 @@
     "loyalty": "3",
     "multiverse_id": 460127,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "The targeted player draws two cards and discards two cards all while Dack’s first ability is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "The ability of Dack’s emblem will resolve before the spell that caused it to trigger."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "The effect of Dack’s second ability and the effect of the emblem’s ability last indefinitely. You won’t lose control of the permanents if Dack leaves the battlefield."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "If you gain control of a permanent, and you leave the game, the control-changing effect will end. Unless there’s another control-changing effect affecting that permanent, it will return to its owner’s control."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "If you gain control of a permanent another player owns, and that player leaves the game, the permanent will also leave the game."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Domri, Chaos Bringer",
@@ -207,7 +359,29 @@
     "loyalty": "5",
     "multiverse_id": 460128,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "1/25/2019",
+        "text": "Because it’s a loyalty ability, Domri’s first ability isn’t a mana ability. It can be activated only any time you could cast a sorcery. It uses the stack and can be responded to."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "1/25/2019",
+        "text": "Riot is a replacement effect. Players can’t respond to your choice of +1/+1 counter or haste, and they can’t take actions while the creature is on the battlefield without one or the other."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "1/25/2019",
+        "text": "If a creature entering the battlefield has riot but can’t have a +1/+1 counter put onto it, it gains haste."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "1/25/2019",
+        "text": "If you choose for the creature to gain haste, it gains haste indefinitely. It won’t lose it as the turn ends or as another player gains control of it."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "1/25/2019",
+        "text": "If a creature enters the battlefield with two instances of riot, you may choose to have it get two +1/+1 counters, one +1/+1 counter and haste, or two instances of haste. Multiple instances of haste on the same creature are redundant, but we’re not going to tell the Gruul how to live their lives."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Kaya, Orzhov Usurper",
@@ -237,6 +411,20 @@
     "loyalty": "3",
     "multiverse_id": 460129,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "1/25/2019",
+        "text": "If a permanent has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "1/25/2019",
+        "text": "Tokens that aren’t a copy of something else don’t have a mana cost. Anything without a mana cost normally has a converted mana cost of 0."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "1/25/2019",
+        "text": "Kaya’s last ability causes you to gain life equal to the number of cards the target player owns in exile, even if an effect causes her to deal more or less than that amount of damage to that player."
+      }
+    ]
   }
 ]

data/data/sets/mps_war.json

@@ -27,7 +27,17 @@
     "loyalty": "7",
     "multiverse_id": 463942,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "11/24/2014",
+        "text": "If you choose to put permanent cards with morph onto the battlefield with the third ability, you must put them onto the battlefield face up."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "11/24/2014",
+        "text": "Ugin, the Spirit Dragon is not a Dragon card; that is, he doesn’t have the creature type Dragon. Spells and abilities that refer to Dragon cards or Dragons don’t apply to Ugin."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Gideon Blackblade",
@@ -58,7 +68,29 @@
     "loyalty": "4",
     "multiverse_id": 463943,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "text": "If an effect causes Gideon to lose all abilities during your turn, he’s still a Human Soldier creature and a Gideon planeswalker."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "text": "If an Equipment becomes attached to Gideon while he’s a creature, it’ll become unattached during the next upkeep that isn’t yours. The same is true of any Auras that become attached to Gideon that can’t enchant a noncreature planeswalker."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "text": "Any counters that are put on Gideon remain on him while he’s not a creature, even if they have no effect on a noncreature planeswalker."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "text": "If damage that can’t be prevented is dealt to Gideon during your turn, that damage will have all applicable results: specifically, the damage is marked on Gideon (since he’s a creature) and that damage causes that many loyalty counters to be removed from him (since he’s a planeswalker). Even though he has indestructible, if Gideon has no loyalty counters on him, he’s put into his owner’s graveyard."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "text": "You choose which ability the target creature gains as Gideon’s first loyalty ability resolves, not as you activate it."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Jace, the Mind Sculptor",
@@ -89,7 +121,17 @@
     "loyalty": "3",
     "multiverse_id": 463944,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "3/16/2018",
+        "text": "You draw three cards and put two cards back all while Jace’s second ability is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "3/16/2018",
+        "text": "If the targeted player for Jace’s last ability has no cards in hand, that player shuffles nothing into their library, and that player’s library will remain empty. That player won’t lose the game until they try to draw from the empty library."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Tezzeret the Seeker",
@@ -119,7 +161,33 @@
     "loyalty": "4",
     "multiverse_id": 463945,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2008",
+        "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."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2008",
+        "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."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2008",
+        "text": "The third ability affects all artifacts you control, including artifacts that are already creatures."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2008",
+        "text": "The third ability causes artifacts you control to become creatures in addition to their other card types."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "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."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "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."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Garruk, Apex Predator",
@@ -150,7 +218,25 @@
     "loyalty": "5",
     "multiverse_id": 463946,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "7/18/2014",
+        "text": "The first ability can target and destroy a Garruk planeswalker controlled by another player."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "7/18/2014",
+        "text": "If you activate the third ability, and the target creature is an illegal target when the ability tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won’t gain any life."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "7/18/2014",
+        "text": "The emblem’s ability won’t trigger if a creature attacks a planeswalker."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "7/18/2014",
+        "text": "The emblem is owned and controlled by the target of the ability that created it. In a multiplayer game, if Garruk’s owner leaves the game, the emblem does not."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God",
@@ -181,7 +267,41 @@
     "loyalty": "4",
     "multiverse_id": 463947,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "text": "Nicol Bolas doesn’t remove loyalty abilities from the other planeswalkers."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "text": "Nicol Bolas doesn’t gain any static or triggered abilities of other planeswalkers or any activated abilities they may have that aren’t loyalty abilities."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "text": "While Nicol Bolas may end up with an astonishing number of loyalty abilities, you can still activate only one loyalty ability of Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God each turn."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "text": "If a loyalty ability of a planeswalker references the card it’s printed on by name, treat Nicol Bolas’s instance of that ability as though it referenced Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God by name instead. For instance, if Nahiri, Storm of Stone is on the battlefield, Nicol Bolas deals the damage if you activate the ability he gained from her."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "text": "If an ability of a planeswalker exiles cards and another loyalty ability of that planeswalker references the exiled cards, those abilities are linked. If Nicol Bolas gains both abilities, the instances he has are similarly linked. Cards exiled by any other abilities Nicol Bolas has (such as his own first loyalty ability) won’t be seen by those linked abilities."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "text": "If any abilities trigger as you draw a card while resolving Nicol Bolas’s first loyalty ability, those abilities don’t resolve until after your opponents have exiled a card or permanent."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "text": "After you draw a card as Nicol Bolas’s first loyalty ability resolves, the next opponent in turn order (or, if it’s somehow an opponent’s turn, that opponent) chooses a permanent they control or chooses a card in hand without revealing that card. Then each other opponent in turn order does the same, knowing the choices made before them. Finally, all of the chosen cards are exiled simultaneously."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, if one player on a team loses the game, the entire team loses the game, even if the other player controls a legendary creature or planeswalker."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Nahiri, the Harbinger",
@@ -211,7 +331,21 @@
     "loyalty": "4",
     "multiverse_id": 463948,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "4/8/2016",
+        "text": "You can activate Nahiri’s first ability with no intention of discarding a card just to add loyalty to Nahiri."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "4/8/2016",
+        "text": "If you find a noncreature artifact with Nahiri’s third ability, it will still gain haste, even though it won’t be meaningful unless that artifact becomes a creature."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "4/8/2016",
+        "text": "If the artifact or creature put onto the battlefield with Nahiri’s third ability leaves the battlefield before the next end step, it won’t be returned to your hand from its new zone."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Sarkhan Unbroken",
@@ -241,6 +375,7 @@
     "loyalty": "4",
     "multiverse_id": 463949,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": []
   }
 ]