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
  5. data/data/sets/4ed.json +2390 -379
  6. data/data/sets/5dn.json +889 -167
  7. data/data/sets/5ed.json +2928 -450
  8. data/data/sets/6ed.json +1646 -351
  9. data/data/sets/7ed.json +1528 -351
  10. data/data/sets/8ed.json +1552 -350
  11. data/data/sets/9ed.json +1694 -351
  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
  19. data/data/sets/arc.json +1083 -151
  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
  26. data/data/sets/bok.json +1027 -166
  27. data/data/sets/brb.json +520 -136
  28. data/data/sets/btd.json +414 -90
  29. data/data/sets/c13.json +3069 -359
  30. data/data/sets/c14.json +2986 -338
  31. data/data/sets/c15.json +3462 -342
  32. data/data/sets/c16.json +3978 -357
  33. data/data/sets/c17.json +3417 -309
  34. data/data/sets/c18.json +4122 -310
  35. data/data/sets/chk.json +1396 -317
  36. data/data/sets/chr.json +864 -125
  37. data/data/sets/cm1.json +240 -18
  38. data/data/sets/cm2.json +2760 -318
  39. data/data/sets/cma.json +2356 -320
  40. data/data/sets/cmd.json +2446 -321
  41. data/data/sets/cn2.json +3021 -223
  42. data/data/sets/cns.json +2499 -210
  43. data/data/sets/con.json +1182 -146
  44. data/data/sets/csp.json +1079 -156
  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
  48. data/data/sets/dd3_gvl.json +401 -64
  49. data/data/sets/dd3_jvc.json +556 -62
  50. data/data/sets/ddc.json +390 -63
  51. data/data/sets/ddd.json +401 -64
  52. data/data/sets/dde.json +358 -71
  53. data/data/sets/ddf.json +558 -80
  54. data/data/sets/ddg.json +463 -82
  55. data/data/sets/ddh.json +527 -84
  56. data/data/sets/ddi.json +572 -79
  57. data/data/sets/ddj.json +647 -92
  58. data/data/sets/ddk.json +479 -81
  59. data/data/sets/ddl.json +522 -82
  60. data/data/sets/ddm.json +685 -88
  61. data/data/sets/ddn.json +650 -82
  62. data/data/sets/ddo.json +387 -66
  63. data/data/sets/ddp.json +695 -75
  64. data/data/sets/ddq.json +460 -76
  65. data/data/sets/ddr.json +404 -74
  66. data/data/sets/dds.json +579 -65
  67. data/data/sets/ddt.json +419 -64
  68. data/data/sets/ddu.json +521 -77
  69. data/data/sets/dgm.json +2945 -171
  70. data/data/sets/dis.json +1072 -194
  71. data/data/sets/dka.json +1261 -171
  72. data/data/sets/dom.json +2654 -282
  73. data/data/sets/drb.json +110 -15
  74. data/data/sets/drk.json +769 -119
  75. data/data/sets/dst.json +908 -166
  76. data/data/sets/dtk.json +3140 -266
  77. data/data/sets/e01.json +947 -108
  78. data/data/sets/e02.json +276 -48
  79. data/data/sets/ema.json +1689 -252
  80. data/data/sets/emn.json +2709 -226
  81. data/data/sets/eve.json +2054 -180
  82. data/data/sets/evg.json +271 -62
  83. data/data/sets/exo.json +878 -143
  84. data/data/sets/exp.json +282 -55
  85. data/data/sets/fem.json +1270 -194
  86. data/data/sets/frf.json +2869 -185
  87. data/data/sets/fut.json +2076 -180
  88. data/data/sets/g18.json +10 -5
  89. data/data/sets/gk1.json +1377 -128
  90. data/data/sets/gk2.json +1183 -133
  91. data/data/sets/gnt.json +347 -68
  92. data/data/sets/gpt.json +978 -168
  93. data/data/sets/grn.json +3145 -283
  94. data/data/sets/gs1.json +85 -40
  95. data/data/sets/gtc.json +2949 -257
  96. data/data/sets/h09.json +413 -41
  97. data/data/sets/hml.json +668 -140
  98. data/data/sets/hop.json +934 -172
  99. data/data/sets/hou.json +2886 -219
  100. data/data/sets/ice.json +2341 -384
  101. data/data/sets/ima.json +2797 -252
  102. data/data/sets/inv.json +1557 -356
  103. data/data/sets/isd.json +1826 -284
  104. data/data/sets/jou.json +2363 -165
  105. data/data/sets/jud.json +793 -143
  106. data/data/sets/kld.json +3982 -275
  107. data/data/sets/ktk.json +3374 -272
  108. data/data/sets/lea.json +2229 -298
  109. data/data/sets/leb.json +2261 -305
  110. data/data/sets/leg.json +2005 -310
  111. data/data/sets/lgn.json +885 -145
  112. data/data/sets/lrw.json +1716 -301
  113. data/data/sets/m10.json +1740 -251
  114. data/data/sets/m11.json +1909 -254
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  117. data/data/sets/m14.json +2014 -255
  118. data/data/sets/m15.json +2702 -293
  119. data/data/sets/m19.json +2071 -320
  120. data/data/sets/mbs.json +993 -159
  121. data/data/sets/md1.json +211 -26
  122. data/data/sets/mir.json +1642 -351
  123. data/data/sets/mm2.json +2403 -256
  124. data/data/sets/mm3.json +2409 -249
  125. data/data/sets/mma.json +2792 -229
  126. data/data/sets/mmq.json +1234 -351
  127. data/data/sets/mor.json +1486 -150
  128. data/data/sets/mps_akh.json +540 -54
  129. data/data/sets/mps_grn.json +120 -8
  130. data/data/sets/mps_kld.json +533 -54
  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
  136. data/data/sets/ody.json +1160 -351
  137. data/data/sets/ogw.json +1672 -186
  138. data/data/sets/ons.json +1573 -350
  139. data/data/sets/ori.json +2651 -296
  140. data/data/sets/pc2.json +1385 -156
  141. data/data/sets/pca.json +1385 -156
  142. data/data/sets/pcy.json +607 -143
  143. data/data/sets/pd2.json +240 -35
  144. data/data/sets/pd3.json +187 -31
  145. data/data/sets/plc.json +2060 -169
  146. data/data/sets/pls.json +1067 -146
  147. data/data/sets/po2.json +525 -165
  148. data/data/sets/por.json +649 -222
  149. data/data/sets/ptk.json +782 -180
  150. data/data/sets/rav.json +2219 -316
  151. data/data/sets/rix.json +2268 -213
  152. data/data/sets/rna.json +2706 -283
  153. data/data/sets/roe.json +3710 -248
  154. data/data/sets/rtr.json +2824 -280
  155. data/data/sets/s00.json +38 -19
  156. data/data/sets/s99.json +533 -173
  157. data/data/sets/scg.json +1054 -143
  158. data/data/sets/shm.json +2625 -301
  159. data/data/sets/soi.json +3874 -330
  160. data/data/sets/sok.json +969 -170
  161. data/data/sets/som.json +2621 -256
  162. data/data/sets/ss1.json +59 -8
  163. data/data/sets/sth.json +894 -145
  164. data/data/sets/ths.json +3061 -250
  165. data/data/sets/tmp.json +1904 -351
  166. data/data/sets/tor.json +569 -144
  167. data/data/sets/tsb.json +969 -124
  168. data/data/sets/tsp.json +3224 -302
  169. data/data/sets/uds.json +889 -144
  170. data/data/sets/ugl.json +2482 -0
  171. data/data/sets/ulg.json +859 -145
  172. data/data/sets/uma.json +3354 -255
  173. data/data/sets/uma_box.json +675 -40
  174. data/data/sets/unh.json +3829 -0
  175. data/data/sets/usg.json +2277 -351
  176. data/data/sets/ust.json +11302 -0
  177. data/data/sets/v09.json +116 -15
  178. data/data/sets/v10.json +162 -15
  179. data/data/sets/v11.json +178 -15
  180. data/data/sets/v12.json +132 -15
  181. data/data/sets/v13.json +129 -20
  182. data/data/sets/v14.json +183 -15
  183. data/data/sets/v15.json +210 -15
  184. data/data/sets/v16.json +169 -16
  185. data/data/sets/v17.json +607 -32
  186. data/data/sets/vis.json +1063 -167
  187. data/data/sets/w16.json +98 -16
  188. data/data/sets/w17.json +170 -30
  189. data/data/sets/war.json +3430 -275
  190. data/data/sets/wth.json +1325 -169
  191. data/data/sets/wwk.json +1497 -145
  192. data/data/sets/xln.json +2689 -300
  193. data/data/sets/zen.json +2199 -271
  194. data/lib/mtg-db.rb +1 -1
  195. metadata +5 -2
data/data/sets/shm.json CHANGED
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+ "date": "10/1/2009",
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+ "text": "This ability counts the number of Plains controlled by Armored Ascension’s controller, not the enchanted creature’s controller (in case they’re different players)."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "date": "10/1/2009",
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+ "text": "This bonus is not fixed; it changes as the number of Plains you control changes."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "date": "8/15/2010",
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+ "text": "The ability cares about lands with the land type Plains, not necessarily lands named Plains."
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+ "text": "You put the -1/-1 counter on Barrenton Medic as a cost. That means it happens when you activate the ability, not when it resolves. If paying the cost causes the creature to have 0 toughness, it’s put into the graveyard before you can untap it and before you can even pay the cost again."
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+ "text": "Boon Reflection doesn’t cause you to gain life. Rather, it causes life-gaining effects to have you gain more life."
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+ "text": "The effects of multiple Boon Reflections are cumulative. For example, if you have three Boon Reflections on the battlefield, you’ll gain eight times the original amount of life."
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+ "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."
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473
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  "name": "Runed Halo",
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672
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
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+ "text": "If a player has protection from a chosen name, it means three things:"
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "date": "12/7/2018",
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+ "text": "Runed Halo gives you protection from each object with the chosen name, whether it’s a card, a token, or a copy of a spell. It doesn’t matter what game zone that object is in."
678
+ },
679
+ {
680
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
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+ "text": "Runed Halo doesn’t give your permanents protection from the chosen name, only you."
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+ },
683
+ {
684
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
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+ "text": "You can still be attacked by creatures with the chosen name, even though they won’t deal combat damage to you."
686
+ },
687
+ {
688
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
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+ "text": "You’ll have protection from the name, not from the word. For example, if you choose the name Shapeshifter, you’ll have protection from anything named “Shapeshifter,” but you won’t have protection from other creatures with the creature type “Shapeshifter.”"
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+ },
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+ {
692
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
693
+ "text": "You must choose the name of a card, not the name of a token. For example, you can’t choose “Saproling” or “Marit Lage.” However, if a token happens to have the same name as a card (such as “Shapeshifter” or “Spark Elemental”), you can choose it."
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723
+ "rulings": [
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725
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
726
+ "text": "If the permanent is already untapped, you can’t activate its {Q} ability. That’s because you can’t pay the “Untap this permanent” cost."
727
+ },
728
+ {
729
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
730
+ "text": "If a creature with an {Q} ability hasn’t been under your control since your most recent turn began, you can’t activate that ability, unless the creature has haste."
731
+ },
732
+ {
733
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
734
+ "text": "When you activate an {Q} ability, you untap the creature with that ability as a cost. The untap can’t be responded to. (The actual ability can be responded to, of course.)"
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  "name": "Spectral Procession",
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+ "rulings": [
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763
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
764
+ "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."
765
+ },
766
+ {
767
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
768
+ "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."
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+ },
770
+ {
771
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
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+ "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."
773
+ },
774
+ {
775
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
776
+ "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}."
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+ ]
603
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604
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  {
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  "name": "Strip Bare",
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+ "rulings": []
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628
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  "name": "Twilight Shepherd",
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834
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835
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+ },
837
+ {
838
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
839
+ "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."
840
+ },
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+ {
842
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
843
+ "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."
844
+ },
845
+ {
846
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
847
+ "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."
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+ },
849
+ {
850
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
851
+ "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."
852
+ },
853
+ {
854
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
855
+ "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."
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+ },
857
+ {
858
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
859
+ "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."
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656
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  "name": "Windbrisk Raptor",
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- "color_indicator": null
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+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": [
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+ {
891
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
892
+ "text": "This is a static ability. Your creatures will have lifelink from the moment they’re declared as attackers until the moment the combat phase ends, they’re removed from combat, or Windbrisk Raptor leaves the battlefield, whichever comes first."
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+ ]
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683
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684
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  "name": "Woeleecher",
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  {
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  "name": "Advice from the Fae",
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943
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944
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731
945
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- "color_indicator": null
946
+ "color_indicator": null,
947
+ "rulings": [
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+ {
949
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
950
+ "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."
951
+ },
952
+ {
953
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
954
+ "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, Advice from the Fae is blue, even if you spend six black mana to cast it."
955
+ },
956
+ {
957
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
958
+ "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, Advice from the Fae has a converted mana cost of 6, even if you spend {U}{U}{U} to cast it."
959
+ },
960
+ {
961
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
962
+ "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 Advice from the Fae by spending {U}{U}{U}, {2}{U}{U}, {4}{U}, or {6}."
963
+ },
964
+ {
965
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
966
+ "text": "In a multiplayer game, compare the number of creatures you control with the number of creatures each other player controls. If any single player controls at least as many creatures as you, you get to put only one card into your hand."
967
+ }
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+ ]
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  },
734
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  {
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971
  "name": "Biting Tether",
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993
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  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
996
+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": []
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  },
762
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  {
763
1000
  "name": "Briarberry Cohort",
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1022
  "loyalty": null,
786
1023
  "multiverse_id": 146043,
787
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  "other_part": null,
788
- "color_indicator": null
1025
+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": []
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  },
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1028
  {
791
1029
  "name": "Cerulean Wisps",
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1048
  "loyalty": null,
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1049
  "multiverse_id": 158683,
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1050
  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
1051
+ "color_indicator": null,
1052
+ "rulings": [
1053
+ {
1054
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1055
+ "text": "An effect that changes a permanent’s colors overwrites all its old colors unless it specifically says “in addition to its other colors.” For example, after Cerulean Wisps resolves, the affected creature will just be blue. It doesn’t matter what colors it used to be (even if, for example, it used to be blue and black)."
1056
+ },
1057
+ {
1058
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1059
+ "text": "Changing a permanent’s color won’t change its text. If you turn Wilt-Leaf Liege blue, it will still affect green creatures and white creatures."
1060
+ },
1061
+ {
1062
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1063
+ "text": "Colorless is not a color."
1064
+ }
1065
+ ]
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1066
  },
815
1067
  {
816
1068
  "name": "Consign to Dream",
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1086
  "loyalty": null,
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1087
  "multiverse_id": 142032,
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  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
1089
+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": []
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1091
  },
839
1092
  {
840
1093
  "name": "Counterbore",
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859
1112
  "multiverse_id": 153966,
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1113
  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
1114
+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": [
1116
+ {
1117
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1118
+ "text": "Counterbore has no effect on cards on the battlefield that have the same name as the targeted spell."
1119
+ },
1120
+ {
1121
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1122
+ "text": "The cards you’re searching for must be found if they’re in the graveyard, because that’s a zone everyone can see. Finding those cards in the hand and library is optional, though."
1123
+ },
1124
+ {
1125
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1126
+ "text": "In most cases, Counterbore will exile the targeted spell. Its first sentence counters the spell, which puts it into its owner’s graveyard. Its second sentence then removes it from the graveyard. However, there are some exceptions to this, as listed below."
1127
+ },
1128
+ {
1129
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1130
+ "text": "If the spell’s controller isn’t the same as its owner (due to Commandeer, for example), it won’t be exiled. The spell is countered and put into its owner’s graveyard. Then the spell’s controller’s graveyard, hand, and library are searched."
1131
+ },
1132
+ {
1133
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1134
+ "text": "If the targeted spell can’t be countered (it’s Vexing Shusher, for example), that spell will remain on the stack. Counterbore will continue to resolve. You still get to search for and exile all other cards with that name."
1135
+ }
1136
+ ]
862
1137
  },
863
1138
  {
864
1139
  "name": "Cursecatcher",
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1160
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1161
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  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
1163
+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": []
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1165
  },
890
1166
  {
891
1167
  "name": "Deepchannel Mentor",
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1188
  "loyalty": null,
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1189
  "multiverse_id": 141981,
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  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
1191
+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": []
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1193
  },
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1194
  {
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1195
  "name": "Drowner Initiate",
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939
1216
  "loyalty": null,
940
1217
  "multiverse_id": 142005,
941
1218
  "other_part": null,
942
- "color_indicator": null
1219
+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": []
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1221
  },
944
1222
  {
945
1223
  "name": "Faerie Swarm",
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966
1244
  "loyalty": null,
967
1245
  "multiverse_id": 158685,
968
1246
  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
1247
+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": []
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  },
971
1250
  {
972
1251
  "name": "Flow of Ideas",
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1269
  "loyalty": null,
991
1270
  "multiverse_id": 158692,
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  "other_part": null,
993
- "color_indicator": null
1272
+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": []
994
1274
  },
995
1275
  {
996
1276
  "name": "Ghastly Discovery",
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1015
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  "loyalty": null,
1016
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  "multiverse_id": 158682,
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  "other_part": null,
1018
- "color_indicator": null
1298
+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": []
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1300
  },
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1301
  {
1021
1302
  "name": "Isleback Spawn",
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1042
1323
  "loyalty": null,
1043
1324
  "multiverse_id": 147370,
1044
1325
  "other_part": null,
1045
- "color_indicator": null
1326
+ "color_indicator": null,
1327
+ "rulings": [
1328
+ {
1329
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1330
+ "text": "It doesn’t matter which library has twenty or fewer cards in it, and you don’t have to specify a library. If multiple libraries have twenty or fewer cards in them, Isleback Spawn will still get its bonus only once."
1331
+ }
1332
+ ]
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1333
  },
1047
1334
  {
1048
1335
  "name": "Kinscaer Harpoonist",
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1070
1357
  "loyalty": null,
1071
1358
  "multiverse_id": 157876,
1072
1359
  "other_part": null,
1073
- "color_indicator": null
1360
+ "color_indicator": null,
1361
+ "rulings": [
1362
+ {
1363
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1364
+ "text": "You may target a creature that doesn’t have flying."
1365
+ }
1366
+ ]
1074
1367
  },
1075
1368
  {
1076
1369
  "name": "Knacksaw Clique",
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1098
1391
  "loyalty": null,
1099
1392
  "multiverse_id": 146036,
1100
1393
  "other_part": null,
1101
- "color_indicator": null
1394
+ "color_indicator": null,
1395
+ "rulings": [
1396
+ {
1397
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1398
+ "text": "If the permanent is already untapped, you can’t activate its {Q} ability. That’s because you can’t pay the “Untap this permanent” cost."
1399
+ },
1400
+ {
1401
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1402
+ "text": "If a creature with an {Q} ability hasn’t been under your control since your most recent turn began, you can’t activate that ability, unless the creature has haste."
1403
+ },
1404
+ {
1405
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1406
+ "text": "When you activate an {Q} ability, you untap the creature with that ability as a cost. The untap can’t be responded to. (The actual ability can be responded to, of course.)"
1407
+ },
1408
+ {
1409
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1410
+ "text": "The exiled card is played using the normal timing rules for its card type, as well as any other applicable restrictions such as “Cast [this card] only during combat.” For example, you can’t play the card during an opponent’s turn unless it’s an instant or has flash. Similarly, if the exiled card is a land, you can’t play it if you’ve already played a land that turn. If it’s a nonland card, you’ll have to pay its mana cost. The only thing that’s different is you’re playing it from the Exile zone."
1411
+ },
1412
+ {
1413
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1414
+ "text": "If you don’t play the exiled card that turn, it remains exiled but you can’t play it."
1415
+ }
1416
+ ]
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1417
  },
1103
1418
  {
1104
1419
  "name": "Leech Bonder",
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1126
1441
  "loyalty": null,
1127
1442
  "multiverse_id": 147406,
1128
1443
  "other_part": null,
1129
- "color_indicator": null
1444
+ "color_indicator": null,
1445
+ "rulings": [
1446
+ {
1447
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1448
+ "text": "If the permanent is already untapped, you can’t activate its {Q} ability. That’s because you can’t pay the “Untap this permanent” cost."
1449
+ },
1450
+ {
1451
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1452
+ "text": "If a creature with an {Q} ability hasn’t been under your control since your most recent turn began, you can’t activate that ability, unless the creature has haste."
1453
+ },
1454
+ {
1455
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1456
+ "text": "When you activate an {Q} ability, you untap the creature with that ability as a cost. The untap can’t be responded to. (The actual ability can be responded to, of course.)"
1457
+ },
1458
+ {
1459
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1460
+ "text": "Leech Bonder’s activated ability can move any kind of counter, not just a -1/-1 counter. It can target any two creatures, whether they have counters on them or not."
1461
+ },
1462
+ {
1463
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1464
+ "text": "This effect may result in a useless counter being placed on a creature. For example, if an age counter is moved from a creature with cumulative upkeep to a creature without cumulative upkeep, it will have no effect on the new creature."
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+ },
1466
+ {
1467
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1468
+ "text": "If either one of the target creatures becomes an illegal target (because it left the battlefield or for any other reason), the counter doesn’t move. If both targets become illegal, the ability doesn’t resolve."
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+ }
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+ ]
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  },
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1472
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1132
1473
  "name": "Merrow Wavebreakers",
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1153
1494
  "loyalty": null,
1154
1495
  "multiverse_id": 153319,
1155
1496
  "other_part": null,
1156
- "color_indicator": null
1497
+ "color_indicator": null,
1498
+ "rulings": [
1499
+ {
1500
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1501
+ "text": "If the permanent is already untapped, you can’t activate its {Q} ability. That’s because you can’t pay the “Untap this permanent” cost."
1502
+ },
1503
+ {
1504
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1505
+ "text": "If a creature with an {Q} ability hasn’t been under your control since your most recent turn began, you can’t activate that ability, unless the creature has haste."
1506
+ },
1507
+ {
1508
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1509
+ "text": "When you activate an {Q} ability, you untap the creature with that ability as a cost. The untap can’t be responded to. (The actual ability can be responded to, of course.)"
1510
+ }
1511
+ ]
1157
1512
  },
1158
1513
  {
1159
1514
  "name": "Parapet Watchers",
@@ -1180,7 +1535,8 @@
1180
1535
  "loyalty": null,
1181
1536
  "multiverse_id": 152059,
1182
1537
  "other_part": null,
1183
- "color_indicator": null
1538
+ "color_indicator": null,
1539
+ "rulings": []
1184
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  },
1185
1541
  {
1186
1542
  "name": "Prismwake Merrow",
@@ -1208,7 +1564,29 @@
1208
1564
  "loyalty": null,
1209
1565
  "multiverse_id": 154402,
1210
1566
  "other_part": null,
1211
- "color_indicator": null
1567
+ "color_indicator": null,
1568
+ "rulings": [
1569
+ {
1570
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1571
+ "text": "An effect that changes a permanent’s colors overwrites all its old colors unless it specifically says “in addition to its other colors.” For example, after Cerulean Wisps resolves, the affected creature will just be blue. It doesn’t matter what colors it used to be (even if, for example, it used to be blue and black)."
1572
+ },
1573
+ {
1574
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1575
+ "text": "Changing a permanent’s color won’t change its text. If you turn Wilt-Leaf Liege blue, it will still affect green creatures and white creatures."
1576
+ },
1577
+ {
1578
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1579
+ "text": "Colorless is not a color."
1580
+ },
1581
+ {
1582
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1583
+ "text": "You can choose any single color or any combination of more than one color. You can’t choose colorless."
1584
+ },
1585
+ {
1586
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1587
+ "text": "This ability won’t make an artifact stop being an artifact. It’ll just be a colorful artifact."
1588
+ }
1589
+ ]
1212
1590
  },
1213
1591
  {
1214
1592
  "name": "Puca's Mischief",
@@ -1232,7 +1610,21 @@
1232
1610
  "loyalty": null,
1233
1611
  "multiverse_id": 141996,
1234
1612
  "other_part": null,
1235
- "color_indicator": null
1613
+ "color_indicator": null,
1614
+ "rulings": [
1615
+ {
1616
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1617
+ "text": "You choose two targets such that as a set, all of the targeting conditions are met. That means, for example, that if you control a nonland permanent whose converted mana cost is lower than any of your opponents’ nonland permanents, you can’t choose it as a target. (If you did, you’d be unable to choose a second target.)"
1618
+ },
1619
+ {
1620
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1621
+ "text": "Even if you don’t plan on exchanging control of any permanents, if you can choose two legal targets when the ability triggers, you must do so. If you can’t, then you don’t choose any targets."
1622
+ },
1623
+ {
1624
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1625
+ "text": "If either one of the targets becomes illegal (because it leaves the battlefield or for any other reason) by the time the ability resolves, the exchange won’t happen. If both targets become illegal, the ability doesn’t resolve."
1626
+ }
1627
+ ]
1236
1628
  },
1237
1629
  {
1238
1630
  "name": "Put Away",
@@ -1256,7 +1648,21 @@
1256
1648
  "loyalty": null,
1257
1649
  "multiverse_id": 159398,
1258
1650
  "other_part": null,
1259
- "color_indicator": null
1651
+ "color_indicator": null,
1652
+ "rulings": [
1653
+ {
1654
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1655
+ "text": "If you choose to target a card in your graveyard, Put Away will have two targets. If either one of the targets becomes illegal, Put Away will continue to resolve and affect the other target."
1656
+ },
1657
+ {
1658
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1659
+ "text": "If the targeted spell can’t be countered, that spell will remain on the stack. Put Away will continue to resolve. If you targeted a card in your graveyard, you still get to shuffle it into your library."
1660
+ },
1661
+ {
1662
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1663
+ "text": "You must choose all the targets at the time you cast Put Away. You can’t use it to counter your own spell and then shuffle that card into your library because at the time you choose targets, the spell isn’t in your graveyard yet."
1664
+ }
1665
+ ]
1260
1666
  },
1261
1667
  {
1262
1668
  "name": "River Kelpie",
@@ -1284,7 +1690,57 @@
1284
1690
  "loyalty": null,
1285
1691
  "multiverse_id": 146094,
1286
1692
  "other_part": null,
1287
- "color_indicator": null
1693
+ "color_indicator": null,
1694
+ "rulings": [
1695
+ {
1696
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1697
+ "text": "River Kelpie doesn’t give you the ability to cast spells from graveyards. Its second ability merely triggers whenever a spell is cast this way (by using Memory Plunder, for example)."
1698
+ },
1699
+ {
1700
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1701
+ "text": "If River Kelpie and another permanent are each put onto the battlefield from a graveyard at the same time, River Kelpie’s first ability will trigger twice. (It will see the other permanent entering the battlefield.)"
1702
+ },
1703
+ {
1704
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1705
+ "text": "If you cast another artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker spell from a graveyard, only the second ability triggers. That’s because the card is put onto the stack, not onto the battlefield."
1706
+ },
1707
+ {
1708
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1709
+ "text": "If you cast River Kelpie itself from your graveyard (by using Yawgmoth’s Will, for example), neither ability triggers. The first ability doesn’t trigger because River Kelpie is put onto the stack; the second ability doesn’t trigger because it works only while River Kelpie is already on the battlefield."
1710
+ },
1711
+ {
1712
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1713
+ "text": "If you play a land card from a graveyard (by using Crucible of Worlds, for example), only the first ability triggers. That’s because the land (which isn’t a spell) is put directly onto the battlefield from the graveyard."
1714
+ },
1715
+ {
1716
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
1717
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
1718
+ },
1719
+ {
1720
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
1721
+ "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."
1722
+ },
1723
+ {
1724
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
1725
+ "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."
1726
+ },
1727
+ {
1728
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
1729
+ "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."
1730
+ },
1731
+ {
1732
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
1733
+ "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."
1734
+ },
1735
+ {
1736
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
1737
+ "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."
1738
+ },
1739
+ {
1740
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
1741
+ "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."
1742
+ }
1743
+ ]
1288
1744
  },
1289
1745
  {
1290
1746
  "name": "Savor the Moment",
@@ -1308,7 +1764,8 @@
1308
1764
  "loyalty": null,
1309
1765
  "multiverse_id": 159404,
1310
1766
  "other_part": null,
1311
- "color_indicator": null
1767
+ "color_indicator": null,
1768
+ "rulings": []
1312
1769
  },
1313
1770
  {
1314
1771
  "name": "Sinking Feeling",
@@ -1336,7 +1793,13 @@
1336
1793
  "loyalty": null,
1337
1794
  "multiverse_id": 158760,
1338
1795
  "other_part": null,
1339
- "color_indicator": null
1796
+ "color_indicator": null,
1797
+ "rulings": [
1798
+ {
1799
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1800
+ "text": "Sinking Feeling grants the untap ability to the creature it’s enchanting. Only the creature’s controller can activate that ability, not Sinking Feeling’s controller."
1801
+ }
1802
+ ]
1340
1803
  },
1341
1804
  {
1342
1805
  "name": "Spell Syphon",
@@ -1360,7 +1823,8 @@
1360
1823
  "loyalty": null,
1361
1824
  "multiverse_id": 153999,
1362
1825
  "other_part": null,
1363
- "color_indicator": null
1826
+ "color_indicator": null,
1827
+ "rulings": []
1364
1828
  },
1365
1829
  {
1366
1830
  "name": "Thought Reflection",
@@ -1384,7 +1848,25 @@
1384
1848
  "loyalty": null,
1385
1849
  "multiverse_id": 146728,
1386
1850
  "other_part": null,
1387
- "color_indicator": null
1851
+ "color_indicator": null,
1852
+ "rulings": [
1853
+ {
1854
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1855
+ "text": "Thought Reflection doesn’t cause you to draw cards. Rather, it causes card-drawing effects to have you draw more cards. It also causes the draw action during your draw step to have you draw two cards."
1856
+ },
1857
+ {
1858
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1859
+ "text": "If a spell or ability causes you to draw multiple cards, Thought Reflection’s effect doubles the total number you would draw. For example, if you cast Concentrate (“Draw three cards”), you’ll draw six cards."
1860
+ },
1861
+ {
1862
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1863
+ "text": "The effects of multiple Thought Reflections are cumulative. For example, if you have three Thought Reflections on the battlefield, you’ll draw eight times the original number of cards."
1864
+ },
1865
+ {
1866
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1867
+ "text": "If two or more replacement effects would apply to a card-drawing event, the player who’s drawing the card chooses what order to apply them."
1868
+ }
1869
+ ]
1388
1870
  },
1389
1871
  {
1390
1872
  "name": "Whimwader",
@@ -1410,7 +1892,8 @@
1410
1892
  "loyalty": null,
1411
1893
  "multiverse_id": 141957,
1412
1894
  "other_part": null,
1413
- "color_indicator": null
1895
+ "color_indicator": null,
1896
+ "rulings": []
1414
1897
  },
1415
1898
  {
1416
1899
  "name": "Aphotic Wisps",
@@ -1435,7 +1918,21 @@
1435
1918
  "loyalty": null,
1436
1919
  "multiverse_id": 154392,
1437
1920
  "other_part": null,
1438
- "color_indicator": null
1921
+ "color_indicator": null,
1922
+ "rulings": [
1923
+ {
1924
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1925
+ "text": "An effect that changes a permanent’s colors overwrites all its old colors unless it specifically says “in addition to its other colors.” For example, after Cerulean Wisps resolves, the affected creature will just be blue. It doesn’t matter what colors it used to be (even if, for example, it used to be blue and black)."
1926
+ },
1927
+ {
1928
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1929
+ "text": "Changing a permanent’s color won’t change its text. If you turn Wilt-Leaf Liege blue, it will still affect green creatures and white creatures."
1930
+ },
1931
+ {
1932
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1933
+ "text": "Colorless is not a color."
1934
+ }
1935
+ ]
1439
1936
  },
1440
1937
  {
1441
1938
  "name": "Ashenmoor Cohort",
@@ -1462,7 +1959,8 @@
1462
1959
  "loyalty": null,
1463
1960
  "multiverse_id": 142060,
1464
1961
  "other_part": null,
1465
- "color_indicator": null
1962
+ "color_indicator": null,
1963
+ "rulings": []
1466
1964
  },
1467
1965
  {
1468
1966
  "name": "Beseech the Queen",
@@ -1487,7 +1985,25 @@
1487
1985
  "loyalty": null,
1488
1986
  "multiverse_id": 152079,
1489
1987
  "other_part": null,
1490
- "color_indicator": null
1988
+ "color_indicator": null,
1989
+ "rulings": [
1990
+ {
1991
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1992
+ "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."
1993
+ },
1994
+ {
1995
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
1996
+ "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, Beseech the Queen is black even if you spend six red mana to cast it."
1997
+ },
1998
+ {
1999
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2000
+ "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, Beseech the Queen has a converted mana cost of 6, even if you spend {B}{B}{B} to cast it."
2001
+ },
2002
+ {
2003
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2004
+ "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 Beseech the Queen by spending {B}{B}{B}, {2}{B}{B}, {4}{B}, or {6}."
2005
+ }
2006
+ ]
1491
2007
  },
1492
2008
  {
1493
2009
  "name": "Blowfly Infestation",
@@ -1511,7 +2027,17 @@
1511
2027
  "loyalty": null,
1512
2028
  "multiverse_id": 135429,
1513
2029
  "other_part": null,
1514
- "color_indicator": null
2030
+ "color_indicator": null,
2031
+ "rulings": [
2032
+ {
2033
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2034
+ "text": "When Blowfly Infestation’s ability resolves, it will put a single -1/-1 counter on the targeted creature. It doesn’t matter how many -1/-1 counters were on the creature that went to a graveyard as long as it had at least one on it."
2035
+ },
2036
+ {
2037
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2038
+ "text": "This ability is mandatory. If you’re the only player who controls any creatures when this ability triggers, you must target one of them."
2039
+ }
2040
+ ]
1515
2041
  },
1516
2042
  {
1517
2043
  "name": "Cinderbones",
@@ -1539,7 +2065,8 @@
1539
2065
  "loyalty": null,
1540
2066
  "multiverse_id": 142051,
1541
2067
  "other_part": null,
1542
- "color_indicator": null
2068
+ "color_indicator": null,
2069
+ "rulings": []
1543
2070
  },
1544
2071
  {
1545
2072
  "name": "Cinderhaze Wretch",
@@ -1567,7 +2094,13 @@
1567
2094
  "loyalty": null,
1568
2095
  "multiverse_id": 135439,
1569
2096
  "other_part": null,
1570
- "color_indicator": null
2097
+ "color_indicator": null,
2098
+ "rulings": [
2099
+ {
2100
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2101
+ "text": "You put the -1/-1 counter on Cinderhaze Wretch as a cost. That means it happens when you activate the ability, not when it resolves. If paying the cost causes the creature to have 0 toughness, it’s put into the graveyard before you can untap it and before you can even pay the cost again."
2102
+ }
2103
+ ]
1571
2104
  },
1572
2105
  {
1573
2106
  "name": "Corrosive Mentor",
@@ -1594,7 +2127,8 @@
1594
2127
  "loyalty": null,
1595
2128
  "multiverse_id": 142034,
1596
2129
  "other_part": null,
1597
- "color_indicator": null
2130
+ "color_indicator": null,
2131
+ "rulings": []
1598
2132
  },
1599
2133
  {
1600
2134
  "name": "Corrupt",
@@ -1618,7 +2152,25 @@
1618
2152
  "loyalty": null,
1619
2153
  "multiverse_id": 146013,
1620
2154
  "other_part": null,
1621
- "color_indicator": null
2155
+ "color_indicator": null,
2156
+ "rulings": [
2157
+ {
2158
+ "date": "10/4/2004",
2159
+ "text": "The swamps are counted on resolution."
2160
+ },
2161
+ {
2162
+ "date": "8/15/2010",
2163
+ "text": "The life you gain is equal to the damage dealt by Corrupt, not necessarily to the number of Swamps you control (if some or all of the damage is prevented, for example)."
2164
+ },
2165
+ {
2166
+ "date": "8/15/2010",
2167
+ "text": "The amount of damage dealt to a creature is not bounded by its toughness, and the amount of damage dealt to a player is not bounded by that player’s life total. For example, if Corrupt deals 6 damage to a 2/2 creature, you’ll gain 6 life."
2168
+ },
2169
+ {
2170
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
2171
+ "text": "Corrupt counts any land you control with the subtype Swamp, not just ones named Swamp."
2172
+ }
2173
+ ]
1622
2174
  },
1623
2175
  {
1624
2176
  "name": "Crowd of Cinders",
@@ -1645,7 +2197,8 @@
1645
2197
  "loyalty": null,
1646
2198
  "multiverse_id": 146051,
1647
2199
  "other_part": null,
1648
- "color_indicator": null
2200
+ "color_indicator": null,
2201
+ "rulings": []
1649
2202
  },
1650
2203
  {
1651
2204
  "name": "Disturbing Plot",
@@ -1670,7 +2223,8 @@
1670
2223
  "loyalty": null,
1671
2224
  "multiverse_id": 158689,
1672
2225
  "other_part": null,
1673
- "color_indicator": null
2226
+ "color_indicator": null,
2227
+ "rulings": []
1674
2228
  },
1675
2229
  {
1676
2230
  "name": "Dusk Urchins",
@@ -1697,7 +2251,17 @@
1697
2251
  "loyalty": null,
1698
2252
  "multiverse_id": 146002,
1699
2253
  "other_part": null,
1700
- "color_indicator": null
2254
+ "color_indicator": null,
2255
+ "rulings": [
2256
+ {
2257
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2258
+ "text": "The -1/-1 counter is put on Dusk Urchins during the declare attackers or declare blockers step, whichever is appropriate, so it will be smaller by the time combat damage is dealt. (Note that this is different from how the _Shadowmoor_ card Wicker Warcrawler works.)"
2259
+ },
2260
+ {
2261
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2262
+ "text": "If Dusk Urchins has just 1 toughness when it blocks, it will get a -1/-1 counter and be put into the graveyard. The creature that it blocked remains blocked, however."
2263
+ }
2264
+ ]
1701
2265
  },
1702
2266
  {
1703
2267
  "name": "Faerie Macabre",
@@ -1725,7 +2289,17 @@
1725
2289
  "loyalty": null,
1726
2290
  "multiverse_id": 153964,
1727
2291
  "other_part": null,
1728
- "color_indicator": null
2292
+ "color_indicator": null,
2293
+ "rulings": [
2294
+ {
2295
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2296
+ "text": "Faerie Macabre’s second ability can be activated only while it’s in your hand. You can do this any time you could cast an instant."
2297
+ },
2298
+ {
2299
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2300
+ "text": "The targeted cards may be in the same graveyard or in different graveyards."
2301
+ }
2302
+ ]
1729
2303
  },
1730
2304
  {
1731
2305
  "name": "Gloomlance",
@@ -1749,7 +2323,8 @@
1749
2323
  "loyalty": null,
1750
2324
  "multiverse_id": 158757,
1751
2325
  "other_part": null,
1752
- "color_indicator": null
2326
+ "color_indicator": null,
2327
+ "rulings": []
1753
2328
  },
1754
2329
  {
1755
2330
  "name": "Hollowborn Barghest",
@@ -1777,7 +2352,17 @@
1777
2352
  "loyalty": null,
1778
2353
  "multiverse_id": 146095,
1779
2354
  "other_part": null,
1780
- "color_indicator": null
2355
+ "color_indicator": null,
2356
+ "rulings": [
2357
+ {
2358
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2359
+ "text": "The first ability checks whether you have no cards in hand both when it triggers and when it resolves. If you have any cards in your hand at the beginning of your upkeep, it won’t trigger at all. If you have any cards in your hand when the ability resolves, it does nothing."
2360
+ },
2361
+ {
2362
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2363
+ "text": "The second ability behaves the same way, except that it’s checking your opponent instead of you."
2364
+ }
2365
+ ]
1781
2366
  },
1782
2367
  {
1783
2368
  "name": "Hollowsage",
@@ -1804,7 +2389,13 @@
1804
2389
  "loyalty": null,
1805
2390
  "multiverse_id": 158234,
1806
2391
  "other_part": null,
1807
- "color_indicator": null
2392
+ "color_indicator": null,
2393
+ "rulings": [
2394
+ {
2395
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2396
+ "text": "If Hollowsage becomes untapped during your untap step, the ability will trigger. However, since no player gets priority during the untap step, it waits to be put on the stack until your upkeep starts. At that time, all your “beginning of upkeep” triggers will also trigger. You can put them and Hollowsage’s trigger on the stack in any order."
2397
+ }
2398
+ ]
1808
2399
  },
1809
2400
  {
1810
2401
  "name": "Incremental Blight",
@@ -1828,7 +2419,13 @@
1828
2419
  "loyalty": null,
1829
2420
  "multiverse_id": 147433,
1830
2421
  "other_part": null,
1831
- "color_indicator": null
2422
+ "color_indicator": null,
2423
+ "rulings": [
2424
+ {
2425
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2426
+ "text": "You must target three different creatures. If you can’t, you can’t cast Incremental Blight."
2427
+ }
2428
+ ]
1832
2429
  },
1833
2430
  {
1834
2431
  "name": "Loch Korrigan",
@@ -1854,7 +2451,8 @@
1854
2451
  "loyalty": null,
1855
2452
  "multiverse_id": 147414,
1856
2453
  "other_part": null,
1857
- "color_indicator": null
2454
+ "color_indicator": null,
2455
+ "rulings": []
1858
2456
  },
1859
2457
  {
1860
2458
  "name": "Midnight Banshee",
@@ -1881,7 +2479,8 @@
1881
2479
  "loyalty": null,
1882
2480
  "multiverse_id": 147431,
1883
2481
  "other_part": null,
1884
- "color_indicator": null
2482
+ "color_indicator": null,
2483
+ "rulings": []
1885
2484
  },
1886
2485
  {
1887
2486
  "name": "Plague of Vermin",
@@ -1905,7 +2504,29 @@
1905
2504
  "loyalty": null,
1906
2505
  "multiverse_id": 159406,
1907
2506
  "other_part": null,
1908
- "color_indicator": null
2507
+ "color_indicator": null,
2508
+ "rulings": [
2509
+ {
2510
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2511
+ "text": "In a game of N players, the process ends when all N players in sequence (starting with you) choose not to pay life. It doesn’t end the first time a player chooses not to pay life. If a player chooses not to pay life but the process continues, that player may pay life the next time the process gets around to them."
2512
+ },
2513
+ {
2514
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2515
+ "text": "The amount of life a player may spend must be equal to or less than that player’s life total; you can’t spend life you haven’t got."
2516
+ },
2517
+ {
2518
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2519
+ "text": "If a player chooses to spend life, their life total goes down immediately. This will affect how much life that player can spend the next time the process gets around to them. If a player chooses to pay life three different times during this process, for example, that counts as three separate instances of losing life, not as one."
2520
+ },
2521
+ {
2522
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2523
+ "text": "After the process stops, the total amount of life each player paid this way is calculated. That’s how many tokens each player gets. All the tokens enter the battlefield at the same time."
2524
+ },
2525
+ {
2526
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2527
+ "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, each player on a team gets a chance to pay life. The team’s life total is adjusted in between."
2528
+ }
2529
+ ]
1909
2530
  },
1910
2531
  {
1911
2532
  "name": "Polluted Bonds",
@@ -1929,7 +2550,8 @@
1929
2550
  "loyalty": null,
1930
2551
  "multiverse_id": 146766,
1931
2552
  "other_part": null,
1932
- "color_indicator": null
2553
+ "color_indicator": null,
2554
+ "rulings": []
1933
2555
  },
1934
2556
  {
1935
2557
  "name": "Puppeteer Clique",
@@ -1958,7 +2580,37 @@
1958
2580
  "loyalty": null,
1959
2581
  "multiverse_id": 146761,
1960
2582
  "other_part": null,
1961
- "color_indicator": null
2583
+ "color_indicator": null,
2584
+ "rulings": [
2585
+ {
2586
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
2587
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
2588
+ },
2589
+ {
2590
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
2591
+ "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."
2592
+ },
2593
+ {
2594
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
2595
+ "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."
2596
+ },
2597
+ {
2598
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
2599
+ "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."
2600
+ },
2601
+ {
2602
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
2603
+ "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."
2604
+ },
2605
+ {
2606
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
2607
+ "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."
2608
+ },
2609
+ {
2610
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
2611
+ "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."
2612
+ }
2613
+ ]
1962
2614
  },
1963
2615
  {
1964
2616
  "name": "Rite of Consumption",
@@ -1983,7 +2635,17 @@
1983
2635
  "loyalty": null,
1984
2636
  "multiverse_id": 159400,
1985
2637
  "other_part": null,
1986
- "color_indicator": null
2638
+ "color_indicator": null,
2639
+ "rulings": [
2640
+ {
2641
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
2642
+ "text": "You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures."
2643
+ },
2644
+ {
2645
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
2646
+ "text": "Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell."
2647
+ }
2648
+ ]
1987
2649
  },
1988
2650
  {
1989
2651
  "name": "Sickle Ripper",
@@ -2010,7 +2672,8 @@
2010
2672
  "loyalty": null,
2011
2673
  "multiverse_id": 154010,
2012
2674
  "other_part": null,
2013
- "color_indicator": null
2675
+ "color_indicator": null,
2676
+ "rulings": []
2014
2677
  },
2015
2678
  {
2016
2679
  "name": "Smolder Initiate",
@@ -2037,7 +2700,8 @@
2037
2700
  "loyalty": null,
2038
2701
  "multiverse_id": 147376,
2039
2702
  "other_part": null,
2040
- "color_indicator": null
2703
+ "color_indicator": null,
2704
+ "rulings": []
2041
2705
  },
2042
2706
  {
2043
2707
  "name": "Splitting Headache",
@@ -2063,7 +2727,8 @@
2063
2727
  "loyalty": null,
2064
2728
  "multiverse_id": 147378,
2065
2729
  "other_part": null,
2066
- "color_indicator": null
2730
+ "color_indicator": null,
2731
+ "rulings": []
2067
2732
  },
2068
2733
  {
2069
2734
  "name": "Torture",
@@ -2090,7 +2755,13 @@
2090
2755
  "loyalty": null,
2091
2756
  "multiverse_id": 142070,
2092
2757
  "other_part": null,
2093
- "color_indicator": null
2758
+ "color_indicator": null,
2759
+ "rulings": [
2760
+ {
2761
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2762
+ "text": "The -1/-1 counters that are put on the enchanted creature are independent of Torture. If Torture leaves the battlefield or is moved to another creature, the counters will stay put."
2763
+ }
2764
+ ]
2094
2765
  },
2095
2766
  {
2096
2767
  "name": "Wound Reflection",
@@ -2114,7 +2785,29 @@
2114
2785
  "loyalty": null,
2115
2786
  "multiverse_id": 146762,
2116
2787
  "other_part": null,
2117
- "color_indicator": null
2788
+ "color_indicator": null,
2789
+ "rulings": [
2790
+ {
2791
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2792
+ "text": "When Wound Reflection’s ability resolves, it checks how much life each opponent lost over the course of the turn, then it causes that opponent to lose that much life. It doesn’t matter how the opponent lost life or who caused it. It also doesn’t matter if Wound Reflection wasn’t on the battlefield at the time some or all of the life was lost."
2793
+ },
2794
+ {
2795
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2796
+ "text": "Wound Reflection’s ability checks only whether life was lost. It doesn’t care whether life was also gained. For example, if an opponent lost 4 life and gained 6 life during the turn, that player will have a higher life total than they started the turn with — but Wound Reflection’s ability will still cause that player to lose 4 life."
2797
+ },
2798
+ {
2799
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2800
+ "text": "Wound Reflection’s ability triggers at the end of every turn. It doesn’t have to be your turn, and it doesn’t have to be the turn of an opponent that lost life."
2801
+ },
2802
+ {
2803
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2804
+ "text": "If Wound Reflection’s ability resolves, then an opponent loses life later in the same turn, that life loss is never counted by Wound Reflection."
2805
+ },
2806
+ {
2807
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2808
+ "text": "Multiple Wound Reflections are cumulative. They’ll both trigger at the same time. One will resolve first. When the second one resolves, it will see the same life loss that the first Wound Reflection saw, as well as the life loss caused by the first Wound Reflection. For example, if an opponent lost 3 life during the turn, the first Wound Reflection will cause that opponent to lose 3 more life, then the second Wound Reflection will cause that opponent to lose 6 life."
2809
+ }
2810
+ ]
2118
2811
  },
2119
2812
  {
2120
2813
  "name": "Blistering Dieflyn",
@@ -2141,7 +2834,8 @@
2141
2834
  "loyalty": null,
2142
2835
  "multiverse_id": 141988,
2143
2836
  "other_part": null,
2144
- "color_indicator": null
2837
+ "color_indicator": null,
2838
+ "rulings": []
2145
2839
  },
2146
2840
  {
2147
2841
  "name": "Bloodmark Mentor",
@@ -2168,7 +2862,8 @@
2168
2862
  "loyalty": null,
2169
2863
  "multiverse_id": 142062,
2170
2864
  "other_part": null,
2171
- "color_indicator": null
2865
+ "color_indicator": null,
2866
+ "rulings": []
2172
2867
  },
2173
2868
  {
2174
2869
  "name": "Bloodshed Fever",
@@ -2195,7 +2890,8 @@
2195
2890
  "loyalty": null,
2196
2891
  "multiverse_id": 159395,
2197
2892
  "other_part": null,
2198
- "color_indicator": null
2893
+ "color_indicator": null,
2894
+ "rulings": []
2199
2895
  },
2200
2896
  {
2201
2897
  "name": "Boggart Arsonists",
@@ -2223,7 +2919,8 @@
2223
2919
  "loyalty": null,
2224
2920
  "multiverse_id": 158684,
2225
2921
  "other_part": null,
2226
- "color_indicator": null
2922
+ "color_indicator": null,
2923
+ "rulings": []
2227
2924
  },
2228
2925
  {
2229
2926
  "name": "Burn Trail",
@@ -2248,7 +2945,8 @@
2248
2945
  "loyalty": null,
2249
2946
  "multiverse_id": 158688,
2250
2947
  "other_part": null,
2251
- "color_indicator": null
2948
+ "color_indicator": null,
2949
+ "rulings": []
2252
2950
  },
2253
2951
  {
2254
2952
  "name": "Cragganwick Cremator",
@@ -2275,7 +2973,21 @@
2275
2973
  "loyalty": null,
2276
2974
  "multiverse_id": 159402,
2277
2975
  "other_part": null,
2278
- "color_indicator": null
2976
+ "color_indicator": null,
2977
+ "rulings": [
2978
+ {
2979
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2980
+ "text": "You target the player when the ability triggers. You won’t know which card is discarded until the ability resolves."
2981
+ },
2982
+ {
2983
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2984
+ "text": "Cragganwick Cremator deals damage equal to the discarded creature’s power as it exists in the graveyard. (This can matter for certain creatures with variable power, such as Maro or Tarmogoyf.)"
2985
+ },
2986
+ {
2987
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
2988
+ "text": "If you have no cards in hand when Cragganwick Cremator’s ability resolves, you don’t discard anything."
2989
+ }
2990
+ ]
2279
2991
  },
2280
2992
  {
2281
2993
  "name": "Crimson Wisps",
@@ -2300,7 +3012,21 @@
2300
3012
  "loyalty": null,
2301
3013
  "multiverse_id": 146060,
2302
3014
  "other_part": null,
2303
- "color_indicator": null
3015
+ "color_indicator": null,
3016
+ "rulings": [
3017
+ {
3018
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3019
+ "text": "An effect that changes a permanent’s colors overwrites all its old colors unless it specifically says “in addition to its other colors.” For example, after Cerulean Wisps resolves, the affected creature will just be blue. It doesn’t matter what colors it used to be (even if, for example, it used to be blue and black)."
3020
+ },
3021
+ {
3022
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3023
+ "text": "Changing a permanent’s color won’t change its text. If you turn Wilt-Leaf Liege blue, it will still affect green creatures and white creatures."
3024
+ },
3025
+ {
3026
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3027
+ "text": "Colorless is not a color."
3028
+ }
3029
+ ]
2304
3030
  },
2305
3031
  {
2306
3032
  "name": "Deep-Slumber Titan",
@@ -2329,7 +3055,8 @@
2329
3055
  "loyalty": null,
2330
3056
  "multiverse_id": 159396,
2331
3057
  "other_part": null,
2332
- "color_indicator": null
3058
+ "color_indicator": null,
3059
+ "rulings": []
2333
3060
  },
2334
3061
  {
2335
3062
  "name": "Elemental Mastery",
@@ -2356,7 +3083,21 @@
2356
3083
  "loyalty": null,
2357
3084
  "multiverse_id": 146087,
2358
3085
  "other_part": null,
2359
- "color_indicator": null
3086
+ "color_indicator": null,
3087
+ "rulings": [
3088
+ {
3089
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3090
+ "text": "The enchanted creature’s power is checked at the time the ability resolves. If the enchanted creature has left the battlefield by then, its last known information is used."
3091
+ },
3092
+ {
3093
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3094
+ "text": "The tokens will be exiled in the End step even if Elemental Mastery or the enchanted creature has left the battlefield by then."
3095
+ },
3096
+ {
3097
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3098
+ "text": "If the ability is activated after the current turn’s End step has begun, the tokens won’t be exiled until the next turn’s End step."
3099
+ }
3100
+ ]
2360
3101
  },
2361
3102
  {
2362
3103
  "name": "Ember Gale",
@@ -2380,7 +3121,13 @@
2380
3121
  "loyalty": null,
2381
3122
  "multiverse_id": 158766,
2382
3123
  "other_part": null,
2383
- "color_indicator": null
3124
+ "color_indicator": null,
3125
+ "rulings": [
3126
+ {
3127
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3128
+ "text": "Ember Gale will deal damage only to white and/or blue creatures the targeted player controls at the time it resolves. However, it will prevent all creatures that player controls from blocking that turn, even if those creatures enter the battlefield later."
3129
+ }
3130
+ ]
2384
3131
  },
2385
3132
  {
2386
3133
  "name": "Flame Javelin",
@@ -2405,7 +3152,25 @@
2405
3152
  "loyalty": null,
2406
3153
  "multiverse_id": 146017,
2407
3154
  "other_part": null,
2408
- "color_indicator": null
3155
+ "color_indicator": null,
3156
+ "rulings": [
3157
+ {
3158
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3159
+ "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."
3160
+ },
3161
+ {
3162
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3163
+ "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, Flame Javelin is red even if you spend six green mana to cast it."
3164
+ },
3165
+ {
3166
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3167
+ "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, Flame Javelin has a converted mana cost of 6, even if you spend {R}{R}{R} to cast it."
3168
+ },
3169
+ {
3170
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3171
+ "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 Flame Javelin by spending {R}{R}{R}, {2}{R}{R}, {4}{R}, or {6}."
3172
+ }
3173
+ ]
2409
3174
  },
2410
3175
  {
2411
3176
  "name": "Furystoke Giant",
@@ -2433,7 +3198,37 @@
2433
3198
  "loyalty": null,
2434
3199
  "multiverse_id": 152069,
2435
3200
  "other_part": null,
2436
- "color_indicator": null
3201
+ "color_indicator": null,
3202
+ "rulings": [
3203
+ {
3204
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3205
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
3206
+ },
3207
+ {
3208
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3209
+ "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."
3210
+ },
3211
+ {
3212
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3213
+ "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."
3214
+ },
3215
+ {
3216
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3217
+ "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."
3218
+ },
3219
+ {
3220
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3221
+ "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."
3222
+ },
3223
+ {
3224
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3225
+ "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."
3226
+ },
3227
+ {
3228
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
3229
+ "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."
3230
+ }
3231
+ ]
2437
3232
  },
2438
3233
  {
2439
3234
  "name": "Horde of Boggarts",
@@ -2460,7 +3255,8 @@
2460
3255
  "loyalty": null,
2461
3256
  "multiverse_id": 154409,
2462
3257
  "other_part": null,
2463
- "color_indicator": null
3258
+ "color_indicator": null,
3259
+ "rulings": []
2464
3260
  },
2465
3261
  {
2466
3262
  "name": "Inescapable Brute",
@@ -2488,7 +3284,13 @@
2488
3284
  "loyalty": null,
2489
3285
  "multiverse_id": 147429,
2490
3286
  "other_part": null,
2491
- "color_indicator": null
3287
+ "color_indicator": null,
3288
+ "rulings": [
3289
+ {
3290
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3291
+ "text": "If Inescapable Brute is attacking, the defending player must assign at least one blocker to it during the declare blockers step if that player controls any creatures that could block Inescapable Brute."
3292
+ }
3293
+ ]
2492
3294
  },
2493
3295
  {
2494
3296
  "name": "Intimidator Initiate",
@@ -2515,7 +3317,8 @@
2515
3317
  "loyalty": null,
2516
3318
  "multiverse_id": 142026,
2517
3319
  "other_part": null,
2518
- "color_indicator": null
3320
+ "color_indicator": null,
3321
+ "rulings": []
2519
3322
  },
2520
3323
  {
2521
3324
  "name": "Jaws of Stone",
@@ -2539,7 +3342,21 @@
2539
3342
  "loyalty": null,
2540
3343
  "multiverse_id": 146070,
2541
3344
  "other_part": null,
2542
- "color_indicator": null
3345
+ "color_indicator": null,
3346
+ "rulings": [
3347
+ {
3348
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3349
+ "text": "The amount of damage is locked in as you cast Jaws of Stone. It won’t change, even if the number of Mountains you control changes."
3350
+ },
3351
+ {
3352
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3353
+ "text": "If you control no Mountains as you cast Jaws of Stone, the number of targets must be zero."
3354
+ },
3355
+ {
3356
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3357
+ "text": "If you control any Mountains as you cast Jaws of Stone, the number of targets must be at least one and at most X. You divide the damage among the targets as you cast Jaws of Stone. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
3358
+ }
3359
+ ]
2543
3360
  },
2544
3361
  {
2545
3362
  "name": "Knollspine Dragon",
@@ -2566,7 +3383,21 @@
2566
3383
  "loyalty": null,
2567
3384
  "multiverse_id": 147398,
2568
3385
  "other_part": null,
2569
- "color_indicator": null
3386
+ "color_indicator": null,
3387
+ "rulings": [
3388
+ {
3389
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3390
+ "text": "You target an opponent when the ability triggers. You don’t decide whether you want to discard and draw until the ability resolves."
3391
+ },
3392
+ {
3393
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3394
+ "text": "This ability counts the total amount of damage (both combat and noncombat) dealt to the targeted opponent by all sources (including ones you controlled and ones you didn’t) over the course of the turn. Damage that was prevented or replaced doesn’t count. Damage that resolved but didn’t cause loss of life (due to Worship, for example) will count."
3395
+ },
3396
+ {
3397
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3398
+ "text": "Knollspine Dragon’s ability checks only whether damage was dealt. It doesn’t care whether the player’s life total also changed for other reasons (such as if the player paid life or gained life). For example, if an opponent was dealt 4 damage and gained 6 life during the turn, that player will have a higher life total than they started the turn with — but Knollspine Dragon’s ability will let you discard your hand and draw four cards."
3399
+ }
3400
+ ]
2570
3401
  },
2571
3402
  {
2572
3403
  "name": "Knollspine Invocation",
@@ -2590,7 +3421,8 @@
2590
3421
  "loyalty": null,
2591
3422
  "multiverse_id": 153977,
2592
3423
  "other_part": null,
2593
- "color_indicator": null
3424
+ "color_indicator": null,
3425
+ "rulings": []
2594
3426
  },
2595
3427
  {
2596
3428
  "name": "Mudbrawler Cohort",
@@ -2618,7 +3450,8 @@
2618
3450
  "loyalty": null,
2619
3451
  "multiverse_id": 146062,
2620
3452
  "other_part": null,
2621
- "color_indicator": null
3453
+ "color_indicator": null,
3454
+ "rulings": []
2622
3455
  },
2623
3456
  {
2624
3457
  "name": "Power of Fire",
@@ -2645,7 +3478,8 @@
2645
3478
  "loyalty": null,
2646
3479
  "multiverse_id": 152159,
2647
3480
  "other_part": null,
2648
- "color_indicator": null
3481
+ "color_indicator": null,
3482
+ "rulings": []
2649
3483
  },
2650
3484
  {
2651
3485
  "name": "Puncture Bolt",
@@ -2669,7 +3503,21 @@
2669
3503
  "loyalty": null,
2670
3504
  "multiverse_id": 146071,
2671
3505
  "other_part": null,
2672
- "color_indicator": null
3506
+ "color_indicator": null,
3507
+ "rulings": [
3508
+ {
3509
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3510
+ "text": "Puncture Bolt will resolve fully (and give the creature a -1/-1 counter) even if the 1 damage would be enough to destroy it. (This would matter if a 3/3 creature with persist had already been dealt 2 damage, for example.)"
3511
+ },
3512
+ {
3513
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3514
+ "text": "If you target a creature with 2 toughness, Puncture Bolt deals 1 damage to it, then puts a -1/-1 counter on it, which reduces it to 1 toughness. The creature will be destroyed as a result of lethal damage. Regeneration could save it."
3515
+ },
3516
+ {
3517
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3518
+ "text": "If you target a creature with 1 toughness, Puncture Bolt deals 1 damage to it, then puts a -1/-1 counter on it, which reduces it to 0 toughness. The creature will be put into its owner’s graveyard as a result of having 0 toughness. Regeneration can’t save it."
3519
+ }
3520
+ ]
2673
3521
  },
2674
3522
  {
2675
3523
  "name": "Pyre Charger",
@@ -2697,7 +3545,8 @@
2697
3545
  "loyalty": null,
2698
3546
  "multiverse_id": 159399,
2699
3547
  "other_part": null,
2700
- "color_indicator": null
3548
+ "color_indicator": null,
3549
+ "rulings": []
2701
3550
  },
2702
3551
  {
2703
3552
  "name": "Rage Reflection",
@@ -2721,7 +3570,13 @@
2721
3570
  "loyalty": null,
2722
3571
  "multiverse_id": 146727,
2723
3572
  "other_part": null,
2724
- "color_indicator": null
3573
+ "color_indicator": null,
3574
+ "rulings": [
3575
+ {
3576
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3577
+ "text": "If a creature loses double strike after assigning damage in the “first strike” combat damage step (due to Rage Reflection leaving the battlefield, for example), that creature won’t assign damage in the “normal” combat damage step."
3578
+ }
3579
+ ]
2725
3580
  },
2726
3581
  {
2727
3582
  "name": "Rustrazor Butcher",
@@ -2749,7 +3604,8 @@
2749
3604
  "loyalty": null,
2750
3605
  "multiverse_id": 147389,
2751
3606
  "other_part": null,
2752
- "color_indicator": null
3607
+ "color_indicator": null,
3608
+ "rulings": []
2753
3609
  },
2754
3610
  {
2755
3611
  "name": "Slinking Giant",
@@ -2777,7 +3633,8 @@
2777
3633
  "loyalty": null,
2778
3634
  "multiverse_id": 153995,
2779
3635
  "other_part": null,
2780
- "color_indicator": null
3636
+ "color_indicator": null,
3637
+ "rulings": []
2781
3638
  },
2782
3639
  {
2783
3640
  "name": "Smash to Smithereens",
@@ -2801,7 +3658,13 @@
2801
3658
  "loyalty": null,
2802
3659
  "multiverse_id": 158243,
2803
3660
  "other_part": null,
2804
- "color_indicator": null
3661
+ "color_indicator": null,
3662
+ "rulings": [
3663
+ {
3664
+ "date": "6/22/2015",
3665
+ "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."
3666
+ }
3667
+ ]
2805
3668
  },
2806
3669
  {
2807
3670
  "name": "Wild Swing",
@@ -2825,7 +3688,17 @@
2825
3688
  "loyalty": null,
2826
3689
  "multiverse_id": 158686,
2827
3690
  "other_part": null,
2828
- "color_indicator": null
3691
+ "color_indicator": null,
3692
+ "rulings": [
3693
+ {
3694
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3695
+ "text": "You target three permanents as you cast Wild Swing. You don’t randomly choose which one will be destroyed until Wild Swing resolves. If one of those permanents has become an illegal target by then, you randomly choose between the other two. If two of those permanents have become illegal targets by then, there is no random choice — the remaining permanent is destroyed."
3696
+ },
3697
+ {
3698
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3699
+ "text": "As Wild Swing resolves, there is no time to react between the time a permanent is chosen at random and the time it’s destroyed. If you want to put a regeneration shield on one of those permanents, or sacrifice it for some effect, or anything else, you must do so before Wild Swing resolves (and before you know which one of the permanents will be chosen at random)."
3700
+ }
3701
+ ]
2829
3702
  },
2830
3703
  {
2831
3704
  "name": "Crabapple Cohort",
@@ -2852,7 +3725,8 @@
2852
3725
  "loyalty": null,
2853
3726
  "multiverse_id": 146009,
2854
3727
  "other_part": null,
2855
- "color_indicator": null
3728
+ "color_indicator": null,
3729
+ "rulings": []
2856
3730
  },
2857
3731
  {
2858
3732
  "name": "Devoted Druid",
@@ -2880,7 +3754,17 @@
2880
3754
  "loyalty": null,
2881
3755
  "multiverse_id": 135500,
2882
3756
  "other_part": null,
2883
- "color_indicator": null
3757
+ "color_indicator": null,
3758
+ "rulings": [
3759
+ {
3760
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
3761
+ "text": "You put the -1/-1 counter on Devoted Druid as a cost to activate its ability, not when it resolves. If paying the cost causes Devoted Druid to have 0 toughness, it’s put into your graveyard before you can untap it and before you can even pay the cost again."
3762
+ },
3763
+ {
3764
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
3765
+ "text": "If you can’t put -1/-1 counters on Devoted Druid (due to an effect such as that of Solemnity), you can’t activate its second ability. If you can put counters on it, but that is modified by an effect (such as that of Vizier of Remedies), you can activate the ability even if paying the cost causes no counters to be put on Devoted Druid."
3766
+ }
3767
+ ]
2884
3768
  },
2885
3769
  {
2886
3770
  "name": "Dramatic Entrance",
@@ -2904,7 +3788,8 @@
2904
3788
  "loyalty": null,
2905
3789
  "multiverse_id": 154003,
2906
3790
  "other_part": null,
2907
- "color_indicator": null
3791
+ "color_indicator": null,
3792
+ "rulings": []
2908
3793
  },
2909
3794
  {
2910
3795
  "name": "Drove of Elves",
@@ -2931,7 +3816,8 @@
2931
3816
  "loyalty": null,
2932
3817
  "multiverse_id": 157878,
2933
3818
  "other_part": null,
2934
- "color_indicator": null
3819
+ "color_indicator": null,
3820
+ "rulings": []
2935
3821
  },
2936
3822
  {
2937
3823
  "name": "Farhaven Elf",
@@ -2958,7 +3844,8 @@
2958
3844
  "loyalty": null,
2959
3845
  "multiverse_id": 153289,
2960
3846
  "other_part": null,
2961
- "color_indicator": null
3847
+ "color_indicator": null,
3848
+ "rulings": []
2962
3849
  },
2963
3850
  {
2964
3851
  "name": "Flourishing Defenses",
@@ -2982,7 +3869,17 @@
2982
3869
  "loyalty": null,
2983
3870
  "multiverse_id": 158764,
2984
3871
  "other_part": null,
2985
- "color_indicator": null
3872
+ "color_indicator": null,
3873
+ "rulings": [
3874
+ {
3875
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3876
+ "text": "This ability triggers both when a -1/-1 counter is put on a creature on the battlefield and when a creature enters the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it. This includes when a creature returns to the battlefield as a result of persist."
3877
+ },
3878
+ {
3879
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
3880
+ "text": "This ability triggers once for each -1/-1 counter. For example, if Leech Bonder (a creature that enters the battlefield with two -1/-1 counters on it) entered the battlefield, Flourishing Defenses’s ability would trigger twice."
3881
+ }
3882
+ ]
2986
3883
  },
2987
3884
  {
2988
3885
  "name": "Foxfire Oak",
@@ -3009,7 +3906,8 @@
3009
3906
  "loyalty": null,
3010
3907
  "multiverse_id": 141998,
3011
3908
  "other_part": null,
3012
- "color_indicator": null
3909
+ "color_indicator": null,
3910
+ "rulings": []
3013
3911
  },
3014
3912
  {
3015
3913
  "name": "Gleeful Sabotage",
@@ -3034,7 +3932,8 @@
3034
3932
  "loyalty": null,
3035
3933
  "multiverse_id": 158681,
3036
3934
  "other_part": null,
3037
- "color_indicator": null
3935
+ "color_indicator": null,
3936
+ "rulings": []
3038
3937
  },
3039
3938
  {
3040
3939
  "name": "Gloomwidow",
@@ -3061,7 +3960,8 @@
3061
3960
  "loyalty": null,
3062
3961
  "multiverse_id": 147375,
3063
3962
  "other_part": null,
3064
- "color_indicator": null
3963
+ "color_indicator": null,
3964
+ "rulings": []
3065
3965
  },
3066
3966
  {
3067
3967
  "name": "Gloomwidow's Feast",
@@ -3085,7 +3985,8 @@
3085
3985
  "loyalty": null,
3086
3986
  "multiverse_id": 154394,
3087
3987
  "other_part": null,
3088
- "color_indicator": null
3988
+ "color_indicator": null,
3989
+ "rulings": []
3089
3990
  },
3090
3991
  {
3091
3992
  "name": "Howl of the Night Pack",
@@ -3109,7 +4010,17 @@
3109
4010
  "loyalty": null,
3110
4011
  "multiverse_id": 153996,
3111
4012
  "other_part": null,
3112
- "color_indicator": null
4013
+ "color_indicator": null,
4014
+ "rulings": [
4015
+ {
4016
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
4017
+ "text": "The number of Wolves you put onto the battlefield is based on the number of Forests you control when Howl of the Night Pack resolves."
4018
+ },
4019
+ {
4020
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
4021
+ "text": "Howl of the Night Pack counts any land you control with the subtype Forest, not just ones named Forest."
4022
+ }
4023
+ ]
3113
4024
  },
3114
4025
  {
3115
4026
  "name": "Hungry Spriggan",
@@ -3137,7 +4048,8 @@
3137
4048
  "loyalty": null,
3138
4049
  "multiverse_id": 153997,
3139
4050
  "other_part": null,
3140
- "color_indicator": null
4051
+ "color_indicator": null,
4052
+ "rulings": []
3141
4053
  },
3142
4054
  {
3143
4055
  "name": "Juvenile Gloomwidow",
@@ -3164,7 +4076,8 @@
3164
4076
  "loyalty": null,
3165
4077
  "multiverse_id": 153976,
3166
4078
  "other_part": null,
3167
- "color_indicator": null
4079
+ "color_indicator": null,
4080
+ "rulings": []
3168
4081
  },
3169
4082
  {
3170
4083
  "name": "Mana Reflection",
@@ -3188,7 +4101,33 @@
3188
4101
  "loyalty": null,
3189
4102
  "multiverse_id": 146750,
3190
4103
  "other_part": null,
3191
- "color_indicator": null
4104
+ "color_indicator": null,
4105
+ "rulings": [
4106
+ {
4107
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4108
+ "text": "You’re “tapping a permanent for mana” only if you’re activating an activated ability of that permanent that includes the {T} symbol in its cost and produces mana as part of its effect."
4109
+ },
4110
+ {
4111
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4112
+ "text": "Mana Reflection affects any permanent you tap for mana, not just lands you tap for mana."
4113
+ },
4114
+ {
4115
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4116
+ "text": "Mana Reflection doesn’t produce any mana itself. Rather, it causes permanents you tap for mana to produce more mana. (This is different than seemingly similar cards like Heartbeat of Spring and Gauntlet of Power.) If the permanent puts any restrictions or riders on the mana it produces, as Pillar of the Paruns and Hall of the Bandit Lord do, that will apply to all the mana it produces this way."
4117
+ },
4118
+ {
4119
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4120
+ "text": "Mana Reflection doesn’t cause permanents you tap for mana to produce one extra mana — rather, it doubles the type and amount of mana that permanent would produce. For example, if you tap Mystic Gate for {W}{U}, it will produce {W}{W}{U}{U} instead."
4121
+ },
4122
+ {
4123
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4124
+ "text": "The effects of multiple Mana Reflections are cumulative. For example, if you have three Mana Reflections on the battlefield, you’ll get eight times the original amount and type of mana."
4125
+ },
4126
+ {
4127
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4128
+ "text": "If you have Mana Reflection on the battlefield and tap a permanent for mana, but another replacement effect would change the type and/or amount of mana it would produce (such as Contamination, which says “If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type and amount”), you decide what order to apply those effects in. In this example, applying Mana Reflection first and Contamination second would result in {B}; applying Contamination first and Mana Reflection second would result in {B}{B}."
4129
+ }
4130
+ ]
3192
4131
  },
3193
4132
  {
3194
4133
  "name": "Mossbridge Troll",
@@ -3215,7 +4154,17 @@
3215
4154
  "loyalty": null,
3216
4155
  "multiverse_id": 146021,
3217
4156
  "other_part": null,
3218
- "color_indicator": null
4157
+ "color_indicator": null,
4158
+ "rulings": [
4159
+ {
4160
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4161
+ "text": "The first ability essentially means that Mossbridge Troll always has a regeneration shield. It retains that shield even if it’s used."
4162
+ },
4163
+ {
4164
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4165
+ "text": "The total power of the creatures you tap is checked only when you pay the cost. It doesn’t matter if their power decreases, or if any of them have left the battlefield, by the time the ability resolves. Note that you may tap a Mossbridge Troll to help pay the cost of a different Mossbridge Troll’s ability."
4166
+ }
4167
+ ]
3219
4168
  },
3220
4169
  {
3221
4170
  "name": "Nurturer Initiate",
@@ -3242,7 +4191,8 @@
3242
4191
  "loyalty": null,
3243
4192
  "multiverse_id": 142035,
3244
4193
  "other_part": null,
3245
- "color_indicator": null
4194
+ "color_indicator": null,
4195
+ "rulings": []
3246
4196
  },
3247
4197
  {
3248
4198
  "name": "Presence of Gond",
@@ -3269,7 +4219,13 @@
3269
4219
  "loyalty": null,
3270
4220
  "multiverse_id": 158768,
3271
4221
  "other_part": null,
3272
- "color_indicator": null
4222
+ "color_indicator": null,
4223
+ "rulings": [
4224
+ {
4225
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4226
+ "text": "The creature’s controller, not Presence of Gond’s controller, is the one who can activate the ability, so that’s the player who will get the token."
4227
+ }
4228
+ ]
3273
4229
  },
3274
4230
  {
3275
4231
  "name": "Prismatic Omen",
@@ -3293,7 +4249,17 @@
3293
4249
  "loyalty": null,
3294
4250
  "multiverse_id": 151989,
3295
4251
  "other_part": null,
3296
- "color_indicator": null
4252
+ "color_indicator": null,
4253
+ "rulings": [
4254
+ {
4255
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4256
+ "text": "Each land you control will have the land types Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest. They’ll also have the mana ability of each basic land type (for example, Forests can tap to produce {G}). They’ll still have their other subtypes and abilities."
4257
+ },
4258
+ {
4259
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4260
+ "text": "Giving a land extra basic land types doesn’t change its name or whether it’s legendary or basic."
4261
+ }
4262
+ ]
3297
4263
  },
3298
4264
  {
3299
4265
  "name": "Raking Canopy",
@@ -3317,7 +4283,8 @@
3317
4283
  "loyalty": null,
3318
4284
  "multiverse_id": 158691,
3319
4285
  "other_part": null,
3320
- "color_indicator": null
4286
+ "color_indicator": null,
4287
+ "rulings": []
3321
4288
  },
3322
4289
  {
3323
4290
  "name": "Roughshod Mentor",
@@ -3344,7 +4311,8 @@
3344
4311
  "loyalty": null,
3345
4312
  "multiverse_id": 141972,
3346
4313
  "other_part": null,
3347
- "color_indicator": null
4314
+ "color_indicator": null,
4315
+ "rulings": []
3348
4316
  },
3349
4317
  {
3350
4318
  "name": "Spawnwrithe",
@@ -3371,7 +4339,25 @@
3371
4339
  "loyalty": null,
3372
4340
  "multiverse_id": 158687,
3373
4341
  "other_part": null,
3374
- "color_indicator": null
4342
+ "color_indicator": null,
4343
+ "rulings": [
4344
+ {
4345
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4346
+ "text": "As the token is created, it checks the printed values of the Spawnwrithe it’s copying — or, if the Spawnwrithe whose ability triggered was itself a token, the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put it onto the battlefield — as well as any copy effects that have been applied to it. It won’t copy counters on the Spawnwrithe, nor will it copy other effects that have changed Spawnwrithe’s power, toughness, types, color, or so on. Normally, this means the token will simply be a Spawnwrithe. But if any copy effects have affected that Spawnwrithe, they’re taken into account."
4347
+ },
4348
+ {
4349
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4350
+ "text": "If Spawnwrithe’s ability triggers, then Spawnwrithe becomes a copy of another creature before its ability resolves (due to Mirrorweave, perhaps), the token will be a copy of whatever creature the Spawnwrithe is currently a copy of. At the end of the turn, Spawnwrithe will revert back to what it was, but the token will stay as it is."
4351
+ },
4352
+ {
4353
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4354
+ "text": "If a copy effect such as Mirrorweave causes some other creature to become a copy of Spawnwrithe, then that creature deals combat damage to a player, the token that’s put onto the battlefield is simply a copy of Spawnwrithe."
4355
+ },
4356
+ {
4357
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4358
+ "text": "A token created by a Cemetery Puca that’s copying a Spawnwrithe will be a Spawnwrithe with the Cemetery Puca ability."
4359
+ }
4360
+ ]
3375
4361
  },
3376
4362
  {
3377
4363
  "name": "Toil to Renown",
@@ -3395,7 +4381,8 @@
3395
4381
  "loyalty": null,
3396
4382
  "multiverse_id": 159410,
3397
4383
  "other_part": null,
3398
- "color_indicator": null
4384
+ "color_indicator": null,
4385
+ "rulings": []
3399
4386
  },
3400
4387
  {
3401
4388
  "name": "Tower Above",
@@ -3420,7 +4407,29 @@
3420
4407
  "loyalty": null,
3421
4408
  "multiverse_id": 152075,
3422
4409
  "other_part": null,
3423
- "color_indicator": null
4410
+ "color_indicator": null,
4411
+ "rulings": [
4412
+ {
4413
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4414
+ "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."
4415
+ },
4416
+ {
4417
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4418
+ "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, Tower Above is green even if you spend six white mana to cast it."
4419
+ },
4420
+ {
4421
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4422
+ "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, Tower Above has a converted mana cost of 6, even if you spend {G}{G}{G} to cast it."
4423
+ },
4424
+ {
4425
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4426
+ "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 Tower Above by spending {G}{G}{G}, {2}{G}{G}, {4}{G}, or {6}."
4427
+ },
4428
+ {
4429
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4430
+ "text": "When the creature affected by Tower Above attacks, you can target any creature on the battlefield with the triggered ability. However, if the creature you target can’t block the creature affected by Tower Above (for example, because the attacking creature has flying and the other one doesn’t, or because both creatures are controlled by the same player), the triggered ability does nothing. In that case, the creature you targeted is free to block whichever creature its controller chooses, or block no creatures at all."
4431
+ }
4432
+ ]
3424
4433
  },
3425
4434
  {
3426
4435
  "name": "Viridescent Wisps",
@@ -3445,7 +4454,21 @@
3445
4454
  "loyalty": null,
3446
4455
  "multiverse_id": 158758,
3447
4456
  "other_part": null,
3448
- "color_indicator": null
4457
+ "color_indicator": null,
4458
+ "rulings": [
4459
+ {
4460
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4461
+ "text": "An effect that changes a permanent’s colors overwrites all its old colors unless it specifically says “in addition to its other colors.” For example, after Cerulean Wisps resolves, the affected creature will just be blue. It doesn’t matter what colors it used to be (even if, for example, it used to be blue and black)."
4462
+ },
4463
+ {
4464
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4465
+ "text": "Changing a permanent’s color won’t change its text. If you turn Wilt-Leaf Liege blue, it will still affect green creatures and white creatures."
4466
+ },
4467
+ {
4468
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4469
+ "text": "Colorless is not a color."
4470
+ }
4471
+ ]
3449
4472
  },
3450
4473
  {
3451
4474
  "name": "Wildslayer Elves",
@@ -3472,7 +4495,8 @@
3472
4495
  "loyalty": null,
3473
4496
  "multiverse_id": 135436,
3474
4497
  "other_part": null,
3475
- "color_indicator": null
4498
+ "color_indicator": null,
4499
+ "rulings": []
3476
4500
  },
3477
4501
  {
3478
4502
  "name": "Witherscale Wurm",
@@ -3499,7 +4523,17 @@
3499
4523
  "loyalty": null,
3500
4524
  "multiverse_id": 152068,
3501
4525
  "other_part": null,
3502
- "color_indicator": null
4526
+ "color_indicator": null,
4527
+ "rulings": [
4528
+ {
4529
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4530
+ "text": "Witherscale Wurm’s second ability triggers when it deals any damage to an opponent, not just combat damage."
4531
+ },
4532
+ {
4533
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4534
+ "text": "Witherscale Wurm’s first ability does *not* give Witherscale Wurm wither."
4535
+ }
4536
+ ]
3503
4537
  },
3504
4538
  {
3505
4539
  "name": "Woodfall Primus",
@@ -3528,7 +4562,37 @@
3528
4562
  "loyalty": null,
3529
4563
  "multiverse_id": 151987,
3530
4564
  "other_part": null,
3531
- "color_indicator": null
4565
+ "color_indicator": null,
4566
+ "rulings": [
4567
+ {
4568
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4569
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
4570
+ },
4571
+ {
4572
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4573
+ "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."
4574
+ },
4575
+ {
4576
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4577
+ "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."
4578
+ },
4579
+ {
4580
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4581
+ "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."
4582
+ },
4583
+ {
4584
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4585
+ "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."
4586
+ },
4587
+ {
4588
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4589
+ "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."
4590
+ },
4591
+ {
4592
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
4593
+ "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."
4594
+ }
4595
+ ]
3532
4596
  },
3533
4597
  {
3534
4598
  "name": "Aethertow",
@@ -3553,7 +4617,8 @@
3553
4617
  "loyalty": null,
3554
4618
  "multiverse_id": 158750,
3555
4619
  "other_part": null,
3556
- "color_indicator": null
4620
+ "color_indicator": null,
4621
+ "rulings": []
3557
4622
  },
3558
4623
  {
3559
4624
  "name": "Augury Adept",
@@ -3580,7 +4645,8 @@
3580
4645
  "loyalty": null,
3581
4646
  "multiverse_id": 147407,
3582
4647
  "other_part": null,
3583
- "color_indicator": null
4648
+ "color_indicator": null,
4649
+ "rulings": []
3584
4650
  },
3585
4651
  {
3586
4652
  "name": "Barrenton Cragtreads",
@@ -3607,7 +4673,8 @@
3607
4673
  "loyalty": null,
3608
4674
  "multiverse_id": 142000,
3609
4675
  "other_part": null,
3610
- "color_indicator": null
4676
+ "color_indicator": null,
4677
+ "rulings": []
3611
4678
  },
3612
4679
  {
3613
4680
  "name": "Curse of Chains",
@@ -3634,7 +4701,8 @@
3634
4701
  "loyalty": null,
3635
4702
  "multiverse_id": 146079,
3636
4703
  "other_part": null,
3637
- "color_indicator": null
4704
+ "color_indicator": null,
4705
+ "rulings": []
3638
4706
  },
3639
4707
  {
3640
4708
  "name": "Enchanted Evening",
@@ -3658,7 +4726,13 @@
3658
4726
  "loyalty": null,
3659
4727
  "multiverse_id": 151979,
3660
4728
  "other_part": null,
3661
- "color_indicator": null
4729
+ "color_indicator": null,
4730
+ "rulings": [
4731
+ {
4732
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4733
+ "text": "This has no effect on those permanents other than letting them interact with things that care about enchantments."
4734
+ }
4735
+ ]
3662
4736
  },
3663
4737
  {
3664
4738
  "name": "Glamer Spinners",
@@ -3687,7 +4761,21 @@
3687
4761
  "loyalty": null,
3688
4762
  "multiverse_id": 142031,
3689
4763
  "other_part": null,
3690
- "color_indicator": null
4764
+ "color_indicator": null,
4765
+ "rulings": [
4766
+ {
4767
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4768
+ "text": "When Glamer Spinners enters the battlefield, you target only one permanent: the one that will be losing its Auras. You don’t choose the permanent that will be receiving the Auras until the ability resolves."
4769
+ },
4770
+ {
4771
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4772
+ "text": "You may target a permanent that has no Auras enchanting it."
4773
+ },
4774
+ {
4775
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4776
+ "text": "When the ability resolves, you choose the permanent that will be receiving the Auras. It can’t be the targeted permanent, it must have the same controller as the targeted permanent, and it must be able to be enchanted by all the Auras attached to the targeted permanent. If you can’t choose a permanent that meets all those criteria, the Auras won’t move."
4777
+ }
4778
+ ]
3691
4779
  },
3692
4780
  {
3693
4781
  "name": "Godhead of Awe",
@@ -3715,7 +4803,21 @@
3715
4803
  "loyalty": null,
3716
4804
  "multiverse_id": 142019,
3717
4805
  "other_part": null,
3718
- "color_indicator": null
4806
+ "color_indicator": null,
4807
+ "rulings": [
4808
+ {
4809
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4810
+ "text": "This doesn’t cause creatures to lose their abilities."
4811
+ },
4812
+ {
4813
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4814
+ "text": "If two Godheads of Awe are on the battlefield, they’ll each make the other one 1/1."
4815
+ },
4816
+ {
4817
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
4818
+ "text": "Godhead of Awe’s ability overwrites other effects that set a creature’s power and toughness to specific values only if those effects existed before the Godhead entered the battlefield. 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 Godhead enters the battlefield. Effects that switch the creature’s power and toughness are always applied after any other power or toughness changing effects, including that of the Godhead."
4819
+ }
4820
+ ]
3719
4821
  },
3720
4822
  {
3721
4823
  "name": "Mirrorweave",
@@ -3739,7 +4841,33 @@
3739
4841
  "loyalty": null,
3740
4842
  "multiverse_id": 153973,
3741
4843
  "other_part": null,
3742
- "color_indicator": null
4844
+ "color_indicator": null,
4845
+ "rulings": [
4846
+ {
4847
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4848
+ "text": "Each other creature copies the printed values of the targeted creature, plus any copy effects that have been applied to that creature. They won’t copy other effects that have changed the targeted creature’s power, toughness, types, color, or so on. They also won’t copy counters on the targeted creature (they’ll each just retain the counters they already have)."
4849
+ },
4850
+ {
4851
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4852
+ "text": "If the targeted creature is itself copying a creature, each other creature will become whatever it’s copying, as modified by that copy effect. For example, if you target a Cemetery Puca that’s copying a Grizzly Bears (a 2/2 creature with no abilities), each other creature will become a Grizzly Bears with the Cemetery Puca ability."
4853
+ },
4854
+ {
4855
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4856
+ "text": "This effect can cause each other creature to stop being a creature. For example, if you target an animated Mutavault (a land with an activated ability that turns it into a creature), only the printed wording will be copied — the “becomes a creature” effect won’t. Each other creature will become an unanimated Mutavault."
4857
+ },
4858
+ {
4859
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4860
+ "text": "Noncopy effects that have already applied to the other creatures will continue to apply to them. For example, if Giant Growth had given one of them +3/+3 earlier in the turn, then Mirrorweave made it a copy of Grizzly Bears, it will be a 5/5 Grizzly Bears."
4861
+ },
4862
+ {
4863
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4864
+ "text": "If the targeted creature is a token, each other creature copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put it onto the battlefield. Those creatures don’t become tokens."
4865
+ },
4866
+ {
4867
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4868
+ "text": "As the turn ends, the other creatures revert to what they were before. If two Mirrorweaves are cast on the same turn, they’ll both wear off at the same time."
4869
+ }
4870
+ ]
3743
4871
  },
3744
4872
  {
3745
4873
  "name": "Mistmeadow Witch",
@@ -3766,7 +4894,8 @@
3766
4894
  "loyalty": null,
3767
4895
  "multiverse_id": 157881,
3768
4896
  "other_part": null,
3769
- "color_indicator": null
4897
+ "color_indicator": null,
4898
+ "rulings": []
3770
4899
  },
3771
4900
  {
3772
4901
  "name": "Plumeveil",
@@ -3793,7 +4922,8 @@
3793
4922
  "loyalty": null,
3794
4923
  "multiverse_id": 153980,
3795
4924
  "other_part": null,
3796
- "color_indicator": null
4925
+ "color_indicator": null,
4926
+ "rulings": []
3797
4927
  },
3798
4928
  {
3799
4929
  "name": "Puresight Merrow",
@@ -3820,7 +4950,21 @@
3820
4950
  "loyalty": null,
3821
4951
  "multiverse_id": 158745,
3822
4952
  "other_part": null,
3823
- "color_indicator": null
4953
+ "color_indicator": null,
4954
+ "rulings": [
4955
+ {
4956
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4957
+ "text": "If the permanent is already untapped, you can’t activate its {Q} ability. That’s because you can’t pay the “Untap this permanent” cost."
4958
+ },
4959
+ {
4960
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4961
+ "text": "If a creature with an {Q} ability hasn’t been under your control since your most recent turn began, you can’t activate that ability, unless the creature has haste."
4962
+ },
4963
+ {
4964
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4965
+ "text": "When you activate an {Q} ability, you untap the creature with that ability as a cost. The untap can’t be responded to. (The actual ability can be responded to, of course.)"
4966
+ }
4967
+ ]
3824
4968
  },
3825
4969
  {
3826
4970
  "name": "Repel Intruders",
@@ -3844,7 +4988,29 @@
3844
4988
  "loyalty": null,
3845
4989
  "multiverse_id": 158761,
3846
4990
  "other_part": null,
3847
- "color_indicator": null
4991
+ "color_indicator": null,
4992
+ "rulings": [
4993
+ {
4994
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4995
+ "text": "You choose whether or not to target a creature spell before you decide whether or not to spend {U} on Repel Intruders. You may target a creature spell and then not spend {U} to cast Repel Intruders; if you do, Repel Intruders simply won’t affect that creature spell. Similarly, if you don’t target a creature spell but then you spend {U} to cast Repel Intruders, that part of Repel Intruders has no effect."
4996
+ },
4997
+ {
4998
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
4999
+ "text": "If you choose to target a creature spell, Repel Intruders has a target. If that target becomes illegal by the time Repel Intruders resolves, the entire spell won’t resolve. You won’t get any tokens."
5000
+ },
5001
+ {
5002
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
5003
+ "text": "This spell cares about what mana was spent to pay its total cost, not just what mana was spent to pay the hybrid mana symbol in its cost."
5004
+ },
5005
+ {
5006
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
5007
+ "text": "This spell checks on resolution to see if any mana of the appropriate colors were spent to pay its cost. It doesn’t matter how much mana of that color was spent; the effect isn’t multiplied."
5008
+ },
5009
+ {
5010
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
5011
+ "text": "If this spell is copied, the copy will not have had any colors of mana paid for it, no matter what colors were spent on the original spell."
5012
+ }
5013
+ ]
3848
5014
  },
3849
5015
  {
3850
5016
  "name": "Silkbind Faerie",
@@ -3872,7 +5038,21 @@
3872
5038
  "loyalty": null,
3873
5039
  "multiverse_id": 142027,
3874
5040
  "other_part": null,
3875
- "color_indicator": null
5041
+ "color_indicator": null,
5042
+ "rulings": [
5043
+ {
5044
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5045
+ "text": "If the permanent is already untapped, you can’t activate its {Q} ability. That’s because you can’t pay the “Untap this permanent” cost."
5046
+ },
5047
+ {
5048
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5049
+ "text": "If a creature with an {Q} ability hasn’t been under your control since your most recent turn began, you can’t activate that ability, unless the creature has haste."
5050
+ },
5051
+ {
5052
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5053
+ "text": "When you activate an {Q} ability, you untap the creature with that ability as a cost. The untap can’t be responded to. (The actual ability can be responded to, of course.)"
5054
+ }
5055
+ ]
3876
5056
  },
3877
5057
  {
3878
5058
  "name": "Somnomancer",
@@ -3899,7 +5079,8 @@
3899
5079
  "loyalty": null,
3900
5080
  "multiverse_id": 147399,
3901
5081
  "other_part": null,
3902
- "color_indicator": null
5082
+ "color_indicator": null,
5083
+ "rulings": []
3903
5084
  },
3904
5085
  {
3905
5086
  "name": "Steel of the Godhead",
@@ -3927,7 +5108,13 @@
3927
5108
  "loyalty": null,
3928
5109
  "multiverse_id": 158749,
3929
5110
  "other_part": null,
3930
- "color_indicator": null
5111
+ "color_indicator": null,
5112
+ "rulings": [
5113
+ {
5114
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5115
+ "text": "If the enchanted creature is both of the listed colors, it will get both bonuses."
5116
+ }
5117
+ ]
3931
5118
  },
3932
5119
  {
3933
5120
  "name": "Swans of Bryn Argoll",
@@ -3955,7 +5142,29 @@
3955
5142
  "loyalty": null,
3956
5143
  "multiverse_id": 146754,
3957
5144
  "other_part": null,
3958
- "color_indicator": null
5145
+ "color_indicator": null,
5146
+ "rulings": [
5147
+ {
5148
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5149
+ "text": "The source of combat damage is the creature that deals it."
5150
+ },
5151
+ {
5152
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5153
+ "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.”"
5154
+ },
5155
+ {
5156
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5157
+ "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.”"
5158
+ },
5159
+ {
5160
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5161
+ "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."
5162
+ },
5163
+ {
5164
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5165
+ "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."
5166
+ }
5167
+ ]
3959
5168
  },
3960
5169
  {
3961
5170
  "name": "Thistledown Duo",
@@ -3984,7 +5193,13 @@
3984
5193
  "loyalty": null,
3985
5194
  "multiverse_id": 153301,
3986
5195
  "other_part": null,
3987
- "color_indicator": null
5196
+ "color_indicator": null,
5197
+ "rulings": [
5198
+ {
5199
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5200
+ "text": "An object that’s both of the listed colors will cause both abilities to trigger. You can put them on the stack in either order."
5201
+ }
5202
+ ]
3988
5203
  },
3989
5204
  {
3990
5205
  "name": "Thistledown Liege",
@@ -4013,7 +5228,13 @@
4013
5228
  "loyalty": null,
4014
5229
  "multiverse_id": 147409,
4015
5230
  "other_part": null,
4016
- "color_indicator": null
5231
+ "color_indicator": null,
5232
+ "rulings": [
5233
+ {
5234
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5235
+ "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."
5236
+ }
5237
+ ]
4017
5238
  },
4018
5239
  {
4019
5240
  "name": "Thoughtweft Gambit",
@@ -4037,7 +5258,8 @@
4037
5258
  "loyalty": null,
4038
5259
  "multiverse_id": 146024,
4039
5260
  "other_part": null,
4040
- "color_indicator": null
5261
+ "color_indicator": null,
5262
+ "rulings": []
4041
5263
  },
4042
5264
  {
4043
5265
  "name": "Turn to Mist",
@@ -4061,7 +5283,17 @@
4061
5283
  "loyalty": null,
4062
5284
  "multiverse_id": 158752,
4063
5285
  "other_part": null,
4064
- "color_indicator": null
5286
+ "color_indicator": null,
5287
+ "rulings": [
5288
+ {
5289
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
5290
+ "text": "If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won’t return to the battlefield."
5291
+ },
5292
+ {
5293
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
5294
+ "text": "Once the exiled creature returns, it’s considered a new object with no relation to the object that it was. Auras attached to the exiled creature will be put into their owners’ graveyards. Equipment attached to the exiled creature will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled creature will cease to exist."
5295
+ }
5296
+ ]
4065
5297
  },
4066
5298
  {
4067
5299
  "name": "Worldpurge",
@@ -4085,7 +5317,8 @@
4085
5317
  "loyalty": null,
4086
5318
  "multiverse_id": 141991,
4087
5319
  "other_part": null,
4088
- "color_indicator": null
5320
+ "color_indicator": null,
5321
+ "rulings": []
4089
5322
  },
4090
5323
  {
4091
5324
  "name": "Zealous Guardian",
@@ -4112,7 +5345,8 @@
4112
5345
  "loyalty": null,
4113
5346
  "multiverse_id": 142028,
4114
5347
  "other_part": null,
4115
- "color_indicator": null
5348
+ "color_indicator": null,
5349
+ "rulings": []
4116
5350
  },
4117
5351
  {
4118
5352
  "name": "Cemetery Puca",
@@ -4138,7 +5372,29 @@
4138
5372
  "loyalty": null,
4139
5373
  "multiverse_id": 158767,
4140
5374
  "other_part": null,
4141
- "color_indicator": null
5375
+ "color_indicator": null,
5376
+ "rulings": [
5377
+ {
5378
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5379
+ "text": "This effect has no duration. If you use the ability, Cemetery Puca will remain a copy of the creature until it leaves the battlefield or you use the ability again. If it becomes a copy of a different creature card, the new copy will overwrite the old copy."
5380
+ },
5381
+ {
5382
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5383
+ "text": "Cemetery Puca copies the printed values of the creature, plus any copy effects that have been applied to it. It won’t copy other effects that have changed the creature’s power, toughness, types, color, or so on. It also won’t copy counters on the creature (it’ll just retain the counters it already has)."
5384
+ },
5385
+ {
5386
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5387
+ "text": "If Cemetery Puca becomes a copy of a token, it copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that put it onto the battlefield. It does not become a token."
5388
+ },
5389
+ {
5390
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5391
+ "text": "Cemetery Puca’s ability isn’t targeted. It can copy a creature with shroud or protection."
5392
+ },
5393
+ {
5394
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5395
+ "text": "If multiple creatures are put into their owners’ graveyards at the same time, Cemetery Puca’s ability will trigger once for each of those creatures. You choose the order that those abilities will resolve. It’s possible to pay {1}, have Cemetery Puca become a copy of something, activate an activated ability of that creature, then pay {1} again, for example. It will end up a copy of the last creature card paid for."
5396
+ }
5397
+ ]
4142
5398
  },
4143
5399
  {
4144
5400
  "name": "Dire Undercurrents",
@@ -4163,7 +5419,13 @@
4163
5419
  "loyalty": null,
4164
5420
  "multiverse_id": 153311,
4165
5421
  "other_part": null,
4166
- "color_indicator": null
5422
+ "color_indicator": null,
5423
+ "rulings": [
5424
+ {
5425
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5426
+ "text": "An object that’s both of the listed colors will cause both abilities to trigger. You can put them on the stack in either order."
5427
+ }
5428
+ ]
4167
5429
  },
4168
5430
  {
4169
5431
  "name": "Dream Salvage",
@@ -4187,7 +5449,8 @@
4187
5449
  "loyalty": null,
4188
5450
  "multiverse_id": 158774,
4189
5451
  "other_part": null,
4190
- "color_indicator": null
5452
+ "color_indicator": null,
5453
+ "rulings": []
4191
5454
  },
4192
5455
  {
4193
5456
  "name": "Fate Transfer",
@@ -4211,7 +5474,21 @@
4211
5474
  "loyalty": null,
4212
5475
  "multiverse_id": 147411,
4213
5476
  "other_part": null,
4214
- "color_indicator": null
5477
+ "color_indicator": null,
5478
+ "rulings": [
5479
+ {
5480
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5481
+ "text": "Fate Transfer moves any kind of counters, not just -1/-1 counters."
5482
+ },
5483
+ {
5484
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5485
+ "text": "This effect may result in useless counters being placed on a creature. For example, if an age counter is moved from a creature with cumulative upkeep to a creature without cumulative upkeep, it will have no effect on the new creature."
5486
+ },
5487
+ {
5488
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5489
+ "text": "If either one of the targets becomes illegal (because it leaves the battlefield or for any other reason) by the time Fate Transfer resolves, the counters don’t move. If both targets become illegal, Fate Transfer doesn’t resolve."
5490
+ }
5491
+ ]
4215
5492
  },
4216
5493
  {
4217
5494
  "name": "Ghastlord of Fugue",
@@ -4239,7 +5516,8 @@
4239
5516
  "loyalty": null,
4240
5517
  "multiverse_id": 153297,
4241
5518
  "other_part": null,
4242
- "color_indicator": null
5519
+ "color_indicator": null,
5520
+ "rulings": []
4243
5521
  },
4244
5522
  {
4245
5523
  "name": "Glen Elendra Liege",
@@ -4268,7 +5546,13 @@
4268
5546
  "loyalty": null,
4269
5547
  "multiverse_id": 146743,
4270
5548
  "other_part": null,
4271
- "color_indicator": null
5549
+ "color_indicator": null,
5550
+ "rulings": [
5551
+ {
5552
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5553
+ "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."
5554
+ }
5555
+ ]
4272
5556
  },
4273
5557
  {
4274
5558
  "name": "Gravelgill Axeshark",
@@ -4295,7 +5579,37 @@
4295
5579
  "loyalty": null,
4296
5580
  "multiverse_id": 141935,
4297
5581
  "other_part": null,
4298
- "color_indicator": null
5582
+ "color_indicator": null,
5583
+ "rulings": [
5584
+ {
5585
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
5586
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
5587
+ },
5588
+ {
5589
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
5590
+ "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."
5591
+ },
5592
+ {
5593
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
5594
+ "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."
5595
+ },
5596
+ {
5597
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
5598
+ "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."
5599
+ },
5600
+ {
5601
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
5602
+ "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."
5603
+ },
5604
+ {
5605
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
5606
+ "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."
5607
+ },
5608
+ {
5609
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
5610
+ "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."
5611
+ }
5612
+ ]
4299
5613
  },
4300
5614
  {
4301
5615
  "name": "Gravelgill Duo",
@@ -4324,7 +5638,8 @@
4324
5638
  "loyalty": null,
4325
5639
  "multiverse_id": 153308,
4326
5640
  "other_part": null,
4327
- "color_indicator": null
5641
+ "color_indicator": null,
5642
+ "rulings": []
4328
5643
  },
4329
5644
  {
4330
5645
  "name": "Helm of the Ghastlord",
@@ -4352,7 +5667,21 @@
4352
5667
  "loyalty": null,
4353
5668
  "multiverse_id": 158769,
4354
5669
  "other_part": null,
4355
- "color_indicator": null
5670
+ "color_indicator": null,
5671
+ "rulings": [
5672
+ {
5673
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5674
+ "text": "If the enchanted creature is both of the listed colors, it will get both bonuses."
5675
+ },
5676
+ {
5677
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5678
+ "text": "With regards to the two triggered abilities that Helm of the Ghastlord grants to the enchanted creature, the point when damage is actually dealt is the only time it matters what color the creature is. If the creature is blue or black at that time, the appropriate ability or abilities will trigger. They’ll resolve even if the creature changes color or loses its Aura."
5679
+ },
5680
+ {
5681
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5682
+ "text": "The two abilities trigger when the enchanted creature deals damage to an opponent of the creature’s controller, not when it deals damage to an opponent of the Helm’s controller. They trigger from any damage, not just combat damage."
5683
+ }
5684
+ ]
4356
5685
  },
4357
5686
  {
4358
5687
  "name": "Inkfathom Infiltrator",
@@ -4379,7 +5708,8 @@
4379
5708
  "loyalty": null,
4380
5709
  "multiverse_id": 154401,
4381
5710
  "other_part": null,
4382
- "color_indicator": null
5711
+ "color_indicator": null,
5712
+ "rulings": []
4383
5713
  },
4384
5714
  {
4385
5715
  "name": "Inkfathom Witch",
@@ -4407,7 +5737,29 @@
4407
5737
  "loyalty": null,
4408
5738
  "multiverse_id": 157879,
4409
5739
  "other_part": null,
4410
- "color_indicator": null
5740
+ "color_indicator": null,
5741
+ "rulings": [
5742
+ {
5743
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5744
+ "text": "An “unblocked creature” is a creature that attacked and wasn’t blocked. Creatures aren’t “blocked” or “unblocked” until the declare blockers step, so activating this ability before then (or after combat ends) will have no effect."
5745
+ },
5746
+ {
5747
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5748
+ "text": "Creatures stop being unblocked as the combat phase ends. However, they’ll stay 4/1 until turn ends."
5749
+ },
5750
+ {
5751
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5752
+ "text": "Inkfathom Witch doesn’t cause creatures to lose their abilities."
5753
+ },
5754
+ {
5755
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5756
+ "text": "If Inkfathom Witch is attacking and unblocked, it can make itself 4/1."
5757
+ },
5758
+ {
5759
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
5760
+ "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."
5761
+ }
5762
+ ]
4411
5763
  },
4412
5764
  {
4413
5765
  "name": "Memory Plunder",
@@ -4431,7 +5783,21 @@
4431
5783
  "loyalty": null,
4432
5784
  "multiverse_id": 146742,
4433
5785
  "other_part": null,
4434
- "color_indicator": null
5786
+ "color_indicator": null,
5787
+ "rulings": [
5788
+ {
5789
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5790
+ "text": "If you want to cast the card, you cast it as part of the resolution of Memory Plunder. Timing restrictions based on the card’s type are ignored if it’s a sorcery. Other casting restrictions are not (such as “Cast [this card] only during combat”)."
5791
+ },
5792
+ {
5793
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5794
+ "text": "If you are unable to cast the card (there are no legal targets for the spell, for example), nothing happens when Memory Plunder resolves, and the card remains in its owner’s graveyard."
5795
+ },
5796
+ {
5797
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5798
+ "text": "If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t pay any alternative costs. On the other hand, if the card has additional costs (such as conspire), you may pay those."
5799
+ }
5800
+ ]
4435
5801
  },
4436
5802
  {
4437
5803
  "name": "Memory Sluice",
@@ -4456,7 +5822,8 @@
4456
5822
  "loyalty": null,
4457
5823
  "multiverse_id": 158759,
4458
5824
  "other_part": null,
4459
- "color_indicator": null
5825
+ "color_indicator": null,
5826
+ "rulings": []
4460
5827
  },
4461
5828
  {
4462
5829
  "name": "Merrow Grimeblotter",
@@ -4483,7 +5850,21 @@
4483
5850
  "loyalty": null,
4484
5851
  "multiverse_id": 141937,
4485
5852
  "other_part": null,
4486
- "color_indicator": null
5853
+ "color_indicator": null,
5854
+ "rulings": [
5855
+ {
5856
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5857
+ "text": "If the permanent is already untapped, you can’t activate its {Q} ability. That’s because you can’t pay the “Untap this permanent” cost."
5858
+ },
5859
+ {
5860
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5861
+ "text": "If a creature with an {Q} ability hasn’t been under your control since your most recent turn began, you can’t activate that ability, unless the creature has haste."
5862
+ },
5863
+ {
5864
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5865
+ "text": "When you activate an {Q} ability, you untap the creature with that ability as a cost. The untap can’t be responded to. (The actual ability can be responded to, of course.)"
5866
+ }
5867
+ ]
4487
5868
  },
4488
5869
  {
4489
5870
  "name": "Oona, Queen of the Fae",
@@ -4513,7 +5894,17 @@
4513
5894
  "loyalty": null,
4514
5895
  "multiverse_id": 152063,
4515
5896
  "other_part": null,
4516
- "color_indicator": null
5897
+ "color_indicator": null,
5898
+ "rulings": [
5899
+ {
5900
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5901
+ "text": "You target the opponent when you activate Oona’s ability. You don’t choose the color until the ability resolves."
5902
+ },
5903
+ {
5904
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
5905
+ "text": "The tokens enter the battlefield under your control."
5906
+ }
5907
+ ]
4517
5908
  },
4518
5909
  {
4519
5910
  "name": "Oona's Gatewarden",
@@ -4541,7 +5932,8 @@
4541
5932
  "loyalty": null,
4542
5933
  "multiverse_id": 141975,
4543
5934
  "other_part": null,
4544
- "color_indicator": null
5935
+ "color_indicator": null,
5936
+ "rulings": []
4545
5937
  },
4546
5938
  {
4547
5939
  "name": "River's Grasp",
@@ -4565,7 +5957,21 @@
4565
5957
  "loyalty": null,
4566
5958
  "multiverse_id": 158755,
4567
5959
  "other_part": null,
4568
- "color_indicator": null
5960
+ "color_indicator": null,
5961
+ "rulings": [
5962
+ {
5963
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
5964
+ "text": "This spell cares about what mana was spent to pay its total cost, not just what mana was spent to pay the hybrid mana symbol in its cost."
5965
+ },
5966
+ {
5967
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
5968
+ "text": "This spell checks on resolution to see if any mana of the appropriate colors were spent to pay its cost. It doesn’t matter how much mana of that color was spent; the effect isn’t multiplied."
5969
+ },
5970
+ {
5971
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
5972
+ "text": "If this spell is copied, the copy will not have had any colors of mana paid for it, no matter what colors were spent on the original spell."
5973
+ }
5974
+ ]
4569
5975
  },
4570
5976
  {
4571
5977
  "name": "Scarscale Ritual",
@@ -4590,7 +5996,13 @@
4590
5996
  "loyalty": null,
4591
5997
  "multiverse_id": 154396,
4592
5998
  "other_part": null,
4593
- "color_indicator": null
5999
+ "color_indicator": null,
6000
+ "rulings": [
6001
+ {
6002
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6003
+ "text": "If you don’t control any creatures, you can’t cast Scarscale Ritual."
6004
+ }
6005
+ ]
4594
6006
  },
4595
6007
  {
4596
6008
  "name": "Sygg, River Cutthroat",
@@ -4619,7 +6031,33 @@
4619
6031
  "loyalty": null,
4620
6032
  "multiverse_id": 147377,
4621
6033
  "other_part": null,
4622
- "color_indicator": null
6034
+ "color_indicator": null,
6035
+ "rulings": [
6036
+ {
6037
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6038
+ "text": "As the end step begins, Sygg’s ability checks whether a player who is currently your opponent, or a player who was your opponent at the time they left the game, has lost 3 or more life over the course of the turn. If so, the ability will trigger. If not, it won’t."
6039
+ },
6040
+ {
6041
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6042
+ "text": "It doesn’t matter how the opponent lost life or who caused it, as long as the total loss of life is 3 or more."
6043
+ },
6044
+ {
6045
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6046
+ "text": "Sygg’s ability checks only whether life was lost. It doesn’t care whether life was also gained. For example, if an opponent lost 4 life and gained 6 life during the turn, that player will have a higher life total than they started the turn with — but Sygg’s ability will trigger anyway."
6047
+ },
6048
+ {
6049
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6050
+ "text": "You don’t specify an opponent when the ability triggers. If multiple opponents have lost 3 or more life over the course of the turn, the ability will trigger only once."
6051
+ },
6052
+ {
6053
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6054
+ "text": "Sygg’s ability will trigger even if Sygg wasn’t on the battlefield at the time some or all of the life was lost."
6055
+ },
6056
+ {
6057
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6058
+ "text": "Sygg’s ability checks to see if it triggers at the end of every turn. It doesn’t have to be your turn, and it doesn’t have to be the turn of the opponent that lost life."
6059
+ }
6060
+ ]
4623
6061
  },
4624
6062
  {
4625
6063
  "name": "Torpor Dust",
@@ -4647,7 +6085,8 @@
4647
6085
  "loyalty": null,
4648
6086
  "multiverse_id": 142053,
4649
6087
  "other_part": null,
4650
- "color_indicator": null
6088
+ "color_indicator": null,
6089
+ "rulings": []
4651
6090
  },
4652
6091
  {
4653
6092
  "name": "Wanderbrine Rootcutters",
@@ -4674,7 +6113,8 @@
4674
6113
  "loyalty": null,
4675
6114
  "multiverse_id": 142012,
4676
6115
  "other_part": null,
4677
- "color_indicator": null
6116
+ "color_indicator": null,
6117
+ "rulings": []
4678
6118
  },
4679
6119
  {
4680
6120
  "name": "Wasp Lancer",
@@ -4701,7 +6141,8 @@
4701
6141
  "loyalty": null,
4702
6142
  "multiverse_id": 153967,
4703
6143
  "other_part": null,
4704
- "color_indicator": null
6144
+ "color_indicator": null,
6145
+ "rulings": []
4705
6146
  },
4706
6147
  {
4707
6148
  "name": "Ashenmoor Gouger",
@@ -4728,7 +6169,8 @@
4728
6169
  "loyalty": null,
4729
6170
  "multiverse_id": 153981,
4730
6171
  "other_part": null,
4731
- "color_indicator": null
6172
+ "color_indicator": null,
6173
+ "rulings": []
4732
6174
  },
4733
6175
  {
4734
6176
  "name": "Ashenmoor Liege",
@@ -4757,7 +6199,13 @@
4757
6199
  "loyalty": null,
4758
6200
  "multiverse_id": 146065,
4759
6201
  "other_part": null,
4760
- "color_indicator": null
6202
+ "color_indicator": null,
6203
+ "rulings": [
6204
+ {
6205
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6206
+ "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."
6207
+ }
6208
+ ]
4761
6209
  },
4762
6210
  {
4763
6211
  "name": "Cultbrand Cinder",
@@ -4784,7 +6232,13 @@
4784
6232
  "loyalty": null,
4785
6233
  "multiverse_id": 142068,
4786
6234
  "other_part": null,
4787
- "color_indicator": null
6235
+ "color_indicator": null,
6236
+ "rulings": [
6237
+ {
6238
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6239
+ "text": "If there are no other creatures on the battlefield when Cultbrand Cinder enters the battlefield, it must target itself."
6240
+ }
6241
+ ]
4788
6242
  },
4789
6243
  {
4790
6244
  "name": "Demigod of Revenge",
@@ -4812,7 +6266,21 @@
4812
6266
  "loyalty": null,
4813
6267
  "multiverse_id": 153972,
4814
6268
  "other_part": null,
4815
- "color_indicator": null
6269
+ "color_indicator": null,
6270
+ "rulings": [
6271
+ {
6272
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6273
+ "text": "This ability triggers when you cast Demigod of Revenge as a spell. It won’t trigger if Demigod of Revenge is put directly onto the battlefield."
6274
+ },
6275
+ {
6276
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6277
+ "text": "The triggered ability will resolve before Demigod of Revenge will."
6278
+ },
6279
+ {
6280
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6281
+ "text": "If Demigod of Revenge is countered *before* its triggered ability resolves, the ability will still resolve. It will return that Demigod of Revenge from your graveyard to the battlefield, as well as any others. If you’re casting a spell to counter Demigod of Revenge, it’s important to clarify you’re casting it *after* the triggered ability resolves if you don’t want that Demigod of Revenge to be put onto the battlefield."
6282
+ }
6283
+ ]
4816
6284
  },
4817
6285
  {
4818
6286
  "name": "Din of the Fireherd",
@@ -4836,7 +6304,17 @@
4836
6304
  "loyalty": null,
4837
6305
  "multiverse_id": 146733,
4838
6306
  "other_part": null,
4839
- "color_indicator": null
6307
+ "color_indicator": null,
6308
+ "rulings": [
6309
+ {
6310
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6311
+ "text": "The parts of the spell happen in order. When determining how many black creatures and how many red creatures you control, keep in mind that you just put a creature onto the battlefield that’s black and red."
6312
+ },
6313
+ {
6314
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6315
+ "text": "If the targeted opponent becomes an illegal target, the entire spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t get a token."
6316
+ }
6317
+ ]
4840
6318
  },
4841
6319
  {
4842
6320
  "name": "Emberstrike Duo",
@@ -4865,7 +6343,13 @@
4865
6343
  "loyalty": null,
4866
6344
  "multiverse_id": 153307,
4867
6345
  "other_part": null,
4868
- "color_indicator": null
6346
+ "color_indicator": null,
6347
+ "rulings": [
6348
+ {
6349
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6350
+ "text": "An object that’s both of the listed colors will cause both abilities to trigger. You can put them on the stack in either order."
6351
+ }
6352
+ ]
4869
6353
  },
4870
6354
  {
4871
6355
  "name": "Everlasting Torment",
@@ -4891,7 +6375,41 @@
4891
6375
  "loyalty": null,
4892
6376
  "multiverse_id": 142036,
4893
6377
  "other_part": null,
4894
- "color_indicator": null
6378
+ "color_indicator": null,
6379
+ "rulings": [
6380
+ {
6381
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6382
+ "text": "Spells and abilities that would normally cause a player to gain life still resolve, but the life-gain part simply has no effect."
6383
+ },
6384
+ {
6385
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6386
+ "text": "If a cost includes life gain (like Invigorate’s alternative cost does), that cost can’t be paid."
6387
+ },
6388
+ {
6389
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6390
+ "text": "Effects that would replace gaining life with some other effect won’t be able to do anything because it’s impossible for players to gain life."
6391
+ },
6392
+ {
6393
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6394
+ "text": "Effects that replace an event with gaining life (like Words of Worship’s effect does) will end up replacing the event with nothing."
6395
+ },
6396
+ {
6397
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6398
+ "text": "If an effect says to set your life total to a certain number, and that number is higher than your current life total, that effect will normally cause you to gain life equal to the difference. With Everlasting Torment on the battlefield, that part of the effect won’t do anything. (If the number is lower than your current life total, the effect will work as normal.)"
6399
+ },
6400
+ {
6401
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6402
+ "text": "The “damage can’t be prevented” statement overrides all forms of preventing damage, including protection abilities. Damage prevention spells and abilities can still be cast and played; they just don’t do anything."
6403
+ },
6404
+ {
6405
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6406
+ "text": "Spells and abilities that replace or redirect damage aren’t affected by Everlasting Torment’s second ability. They’ll work as normal."
6407
+ },
6408
+ {
6409
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6410
+ "text": "The last ability affects all damage, whether it’s dealt by creatures, other permanents, spells, or cards that aren’t on the battlefield. Wither works everywhere."
6411
+ }
6412
+ ]
4895
6413
  },
4896
6414
  {
4897
6415
  "name": "Fists of the Demigod",
@@ -4919,7 +6437,13 @@
4919
6437
  "loyalty": null,
4920
6438
  "multiverse_id": 158753,
4921
6439
  "other_part": null,
4922
- "color_indicator": null
6440
+ "color_indicator": null,
6441
+ "rulings": [
6442
+ {
6443
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6444
+ "text": "If the enchanted creature is both of the listed colors, it will get both bonuses."
6445
+ }
6446
+ ]
4923
6447
  },
4924
6448
  {
4925
6449
  "name": "Fulminator Mage",
@@ -4946,7 +6470,8 @@
4946
6470
  "loyalty": null,
4947
6471
  "multiverse_id": 142009,
4948
6472
  "other_part": null,
4949
- "color_indicator": null
6473
+ "color_indicator": null,
6474
+ "rulings": []
4950
6475
  },
4951
6476
  {
4952
6477
  "name": "Grief Tyrant",
@@ -4973,7 +6498,13 @@
4973
6498
  "loyalty": null,
4974
6499
  "multiverse_id": 146035,
4975
6500
  "other_part": null,
4976
- "color_indicator": null
6501
+ "color_indicator": null,
6502
+ "rulings": [
6503
+ {
6504
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6505
+ "text": "The triggered ability is mandatory. If you’re the only player who controls any creatures when it triggers, you must target one of them."
6506
+ }
6507
+ ]
4977
6508
  },
4978
6509
  {
4979
6510
  "name": "Kulrath Knight",
@@ -5002,7 +6533,13 @@
5002
6533
  "loyalty": null,
5003
6534
  "multiverse_id": 147423,
5004
6535
  "other_part": null,
5005
- "color_indicator": null
6536
+ "color_indicator": null,
6537
+ "rulings": [
6538
+ {
6539
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6540
+ "text": "This checks your opponents’ creatures for any kind of counters, not just -1/-1 counters."
6541
+ }
6542
+ ]
5006
6543
  },
5007
6544
  {
5008
6545
  "name": "Manaforge Cinder",
@@ -5029,7 +6566,8 @@
5029
6566
  "loyalty": null,
5030
6567
  "multiverse_id": 141978,
5031
6568
  "other_part": null,
5032
- "color_indicator": null
6569
+ "color_indicator": null,
6570
+ "rulings": []
5033
6571
  },
5034
6572
  {
5035
6573
  "name": "Murderous Redcap",
@@ -5057,7 +6595,41 @@
5057
6595
  "loyalty": null,
5058
6596
  "multiverse_id": 153298,
5059
6597
  "other_part": null,
5060
- "color_indicator": null
6598
+ "color_indicator": null,
6599
+ "rulings": [
6600
+ {
6601
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6602
+ "text": "Murderous Redcap’s power is checked at the time the ability resolves. If it’s left the battlefield by then, its last known information is used."
6603
+ },
6604
+ {
6605
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6606
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
6607
+ },
6608
+ {
6609
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6610
+ "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."
6611
+ },
6612
+ {
6613
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6614
+ "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."
6615
+ },
6616
+ {
6617
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6618
+ "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."
6619
+ },
6620
+ {
6621
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6622
+ "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."
6623
+ },
6624
+ {
6625
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6626
+ "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."
6627
+ },
6628
+ {
6629
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
6630
+ "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."
6631
+ }
6632
+ ]
5061
6633
  },
5062
6634
  {
5063
6635
  "name": "Poison the Well",
@@ -5081,7 +6653,8 @@
5081
6653
  "loyalty": null,
5082
6654
  "multiverse_id": 147427,
5083
6655
  "other_part": null,
5084
- "color_indicator": null
6656
+ "color_indicator": null,
6657
+ "rulings": []
5085
6658
  },
5086
6659
  {
5087
6660
  "name": "Scar",
@@ -5105,7 +6678,8 @@
5105
6678
  "loyalty": null,
5106
6679
  "multiverse_id": 142049,
5107
6680
  "other_part": null,
5108
- "color_indicator": null
6681
+ "color_indicator": null,
6682
+ "rulings": []
5109
6683
  },
5110
6684
  {
5111
6685
  "name": "Sootstoke Kindler",
@@ -5133,7 +6707,8 @@
5133
6707
  "loyalty": null,
5134
6708
  "multiverse_id": 153989,
5135
6709
  "other_part": null,
5136
- "color_indicator": null
6710
+ "color_indicator": null,
6711
+ "rulings": []
5137
6712
  },
5138
6713
  {
5139
6714
  "name": "Sootwalkers",
@@ -5160,7 +6735,8 @@
5160
6735
  "loyalty": null,
5161
6736
  "multiverse_id": 141936,
5162
6737
  "other_part": null,
5163
- "color_indicator": null
6738
+ "color_indicator": null,
6739
+ "rulings": []
5164
6740
  },
5165
6741
  {
5166
6742
  "name": "Spiteflame Witch",
@@ -5187,7 +6763,8 @@
5187
6763
  "loyalty": null,
5188
6764
  "multiverse_id": 157880,
5189
6765
  "other_part": null,
5190
- "color_indicator": null
6766
+ "color_indicator": null,
6767
+ "rulings": []
5191
6768
  },
5192
6769
  {
5193
6770
  "name": "Spiteful Visions",
@@ -5212,7 +6789,17 @@
5212
6789
  "loyalty": null,
5213
6790
  "multiverse_id": 146089,
5214
6791
  "other_part": null,
5215
- "color_indicator": null
6792
+ "color_indicator": null,
6793
+ "rulings": [
6794
+ {
6795
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6796
+ "text": "Spiteful Visions’s second ability triggers any time any player draws a card, not just when a player draws a card as a result of its first ability."
6797
+ },
6798
+ {
6799
+ "date": "4/15/2013",
6800
+ "text": "The triggered ability is put onto the stack after you have already drawn your card for the turn."
6801
+ }
6802
+ ]
5216
6803
  },
5217
6804
  {
5218
6805
  "name": "Torrent of Souls",
@@ -5236,7 +6823,21 @@
5236
6823
  "loyalty": null,
5237
6824
  "multiverse_id": 158751,
5238
6825
  "other_part": null,
5239
- "color_indicator": null
6826
+ "color_indicator": null,
6827
+ "rulings": [
6828
+ {
6829
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
6830
+ "text": "This spell cares about what mana was spent to pay its total cost, not just what mana was spent to pay the hybrid mana symbol in its cost."
6831
+ },
6832
+ {
6833
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
6834
+ "text": "This spell checks on resolution to see if any mana of the appropriate colors were spent to pay its cost. It doesn’t matter how much mana of that color was spent; the effect isn’t multiplied."
6835
+ },
6836
+ {
6837
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
6838
+ "text": "If this spell is copied, the copy will not have had any colors of mana paid for it, no matter what colors were spent on the original spell."
6839
+ }
6840
+ ]
5240
6841
  },
5241
6842
  {
5242
6843
  "name": "Traitor's Roar",
@@ -5261,7 +6862,13 @@
5261
6862
  "loyalty": null,
5262
6863
  "multiverse_id": 158746,
5263
6864
  "other_part": null,
5264
- "color_indicator": null
6865
+ "color_indicator": null,
6866
+ "rulings": [
6867
+ {
6868
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6869
+ "text": "If you use conspire to copy Traitor’s Roar, but you don’t change its target, the copy will resolve just fine but the original doesn’t resolve. That’s because the copy will resolve first, and as part of its resolution, it will tap the targeted creature. Then, when the original Traitor’s Roar tries to resolve, it will have an illegal target (since it must target an untapped creature)."
6870
+ }
6871
+ ]
5265
6872
  },
5266
6873
  {
5267
6874
  "name": "Tyrannize",
@@ -5285,7 +6892,8 @@
5285
6892
  "loyalty": null,
5286
6893
  "multiverse_id": 146767,
5287
6894
  "other_part": null,
5288
- "color_indicator": null
6895
+ "color_indicator": null,
6896
+ "rulings": []
5289
6897
  },
5290
6898
  {
5291
6899
  "name": "Boartusk Liege",
@@ -5314,7 +6922,13 @@
5314
6922
  "loyalty": null,
5315
6923
  "multiverse_id": 147428,
5316
6924
  "other_part": null,
5317
- "color_indicator": null
6925
+ "color_indicator": null,
6926
+ "rulings": [
6927
+ {
6928
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6929
+ "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."
6930
+ }
6931
+ ]
5318
6932
  },
5319
6933
  {
5320
6934
  "name": "Boggart Ram-Gang",
@@ -5342,7 +6956,8 @@
5342
6956
  "loyalty": null,
5343
6957
  "multiverse_id": 153970,
5344
6958
  "other_part": null,
5345
- "color_indicator": null
6959
+ "color_indicator": null,
6960
+ "rulings": []
5346
6961
  },
5347
6962
  {
5348
6963
  "name": "Deus of Calamity",
@@ -5370,7 +6985,17 @@
5370
6985
  "loyalty": null,
5371
6986
  "multiverse_id": 146773,
5372
6987
  "other_part": null,
5373
- "color_indicator": null
6988
+ "color_indicator": null,
6989
+ "rulings": [
6990
+ {
6991
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6992
+ "text": "This ability will trigger when Deus of Calamity deals 6 damage to an opponent at one time. It won’t keep track of the accumulated damage that it deals at different times."
6993
+ },
6994
+ {
6995
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
6996
+ "text": "This ability triggers from any damage, not just combat damage, that Deus of Calamity deals to an opponent in increments of 6 or more."
6997
+ }
6998
+ ]
5374
6999
  },
5375
7000
  {
5376
7001
  "name": "Firespout",
@@ -5394,7 +7019,21 @@
5394
7019
  "loyalty": null,
5395
7020
  "multiverse_id": 153314,
5396
7021
  "other_part": null,
5397
- "color_indicator": null
7022
+ "color_indicator": null,
7023
+ "rulings": [
7024
+ {
7025
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
7026
+ "text": "This spell cares about what mana was spent to pay its total cost, not just what mana was spent to pay the hybrid mana symbol in its cost."
7027
+ },
7028
+ {
7029
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
7030
+ "text": "This spell checks on resolution to see if any mana of the appropriate colors were spent to pay its cost. It doesn’t matter how much mana of that color was spent; the effect isn’t multiplied."
7031
+ },
7032
+ {
7033
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
7034
+ "text": "If this spell is copied, the copy will not have had any colors of mana paid for it, no matter what colors were spent on the original spell."
7035
+ }
7036
+ ]
5398
7037
  },
5399
7038
  {
5400
7039
  "name": "Fossil Find",
@@ -5418,7 +7057,25 @@
5418
7057
  "loyalty": null,
5419
7058
  "multiverse_id": 146736,
5420
7059
  "other_part": null,
5421
- "color_indicator": null
7060
+ "color_indicator": null,
7061
+ "rulings": [
7062
+ {
7063
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7064
+ "text": "The easiest way to choose a card at random from your graveyard is to turn your graveyard face down, shuffle it, and pick a card. You’re not normally allowed to reorder your graveyard, but since this card lets you do it anyway, it’s okay to mix the cards up while you’re picking randomly."
7065
+ },
7066
+ {
7067
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7068
+ "text": "If you have multiple cards in your graveyard with the same name, and one of them is being targeted by another spell on the stack or enchanted (with Spellweaver Volute, for example), you must differentiate them so you know which one (if any) is chosen at random. In that case, it may be better to use dice to choose a card at random, or temporarily use a proxy card to represent the targeted card."
7069
+ },
7070
+ {
7071
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7072
+ "text": "Except for the card that you return to your hand, reordering your graveyard won’t affect anything that’s currently targeting or enchanting a card in your graveyard. Whatever it is will be able to track the card it’s targeting or enchanting as your graveyard is reordered."
7073
+ },
7074
+ {
7075
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7076
+ "text": "All players get to see which card you chose at random."
7077
+ }
7078
+ ]
5422
7079
  },
5423
7080
  {
5424
7081
  "name": "Giantbaiting",
@@ -5443,7 +7100,13 @@
5443
7100
  "loyalty": null,
5444
7101
  "multiverse_id": 158693,
5445
7102
  "other_part": null,
5446
- "color_indicator": null
7103
+ "color_indicator": null,
7104
+ "rulings": [
7105
+ {
7106
+ "date": "3/14/2017",
7107
+ "text": "The delayed triggered ability that exiles the token isn’t a characteristic of the token. If an effect such as populate copies the token, the new token won’t be exiled."
7108
+ }
7109
+ ]
5447
7110
  },
5448
7111
  {
5449
7112
  "name": "Guttural Response",
@@ -5467,7 +7130,8 @@
5467
7130
  "loyalty": null,
5468
7131
  "multiverse_id": 158773,
5469
7132
  "other_part": null,
5470
- "color_indicator": null
7133
+ "color_indicator": null,
7134
+ "rulings": []
5471
7135
  },
5472
7136
  {
5473
7137
  "name": "Impromptu Raid",
@@ -5491,7 +7155,17 @@
5491
7155
  "loyalty": null,
5492
7156
  "multiverse_id": 146097,
5493
7157
  "other_part": null,
5494
- "color_indicator": null
7158
+ "color_indicator": null,
7159
+ "rulings": [
7160
+ {
7161
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7162
+ "text": "If you put a creature onto the battlefield and a different player takes control of it before the end of the turn, you can’t sacrifice it at end of turn. It will remain on the battlefield. It will have haste as long as it’s on the battlefield."
7163
+ },
7164
+ {
7165
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7166
+ "text": "If the ability is activated after the current turn’s End step has begun, the creature won’t be sacrificed until the next turn’s End step."
7167
+ }
7168
+ ]
5495
7169
  },
5496
7170
  {
5497
7171
  "name": "Loamdragger Giant",
@@ -5516,7 +7190,8 @@
5516
7190
  "loyalty": null,
5517
7191
  "multiverse_id": 142001,
5518
7192
  "other_part": null,
5519
- "color_indicator": null
7193
+ "color_indicator": null,
7194
+ "rulings": []
5520
7195
  },
5521
7196
  {
5522
7197
  "name": "Manamorphose",
@@ -5541,7 +7216,8 @@
5541
7216
  "loyalty": null,
5542
7217
  "multiverse_id": 153968,
5543
7218
  "other_part": null,
5544
- "color_indicator": null
7219
+ "color_indicator": null,
7220
+ "rulings": []
5545
7221
  },
5546
7222
  {
5547
7223
  "name": "Morselhoarder",
@@ -5568,7 +7244,8 @@
5568
7244
  "loyalty": null,
5569
7245
  "multiverse_id": 159407,
5570
7246
  "other_part": null,
5571
- "color_indicator": null
7247
+ "color_indicator": null,
7248
+ "rulings": []
5572
7249
  },
5573
7250
  {
5574
7251
  "name": "Mudbrawler Raiders",
@@ -5595,7 +7272,8 @@
5595
7272
  "loyalty": null,
5596
7273
  "multiverse_id": 141992,
5597
7274
  "other_part": null,
5598
- "color_indicator": null
7275
+ "color_indicator": null,
7276
+ "rulings": []
5599
7277
  },
5600
7278
  {
5601
7279
  "name": "Rosheen Meanderer",
@@ -5624,7 +7302,25 @@
5624
7302
  "loyalty": null,
5625
7303
  "multiverse_id": 159412,
5626
7304
  "other_part": null,
5627
- "color_indicator": null
7305
+ "color_indicator": null,
7306
+ "rulings": [
7307
+ {
7308
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
7309
+ "text": "A “cost that contains {X}” may be a spell’s total cost, an activated ability’s cost, a suspend cost, or a cost you’re asked to pay as part of the resolution of a spell or ability (such as Condescend). A spell’s total cost includes either its mana cost (printed in the upper right corner) or its alternative cost (such as flashback), as well as any additional costs (such as kicker). If it’s something you can spend mana on, it’s a cost. If that cost includes the {X} symbol in it, you can spend mana generated by Rosheen on that cost."
7310
+ },
7311
+ {
7312
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
7313
+ "text": "You can spend mana generated by Rosheen on any part of a cost that contains {X}. You’re not limited to spending it only on the {X} part."
7314
+ },
7315
+ {
7316
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
7317
+ "text": "You can spend mana generated by Rosheen on a cost that includes {X} even if you’ve chosen an X of 0, or if the card specifies that you can spend only colored mana on X. (You’ll have to spend Rosheen’s mana on a different part of that cost, of course.)"
7318
+ },
7319
+ {
7320
+ "date": "11/17/2017",
7321
+ "text": "You don’t have to spend all four mana on the same cost."
7322
+ }
7323
+ ]
5628
7324
  },
5629
7325
  {
5630
7326
  "name": "Runes of the Deus",
@@ -5652,7 +7348,13 @@
5652
7348
  "loyalty": null,
5653
7349
  "multiverse_id": 158754,
5654
7350
  "other_part": null,
5655
- "color_indicator": null
7351
+ "color_indicator": null,
7352
+ "rulings": [
7353
+ {
7354
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7355
+ "text": "If the enchanted creature is both of the listed colors, it will get both bonuses."
7356
+ }
7357
+ ]
5656
7358
  },
5657
7359
  {
5658
7360
  "name": "Scuzzback Marauders",
@@ -5680,7 +7382,37 @@
5680
7382
  "loyalty": null,
5681
7383
  "multiverse_id": 152078,
5682
7384
  "other_part": null,
5683
- "color_indicator": null
7385
+ "color_indicator": null,
7386
+ "rulings": [
7387
+ {
7388
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7389
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
7390
+ },
7391
+ {
7392
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7393
+ "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."
7394
+ },
7395
+ {
7396
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7397
+ "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."
7398
+ },
7399
+ {
7400
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7401
+ "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."
7402
+ },
7403
+ {
7404
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7405
+ "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."
7406
+ },
7407
+ {
7408
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7409
+ "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."
7410
+ },
7411
+ {
7412
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7413
+ "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."
7414
+ }
7415
+ ]
5684
7416
  },
5685
7417
  {
5686
7418
  "name": "Scuzzback Scrapper",
@@ -5707,7 +7439,8 @@
5707
7439
  "loyalty": null,
5708
7440
  "multiverse_id": 142052,
5709
7441
  "other_part": null,
5710
- "color_indicator": null
7442
+ "color_indicator": null,
7443
+ "rulings": []
5711
7444
  },
5712
7445
  {
5713
7446
  "name": "Tattermunge Duo",
@@ -5736,7 +7469,13 @@
5736
7469
  "loyalty": null,
5737
7470
  "multiverse_id": 153282,
5738
7471
  "other_part": null,
5739
- "color_indicator": null
7472
+ "color_indicator": null,
7473
+ "rulings": [
7474
+ {
7475
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7476
+ "text": "An object that’s both of the listed colors will cause both abilities to trigger. You can put them on the stack in either order."
7477
+ }
7478
+ ]
5740
7479
  },
5741
7480
  {
5742
7481
  "name": "Tattermunge Maniac",
@@ -5763,7 +7502,8 @@
5763
7502
  "loyalty": null,
5764
7503
  "multiverse_id": 142013,
5765
7504
  "other_part": null,
5766
- "color_indicator": null
7505
+ "color_indicator": null,
7506
+ "rulings": []
5767
7507
  },
5768
7508
  {
5769
7509
  "name": "Tattermunge Witch",
@@ -5790,7 +7530,8 @@
5790
7530
  "loyalty": null,
5791
7531
  "multiverse_id": 157884,
5792
7532
  "other_part": null,
5793
- "color_indicator": null
7533
+ "color_indicator": null,
7534
+ "rulings": []
5794
7535
  },
5795
7536
  {
5796
7537
  "name": "Valleymaker",
@@ -5818,7 +7559,13 @@
5818
7559
  "loyalty": null,
5819
7560
  "multiverse_id": 159397,
5820
7561
  "other_part": null,
5821
- "color_indicator": null
7562
+ "color_indicator": null,
7563
+ "rulings": [
7564
+ {
7565
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
7566
+ "text": "The second ability is a mana ability. It doesn’t target a player and it doesn’t use the stack. If the player who adds {G}{G}{G} to their mana pool can’t spend all of it before the phase ends, the remaining mana will leave their mana pool at the end of the current step (or phase)."
7567
+ }
7568
+ ]
5822
7569
  },
5823
7570
  {
5824
7571
  "name": "Vexing Shusher",
@@ -5846,7 +7593,13 @@
5846
7593
  "loyalty": null,
5847
7594
  "multiverse_id": 146016,
5848
7595
  "other_part": null,
5849
- "color_indicator": null
7596
+ "color_indicator": null,
7597
+ "rulings": [
7598
+ {
7599
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7600
+ "text": "After Vexing Shusher’s ability resolves, any spells or abilities that would counter the targeted spell will still resolve. They just won’t counter that spell."
7601
+ }
7602
+ ]
5850
7603
  },
5851
7604
  {
5852
7605
  "name": "Wort, the Raidmother",
@@ -5876,7 +7629,33 @@
5876
7629
  "loyalty": null,
5877
7630
  "multiverse_id": 147379,
5878
7631
  "other_part": null,
5879
- "color_indicator": null
7632
+ "color_indicator": null,
7633
+ "rulings": [
7634
+ {
7635
+ "date": "3/14/2017",
7636
+ "text": "If a spell gains a second instance of conspire from Wort’s ability, you may choose to pay for one, both, or none of those abilities. Each conspire ability triggers only if you tap two creatures specifically for that ability."
7637
+ },
7638
+ {
7639
+ "date": "3/14/2017",
7640
+ "text": "If the spell that’s copied is modal (that is, it says “Choose one —” or the like), the copy will have the same mode. A different mode can’t be chosen."
7641
+ },
7642
+ {
7643
+ "date": "3/14/2017",
7644
+ "text": "If the spell that’s copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast (like Bonfire of the Damned does), the copy will have the same value of X."
7645
+ },
7646
+ {
7647
+ "date": "3/14/2017",
7648
+ "text": "If the spell has damage divided as it was cast (like Fiery Justice does), the division can’t be changed (although the targets receiving that damage still can)."
7649
+ },
7650
+ {
7651
+ "date": "3/14/2017",
7652
+ "text": "Some spells instruct you to sacrifice a creature as an additional cost to cast that spell. If you sacrifice Wort to pay that cost, that spell won’t have conspire at the moment it becomes cast, so conspire won’t trigger, even if you tapped two creatures."
7653
+ },
7654
+ {
7655
+ "date": "3/14/2017",
7656
+ "text": "If you’re casting a spell for its flashback cost, you can’t pay another alternative cost (such as an overload cost or a Trap’s alternative cost) instead. You may pay additional costs, such as conspire."
7657
+ }
7658
+ ]
5880
7659
  },
5881
7660
  {
5882
7661
  "name": "Barkshell Blessing",
@@ -5901,7 +7680,8 @@
5901
7680
  "loyalty": null,
5902
7681
  "multiverse_id": 158772,
5903
7682
  "other_part": null,
5904
- "color_indicator": null
7683
+ "color_indicator": null,
7684
+ "rulings": []
5905
7685
  },
5906
7686
  {
5907
7687
  "name": "Dawnglow Infusion",
@@ -5925,7 +7705,29 @@
5925
7705
  "loyalty": null,
5926
7706
  "multiverse_id": 158747,
5927
7707
  "other_part": null,
5928
- "color_indicator": null
7708
+ "color_indicator": null,
7709
+ "rulings": [
7710
+ {
7711
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7712
+ "text": "If you spent both {G} and {W} to cast Dawnglow Infusion, you’ll gain (X + X) life. An ability that triggers whenever you gain life will trigger just once."
7713
+ },
7714
+ {
7715
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7716
+ "text": "Whether you choose to spend both {G} and {W} to cast Dawnglow Infusion has no bearing on the value of X. For example, say you decide that X is 4 and you’ll spend {G} on {G/W}. If you end up spending {W}{W}{R}{R}{G} to pay the cost, X is still 4 and you’ve spent both {G} and {W}. You’ll gain a total of 8 life."
7717
+ },
7718
+ {
7719
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
7720
+ "text": "This spell cares about what mana was spent to pay its total cost, not just what mana was spent to pay the hybrid mana symbol in its cost."
7721
+ },
7722
+ {
7723
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
7724
+ "text": "This spell checks on resolution to see if any mana of the appropriate colors were spent to pay its cost. It doesn’t matter how much mana of that color was spent; the effect isn’t multiplied."
7725
+ },
7726
+ {
7727
+ "date": "6/8/2016",
7728
+ "text": "If this spell is copied, the copy will not have had any colors of mana paid for it, no matter what colors were spent on the original spell."
7729
+ }
7730
+ ]
5929
7731
  },
5930
7732
  {
5931
7733
  "name": "Elvish Hexhunter",
@@ -5952,7 +7754,8 @@
5952
7754
  "loyalty": null,
5953
7755
  "multiverse_id": 141958,
5954
7756
  "other_part": null,
5955
- "color_indicator": null
7757
+ "color_indicator": null,
7758
+ "rulings": []
5956
7759
  },
5957
7760
  {
5958
7761
  "name": "Fracturing Gust",
@@ -5976,7 +7779,13 @@
5976
7779
  "loyalty": null,
5977
7780
  "multiverse_id": 146759,
5978
7781
  "other_part": null,
5979
- "color_indicator": null
7782
+ "color_indicator": null,
7783
+ "rulings": [
7784
+ {
7785
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
7786
+ "text": "If an artifact or enchantment remains on the battlefield because it was regenerated or has indestructible, you won’t gain life for it."
7787
+ }
7788
+ ]
5980
7789
  },
5981
7790
  {
5982
7791
  "name": "Heartmender",
@@ -6003,7 +7812,37 @@
6003
7812
  "loyalty": null,
6004
7813
  "multiverse_id": 153312,
6005
7814
  "other_part": null,
6006
- "color_indicator": null
7815
+ "color_indicator": null,
7816
+ "rulings": [
7817
+ {
7818
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7819
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
7820
+ },
7821
+ {
7822
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7823
+ "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."
7824
+ },
7825
+ {
7826
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7827
+ "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."
7828
+ },
7829
+ {
7830
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7831
+ "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."
7832
+ },
7833
+ {
7834
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7835
+ "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."
7836
+ },
7837
+ {
7838
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7839
+ "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."
7840
+ },
7841
+ {
7842
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7843
+ "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."
7844
+ }
7845
+ ]
6007
7846
  },
6008
7847
  {
6009
7848
  "name": "Kitchen Finks",
@@ -6030,7 +7869,37 @@
6030
7869
  "loyalty": null,
6031
7870
  "multiverse_id": 141976,
6032
7871
  "other_part": null,
6033
- "color_indicator": null
7872
+ "color_indicator": null,
7873
+ "rulings": [
7874
+ {
7875
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7876
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
7877
+ },
7878
+ {
7879
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7880
+ "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."
7881
+ },
7882
+ {
7883
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7884
+ "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."
7885
+ },
7886
+ {
7887
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7888
+ "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."
7889
+ },
7890
+ {
7891
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7892
+ "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."
7893
+ },
7894
+ {
7895
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7896
+ "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."
7897
+ },
7898
+ {
7899
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
7900
+ "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."
7901
+ }
7902
+ ]
6034
7903
  },
6035
7904
  {
6036
7905
  "name": "Medicine Runner",
@@ -6057,7 +7926,17 @@
6057
7926
  "loyalty": null,
6058
7927
  "multiverse_id": 141977,
6059
7928
  "other_part": null,
6060
- "color_indicator": null
7929
+ "color_indicator": null,
7930
+ "rulings": [
7931
+ {
7932
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7933
+ "text": "This can remove any kind of counter, not just a -1/-1 counter."
7934
+ },
7935
+ {
7936
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
7937
+ "text": "You may target a permanent that doesn’t have a counter on it."
7938
+ }
7939
+ ]
6061
7940
  },
6062
7941
  {
6063
7942
  "name": "Mercy Killing",
@@ -6081,7 +7960,13 @@
6081
7960
  "loyalty": null,
6082
7961
  "multiverse_id": 158771,
6083
7962
  "other_part": null,
6084
- "color_indicator": null
7963
+ "color_indicator": null,
7964
+ "rulings": [
7965
+ {
7966
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
7967
+ "text": "You target the creature that will be sacrificed when you cast Mercy Killing, then its controller (who may or may not be you) sacrifices it when Mercy Killing resolves. Because this is a sacrifice, neither regeneration nor indestructible will save the creature."
7968
+ }
7969
+ ]
6085
7970
  },
6086
7971
  {
6087
7972
  "name": "Old Ghastbark",
@@ -6106,7 +7991,8 @@
6106
7991
  "loyalty": null,
6107
7992
  "multiverse_id": 142007,
6108
7993
  "other_part": null,
6109
- "color_indicator": null
7994
+ "color_indicator": null,
7995
+ "rulings": []
6110
7996
  },
6111
7997
  {
6112
7998
  "name": "Oracle of Nectars",
@@ -6133,7 +8019,8 @@
6133
8019
  "loyalty": null,
6134
8020
  "multiverse_id": 159414,
6135
8021
  "other_part": null,
6136
- "color_indicator": null
8022
+ "color_indicator": null,
8023
+ "rulings": []
6137
8024
  },
6138
8025
  {
6139
8026
  "name": "Oversoul of Dusk",
@@ -6160,7 +8047,8 @@
6160
8047
  "loyalty": null,
6161
8048
  "multiverse_id": 146735,
6162
8049
  "other_part": null,
6163
- "color_indicator": null
8050
+ "color_indicator": null,
8051
+ "rulings": []
6164
8052
  },
6165
8053
  {
6166
8054
  "name": "Raven's Run Dragoon",
@@ -6187,7 +8075,8 @@
6187
8075
  "loyalty": null,
6188
8076
  "multiverse_id": 142037,
6189
8077
  "other_part": null,
6190
- "color_indicator": null
8078
+ "color_indicator": null,
8079
+ "rulings": []
6191
8080
  },
6192
8081
  {
6193
8082
  "name": "Reknit",
@@ -6211,7 +8100,17 @@
6211
8100
  "loyalty": null,
6212
8101
  "multiverse_id": 154403,
6213
8102
  "other_part": null,
6214
- "color_indicator": null
8103
+ "color_indicator": null,
8104
+ "rulings": [
8105
+ {
8106
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8107
+ "text": "Reknit can regenerate an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you regenerate a noncreature permanent, the next time that permanent would be destroyed that turn, instead tap it. If that permanent had any damage on it (because it had been a creature earlier in the turn), that damage is removed."
8108
+ },
8109
+ {
8110
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8111
+ "text": "Regenerating a planeswalker will prevent it from being destroyed as a result of a “destroy” effect (like the one from Reaper King). However, it won’t prevent that planeswalker from being put into its owner’s graveyard when its loyalty becomes 0."
8112
+ }
8113
+ ]
6215
8114
  },
6216
8115
  {
6217
8116
  "name": "Rhys the Redeemed",
@@ -6241,7 +8140,8 @@
6241
8140
  "loyalty": null,
6242
8141
  "multiverse_id": 147393,
6243
8142
  "other_part": null,
6244
- "color_indicator": null
8143
+ "color_indicator": null,
8144
+ "rulings": []
6245
8145
  },
6246
8146
  {
6247
8147
  "name": "Safehold Duo",
@@ -6270,7 +8170,13 @@
6270
8170
  "loyalty": null,
6271
8171
  "multiverse_id": 153963,
6272
8172
  "other_part": null,
6273
- "color_indicator": null
8173
+ "color_indicator": null,
8174
+ "rulings": [
8175
+ {
8176
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8177
+ "text": "An object that’s both of the listed colors will cause both abilities to trigger. You can put them on the stack in either order."
8178
+ }
8179
+ ]
6274
8180
  },
6275
8181
  {
6276
8182
  "name": "Safehold Elite",
@@ -6297,7 +8203,37 @@
6297
8203
  "loyalty": null,
6298
8204
  "multiverse_id": 146077,
6299
8205
  "other_part": null,
6300
- "color_indicator": null
8206
+ "color_indicator": null,
8207
+ "rulings": [
8208
+ {
8209
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8210
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
8211
+ },
8212
+ {
8213
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8214
+ "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."
8215
+ },
8216
+ {
8217
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8218
+ "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."
8219
+ },
8220
+ {
8221
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8222
+ "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."
8223
+ },
8224
+ {
8225
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8226
+ "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."
8227
+ },
8228
+ {
8229
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8230
+ "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."
8231
+ },
8232
+ {
8233
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8234
+ "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."
8235
+ }
8236
+ ]
6301
8237
  },
6302
8238
  {
6303
8239
  "name": "Safewright Quest",
@@ -6321,7 +8257,8 @@
6321
8257
  "loyalty": null,
6322
8258
  "multiverse_id": 142038,
6323
8259
  "other_part": null,
6324
- "color_indicator": null
8260
+ "color_indicator": null,
8261
+ "rulings": []
6325
8262
  },
6326
8263
  {
6327
8264
  "name": "Seedcradle Witch",
@@ -6348,7 +8285,8 @@
6348
8285
  "loyalty": null,
6349
8286
  "multiverse_id": 157872,
6350
8287
  "other_part": null,
6351
- "color_indicator": null
8288
+ "color_indicator": null,
8289
+ "rulings": []
6352
8290
  },
6353
8291
  {
6354
8292
  "name": "Shield of the Oversoul",
@@ -6376,7 +8314,21 @@
6376
8314
  "loyalty": null,
6377
8315
  "multiverse_id": 158762,
6378
8316
  "other_part": null,
6379
- "color_indicator": null
8317
+ "color_indicator": null,
8318
+ "rulings": [
8319
+ {
8320
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8321
+ "text": "If the enchanted creature is both of the listed colors, it will get both bonuses."
8322
+ },
8323
+ {
8324
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8325
+ "text": "If an effect would simultaneously destroy Shield of the Oversoul and a green creature it’s enchanting, only the Shield is destroyed."
8326
+ },
8327
+ {
8328
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
8329
+ "text": "If a green creature enchanted by Shield of the Oversoul is dealt lethal damage, the creature isn’t destroyed, but the damage remains on the creature. If Shield of the Oversoul stops enchanting that creature later in the turn, the creature will lose indestructible and will be destroyed."
8330
+ }
8331
+ ]
6380
8332
  },
6381
8333
  {
6382
8334
  "name": "Wheel of Sun and Moon",
@@ -6403,7 +8355,21 @@
6403
8355
  "loyalty": null,
6404
8356
  "multiverse_id": 146740,
6405
8357
  "other_part": null,
6406
- "color_indicator": null
8358
+ "color_indicator": null,
8359
+ "rulings": [
8360
+ {
8361
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8362
+ "text": "Wheel of Sun and Moon’s replacement effect will apply to cards that would be put into the enchanted player’s graveyard from any game zone. This includes from the battlefield (if a nontoken permanent is destroyed or would otherwise be put into the graveyard), from the stack (if a spell is countered, or if an instant or sorcery spell resolves), from the player’s hand or library, and so on."
8363
+ },
8364
+ {
8365
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8366
+ "text": "Wheel of Sun and Moon won’t affect tokens that are put into the graveyard from the battlefield or copies of spells that resolve or are countered. They’re not cards, so they’ll go to the graveyard as normal, then cease to exist."
8367
+ },
8368
+ {
8369
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8370
+ "text": "If multiple cards would be put into the enchanted player’s graveyard at the same time (due to Millstone, for example), they are instead all revealed and put on the bottom of the enchanted player’s library at the same time. That player chooses what order to put them in. The order is not revealed to the other players."
8371
+ }
8372
+ ]
6407
8373
  },
6408
8374
  {
6409
8375
  "name": "Wilt-Leaf Cavaliers",
@@ -6430,7 +8396,8 @@
6430
8396
  "loyalty": null,
6431
8397
  "multiverse_id": 153962,
6432
8398
  "other_part": null,
6433
- "color_indicator": null
8399
+ "color_indicator": null,
8400
+ "rulings": []
6434
8401
  },
6435
8402
  {
6436
8403
  "name": "Wilt-Leaf Liege",
@@ -6459,7 +8426,13 @@
6459
8426
  "loyalty": null,
6460
8427
  "multiverse_id": 147439,
6461
8428
  "other_part": null,
6462
- "color_indicator": null
8429
+ "color_indicator": null,
8430
+ "rulings": [
8431
+ {
8432
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8433
+ "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."
8434
+ }
8435
+ ]
6463
8436
  },
6464
8437
  {
6465
8438
  "name": "Blazethorn Scarecrow",
@@ -6487,7 +8460,8 @@
6487
8460
  "loyalty": null,
6488
8461
  "multiverse_id": 151632,
6489
8462
  "other_part": null,
6490
- "color_indicator": null
8463
+ "color_indicator": null,
8464
+ "rulings": []
6491
8465
  },
6492
8466
  {
6493
8467
  "name": "Blight Sickle",
@@ -6514,7 +8488,8 @@
6514
8488
  "loyalty": null,
6515
8489
  "multiverse_id": 129135,
6516
8490
  "other_part": null,
6517
- "color_indicator": null
8491
+ "color_indicator": null,
8492
+ "rulings": []
6518
8493
  },
6519
8494
  {
6520
8495
  "name": "Cauldron of Souls",
@@ -6538,7 +8513,41 @@
6538
8513
  "loyalty": null,
6539
8514
  "multiverse_id": 152065,
6540
8515
  "other_part": null,
6541
- "color_indicator": null
8516
+ "color_indicator": null,
8517
+ "rulings": [
8518
+ {
8519
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8520
+ "text": "If a nontoken creature that gains persist this way is put into a graveyard, that card will be returned to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it. However, because it’s a new object with no relation to its previous existence, the returned creature will not have persist."
8521
+ },
8522
+ {
8523
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8524
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
8525
+ },
8526
+ {
8527
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8528
+ "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."
8529
+ },
8530
+ {
8531
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8532
+ "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."
8533
+ },
8534
+ {
8535
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8536
+ "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."
8537
+ },
8538
+ {
8539
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8540
+ "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."
8541
+ },
8542
+ {
8543
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8544
+ "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."
8545
+ },
8546
+ {
8547
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8548
+ "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."
8549
+ }
8550
+ ]
6542
8551
  },
6543
8552
  {
6544
8553
  "name": "Chainbreaker",
@@ -6566,7 +8575,8 @@
6566
8575
  "loyalty": null,
6567
8576
  "multiverse_id": 147419,
6568
8577
  "other_part": null,
6569
- "color_indicator": null
8578
+ "color_indicator": null,
8579
+ "rulings": []
6570
8580
  },
6571
8581
  {
6572
8582
  "name": "Elsewhere Flask",
@@ -6591,7 +8601,21 @@
6591
8601
  "loyalty": null,
6592
8602
  "multiverse_id": 142004,
6593
8603
  "other_part": null,
6594
- "color_indicator": null
8604
+ "color_indicator": null,
8605
+ "rulings": [
8606
+ {
8607
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8608
+ "text": "All your lands will have the chosen land type and no other land type."
8609
+ },
8610
+ {
8611
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8612
+ "text": "Changing a land’s type doesn’t change its name or whether it’s legendary or basic."
8613
+ },
8614
+ {
8615
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8616
+ "text": "Lands you control will have the mana ability of the basic land type you choose (for example, Forests can tap to produce green mana) and will lose all other innate abilities they had."
8617
+ }
8618
+ ]
6595
8619
  },
6596
8620
  {
6597
8621
  "name": "Gnarled Effigy",
@@ -6615,7 +8639,8 @@
6615
8639
  "loyalty": null,
6616
8640
  "multiverse_id": 146015,
6617
8641
  "other_part": null,
6618
- "color_indicator": null
8642
+ "color_indicator": null,
8643
+ "rulings": []
6619
8644
  },
6620
8645
  {
6621
8646
  "name": "Grim Poppet",
@@ -6643,7 +8668,13 @@
6643
8668
  "loyalty": null,
6644
8669
  "multiverse_id": 146739,
6645
8670
  "other_part": null,
6646
- "color_indicator": null
8671
+ "color_indicator": null,
8672
+ "rulings": [
8673
+ {
8674
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8675
+ "text": "The second ability can target any creature except the Grim Poppet whose ability is being activated. It can target a different Grim Poppet. It can be activated multiple times targeting the same creature."
8676
+ }
8677
+ ]
6647
8678
  },
6648
8679
  {
6649
8680
  "name": "Heap Doll",
@@ -6670,7 +8701,8 @@
6670
8701
  "loyalty": null,
6671
8702
  "multiverse_id": 154395,
6672
8703
  "other_part": null,
6673
- "color_indicator": null
8704
+ "color_indicator": null,
8705
+ "rulings": []
6674
8706
  },
6675
8707
  {
6676
8708
  "name": "Illuminated Folio",
@@ -6694,7 +8726,17 @@
6694
8726
  "loyalty": null,
6695
8727
  "multiverse_id": 146040,
6696
8728
  "other_part": null,
6697
- "color_indicator": null
8729
+ "color_indicator": null,
8730
+ "rulings": [
8731
+ {
8732
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8733
+ "text": "The two revealed cards stay revealed until the ability resolves. If one of them is played, is discarded, or otherwise leaves your hand, the ability will still resolve as normal."
8734
+ },
8735
+ {
8736
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8737
+ "text": "Colorless is not a color. You can’t reveal two colorless cards from your hand to activate this ability because those cards don’t share a color with one another."
8738
+ }
8739
+ ]
6698
8740
  },
6699
8741
  {
6700
8742
  "name": "Lockjaw Snapper",
@@ -6722,7 +8764,13 @@
6722
8764
  "loyalty": null,
6723
8765
  "multiverse_id": 154411,
6724
8766
  "other_part": null,
6725
- "color_indicator": null
8767
+ "color_indicator": null,
8768
+ "rulings": [
8769
+ {
8770
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8771
+ "text": "Each of those creatures will get just one new -1/-1 counter, regardless of how many it already has."
8772
+ }
8773
+ ]
6726
8774
  },
6727
8775
  {
6728
8776
  "name": "Lurebound Scarecrow",
@@ -6750,7 +8798,13 @@
6750
8798
  "loyalty": null,
6751
8799
  "multiverse_id": 154397,
6752
8800
  "other_part": null,
6753
- "color_indicator": null
8801
+ "color_indicator": null,
8802
+ "rulings": [
8803
+ {
8804
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8805
+ "text": "If you control a Lurebound Scarecrow but no color was chosen for it (perhaps because your Cemetery Puca turned into a Lurebound Scarecrow), the trigger condition will have an undefined value in it. It’ll never trigger, so you won’t have to sacrifice the Scarecrow."
8806
+ }
8807
+ ]
6754
8808
  },
6755
8809
  {
6756
8810
  "name": "Painter's Servant",
@@ -6778,7 +8832,33 @@
6778
8832
  "loyalty": null,
6779
8833
  "multiverse_id": 146022,
6780
8834
  "other_part": null,
6781
- "color_indicator": null
8835
+ "color_indicator": null,
8836
+ "rulings": [
8837
+ {
8838
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8839
+ "text": "This ability affects every card in every game zone, all tokens on the battlefield, and all spell copies on the stack, regardless of who controls or owns them."
8840
+ },
8841
+ {
8842
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8843
+ "text": "This ability doesn’t overwrite any previous colors. Rather, it adds another color."
8844
+ },
8845
+ {
8846
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8847
+ "text": "The effects of multiple Painter’s Servants are cumulative."
8848
+ },
8849
+ {
8850
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8851
+ "text": "While Painter’s Servant is on the battlefield, an effect that changes an object’s colors will overwrite Painter’s Servant’s effect. For example, casting Cerulean Wisps on a creature will turn it blue, regardless of the color chosen for Painter’s Servant."
8852
+ },
8853
+ {
8854
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8855
+ "text": "Each card becomes a new object as it changes zones, so this effect will apply to it from scratch in the new zone. Zone-change replacement abilities that care about the new color (like “[color] permanents enter the battlefield tapped”) won’t work because those effects are applied as the card is entering its new zone. Zone-change triggered abilities that care about the new color (like “when a [color] permanent enters the battlefield” or “when you cast a [color] spell”) will work because those effects apply after the card is already in its new zone."
8856
+ },
8857
+ {
8858
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8859
+ "text": "If something affected by Painter’s Servant is normally colorless, it will simply be the new color. It won’t be both the new color and colorless."
8860
+ }
8861
+ ]
6782
8862
  },
6783
8863
  {
6784
8864
  "name": "Pili-Pala",
@@ -6806,7 +8886,25 @@
6806
8886
  "loyalty": null,
6807
8887
  "multiverse_id": 147381,
6808
8888
  "other_part": null,
6809
- "color_indicator": null
8889
+ "color_indicator": null,
8890
+ "rulings": [
8891
+ {
8892
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8893
+ "text": "If Pili-Pala is already untapped, you can’t activate its {Q} ability. That’s because you can’t pay the “Untap this permanent” cost."
8894
+ },
8895
+ {
8896
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8897
+ "text": "If a creature with an {Q} ability hasn’t been under your control since your most recent turn began, you can’t activate that ability, unless the creature has haste."
8898
+ },
8899
+ {
8900
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8901
+ "text": "Pili-Pala’s ability is a mana ability. It doesn’t use the stack and can’t be responded to."
8902
+ },
8903
+ {
8904
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
8905
+ "text": "Using this creature’s ability means you’re untapping it for mana, not tapping it for mana. Mana Reflection won’t cause it to produce extra mana."
8906
+ }
8907
+ ]
6810
8908
  },
6811
8909
  {
6812
8910
  "name": "Rattleblaze Scarecrow",
@@ -6834,7 +8932,37 @@
6834
8932
  "loyalty": null,
6835
8933
  "multiverse_id": 151631,
6836
8934
  "other_part": null,
6837
- "color_indicator": null
8935
+ "color_indicator": null,
8936
+ "rulings": [
8937
+ {
8938
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8939
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
8940
+ },
8941
+ {
8942
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8943
+ "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."
8944
+ },
8945
+ {
8946
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8947
+ "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."
8948
+ },
8949
+ {
8950
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8951
+ "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."
8952
+ },
8953
+ {
8954
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8955
+ "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."
8956
+ },
8957
+ {
8958
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8959
+ "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."
8960
+ },
8961
+ {
8962
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
8963
+ "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."
8964
+ }
8965
+ ]
6838
8966
  },
6839
8967
  {
6840
8968
  "name": "Reaper King",
@@ -6865,7 +8993,25 @@
6865
8993
  "loyalty": null,
6866
8994
  "multiverse_id": 159408,
6867
8995
  "other_part": null,
6868
- "color_indicator": null
8996
+ "color_indicator": null,
8997
+ "rulings": [
8998
+ {
8999
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9000
+ "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."
9001
+ },
9002
+ {
9003
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9004
+ "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, Reaper King is all colors even if you spend ten colorless mana to cast it."
9005
+ },
9006
+ {
9007
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9008
+ "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, Reaper King has a converted mana cost of 10, even if you spend {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} to cast it."
9009
+ },
9010
+ {
9011
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9012
+ "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 Reaper King by spending one mana of each color, {2} and one mana each of four different colors, {4} and one mana each of three different colors, {6} and one mana each of two different colors, {8} and one mana of any color, or {10}."
9013
+ }
9014
+ ]
6869
9015
  },
6870
9016
  {
6871
9017
  "name": "Revelsong Horn",
@@ -6889,7 +9035,8 @@
6889
9035
  "loyalty": null,
6890
9036
  "multiverse_id": 146047,
6891
9037
  "other_part": null,
6892
- "color_indicator": null
9038
+ "color_indicator": null,
9039
+ "rulings": []
6893
9040
  },
6894
9041
  {
6895
9042
  "name": "Scrapbasket",
@@ -6916,7 +9063,17 @@
6916
9063
  "loyalty": null,
6917
9064
  "multiverse_id": 147435,
6918
9065
  "other_part": null,
6919
- "color_indicator": null
9066
+ "color_indicator": null,
9067
+ "rulings": [
9068
+ {
9069
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9070
+ "text": "Scrapbasket’s ability won’t stop it from being an artifact. It’ll just be a colorful artifact."
9071
+ },
9072
+ {
9073
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9074
+ "text": "After Scrapbasket’s ability resolves, an effect that changes its colors will overwrite that ability’s effect. For example, casting Cerulean Wisps on it will turn it just blue."
9075
+ }
9076
+ ]
6920
9077
  },
6921
9078
  {
6922
9079
  "name": "Scuttlemutt",
@@ -6944,7 +9101,29 @@
6944
9101
  "loyalty": null,
6945
9102
  "multiverse_id": 142067,
6946
9103
  "other_part": null,
6947
- "color_indicator": null
9104
+ "color_indicator": null,
9105
+ "rulings": [
9106
+ {
9107
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9108
+ "text": "An effect that changes a permanent’s colors overwrites all its old colors unless it specifically says “in addition to its other colors.” For example, after Cerulean Wisps resolves, the affected creature will just be blue. It doesn’t matter what colors it used to be (even if, for example, it used to be blue and black)."
9109
+ },
9110
+ {
9111
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9112
+ "text": "Changing a permanent’s color won’t change its text. If you turn Wilt-Leaf Liege blue, it will still affect green creatures and white creatures."
9113
+ },
9114
+ {
9115
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9116
+ "text": "Colorless is not a color."
9117
+ },
9118
+ {
9119
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9120
+ "text": "For the second ability, you can choose any single color or any combination of more than one color. You can’t choose colorless."
9121
+ },
9122
+ {
9123
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9124
+ "text": "The second ability won’t make an artifact creature stop being an artifact. It’ll just be a colorful artifact."
9125
+ }
9126
+ ]
6948
9127
  },
6949
9128
  {
6950
9129
  "name": "Tatterkite",
@@ -6972,7 +9151,29 @@
6972
9151
  "loyalty": null,
6973
9152
  "multiverse_id": 142030,
6974
9153
  "other_part": null,
6975
- "color_indicator": null
9154
+ "color_indicator": null,
9155
+ "rulings": [
9156
+ {
9157
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9158
+ "text": "Tatterkite’s ability prevents any kind of counter from being placed on it, not just -1/-1 counters."
9159
+ },
9160
+ {
9161
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9162
+ "text": "A spell or ability whose effect would put a counter on Tatterkite simply doesn’t affect it. The spell or ability isn’t countered. If it would put counters on any other creatures, it continues to do so."
9163
+ },
9164
+ {
9165
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9166
+ "text": "If Tatterkite is dealt damage by a creature with wither, that damage has no effect. It’s not prevented; it just doesn’t do anything. Abilities that trigger on damage being dealt will still trigger."
9167
+ },
9168
+ {
9169
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9170
+ "text": "You can’t pay a cost that includes putting a counter on Tatterkite. For example, if Tatterkite is the only creature you control, you can’t cast Scarscale Ritual because you can’t pay the additional cost."
9171
+ },
9172
+ {
9173
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9174
+ "text": "If Tatterkite would enter the battlefield with counters on it, it enters the battlefield but doesn’t have those counters. For example, if an effect grants it persist and then it’s destroyed, it returns to the battlefield without a -1/-1 counter on it."
9175
+ }
9176
+ ]
6976
9177
  },
6977
9178
  {
6978
9179
  "name": "Thornwatch Scarecrow",
@@ -7000,7 +9201,8 @@
7000
9201
  "loyalty": null,
7001
9202
  "multiverse_id": 151634,
7002
9203
  "other_part": null,
7003
- "color_indicator": null
9204
+ "color_indicator": null,
9205
+ "rulings": []
7004
9206
  },
7005
9207
  {
7006
9208
  "name": "Trip Noose",
@@ -7024,7 +9226,8 @@
7024
9226
  "loyalty": null,
7025
9227
  "multiverse_id": 147420,
7026
9228
  "other_part": null,
7027
- "color_indicator": null
9229
+ "color_indicator": null,
9230
+ "rulings": []
7028
9231
  },
7029
9232
  {
7030
9233
  "name": "Umbral Mantle",
@@ -7051,7 +9254,21 @@
7051
9254
  "loyalty": null,
7052
9255
  "multiverse_id": 153317,
7053
9256
  "other_part": null,
7054
- "color_indicator": null
9257
+ "color_indicator": null,
9258
+ "rulings": [
9259
+ {
9260
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9261
+ "text": "If the permanent is already untapped, you can’t activate its {Q} ability. That’s because you can’t pay the “Untap this permanent” cost."
9262
+ },
9263
+ {
9264
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9265
+ "text": "If a creature with an {Q} ability hasn’t been under your control since your most recent turn began, you can’t activate that ability, unless the creature has haste."
9266
+ },
9267
+ {
9268
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9269
+ "text": "When you activate an {Q} ability, you untap the creature with that ability as a cost. The untap can’t be responded to. (The actual ability can be responded to, of course.)"
9270
+ }
9271
+ ]
7055
9272
  },
7056
9273
  {
7057
9274
  "name": "Watchwing Scarecrow",
@@ -7079,7 +9296,8 @@
7079
9296
  "loyalty": null,
7080
9297
  "multiverse_id": 151630,
7081
9298
  "other_part": null,
7082
- "color_indicator": null
9299
+ "color_indicator": null,
9300
+ "rulings": []
7083
9301
  },
7084
9302
  {
7085
9303
  "name": "Wicker Warcrawler",
@@ -7106,7 +9324,13 @@
7106
9324
  "loyalty": null,
7107
9325
  "multiverse_id": 154410,
7108
9326
  "other_part": null,
7109
- "color_indicator": null
9327
+ "color_indicator": null,
9328
+ "rulings": [
9329
+ {
9330
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9331
+ "text": "The -1/-1 counter is put on Wicker Warcrawler at end of combat, after combat damage has already been dealt. (Note that this is different from how Dusk Urchins works.)"
9332
+ }
9333
+ ]
7110
9334
  },
7111
9335
  {
7112
9336
  "name": "Wingrattle Scarecrow",
@@ -7134,7 +9358,37 @@
7134
9358
  "loyalty": null,
7135
9359
  "multiverse_id": 151633,
7136
9360
  "other_part": null,
7137
- "color_indicator": null
9361
+ "color_indicator": null,
9362
+ "rulings": [
9363
+ {
9364
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
9365
+ "text": "If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work."
9366
+ },
9367
+ {
9368
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
9369
+ "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."
9370
+ },
9371
+ {
9372
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
9373
+ "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."
9374
+ },
9375
+ {
9376
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
9377
+ "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."
9378
+ },
9379
+ {
9380
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
9381
+ "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."
9382
+ },
9383
+ {
9384
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
9385
+ "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."
9386
+ },
9387
+ {
9388
+ "date": "6/7/2013",
9389
+ "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."
9390
+ }
9391
+ ]
7138
9392
  },
7139
9393
  {
7140
9394
  "name": "Fire-Lit Thicket",
@@ -7159,7 +9413,8 @@
7159
9413
  "loyalty": null,
7160
9414
  "multiverse_id": 146753,
7161
9415
  "other_part": null,
7162
- "color_indicator": null
9416
+ "color_indicator": null,
9417
+ "rulings": []
7163
9418
  },
7164
9419
  {
7165
9420
  "name": "Graven Cairns",
@@ -7184,7 +9439,13 @@
7184
9439
  "loyalty": null,
7185
9440
  "multiverse_id": 146764,
7186
9441
  "other_part": null,
7187
- "color_indicator": null
9442
+ "color_indicator": null,
9443
+ "rulings": [
9444
+ {
9445
+ "date": "5/1/2007",
9446
+ "text": "{B/R}, {T}” is the same as saying “{B}, {T} or {R}, {T}."
9447
+ }
9448
+ ]
7188
9449
  },
7189
9450
  {
7190
9451
  "name": "Leechridden Swamp",
@@ -7212,7 +9473,8 @@
7212
9473
  "loyalty": null,
7213
9474
  "multiverse_id": 142020,
7214
9475
  "other_part": null,
7215
- "color_indicator": null
9476
+ "color_indicator": null,
9477
+ "rulings": []
7216
9478
  },
7217
9479
  {
7218
9480
  "name": "Madblind Mountain",
@@ -7240,7 +9502,8 @@
7240
9502
  "loyalty": null,
7241
9503
  "multiverse_id": 141959,
7242
9504
  "other_part": null,
7243
- "color_indicator": null
9505
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+ "date": "12/7/2018",
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+ "text": "Once you activate Mistveil Plains’s last ability, it doesn’t matter if you lose control of some of your white permanents."
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9621
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9623
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9626
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9627
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+ },
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9630
+ "date": "10/4/2004",
9631
+ "text": "Any change to a land’s type or splicing of text into a land can affect the types of mana a land can produce."
9632
+ },
9633
+ {
9634
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9635
+ "text": "The types of mana are white, blue, black, red, green, and colorless."
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+ },
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+ {
9638
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9639
+ "text": "Reflecting Pool checks the effects of all mana-producing abilities of lands you control, but it doesn’t check their costs. For example, Vivid Crag says “{T}, Remove a charge counter from Vivid Crag: Add one mana of any color.” If you control Vivid Crag and Reflecting Pool, you can tap Reflecting Pool for any color of mana. It doesn’t matter whether Vivid Crag has a charge counter on it, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s untapped."
9640
+ },
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+ {
9642
+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9643
+ "text": "Reflecting Pool doesn’t care about any restrictions or riders your lands put on the mana they produce, such as Pillar of the Paruns and Hall of the Bandit Lord do. It just cares about types of mana."
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+ {
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+ "date": "5/1/2008",
9647
+ "text": "Multiple Reflecting Pools won’t help each other produce mana. If you control a Reflecting Pool, and all other lands you control either lack mana abilities or are other Reflecting Pools, you may still activate Reflecting Pool’s ability — it just won’t produce any mana."
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9652
  "name": "Sapseep Forest",
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9680
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7379
9681
  "name": "Sunken Ruins",
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7404
9707
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9732
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7429
9733
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9761
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7457
9762
  "name": "Plains",
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  },
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9790
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7485
9791
  "name": "Plains",
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7512
9819
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7513
9820
  "name": "Plains",
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7540
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7541
9849
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7568
9877
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7569
9878
  "name": "Island",
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7597
9907
  "name": "Island",
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7619
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7625
9936
  "name": "Island",
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7653
9965
  "name": "Swamp",
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7680
9993
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7681
9994
  "name": "Swamp",
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7709
10023
  "name": "Swamp",
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7737
10052
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7764
10080
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7765
10081
  "name": "Mountain",
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10106
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10108
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7792
10109
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7793
10110
  "name": "Mountain",
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7815
10132
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7816
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7818
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10135
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7820
10138
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7821
10139
  "name": "Mountain",
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7844
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10164
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7847
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7848
10167
  {
7849
10168
  "name": "Mountain",
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10196
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7877
10197
  "name": "Forest",
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7900
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7904
10225
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7905
10226
  "name": "Forest",
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7927
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7930
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7932
10254
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7933
10255
  "name": "Forest",
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7960
10283
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7961
10284
  "name": "Forest",
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