mtg-db 2.0.0 → 2.1.0

data/data/sets/v09.json

@@ -21,7 +21,21 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194966,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "First the player whose turn it is chooses which lands (if any) to keep, then each other player in turn order does the same. Each player will know the choices made by the players who chose before them. All of the unchosen lands are then sacrificed simultaneously. Then the process is repeated for cards in hand, except that no cards are revealed until all players have chosen what to discard, at which point those cards are all discarded simultaneously. Lastly, the process is repeated for creatures, and players will again know earlier choices made when deciding what to sacrifice. All of the unchosen creatures are then sacrificed simultaneously."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "Balance doesn’t have targets, so permanents that can’t be targeted, such as a creature with shroud or protection from white, are valid choices to be sacrificed."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "Each type of object is counted during the corresponding part of the process. Cards in hand are counted after lands have been sacrificed, and creatures on the battlefield are counted after cards have been discarded. Thus, a land creature sacrificed to the first part of the spell would not be counted when determining how many creatures are on the battlefield for the last part."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Berserk",
@@ -46,7 +60,13 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194969,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "If the permanent stops being a creature before the end of the turn, it is still destroyed."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Channel",
@@ -70,7 +90,13 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194967,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "11/17/2017",
+        "text": "Once your life total is 0, you can’t pay any more life, even if you’ve somehow not lost the game yet."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Gifts Ungiven",
@@ -94,7 +120,13 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194971,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "3/14/2017",
+        "text": "You can choose to find fewer than four cards if you want. If you find one or two cards, your opponent must choose for them to be put into your graveyard, even if they don’t want to."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Goblin Lackey",
@@ -120,7 +152,13 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194973,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "8/1/2008",
+        "text": "A Goblin permanent card is an artifact, creature, land, and/or enchantment card with the creature type “Goblin”. Usually such cards will be creatures in addition to any other types, but they may be tribal instead. For example, you could put Boggart Shenanigans onto the battlefield with this effect."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Kird Ape",
@@ -146,7 +184,8 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194974,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": []
   },
   {
     "name": "Lotus Petal",
@@ -170,7 +209,8 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194975,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": []
   },
   {
     "name": "Mystical Tutor",
@@ -194,7 +234,13 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194976,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "The “shuffle and put the card on top” is a single action. If an effect causes the top card of the library to be face up, the second card down is not revealed."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Necropotence",
@@ -220,7 +266,21 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194977,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "11/17/2017",
+        "text": "If a discarded card isn’t put into your graveyard (due to an effect such as that of Obstinate Baloth) or leaves your graveyard (perhaps because another effect returned it to your hand), it won’t be exiled."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "11/17/2017",
+        "text": "If you discard a card with madness and wish to cast it, Necropotence’s ability won’t exile that card. If you don’t wish to cast it, you choose whether it ends up exiled or in your graveyard."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "11/17/2017",
+        "text": "Necropotence’s last ability creates a delayed triggered ability that will put the exiled card into your hand. That ability still triggers even if Necropotence is removed from the battlefield before your end step."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Sensei's Divining Top",
@@ -245,7 +305,17 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194972,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "Sensei’s Divining Top’s second ability may be activated in response to its first ability. If so, you’ll draw a card, put Sensei’s Divining Top on top of your library, and then look at the top three cards and rearrange them."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "If Sensei’s Divining Top leaves the battlefield while its second ability is on the stack, you’ll draw a card and leave Sensei’s Divining Top in the zone it’s moved to."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Serendib Efreet",
@@ -272,7 +342,8 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194970,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": []
   },
   {
     "name": "Skullclamp",
@@ -300,7 +371,8 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194978,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": []
   },
   {
     "name": "Strip Mine",
@@ -325,7 +397,8 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194968,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": []
   },
   {
     "name": "Tinker",
@@ -350,7 +423,13 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194980,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "Because the “search” requires you to find a card with certain characteristics, you don’t have to find the card if you don’t want to."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Trinisphere",
@@ -374,6 +453,28 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 194979,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "12/1/2004",
+        "text": "Trinisphere’s ability affects the total cost of the spell. It is applied *after* any other cost increasers or cost reducers are applied: First apply any cost increases. Next apply any cost reducers. Finally look at the amount of mana you have to pay. If it’s less than three mana, you’ll pay three mana."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "12/1/2004",
+        "text": "Even with a cost reducer on the battlefield, spells can’t cost less than three mana to cast."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "12/1/2004",
+        "text": "If a spell costs at least three mana due to additional costs, such as kicker costs, that’s fine."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "12/1/2004",
+        "text": "You still need to pay any additional nonmana costs the spell has, such as sacrificing a creature or discarding cards."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "12/1/2004",
+        "text": "Casting a creature with morph face down already costs three mana, even though the converted mana cost of the face-down spell is zero, so Trinisphere normally doesn’t modify the total cost of a face-down creature spell. However, if Dream Chisel is reducing that cost while Trinisphere is on the battlefield, you’ll still have to pay three mana for the spell."
+      }
+    ]
   }
 ]

data/data/sets/v10.json

@@ -22,7 +22,17 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212630,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "11/17/2017",
+        "text": "If Aether Vial leaves the battlefield while its second ability is on the stack, use its last known number of charge counters to determine what you may put from your hand onto the battlefield."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "11/17/2017",
+        "text": "If a card in a player’s hand has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Black Vise",
@@ -47,7 +57,17 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212636,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "You choose one opposing player as it enters the battlefield and it only affects that one player. This choice is not changed even if Black Vise changes controllers. It becomes useless but stays on the battlefield if that player leaves the game."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/1/2009",
+        "text": "If the chosen player has four or fewer cards in their hand as Black Vise’s ability resolves, the ability just won’t do anything that turn."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Isochron Scepter",
@@ -72,7 +92,37 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212626,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "If the imprinted card leaves the exile zone while the activated ability is on the stack, the copy can’t be made."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "If Isochron Scepter leaves the battlefield while the activated ability is on the stack, the ability can still make a copy."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "You cast the copy while the ability is resolving and still on the stack."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "Because you’re already casting the spell using an alternative cost (by casting it without paying its mana cost), you can’t pay any other alternative costs for the card. You can pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "If the exiled card has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value for X when casting it."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "If you don’t want to cast the copy, you can choose not to; the copy ceases to exist the next time state-based actions are checked."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "4/18/2017",
+        "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. When you activate the second ability, you may choose to cast either half of the split card, but you may not cast both halves."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Ivory Tower",
@@ -96,7 +146,13 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212639,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "If you have four or fewer cards in your hand when Ivory Tower’s ability resolves, the ability has no effect."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Jester's Cap",
@@ -120,7 +176,13 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212627,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "If the player has less than 3 cards in their library, just exile all the cards that are there."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Karn, Silver Golem",
@@ -150,7 +212,17 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212632,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "The blocking ability triggers only once no matter how many blockers are declared."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "8/1/2008",
+        "text": "A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn’t matter how long the permanent has been a creature."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Masticore",
@@ -179,7 +251,8 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212629,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": []
   },
   {
     "name": "Memory Jar",
@@ -203,7 +276,13 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212633,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "You can’t look at the cards you exiled until they return to your hand."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Mirari",
@@ -229,7 +308,37 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212635,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "Everything about the original spell is copied, including any decisions made on announcement, such as whether it was kicked or its Buyback cost was paid. Effects on the spell, such as Sleight of Mind or Flashback, are not copied."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "If the copied spell requires a target and there are no legal targets, then the copy has the same target (which should be illegal) as the original."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "If the spell is countered before the triggered ability resolves, then the ability will make a copy of how the spell looked right before it was countered."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "It triggers once per spell, so you can’t get multiple copies of a spell using this card. And since this card is legendary, you can’t control more than one."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "The copy is not “cast” so it will not trigger anything that triggers on a spell being cast."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "You choose whether or not to pay when the triggered ability resolves."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "10/4/2004",
+        "text": "You are not required to choose new targets. If you do choose, then the targets must be legal. If you don’t change them, the spell is placed on the stack whether or not the targets are legal. The legality of the targets is always checked on resolution of the spell, so the spell may be countered at that time if all of its targets are illegal."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Mox Diamond",
@@ -254,7 +363,13 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212634,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "5/1/2008",
+        "text": "If you don’t discard a land card, Mox Diamond never enters the battlefield. It won’t trigger abilities that look for something entering the battlefield, and you won’t get the opportunity to tap it for mana."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Nevinyrral's Disk",
@@ -279,7 +394,13 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212637,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "text": "You don’t sacrifice Nevinyrral’s Disk to activate its ability. It’s destroyed as part of the ability’s resolution if it’s still on the battlefield. If an effect gives Nevinyrral’s Disk indestructible or regenerates it, it stays on the battlefield."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Sol Ring",
@@ -303,7 +424,8 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212638,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": []
   },
   {
     "name": "Sundering Titan",
@@ -330,7 +452,25 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212631,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "3/16/2018",
+        "text": "Sundering Titan’s ability isn’t targeted. When it resolves, Sundering Titan’s controller must choose one land for each basic land type (Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest), and then they are destroyed simultaneously."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "3/16/2018",
+        "text": "Players can’t take actions in between the time you choose the lands and the time you destroy them. Notably, they can’t activate mana abilities of those lands."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "3/16/2018",
+        "text": "If one of the basic land types isn’t present, it isn’t chosen. If the only land of a certain type is one you control, you must choose it."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "3/16/2018",
+        "text": "If a land has more than one basic land type, it can be chosen more than once."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Sword of Body and Mind",
@@ -358,7 +498,13 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212640,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "1/1/2011",
+        "text": "If there are fewer than ten cards in that player’s library, that player puts all the cards from their library into their graveyard."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Zuran Orb",
@@ -382,6 +528,7 @@
     "loyalty": null,
     "multiverse_id": 212628,
     "other_part": null,
-    "color_indicator": null
+    "color_indicator": null,
+    "rulings": []
   }
 ]