mtg-db 2.0.0 → 2.1.0

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  1. checksums.yaml +4 -4
  2. data/data/sets/10e.json +2053 -390
  3. data/data/sets/2ed.json +2261 -305
  4. data/data/sets/3ed.json +2137 -309
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  12. data/data/sets/a25.json +2286 -251
  13. data/data/sets/aer.json +3637 -194
  14. data/data/sets/akh.json +3572 -303
  15. data/data/sets/ala.json +2483 -249
  16. data/data/sets/all.json +1185 -199
  17. data/data/sets/apc.json +603 -154
  18. data/data/sets/arb.json +1739 -146
  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
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  29. data/data/sets/c13.json +3069 -359
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  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
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  39. data/data/sets/cma.json +2356 -320
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  43. data/data/sets/con.json +1182 -146
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  45. data/data/sets/dd2.json +556 -62
  46. data/data/sets/dd3_dvd.json +390 -63
  47. data/data/sets/dd3_evg.json +271 -62
  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
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  68. data/data/sets/ddu.json +521 -77
  69. data/data/sets/dgm.json +2945 -171
  70. data/data/sets/dis.json +1072 -194
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  72. data/data/sets/dom.json +2654 -282
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  74. data/data/sets/drk.json +769 -119
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  77. data/data/sets/e01.json +947 -108
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  79. data/data/sets/ema.json +1689 -252
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  81. data/data/sets/eve.json +2054 -180
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  83. data/data/sets/exo.json +878 -143
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  87. data/data/sets/fut.json +2076 -180
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  128. data/data/sets/mps_akh.json +540 -54
  129. data/data/sets/mps_grn.json +120 -8
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  131. data/data/sets/mps_rna.json +196 -8
  132. data/data/sets/mps_war.json +143 -8
  133. data/data/sets/mrd.json +1475 -306
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  137. data/data/sets/ogw.json +1672 -186
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  144. data/data/sets/pd3.json +187 -31
  145. data/data/sets/plc.json +2060 -169
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  147. data/data/sets/po2.json +525 -165
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  149. data/data/sets/ptk.json +782 -180
  150. data/data/sets/rav.json +2219 -316
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  152. data/data/sets/rna.json +2706 -283
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  161. data/data/sets/som.json +2621 -256
  162. data/data/sets/ss1.json +59 -8
  163. data/data/sets/sth.json +894 -145
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  165. data/data/sets/tmp.json +1904 -351
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  170. data/data/sets/ugl.json +2482 -0
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  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
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  176. data/data/sets/ust.json +11302 -0
  177. data/data/sets/v09.json +116 -15
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  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
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data/data/sets/arb.json CHANGED
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+ "rulings": [
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+ "date": "5/1/2009",
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+ "text": "Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "date": "5/1/2009",
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+ "text": "When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "date": "5/1/2009",
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+ "text": "If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "date": "5/1/2009",
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+ "text": "You exile the cards face-up. All players will be able to see them."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "date": "5/1/2009",
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+ "text": "If you cast the last exiled card, you’re casting it as a spell. It can be countered. If that card has cascade, the new spell’s cascade ability will trigger, and you’ll repeat the process for the new spell."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "date": "5/1/2009",
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+ "text": "After you’re done exiling cards and casting the last one if you chose to do so, the remaining exiled cards are randomly placed on the bottom of your library. Neither you nor any other player is allowed to know the order of those cards."
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+ },
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+ {
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+ "date": "4/18/2017",
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+ "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves."
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+ {
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+ "date": "5/1/2009",
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+ "text": "If the second ability affects a creature, it doesn’t cause that creature to lose any of its abilities. It just gives that creature flying as well."
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+ {
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+ "date": "5/1/2009",
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+ "text": "The affected creature remains 3/1 and has flying as long as it has a feather counter on it. The effect continues even if Aven Mimeomancer leaves the battlefield."
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+ "date": "5/1/2009",
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+ "text": "You may put a feather counter on a creature that already has a feather counter on it. Doing so has no visible effect unless some other effect has changed the creature’s power or toughness, or caused it to lose flying, since the last feather counter was put on it."
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+ "text": "If all feather counters on a creature are moved to a different creature, the ability doesn’t follow them. The first creature stops being affected by the ability because it no longer has a feather counter on it. The second creature is not affected by the ability because Aven Mimeomancer didn’t target it."
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+ "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."
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+ "text": "When Ethersworn Shieldmage’s triggered ability resolves, it doesn’t lock in which permanents will be affected. For the rest of the turn, any time damage would be dealt to a permanent, check whether it’s an artifact creature at that time. If it is, that damage is prevented."
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+ "text": "Casting this card by paying its alternative cost doesn’t change when you can cast it. You can cast it only at the normal time you could cast an artifact spell. It also doesn’t change the spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost. The only difference is the cost you actually pay."
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+ "text": "Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast this card will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay."
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+ "text": "To satisfy the alternative cost, you may return any basic land you control to its owner’s hand, regardless of that land’s subtype or whether it’s tapped."
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+ "text": "As you cast a spell, you get a chance to activate mana abilities before you pay that spell’s costs. Therefore, you may tap a basic land for mana, then both spend that mana and return that land to your hand to pay this card’s alternative cost. (Of course, you can return a different basic land instead.)"
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+ "text": "Filigree Angel’s enters-the-battlefield ability counts Filigree Angel itself, assuming that it’s still on the battlefield and still an artifact by the time the ability resolves."
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+ "text": "No one can cast spells or activate abilities between the time a card is named and the time that Meddling Mage’s ability starts to work."
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+ "text": "Spells with the chosen name that somehow happen to already be on the stack when Meddling Mage enters the battlefield are not affected by Meddling Mage’s ability."
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+ "text": "Unlike the normal cycling ability, landcycling doesn’t allow you to draw a card. Instead, it lets you search your library for a land card of the specified land type, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library."
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+ "text": "If the blocked creature is already untapped at the time its controller’s next untap step begins, this ability has no effect. It won’t apply at some later time when that creature is tapped."
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+ "date": "5/1/2009",
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+ "text": "Shield of the Righteous’s second ability doesn’t track the blocked creature’s controller. If that creature changes controllers before its old controller’s next untap step, this ability will prevent it from untapping during its new controller’s next untap step."
456
+ }
457
+ ]
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  {
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  "name": "Sovereigns of Lost Alara",
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  "multiverse_id": 180600,
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  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
484
+ "color_indicator": null,
485
+ "rulings": [
486
+ {
487
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
488
+ "text": "Any Aura card you find with Sovereigns of Lost Alara’s second ability must be able to enchant the attacking creature as it currently exists. You need to check the Aura’s enchant ability as well as any effects, such as protection, that would make it illegal to attach that Aura to the attacking creature. For example, if the attacking creature were an artifact creature with protection from blue, you could find an Aura with “enchant artifact,” but you could not find a blue Aura."
489
+ },
490
+ {
491
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
492
+ "text": "If you choose to search your library but no applicable Aura card is left in your deck (or you choose not to find one), then nothing enters the battlefield and you simply shuffle your library."
493
+ },
494
+ {
495
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
496
+ "text": "The attacking creature is not targeted by either this ability or the Aura, so a creature with shroud can be enchanted this way."
497
+ },
498
+ {
499
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
500
+ "text": "If the attacking creature has left the battlefield by the time Sovereigns of Lost Alara’s second ability resolves, you can’t put an Aura onto the battlefield this way. You may still choose to search your library just to shuffle it."
501
+ },
502
+ {
503
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
504
+ "text": "Any Aura card you find with Sovereigns of Lost Alara’s second ability must be able to enchant the attacking creature as it currently exists. You need to check the Aura’s enchant ability as well as any effects, such as protection, that would make it illegal to attach that Aura to the attacking creature. For example, if the attacking creature were an artifact creature with protection from blue, you could find an Aura with “enchant artifact,” but you could not find a blue Aura."
505
+ },
506
+ {
507
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
508
+ "text": "If you choose to search your library but no applicable Aura card is left in your library (or you choose not to find one), then nothing enters the battlefield and you simply shuffle your library."
509
+ },
510
+ {
511
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
512
+ "text": "If the attacking creature has left the battlefield by the time Sovereigns of Lost Alara’s second ability resolves, you can’t put an Aura onto the battlefield this way. You may still choose to search your library just to shuffle it."
513
+ }
514
+ ]
328
515
  },
329
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  {
330
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  "name": "Stormcaller's Boon",
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349
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  "loyalty": null,
350
537
  "multiverse_id": 179534,
351
538
  "other_part": null,
352
- "color_indicator": null
539
+ "color_indicator": null,
540
+ "rulings": [
541
+ {
542
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
543
+ "text": "Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade."
544
+ },
545
+ {
546
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
547
+ "text": "When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled."
548
+ },
549
+ {
550
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
551
+ "text": "If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally."
552
+ },
553
+ {
554
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
555
+ "text": "You exile the cards face-up. All players will be able to see them."
556
+ },
557
+ {
558
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
559
+ "text": "If you cast the last exiled card, you’re casting it as a spell. It can be countered. If that card has cascade, the new spell’s cascade ability will trigger, and you’ll repeat the process for the new spell."
560
+ },
561
+ {
562
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
563
+ "text": "After you’re done exiling cards and casting the last one if you chose to do so, the remaining exiled cards are randomly placed on the bottom of your library. Neither you nor any other player is allowed to know the order of those cards."
564
+ },
565
+ {
566
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
567
+ "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves."
568
+ }
569
+ ]
353
570
  },
354
571
  {
355
572
  "name": "Talon Trooper",
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376
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  "multiverse_id": 179537,
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595
  "other_part": null,
379
- "color_indicator": null
596
+ "color_indicator": null,
597
+ "rulings": []
380
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  },
381
599
  {
382
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  "name": "Unbender Tine",
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400
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  "loyalty": null,
401
619
  "multiverse_id": 138217,
402
620
  "other_part": null,
403
- "color_indicator": null
621
+ "color_indicator": null,
622
+ "rulings": []
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  },
405
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  {
406
625
  "name": "Wall of Denial",
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427
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  "loyalty": null,
428
647
  "multiverse_id": 179601,
429
648
  "other_part": null,
430
- "color_indicator": null
649
+ "color_indicator": null,
650
+ "rulings": []
431
651
  },
432
652
  {
433
653
  "name": "Architects of Will",
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456
676
  "loyalty": null,
457
677
  "multiverse_id": 179597,
458
678
  "other_part": null,
459
- "color_indicator": null
679
+ "color_indicator": null,
680
+ "rulings": [
681
+ {
682
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
683
+ "text": "Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not."
684
+ }
685
+ ]
460
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  },
461
687
  {
462
688
  "name": "Brainbite",
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481
707
  "loyalty": null,
482
708
  "multiverse_id": 179607,
483
709
  "other_part": null,
484
- "color_indicator": null
710
+ "color_indicator": null,
711
+ "rulings": [
712
+ {
713
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
714
+ "text": "You may target an opponent who has no cards in hand."
715
+ },
716
+ {
717
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
718
+ "text": "When Brainbite resolves, you’ll draw a card even if the targeted opponent has no cards in hand."
719
+ }
720
+ ]
485
721
  },
486
722
  {
487
723
  "name": "Deny Reality",
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506
742
  "loyalty": null,
507
743
  "multiverse_id": 185045,
508
744
  "other_part": null,
509
- "color_indicator": null
745
+ "color_indicator": null,
746
+ "rulings": [
747
+ {
748
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
749
+ "text": "Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade."
750
+ },
751
+ {
752
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
753
+ "text": "When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled."
754
+ },
755
+ {
756
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
757
+ "text": "If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally."
758
+ },
759
+ {
760
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
761
+ "text": "You exile the cards face-up. All players will be able to see them."
762
+ },
763
+ {
764
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
765
+ "text": "If you cast the last exiled card, you’re casting it as a spell. It can be countered. If that card has cascade, the new spell’s cascade ability will trigger, and you’ll repeat the process for the new spell."
766
+ },
767
+ {
768
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
769
+ "text": "After you’re done exiling cards and casting the last one if you chose to do so, the remaining exiled cards are randomly placed on the bottom of your library. Neither you nor any other player is allowed to know the order of those cards."
770
+ },
771
+ {
772
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
773
+ "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves."
774
+ }
775
+ ]
510
776
  },
511
777
  {
512
778
  "name": "Etherium Abomination",
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533
799
  "loyalty": null,
534
800
  "multiverse_id": 179573,
535
801
  "other_part": null,
536
- "color_indicator": null
802
+ "color_indicator": null,
803
+ "rulings": []
537
804
  },
538
805
  {
539
806
  "name": "Illusory Demon",
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561
828
  "loyalty": null,
562
829
  "multiverse_id": 179596,
563
830
  "other_part": null,
564
- "color_indicator": null
831
+ "color_indicator": null,
832
+ "rulings": [
833
+ {
834
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
835
+ "text": "If you cast a spell, the spell goes on the stack, then Illusory Demon’s triggered ability goes on the stack on top of it. The triggered ability will resolve (and you’ll sacrifice Illusory Demon) before the spell resolves."
836
+ }
837
+ ]
565
838
  },
566
839
  {
567
840
  "name": "Jhessian Zombies",
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588
861
  "loyalty": null,
589
862
  "multiverse_id": 144286,
590
863
  "other_part": null,
591
- "color_indicator": null
864
+ "color_indicator": null,
865
+ "rulings": [
866
+ {
867
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
868
+ "text": "Unlike the normal cycling ability, landcycling doesn’t allow you to draw a card. Instead, it lets you search your library for a land card of the specified land type, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library."
869
+ },
870
+ {
871
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
872
+ "text": "Landcycling is a form of cycling. Any ability that triggers on a card being cycled also triggers on a card being landcycled. Any ability that stops a cycling ability from being activated also stops a landcycling ability from being activated."
873
+ },
874
+ {
875
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
876
+ "text": "You can choose to find any card with the appropriate land type, including nonbasic lands. You can also choose not to find a card, even if there is a land card with the appropriate type in your library."
877
+ },
878
+ {
879
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
880
+ "text": "A landcycling ability lets you search for any card in your library with the stated land type. It doesn’t have to be a basic land."
881
+ },
882
+ {
883
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
884
+ "text": "You may only activate one landcycling ability at a time. You must specify which landcycling ability you are activating as you cycle this card, not as the ability resolves."
885
+ }
886
+ ]
592
887
  },
593
888
  {
594
889
  "name": "Kathari Remnant",
@@ -617,7 +912,37 @@
617
912
  "loyalty": null,
618
913
  "multiverse_id": 185060,
619
914
  "other_part": null,
620
- "color_indicator": null
915
+ "color_indicator": null,
916
+ "rulings": [
917
+ {
918
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
919
+ "text": "Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade."
920
+ },
921
+ {
922
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
923
+ "text": "When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled."
924
+ },
925
+ {
926
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
927
+ "text": "If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally."
928
+ },
929
+ {
930
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
931
+ "text": "You exile the cards face-up. All players will be able to see them."
932
+ },
933
+ {
934
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
935
+ "text": "If you cast the last exiled card, you’re casting it as a spell. It can be countered. If that card has cascade, the new spell’s cascade ability will trigger, and you’ll repeat the process for the new spell."
936
+ },
937
+ {
938
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
939
+ "text": "After you’re done exiling cards and casting the last one if you chose to do so, the remaining exiled cards are randomly placed on the bottom of your library. Neither you nor any other player is allowed to know the order of those cards."
940
+ },
941
+ {
942
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
943
+ "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves."
944
+ }
945
+ ]
621
946
  },
622
947
  {
623
948
  "name": "Lich Lord of Unx",
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645
970
  "loyalty": null,
646
971
  "multiverse_id": 179555,
647
972
  "other_part": null,
648
- "color_indicator": null
973
+ "color_indicator": null,
974
+ "rulings": [
975
+ {
976
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
977
+ "text": "The second ability counts all Zombies you control, not just the tokens put onto the battlefield with the first ability. It will count Lich Lord of Unx itself if it’s still under your control and still a Zombie when the ability resolves."
978
+ }
979
+ ]
649
980
  },
650
981
  {
651
982
  "name": "Mask of Riddles",
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673
1004
  "loyalty": null,
674
1005
  "multiverse_id": 179584,
675
1006
  "other_part": null,
676
- "color_indicator": null
1007
+ "color_indicator": null,
1008
+ "rulings": [
1009
+ {
1010
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1011
+ "text": "If a Mask of Riddles you control somehow winds up equipping a creature you don’t control, Mask of Riddles’s triggered ability will still trigger whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player (even if that player is you). You will control that ability, so you may draw a card."
1012
+ }
1013
+ ]
677
1014
  },
678
1015
  {
679
1016
  "name": "Mind Funeral",
@@ -697,7 +1034,13 @@
697
1034
  "loyalty": null,
698
1035
  "multiverse_id": 179599,
699
1036
  "other_part": null,
700
- "color_indicator": null
1037
+ "color_indicator": null,
1038
+ "rulings": [
1039
+ {
1040
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1041
+ "text": "The four land cards, as well as all the other cards revealed during this process, are put into the graveyard. If there aren’t four land cards left in the targeted opponent’s library, that player’s entire library is put into the graveyard."
1042
+ }
1043
+ ]
701
1044
  },
702
1045
  {
703
1046
  "name": "Mistvein Borderpost",
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723
1066
  "loyalty": null,
724
1067
  "multiverse_id": 161276,
725
1068
  "other_part": null,
726
- "color_indicator": null
1069
+ "color_indicator": null,
1070
+ "rulings": [
1071
+ {
1072
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1073
+ "text": "Casting this card by paying its alternative cost doesn’t change when you can cast it. You can cast it only at the normal time you could cast an artifact spell. It also doesn’t change the spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost. The only difference is the cost you actually pay."
1074
+ },
1075
+ {
1076
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1077
+ "text": "Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast this card will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay."
1078
+ },
1079
+ {
1080
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1081
+ "text": "To satisfy the alternative cost, you may return any basic land you control to its owner’s hand, regardless of that land’s subtype or whether it’s tapped."
1082
+ },
1083
+ {
1084
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1085
+ "text": "As you cast a spell, you get a chance to activate mana abilities before you pay that spell’s costs. Therefore, you may tap a basic land for mana, then both spend that mana and return that land to your hand to pay this card’s alternative cost. (Of course, you can return a different basic land instead.)"
1086
+ }
1087
+ ]
727
1088
  },
728
1089
  {
729
1090
  "name": "Nemesis of Reason",
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750
1111
  "loyalty": null,
751
1112
  "multiverse_id": 188962,
752
1113
  "other_part": null,
753
- "color_indicator": null
1114
+ "color_indicator": null,
1115
+ "rulings": [
1116
+ {
1117
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1118
+ "text": "If the defending player has fewer than ten cards in their library, that player’s entire library is put into their graveyard."
1119
+ }
1120
+ ]
754
1121
  },
755
1122
  {
756
1123
  "name": "Soul Manipulation",
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776
1143
  "loyalty": null,
777
1144
  "multiverse_id": 183008,
778
1145
  "other_part": null,
779
- "color_indicator": null
1146
+ "color_indicator": null,
1147
+ "rulings": [
1148
+ {
1149
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1150
+ "text": "You may choose just the first mode (targeting a creature spell), just the second mode (targeting a creature card in your graveyard), or both modes (targeting a creature spell and a creature card in your graveyard). You can’t choose a mode unless there’s a legal target for it."
1151
+ },
1152
+ {
1153
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1154
+ "text": "If you choose both modes, you choose their targets at the same time. You can’t counter your own creature spell and then return that card from your graveyard to your hand."
1155
+ }
1156
+ ]
780
1157
  },
781
1158
  {
782
1159
  "name": "Soulquake",
@@ -800,7 +1177,8 @@
800
1177
  "loyalty": null,
801
1178
  "multiverse_id": 179409,
802
1179
  "other_part": null,
803
- "color_indicator": null
1180
+ "color_indicator": null,
1181
+ "rulings": []
804
1182
  },
805
1183
  {
806
1184
  "name": "Time Sieve",
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824
1202
  "loyalty": null,
825
1203
  "multiverse_id": 189649,
826
1204
  "other_part": null,
827
- "color_indicator": null
1205
+ "color_indicator": null,
1206
+ "rulings": [
1207
+ {
1208
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1209
+ "text": "One of the five artifacts you sacrifice may be Time Sieve itself."
1210
+ }
1211
+ ]
828
1212
  },
829
1213
  {
830
1214
  "name": "Vedalken Ghoul",
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851
1235
  "loyalty": null,
852
1236
  "multiverse_id": 183010,
853
1237
  "other_part": null,
854
- "color_indicator": null
1238
+ "color_indicator": null,
1239
+ "rulings": []
855
1240
  },
856
1241
  {
857
1242
  "name": "Anathemancer",
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879
1264
  "loyalty": null,
880
1265
  "multiverse_id": 179538,
881
1266
  "other_part": null,
882
- "color_indicator": null
1267
+ "color_indicator": null,
1268
+ "rulings": []
883
1269
  },
884
1270
  {
885
1271
  "name": "Bituminous Blast",
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904
1290
  "loyalty": null,
905
1291
  "multiverse_id": 185057,
906
1292
  "other_part": null,
907
- "color_indicator": null
1293
+ "color_indicator": null,
1294
+ "rulings": [
1295
+ {
1296
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1297
+ "text": "Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade."
1298
+ },
1299
+ {
1300
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1301
+ "text": "When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled."
1302
+ },
1303
+ {
1304
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1305
+ "text": "If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally."
1306
+ },
1307
+ {
1308
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1309
+ "text": "You exile the cards face-up. All players will be able to see them."
1310
+ },
1311
+ {
1312
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1313
+ "text": "If you cast the last exiled card, you’re casting it as a spell. It can be countered. If that card has cascade, the new spell’s cascade ability will trigger, and you’ll repeat the process for the new spell."
1314
+ },
1315
+ {
1316
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1317
+ "text": "After you’re done exiling cards and casting the last one if you chose to do so, the remaining exiled cards are randomly placed on the bottom of your library. Neither you nor any other player is allowed to know the order of those cards."
1318
+ },
1319
+ {
1320
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1321
+ "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves."
1322
+ }
1323
+ ]
908
1324
  },
909
1325
  {
910
1326
  "name": "Breath of Malfegor",
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928
1344
  "loyalty": null,
929
1345
  "multiverse_id": 161291,
930
1346
  "other_part": null,
931
- "color_indicator": null
1347
+ "color_indicator": null,
1348
+ "rulings": []
932
1349
  },
933
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  {
934
1351
  "name": "Deathbringer Thoctar",
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948
1365
  "converted_mana_cost": 6,
949
1366
  "oracle_text": [
950
1367
  "Whenever another creature dies, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Deathbringer Thoctar.",
951
- "Remove a +1/+1 counter from Deathbringer Thoctar: Deathbringer Thoctar deals 1 damage to any target."
1368
+ "Remove a +1/+1 counter from Deathbringer Thoctar: It deals 1 damage to any target."
952
1369
  ],
953
1370
  "flavor_text": null,
954
1371
  "power": "3",
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956
1373
  "loyalty": null,
957
1374
  "multiverse_id": 180622,
958
1375
  "other_part": null,
959
- "color_indicator": null
1376
+ "color_indicator": null,
1377
+ "rulings": [
1378
+ {
1379
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1380
+ "text": "If Deathbringer Thoctar and another creature are dealt lethal damage at the same time, Deathbringer Thoctar will be put into a graveyard before it would receive any counters. Its ability will still trigger, but it will do nothing when it resolves."
1381
+ },
1382
+ {
1383
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1384
+ "text": "You may remove any +1/+1 counter from Deathbringer Thoctar to activate its second ability, not just a +1/+1 counter put on it with its first ability."
1385
+ }
1386
+ ]
960
1387
  },
961
1388
  {
962
1389
  "name": "Defiler of Souls",
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983
1410
  "loyalty": null,
984
1411
  "multiverse_id": 189646,
985
1412
  "other_part": null,
986
- "color_indicator": null
1413
+ "color_indicator": null,
1414
+ "rulings": []
987
1415
  },
988
1416
  {
989
1417
  "name": "Demonic Dread",
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1008
1436
  "loyalty": null,
1009
1437
  "multiverse_id": 185062,
1010
1438
  "other_part": null,
1011
- "color_indicator": null
1439
+ "color_indicator": null,
1440
+ "rulings": [
1441
+ {
1442
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1443
+ "text": "Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade."
1444
+ },
1445
+ {
1446
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1447
+ "text": "When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled."
1448
+ },
1449
+ {
1450
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1451
+ "text": "If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally."
1452
+ },
1453
+ {
1454
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1455
+ "text": "You exile the cards face-up. All players will be able to see them."
1456
+ },
1457
+ {
1458
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1459
+ "text": "If you cast the last exiled card, you’re casting it as a spell. It can be countered. If that card has cascade, the new spell’s cascade ability will trigger, and you’ll repeat the process for the new spell."
1460
+ },
1461
+ {
1462
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1463
+ "text": "After you’re done exiling cards and casting the last one if you chose to do so, the remaining exiled cards are randomly placed on the bottom of your library. Neither you nor any other player is allowed to know the order of those cards."
1464
+ },
1465
+ {
1466
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1467
+ "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves."
1468
+ }
1469
+ ]
1012
1470
  },
1013
1471
  {
1014
1472
  "name": "Demonspine Whip",
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1035
1493
  "loyalty": null,
1036
1494
  "multiverse_id": 180311,
1037
1495
  "other_part": null,
1038
- "color_indicator": null
1496
+ "color_indicator": null,
1497
+ "rulings": [
1498
+ {
1499
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1500
+ "text": "When the first ability resolves, the +X/+0 bonus is given to the creature that Demonspine Whip is attached to at that time, regardless of what creature (if any) it was attached to when the ability was activated. If Demonspine Whip is on the battlefield but not attached to a creature at this time, no creature gets the bonus."
1501
+ },
1502
+ {
1503
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1504
+ "text": "Once Demonspine Whip’s ability resolves and gives the +X/+0 bonus to a creature, that bonus stays with that creature for the rest of the turn even if Demonspine Whip moves to another creature or leaves the battlefield."
1505
+ },
1506
+ {
1507
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1508
+ "text": "If Demonspine Whip is no longer on the battlefield by the time its first ability resolves, the game checks whether it was attached to a creature at the time it left the battlefield. If it was, that creature gets the +X/+0 bonus. If it wasn’t, no creature gets the bonus."
1509
+ }
1510
+ ]
1039
1511
  },
1040
1512
  {
1041
1513
  "name": "Igneous Pouncer",
@@ -1062,7 +1534,29 @@
1062
1534
  "loyalty": null,
1063
1535
  "multiverse_id": 144276,
1064
1536
  "other_part": null,
1065
- "color_indicator": null
1537
+ "color_indicator": null,
1538
+ "rulings": [
1539
+ {
1540
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1541
+ "text": "Unlike the normal cycling ability, landcycling doesn’t allow you to draw a card. Instead, it lets you search your library for a land card of the specified land type, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library."
1542
+ },
1543
+ {
1544
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1545
+ "text": "Landcycling is a form of cycling. Any ability that triggers on a card being cycled also triggers on a card being landcycled. Any ability that stops a cycling ability from being activated also stops a landcycling ability from being activated."
1546
+ },
1547
+ {
1548
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1549
+ "text": "You can choose to find any card with the appropriate land type, including nonbasic lands. You can also choose not to find a card, even if there is a land card with the appropriate type in your library."
1550
+ },
1551
+ {
1552
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1553
+ "text": "A landcycling ability lets you search for any card in your library with the stated land type. It doesn’t have to be a basic land."
1554
+ },
1555
+ {
1556
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1557
+ "text": "You may only activate one landcycling ability at a time. You must specify which landcycling ability you are activating as you cycle this card, not as the ability resolves."
1558
+ }
1559
+ ]
1066
1560
  },
1067
1561
  {
1068
1562
  "name": "Kathari Bomber",
@@ -1091,7 +1585,13 @@
1091
1585
  "loyalty": null,
1092
1586
  "multiverse_id": 179602,
1093
1587
  "other_part": null,
1094
- "color_indicator": null
1588
+ "color_indicator": null,
1589
+ "rulings": [
1590
+ {
1591
+ "date": "3/14/2017",
1592
+ "text": "When Kathari Bomber’s triggered ability resolves, you create two Goblin tokens regardless of how much combat damage Kathari Bomber dealt to the player. You create the tokens even if you can’t sacrifice Kathari Bomber."
1593
+ }
1594
+ ]
1095
1595
  },
1096
1596
  {
1097
1597
  "name": "Lightning Reaver",
@@ -1120,7 +1620,8 @@
1120
1620
  "loyalty": null,
1121
1621
  "multiverse_id": 180617,
1122
1622
  "other_part": null,
1123
- "color_indicator": null
1623
+ "color_indicator": null,
1624
+ "rulings": []
1124
1625
  },
1125
1626
  {
1126
1627
  "name": "Monstrous Carabid",
@@ -1147,7 +1648,13 @@
1147
1648
  "loyalty": null,
1148
1649
  "multiverse_id": 185051,
1149
1650
  "other_part": null,
1150
- "color_indicator": null
1651
+ "color_indicator": null,
1652
+ "rulings": [
1653
+ {
1654
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
1655
+ "text": "Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not."
1656
+ }
1657
+ ]
1151
1658
  },
1152
1659
  {
1153
1660
  "name": "Sanity Gnawers",
@@ -1173,7 +1680,8 @@
1173
1680
  "loyalty": null,
1174
1681
  "multiverse_id": 179623,
1175
1682
  "other_part": null,
1176
- "color_indicator": null
1683
+ "color_indicator": null,
1684
+ "rulings": []
1177
1685
  },
1178
1686
  {
1179
1687
  "name": "Singe-Mind Ogre",
@@ -1200,7 +1708,8 @@
1200
1708
  "loyalty": null,
1201
1709
  "multiverse_id": 179574,
1202
1710
  "other_part": null,
1203
- "color_indicator": null
1711
+ "color_indicator": null,
1712
+ "rulings": []
1204
1713
  },
1205
1714
  {
1206
1715
  "name": "Terminate",
@@ -1224,7 +1733,8 @@
1224
1733
  "loyalty": null,
1225
1734
  "multiverse_id": 176449,
1226
1735
  "other_part": null,
1227
- "color_indicator": null
1736
+ "color_indicator": null,
1737
+ "rulings": []
1228
1738
  },
1229
1739
  {
1230
1740
  "name": "Thought Hemorrhage",
@@ -1248,7 +1758,29 @@
1248
1758
  "loyalty": null,
1249
1759
  "multiverse_id": 180596,
1250
1760
  "other_part": null,
1251
- "color_indicator": null
1761
+ "color_indicator": null,
1762
+ "rulings": [
1763
+ {
1764
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1765
+ "text": "The card is named as Thought Hemorrhage resolves. Spells and abilities can’t be cast or activated between the time a card is named and the time that Thought Hemorrhage has the rest of its effect."
1766
+ },
1767
+ {
1768
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1769
+ "text": "If the targeted player has multiple cards with the chosen name in their hand, the damage dealt by Thought Hemorrhage is all considered to be the same instance of damage. A single effect that prevents “the next time a source would deal damage,” for example, will prevent all of it."
1770
+ },
1771
+ {
1772
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1773
+ "text": "Thought Hemorrhage has no effect on cards on the battlefield that have the same name as the named card."
1774
+ },
1775
+ {
1776
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1777
+ "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. This is true even though the targeted player has revealed their hand."
1778
+ },
1779
+ {
1780
+ "date": "2/1/2014",
1781
+ "text": "If you target yourself with this spell, you must reveal your entire hand to the other players just as any other player would."
1782
+ }
1783
+ ]
1252
1784
  },
1253
1785
  {
1254
1786
  "name": "Veinfire Borderpost",
@@ -1274,7 +1806,25 @@
1274
1806
  "loyalty": null,
1275
1807
  "multiverse_id": 189640,
1276
1808
  "other_part": null,
1277
- "color_indicator": null
1809
+ "color_indicator": null,
1810
+ "rulings": [
1811
+ {
1812
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1813
+ "text": "Casting this card by paying its alternative cost doesn’t change when you can cast it. You can cast it only at the normal time you could cast an artifact spell. It also doesn’t change the spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost. The only difference is the cost you actually pay."
1814
+ },
1815
+ {
1816
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1817
+ "text": "Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast this card will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay."
1818
+ },
1819
+ {
1820
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1821
+ "text": "To satisfy the alternative cost, you may return any basic land you control to its owner’s hand, regardless of that land’s subtype or whether it’s tapped."
1822
+ },
1823
+ {
1824
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1825
+ "text": "As you cast a spell, you get a chance to activate mana abilities before you pay that spell’s costs. Therefore, you may tap a basic land for mana, then both spend that mana and return that land to your hand to pay this card’s alternative cost. (Of course, you can return a different basic land instead.)"
1826
+ }
1827
+ ]
1278
1828
  },
1279
1829
  {
1280
1830
  "name": "Blitz Hellion",
@@ -1301,7 +1851,17 @@
1301
1851
  "loyalty": null,
1302
1852
  "multiverse_id": 179406,
1303
1853
  "other_part": null,
1304
- "color_indicator": null
1854
+ "color_indicator": null,
1855
+ "rulings": [
1856
+ {
1857
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1858
+ "text": "Blitz Hellion’s last ability triggers at the end of each turn in which it’s on the battlefield. If it’s not on the battlefield by the time this ability resolves, nothing happens. Blitz Hellion stays wherever it is, and its owner doesn’t shuffle their library."
1859
+ },
1860
+ {
1861
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1862
+ "text": "A token that’s copying Blitz Hellion will be shuffled into its owner’s library when this ability resolves, then will cease to exist. For practical purposes, the token should not actually be put into the library, though the library is still shuffled."
1863
+ }
1864
+ ]
1305
1865
  },
1306
1866
  {
1307
1867
  "name": "Bloodbraid Elf",
@@ -1329,7 +1889,37 @@
1329
1889
  "loyalty": null,
1330
1890
  "multiverse_id": 185053,
1331
1891
  "other_part": null,
1332
- "color_indicator": null
1892
+ "color_indicator": null,
1893
+ "rulings": [
1894
+ {
1895
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1896
+ "text": "Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade."
1897
+ },
1898
+ {
1899
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1900
+ "text": "When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled."
1901
+ },
1902
+ {
1903
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1904
+ "text": "If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally."
1905
+ },
1906
+ {
1907
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1908
+ "text": "You exile the cards face-up. All players will be able to see them."
1909
+ },
1910
+ {
1911
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1912
+ "text": "If you cast the last exiled card, you’re casting it as a spell. It can be countered. If that card has cascade, the new spell’s cascade ability will trigger, and you’ll repeat the process for the new spell."
1913
+ },
1914
+ {
1915
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1916
+ "text": "After you’re done exiling cards and casting the last one if you chose to do so, the remaining exiled cards are randomly placed on the bottom of your library. Neither you nor any other player is allowed to know the order of those cards."
1917
+ },
1918
+ {
1919
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1920
+ "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves."
1921
+ }
1922
+ ]
1333
1923
  },
1334
1924
  {
1335
1925
  "name": "Colossal Might",
@@ -1353,7 +1943,8 @@
1353
1943
  "loyalty": null,
1354
1944
  "multiverse_id": 179624,
1355
1945
  "other_part": null,
1356
- "color_indicator": null
1946
+ "color_indicator": null,
1947
+ "rulings": []
1357
1948
  },
1358
1949
  {
1359
1950
  "name": "Deadshot Minotaur",
@@ -1380,7 +1971,17 @@
1380
1971
  "loyalty": null,
1381
1972
  "multiverse_id": 179543,
1382
1973
  "other_part": null,
1383
- "color_indicator": null
1974
+ "color_indicator": null,
1975
+ "rulings": [
1976
+ {
1977
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
1978
+ "text": "Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not."
1979
+ },
1980
+ {
1981
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
1982
+ "text": "The enters-the-battlefield ability is mandatory. If you’re the only player who controls a creature with flying, you must target one of those creatures."
1983
+ }
1984
+ ]
1384
1985
  },
1385
1986
  {
1386
1987
  "name": "Dragon Broodmother",
@@ -1407,7 +2008,17 @@
1407
2008
  "loyalty": null,
1408
2009
  "multiverse_id": 189648,
1409
2010
  "other_part": null,
1410
- "color_indicator": null
2011
+ "color_indicator": null,
2012
+ "rulings": [
2013
+ {
2014
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2015
+ "text": "Putting a token creature with devour onto the battlefield works the same as putting any other creature with devour onto the battlefield. The token may devour Dragon Broodmother itself!"
2016
+ },
2017
+ {
2018
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2019
+ "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, Dragon Broodmother’s second ability triggers only once at the beginning of each team’s upkeep, not once for each player. You’ll get one Dragon token at the beginning of your team’s upkeep and one Dragon token at the beginning of the opposing team’s upkeep."
2020
+ }
2021
+ ]
1411
2022
  },
1412
2023
  {
1413
2024
  "name": "Firewild Borderpost",
@@ -1433,7 +2044,25 @@
1433
2044
  "loyalty": null,
1434
2045
  "multiverse_id": 188974,
1435
2046
  "other_part": null,
1436
- "color_indicator": null
2047
+ "color_indicator": null,
2048
+ "rulings": [
2049
+ {
2050
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2051
+ "text": "Casting this card by paying its alternative cost doesn’t change when you can cast it. You can cast it only at the normal time you could cast an artifact spell. It also doesn’t change the spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost. The only difference is the cost you actually pay."
2052
+ },
2053
+ {
2054
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2055
+ "text": "Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast this card will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay."
2056
+ },
2057
+ {
2058
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2059
+ "text": "To satisfy the alternative cost, you may return any basic land you control to its owner’s hand, regardless of that land’s subtype or whether it’s tapped."
2060
+ },
2061
+ {
2062
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2063
+ "text": "As you cast a spell, you get a chance to activate mana abilities before you pay that spell’s costs. Therefore, you may tap a basic land for mana, then both spend that mana and return that land to your hand to pay this card’s alternative cost. (Of course, you can return a different basic land instead.)"
2064
+ }
2065
+ ]
1437
2066
  },
1438
2067
  {
1439
2068
  "name": "Godtracker of Jund",
@@ -1460,7 +2089,8 @@
1460
2089
  "loyalty": null,
1461
2090
  "multiverse_id": 183994,
1462
2091
  "other_part": null,
1463
- "color_indicator": null
2092
+ "color_indicator": null,
2093
+ "rulings": []
1464
2094
  },
1465
2095
  {
1466
2096
  "name": "Gorger Wurm",
@@ -1486,7 +2116,8 @@
1486
2116
  "loyalty": null,
1487
2117
  "multiverse_id": 179561,
1488
2118
  "other_part": null,
1489
- "color_indicator": null
2119
+ "color_indicator": null,
2120
+ "rulings": []
1490
2121
  },
1491
2122
  {
1492
2123
  "name": "Mage Slayer",
@@ -1513,7 +2144,17 @@
1513
2144
  "loyalty": null,
1514
2145
  "multiverse_id": 179567,
1515
2146
  "other_part": null,
1516
- "color_indicator": null
2147
+ "color_indicator": null,
2148
+ "rulings": [
2149
+ {
2150
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2151
+ "text": "This ability triggers and resolves in the declare attackers step. The creature will still deal its combat damage as normal later on during the combat phase."
2152
+ },
2153
+ {
2154
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2155
+ "text": "When the equipped creature attacks, the first ability will trigger. When that ability resolves, that creature will deal damage equal to its power to player or planeswalker it’s attacking, even if Mage Slayer has left the battlefield or is equipping a different creature by that time."
2156
+ }
2157
+ ]
1517
2158
  },
1518
2159
  {
1519
2160
  "name": "Predatory Advantage",
@@ -1537,7 +2178,21 @@
1537
2178
  "loyalty": null,
1538
2179
  "multiverse_id": 180602,
1539
2180
  "other_part": null,
1540
- "color_indicator": null
2181
+ "color_indicator": null,
2182
+ "rulings": [
2183
+ {
2184
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2185
+ "text": "Predatory Advantage’s ability has an “intervening ‘if’ clause.” That means (1) the ability won’t trigger at all unless the opponent whose turn it is didn’t cast a creature spell that turn, and (2) the ability will do nothing unless the opponent whose turn it is still hasn’t cast a creature spell by the time it resolves."
2186
+ },
2187
+ {
2188
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2189
+ "text": "Predatory Advantage checks whether a player cast a creature spell, not whether a creature entered the battlefield under that player’s control. If that player cast a creature spell but you countered it, for example, you won’t get a Lizard token that turn."
2190
+ },
2191
+ {
2192
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2193
+ "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, Predatory Advantage’s ability triggers twice at the end of the opposing team’s turn: once for each player. If neither of those players cast a creature spell that turn, you’ll get two Lizards. If one of those players cast a creature spell but the other didn’t, you’ll get one Lizard."
2194
+ }
2195
+ ]
1541
2196
  },
1542
2197
  {
1543
2198
  "name": "Rhox Brute",
@@ -1562,7 +2217,8 @@
1562
2217
  "loyalty": null,
1563
2218
  "multiverse_id": 189650,
1564
2219
  "other_part": null,
1565
- "color_indicator": null
2220
+ "color_indicator": null,
2221
+ "rulings": []
1566
2222
  },
1567
2223
  {
1568
2224
  "name": "Spellbreaker Behemoth",
@@ -1589,7 +2245,21 @@
1589
2245
  "loyalty": null,
1590
2246
  "multiverse_id": 179551,
1591
2247
  "other_part": null,
1592
- "color_indicator": null
2248
+ "color_indicator": null,
2249
+ "rulings": [
2250
+ {
2251
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2252
+ "text": "Any spells or abilities that would counter Spellbreaker Behemoth or (once it’s on the battlefield) a creature spell you control with power 5 or greater can still be cast or activated and will still resolve. They just won’t counter that spell. Any other effects they have will happen as normal."
2253
+ },
2254
+ {
2255
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2256
+ "text": "Effects that affect a creature’s power (such as the one from Glorious Anthem, for example) apply only to creatures on the battlefield, not to creature spells on the stack."
2257
+ },
2258
+ {
2259
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2260
+ "text": "If a creature card has “*” in its power, the ability that defines “*” works in all zones, including the stack."
2261
+ }
2262
+ ]
1593
2263
  },
1594
2264
  {
1595
2265
  "name": "Valley Rannet",
@@ -1615,7 +2285,29 @@
1615
2285
  "loyalty": null,
1616
2286
  "multiverse_id": 144260,
1617
2287
  "other_part": null,
1618
- "color_indicator": null
2288
+ "color_indicator": null,
2289
+ "rulings": [
2290
+ {
2291
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2292
+ "text": "Unlike the normal cycling ability, landcycling doesn’t allow you to draw a card. Instead, it lets you search your library for a land card of the specified land type, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library."
2293
+ },
2294
+ {
2295
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2296
+ "text": "Landcycling is a form of cycling. Any ability that triggers on a card being cycled also triggers on a card being landcycled. Any ability that stops a cycling ability from being activated also stops a landcycling ability from being activated."
2297
+ },
2298
+ {
2299
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2300
+ "text": "You can choose to find any card with the appropriate land type, including nonbasic lands. You can also choose not to find a card, even if there is a land card with the appropriate type in your library."
2301
+ },
2302
+ {
2303
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2304
+ "text": "A landcycling ability lets you search for any card in your library with the stated land type. It doesn’t have to be a basic land."
2305
+ },
2306
+ {
2307
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2308
+ "text": "You may only activate one landcycling ability at a time. You must specify which landcycling ability you are activating as you cycle this card, not as the ability resolves."
2309
+ }
2310
+ ]
1619
2311
  },
1620
2312
  {
1621
2313
  "name": "Vengeful Rebirth",
@@ -1640,7 +2332,25 @@
1640
2332
  "loyalty": null,
1641
2333
  "multiverse_id": 179628,
1642
2334
  "other_part": null,
1643
- "color_indicator": null
2335
+ "color_indicator": null,
2336
+ "rulings": [
2337
+ {
2338
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
2339
+ "text": "You can return a land card to your hand with Vengeful Rebirth. It just won’t deal any damage to the target permanent or player if you do."
2340
+ },
2341
+ {
2342
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
2343
+ "text": "If the target permanent or player becomes an illegal target but the target card in your graveyard doesn’t, Vengeful Rebirth will still return that card from your graveyard to your hand, but it won’t deal any damage. Vengeful Rebirth will then be exiled."
2344
+ },
2345
+ {
2346
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
2347
+ "text": "If the target card in your graveyard becomes an illegal target but the target permanent or player doesn’t, Vengeful Rebirth won’t return that card to your hand and it won’t deal any damage (because you didn’t return a nonland card to your hand this way). Vengeful Rebirth will still be exiled."
2348
+ },
2349
+ {
2350
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
2351
+ "text": "If both targets are illegal, Vengeful Rebirth doesn’t resolve. It will be put into your graveyard."
2352
+ }
2353
+ ]
1644
2354
  },
1645
2355
  {
1646
2356
  "name": "Violent Outburst",
@@ -1665,7 +2375,37 @@
1665
2375
  "loyalty": null,
1666
2376
  "multiverse_id": 185056,
1667
2377
  "other_part": null,
1668
- "color_indicator": null
2378
+ "color_indicator": null,
2379
+ "rulings": [
2380
+ {
2381
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2382
+ "text": "Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade."
2383
+ },
2384
+ {
2385
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2386
+ "text": "When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled."
2387
+ },
2388
+ {
2389
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2390
+ "text": "If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally."
2391
+ },
2392
+ {
2393
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2394
+ "text": "You exile the cards face-up. All players will be able to see them."
2395
+ },
2396
+ {
2397
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2398
+ "text": "If you cast the last exiled card, you’re casting it as a spell. It can be countered. If that card has cascade, the new spell’s cascade ability will trigger, and you’ll repeat the process for the new spell."
2399
+ },
2400
+ {
2401
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2402
+ "text": "After you’re done exiling cards and casting the last one if you chose to do so, the remaining exiled cards are randomly placed on the bottom of your library. Neither you nor any other player is allowed to know the order of those cards."
2403
+ },
2404
+ {
2405
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
2406
+ "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves."
2407
+ }
2408
+ ]
1669
2409
  },
1670
2410
  {
1671
2411
  "name": "Vithian Renegades",
@@ -1692,7 +2432,13 @@
1692
2432
  "loyalty": null,
1693
2433
  "multiverse_id": 179535,
1694
2434
  "other_part": null,
1695
- "color_indicator": null
2435
+ "color_indicator": null,
2436
+ "rulings": [
2437
+ {
2438
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2439
+ "text": "The enters-the-battlefield ability is mandatory. If you’re the only player who controls any artifacts, you must target one of them."
2440
+ }
2441
+ ]
1696
2442
  },
1697
2443
  {
1698
2444
  "name": "Behemoth Sledge",
@@ -1719,7 +2465,13 @@
1719
2465
  "loyalty": null,
1720
2466
  "multiverse_id": 179545,
1721
2467
  "other_part": null,
1722
- "color_indicator": null
2468
+ "color_indicator": null,
2469
+ "rulings": [
2470
+ {
2471
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
2472
+ "text": "multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant. If a creature with multiple instances of lifelink deals damage, its controller still only gains life equal to the damage dealt."
2473
+ }
2474
+ ]
1723
2475
  },
1724
2476
  {
1725
2477
  "name": "Captured Sunlight",
@@ -1744,7 +2496,37 @@
1744
2496
  "loyalty": null,
1745
2497
  "multiverse_id": 185064,
1746
2498
  "other_part": null,
1747
- "color_indicator": null
2499
+ "color_indicator": null,
2500
+ "rulings": [
2501
+ {
2502
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2503
+ "text": "Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade."
2504
+ },
2505
+ {
2506
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2507
+ "text": "When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled."
2508
+ },
2509
+ {
2510
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2511
+ "text": "If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally."
2512
+ },
2513
+ {
2514
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2515
+ "text": "You exile the cards face-up. All players will be able to see them."
2516
+ },
2517
+ {
2518
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2519
+ "text": "If you cast the last exiled card, you’re casting it as a spell. It can be countered. If that card has cascade, the new spell’s cascade ability will trigger, and you’ll repeat the process for the new spell."
2520
+ },
2521
+ {
2522
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2523
+ "text": "After you’re done exiling cards and casting the last one if you chose to do so, the remaining exiled cards are randomly placed on the bottom of your library. Neither you nor any other player is allowed to know the order of those cards."
2524
+ },
2525
+ {
2526
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
2527
+ "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves."
2528
+ }
2529
+ ]
1748
2530
  },
1749
2531
  {
1750
2532
  "name": "Dauntless Escort",
@@ -1771,7 +2553,21 @@
1771
2553
  "loyalty": null,
1772
2554
  "multiverse_id": 180614,
1773
2555
  "other_part": null,
1774
- "color_indicator": null
2556
+ "color_indicator": null,
2557
+ "rulings": [
2558
+ {
2559
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
2560
+ "text": "Once Dauntless Escort’s ability resolves, the set of creatures it affects is locked in. It won’t affect creatures that enter the battlefield after the ability has finished resolving."
2561
+ },
2562
+ {
2563
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
2564
+ "text": "If any creature leaves your control, it will retain indestructible."
2565
+ },
2566
+ {
2567
+ "date": "7/1/2013",
2568
+ "text": "Lethal damage and effects that say “destroy” won’t cause a creature with indestructible to be put into the graveyard. However, a creature with indestructible can be put into the graveyard for a number of reasons. The most likely reasons are if it’s sacrificed, if it’s legendary and another legendary creature with the same name is controlled by the same player, or if its toughness is 0 or less."
2569
+ }
2570
+ ]
1775
2571
  },
1776
2572
  {
1777
2573
  "name": "Enlisted Wurm",
@@ -1797,7 +2593,37 @@
1797
2593
  "loyalty": null,
1798
2594
  "multiverse_id": 185047,
1799
2595
  "other_part": null,
1800
- "color_indicator": null
2596
+ "color_indicator": null,
2597
+ "rulings": [
2598
+ {
2599
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2600
+ "text": "Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade."
2601
+ },
2602
+ {
2603
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2604
+ "text": "When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled."
2605
+ },
2606
+ {
2607
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2608
+ "text": "If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally."
2609
+ },
2610
+ {
2611
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2612
+ "text": "You exile the cards face-up. All players will be able to see them."
2613
+ },
2614
+ {
2615
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2616
+ "text": "If you cast the last exiled card, you’re casting it as a spell. It can be countered. If that card has cascade, the new spell’s cascade ability will trigger, and you’ll repeat the process for the new spell."
2617
+ },
2618
+ {
2619
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2620
+ "text": "After you’re done exiling cards and casting the last one if you chose to do so, the remaining exiled cards are randomly placed on the bottom of your library. Neither you nor any other player is allowed to know the order of those cards."
2621
+ },
2622
+ {
2623
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
2624
+ "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves."
2625
+ }
2626
+ ]
1801
2627
  },
1802
2628
  {
1803
2629
  "name": "Grizzled Leotau",
@@ -1821,7 +2647,8 @@
1821
2647
  "loyalty": null,
1822
2648
  "multiverse_id": 189647,
1823
2649
  "other_part": null,
1824
- "color_indicator": null
2650
+ "color_indicator": null,
2651
+ "rulings": []
1825
2652
  },
1826
2653
  {
1827
2654
  "name": "Knight of New Alara",
@@ -1848,7 +2675,13 @@
1848
2675
  "loyalty": null,
1849
2676
  "multiverse_id": 189642,
1850
2677
  "other_part": null,
1851
- "color_indicator": null
2678
+ "color_indicator": null,
2679
+ "rulings": [
2680
+ {
2681
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2682
+ "text": "For example, a white creature gets no bonus. A white and blue creature gets +2/+2. A white, blue, and black creature gets +3/+3, and so on."
2683
+ }
2684
+ ]
1852
2685
  },
1853
2686
  {
1854
2687
  "name": "Knotvine Paladin",
@@ -1875,7 +2708,13 @@
1875
2708
  "loyalty": null,
1876
2709
  "multiverse_id": 180624,
1877
2710
  "other_part": null,
1878
- "color_indicator": null
2711
+ "color_indicator": null,
2712
+ "rulings": [
2713
+ {
2714
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2715
+ "text": "The number of untapped creatures you control is counted as the ability resolves, and the bonus is locked in at that time. By this point, other attacking creatures will already be tapped (unless they have vigilance)."
2716
+ }
2717
+ ]
1879
2718
  },
1880
2719
  {
1881
2720
  "name": "Leonin Armorguard",
@@ -1902,7 +2741,13 @@
1902
2741
  "loyalty": null,
1903
2742
  "multiverse_id": 180606,
1904
2743
  "other_part": null,
1905
- "color_indicator": null
2744
+ "color_indicator": null,
2745
+ "rulings": [
2746
+ {
2747
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2748
+ "text": "Leonin Armorguard gets this bonus too."
2749
+ }
2750
+ ]
1906
2751
  },
1907
2752
  {
1908
2753
  "name": "Mycoid Shepherd",
@@ -1928,7 +2773,21 @@
1928
2773
  "loyalty": null,
1929
2774
  "multiverse_id": 179548,
1930
2775
  "other_part": null,
1931
- "color_indicator": null
2776
+ "color_indicator": null,
2777
+ "rulings": [
2778
+ {
2779
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2780
+ "text": "Mycoid Shepherd’s ability will trigger when it’s put into a graveyard from the battlefield no matter what its power is at that time."
2781
+ },
2782
+ {
2783
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2784
+ "text": "If another creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Mycoid Shepherd’s ability checks that creature’s power as it last existed on the battlefield. If it was 5 or greater, the ability will trigger."
2785
+ },
2786
+ {
2787
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2788
+ "text": "If Mycoid Shepherd and another creature you control with power 5 or greater are put into a graveyard from the battlefield at the same time, Mycoid Shepherd’s ability will trigger twice."
2789
+ }
2790
+ ]
1932
2791
  },
1933
2792
  {
1934
2793
  "name": "Pale Recluse",
@@ -1955,7 +2814,29 @@
1955
2814
  "loyalty": null,
1956
2815
  "multiverse_id": 144249,
1957
2816
  "other_part": null,
1958
- "color_indicator": null
2817
+ "color_indicator": null,
2818
+ "rulings": [
2819
+ {
2820
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2821
+ "text": "Unlike the normal cycling ability, landcycling doesn’t allow you to draw a card. Instead, it lets you search your library for a land card of the specified land type, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library."
2822
+ },
2823
+ {
2824
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2825
+ "text": "Landcycling is a form of cycling. Any ability that triggers on a card being cycled also triggers on a card being landcycled. Any ability that stops a cycling ability from being activated also stops a landcycling ability from being activated."
2826
+ },
2827
+ {
2828
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2829
+ "text": "You can choose to find any card with the appropriate land type, including nonbasic lands. You can also choose not to find a card, even if there is a land card with the appropriate type in your library."
2830
+ },
2831
+ {
2832
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2833
+ "text": "A landcycling ability lets you search for any card in your library with the stated land type. It doesn’t have to be a basic land."
2834
+ },
2835
+ {
2836
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2837
+ "text": "You may only activate one landcycling ability at a time. You must specify which landcycling ability you are activating as you cycle this card, not as the ability resolves."
2838
+ }
2839
+ ]
1959
2840
  },
1960
2841
  {
1961
2842
  "name": "Qasali Pridemage",
@@ -1983,7 +2864,8 @@
1983
2864
  "loyalty": null,
1984
2865
  "multiverse_id": 179556,
1985
2866
  "other_part": null,
1986
- "color_indicator": null
2867
+ "color_indicator": null,
2868
+ "rulings": []
1987
2869
  },
1988
2870
  {
1989
2871
  "name": "Reborn Hope",
@@ -2007,7 +2889,8 @@
2007
2889
  "loyalty": null,
2008
2890
  "multiverse_id": 175256,
2009
2891
  "other_part": null,
2010
- "color_indicator": null
2892
+ "color_indicator": null,
2893
+ "rulings": []
2011
2894
  },
2012
2895
  {
2013
2896
  "name": "Sigil Captain",
@@ -2034,7 +2917,25 @@
2034
2917
  "loyalty": null,
2035
2918
  "multiverse_id": 179560,
2036
2919
  "other_part": null,
2037
- "color_indicator": null
2920
+ "color_indicator": null,
2921
+ "rulings": [
2922
+ {
2923
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2924
+ "text": "Sigil Captain’s ability has an “intervening ‘if’ clause.” That means (1) the ability won’t trigger at all unless the creature that enters the battlefield under your control is 1/1, and (2) the ability will do nothing unless that creature is still 1/1 at the time the ability resolves."
2925
+ },
2926
+ {
2927
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2928
+ "text": "For that reason, two Sigil Captains don’t work well together. When a 1/1 creature enters the battlefield under your control, the abilities of both Sigil Captains will trigger. When the first resolves, two +1/+1 counters are put on the 1/1 creature. When the second resolves, it will do nothing because the creature that entered the battlefield is now 3/3."
2929
+ },
2930
+ {
2931
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2932
+ "text": "Sigil Captain’s ability checks a creature’s initial power and toughness upon being put on the battlefield, so it will take into account counters that it enters the battlefield with and static abilities that may give it a continuous power boost once it’s on the battlefield (such as the one on Glorious Anthem). After the creature is already on the battlefield, changing its power and toughness to 1/1 with a spell, activated ability, or triggered ability won’t allow this ability to trigger; it’s too late by then."
2933
+ },
2934
+ {
2935
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2936
+ "text": "If, for some reason, Sigil Captain enters the battlefield as a 1/1 creature (due to a pair of Engineered Plagues, for example), it will cause its own ability to trigger."
2937
+ }
2938
+ ]
2038
2939
  },
2039
2940
  {
2040
2941
  "name": "Sigil of the Nayan Gods",
@@ -2062,7 +2963,17 @@
2062
2963
  "loyalty": null,
2063
2964
  "multiverse_id": 179630,
2064
2965
  "other_part": null,
2065
- "color_indicator": null
2966
+ "color_indicator": null,
2967
+ "rulings": [
2968
+ {
2969
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
2970
+ "text": "Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not."
2971
+ },
2972
+ {
2973
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
2974
+ "text": "Sigil of the Nayan Gods’s ability counts the number of creatures you control, regardless of who controls the creature the Aura is enchanting. If you control the creature it’s enchanting, the bonus will include that creature too."
2975
+ }
2976
+ ]
2066
2977
  },
2067
2978
  {
2068
2979
  "name": "Sigiled Behemoth",
@@ -2088,7 +2999,8 @@
2088
2999
  "loyalty": null,
2089
3000
  "multiverse_id": 159688,
2090
3001
  "other_part": null,
2091
- "color_indicator": null
3002
+ "color_indicator": null,
3003
+ "rulings": []
2092
3004
  },
2093
3005
  {
2094
3006
  "name": "Wildfield Borderpost",
@@ -2114,7 +3026,25 @@
2114
3026
  "loyalty": null,
2115
3027
  "multiverse_id": 179590,
2116
3028
  "other_part": null,
2117
- "color_indicator": null
3029
+ "color_indicator": null,
3030
+ "rulings": [
3031
+ {
3032
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3033
+ "text": "Casting this card by paying its alternative cost doesn’t change when you can cast it. You can cast it only at the normal time you could cast an artifact spell. It also doesn’t change the spell’s mana cost or converted mana cost. The only difference is the cost you actually pay."
3034
+ },
3035
+ {
3036
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3037
+ "text": "Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast this card will apply to whichever cost you chose to pay."
3038
+ },
3039
+ {
3040
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3041
+ "text": "To satisfy the alternative cost, you may return any basic land you control to its owner’s hand, regardless of that land’s subtype or whether it’s tapped."
3042
+ },
3043
+ {
3044
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3045
+ "text": "As you cast a spell, you get a chance to activate mana abilities before you pay that spell’s costs. Therefore, you may tap a basic land for mana, then both spend that mana and return that land to your hand to pay this card’s alternative cost. (Of course, you can return a different basic land instead.)"
3046
+ }
3047
+ ]
2118
3048
  },
2119
3049
  {
2120
3050
  "name": "Identity Crisis",
@@ -2138,7 +3068,8 @@
2138
3068
  "loyalty": null,
2139
3069
  "multiverse_id": 175109,
2140
3070
  "other_part": null,
2141
- "color_indicator": null
3071
+ "color_indicator": null,
3072
+ "rulings": []
2142
3073
  },
2143
3074
  {
2144
3075
  "name": "Necromancer's Covenant",
@@ -2163,7 +3094,17 @@
2163
3094
  "loyalty": null,
2164
3095
  "multiverse_id": 183011,
2165
3096
  "other_part": null,
2166
- "color_indicator": null
3097
+ "color_indicator": null,
3098
+ "rulings": [
3099
+ {
3100
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3101
+ "text": "The Zombie tokens are put onto the battlefield under your control."
3102
+ },
3103
+ {
3104
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3105
+ "text": "Necromancer’s Covenant grants lifelink to all Zombies you control, not just the tokens put onto the battlefield with its first ability."
3106
+ }
3107
+ ]
2167
3108
  },
2168
3109
  {
2169
3110
  "name": "Tainted Sigil",
@@ -2187,7 +3128,25 @@
2187
3128
  "loyalty": null,
2188
3129
  "multiverse_id": 180618,
2189
3130
  "other_part": null,
2190
- "color_indicator": null
3131
+ "color_indicator": null,
3132
+ "rulings": [
3133
+ {
3134
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3135
+ "text": "Tainted Sigil’s ability counts the life lost by all players, including you."
3136
+ },
3137
+ {
3138
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3139
+ "text": "When Tainted Sigil’s ability resolves, it checks how much life each player lost over the course of the turn, then it totals that number and you gain that much life in one shot. It doesn’t matter how a player lost life or what caused it. It also doesn’t matter if Tainted Sigil wasn’t on the battlefield when some or all of the life was lost."
3140
+ },
3141
+ {
3142
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3143
+ "text": "If you lose enough life to lower your life total to 0 or less, you’ll lose the game as a state-based actions before you activate Tainted Sigil’s ability."
3144
+ },
3145
+ {
3146
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3147
+ "text": "Tainted Sigil’s ability checks only whether life was lost. It doesn’t care whether life was also gained. For example, say one player lost 4 life during the turn and no one else lost any, but that same player also gained 6 life that turn. That player has a higher life total than they started the turn with — but Tainted Sigil’s ability counts only the life loss, so you’ll gain 4 life."
3148
+ }
3149
+ ]
2191
3150
  },
2192
3151
  {
2193
3152
  "name": "Vectis Dominator",
@@ -2215,7 +3174,8 @@
2215
3174
  "loyalty": null,
2216
3175
  "multiverse_id": 179592,
2217
3176
  "other_part": null,
2218
- "color_indicator": null
3177
+ "color_indicator": null,
3178
+ "rulings": []
2219
3179
  },
2220
3180
  {
2221
3181
  "name": "Zealous Persecution",
@@ -2239,7 +3199,8 @@
2239
3199
  "loyalty": null,
2240
3200
  "multiverse_id": 179575,
2241
3201
  "other_part": null,
2242
- "color_indicator": null
3202
+ "color_indicator": null,
3203
+ "rulings": []
2243
3204
  },
2244
3205
  {
2245
3206
  "name": "Cloven Casting",
@@ -2263,7 +3224,29 @@
2263
3224
  "loyalty": null,
2264
3225
  "multiverse_id": 189653,
2265
3226
  "other_part": null,
2266
- "color_indicator": null
3227
+ "color_indicator": null,
3228
+ "rulings": [
3229
+ {
3230
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3231
+ "text": "This ability triggers only once for each multicolored instant or sorcery spell you cast. You can’t use a single Cloven Casting to copy the same spell twice."
3232
+ },
3233
+ {
3234
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3235
+ "text": "You can copy the spell that caused Cloven Casting’s ability to trigger even if it’s been countered by the time that ability resolves."
3236
+ },
3237
+ {
3238
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3239
+ "text": "The copy will have the same targets as the spell it’s copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. The new targets must be legal."
3240
+ },
3241
+ {
3242
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3243
+ "text": "If a modal spell is copied, the copy will have the same mode as the original."
3244
+ },
3245
+ {
3246
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3247
+ "text": "Abilities that trigger when a spell is cast (such as this ability or cascade) won’t trigger when you create a copy this way."
3248
+ }
3249
+ ]
2267
3250
  },
2268
3251
  {
2269
3252
  "name": "Double Negative",
@@ -2287,7 +3270,21 @@
2287
3270
  "loyalty": null,
2288
3271
  "multiverse_id": 179544,
2289
3272
  "other_part": null,
2290
- "color_indicator": null
3273
+ "color_indicator": null,
3274
+ "rulings": [
3275
+ {
3276
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3277
+ "text": "You may cast Double Negative with no targets, one target, or two targets."
3278
+ },
3279
+ {
3280
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3281
+ "text": "In order to counter two target spells, both of those spells must be on the stack at the time you cast Double Negative. Two spells can be on the stack at the same time as the result of an ability (such as cascade or replicate), as the result of a copy effect (such as the one from Cloven Casting or Twincast), or because a spell has been cast in response to another spell."
3282
+ },
3283
+ {
3284
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3285
+ "text": "It’s unusual for a player to cast a spell in response to their own spell, and that will be specifically called out when it happens. Under normal circumstances, if a player casts a spell, it is assumed that the player passes priority afterward. If that player casts another spell, it is assumed that each other player has also passed priority, which caused the first spell to resolve and the first player to receive priority again. Unless the first player says otherwise, only one spell will be on the stack at a time in that scenario."
3286
+ }
3287
+ ]
2291
3288
  },
2292
3289
  {
2293
3290
  "name": "Magefire Wings",
@@ -2314,7 +3311,8 @@
2314
3311
  "loyalty": null,
2315
3312
  "multiverse_id": 179591,
2316
3313
  "other_part": null,
2317
- "color_indicator": null
3314
+ "color_indicator": null,
3315
+ "rulings": []
2318
3316
  },
2319
3317
  {
2320
3318
  "name": "Skyclaw Thrash",
@@ -2342,7 +3340,13 @@
2342
3340
  "loyalty": null,
2343
3341
  "multiverse_id": 179569,
2344
3342
  "other_part": null,
2345
- "color_indicator": null
3343
+ "color_indicator": null,
3344
+ "rulings": [
3345
+ {
3346
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3347
+ "text": "If you lose the flip, nothing happens. Skyclaw Thrash continues to attack as normal."
3348
+ }
3349
+ ]
2346
3350
  },
2347
3351
  {
2348
3352
  "name": "Spellbound Dragon",
@@ -2369,7 +3373,13 @@
2369
3373
  "loyalty": null,
2370
3374
  "multiverse_id": 180611,
2371
3375
  "other_part": null,
2372
- "color_indicator": null
3376
+ "color_indicator": null,
3377
+ "rulings": [
3378
+ {
3379
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3380
+ "text": "You’ll discard a card even if some other effect replaces the draw."
3381
+ }
3382
+ ]
2373
3383
  },
2374
3384
  {
2375
3385
  "name": "Lord of Extinction",
@@ -2395,7 +3405,17 @@
2395
3405
  "loyalty": null,
2396
3406
  "multiverse_id": 177922,
2397
3407
  "other_part": null,
2398
- "color_indicator": null
3408
+ "color_indicator": null,
3409
+ "rulings": [
3410
+ {
3411
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
3412
+ "text": "The ability that defines Lord of Extinction’s power and toughness works in all zones, not just the battlefield. If Lord of Extinction is in your graveyard, it will count itself."
3413
+ },
3414
+ {
3415
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
3416
+ "text": "If an instant or sorcery spell deals damage to Lord of Extinction or lowers its toughness, that spell is put into its owner’s graveyard before state-based actions are performed. That card will raise Lord of Extinction’s toughness before the game checks to see if it dies."
3417
+ }
3418
+ ]
2399
3419
  },
2400
3420
  {
2401
3421
  "name": "Maelstrom Pulse",
@@ -2419,7 +3439,29 @@
2419
3439
  "loyalty": null,
2420
3440
  "multiverse_id": 180613,
2421
3441
  "other_part": null,
2422
- "color_indicator": null
3442
+ "color_indicator": null,
3443
+ "rulings": [
3444
+ {
3445
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3446
+ "text": "A face-down creature has no name, so it doesn’t have the same name as anything else."
3447
+ },
3448
+ {
3449
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
3450
+ "text": "Maelstrom Pulse has only one target. Other permanents with the same name will be destroyed even if they have hexproof or protection."
3451
+ },
3452
+ {
3453
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
3454
+ "text": "If the target permanent becomes an illegal target for Maelstrom Pulse, the spell doesn’t resolve. Nothing is destroyed."
3455
+ },
3456
+ {
3457
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
3458
+ "text": "The name of a creature token is the same as the creature types it was created with unless the token is a copy of another creature or the effect that created the token specifically gives it a different name. For example, a 1/1 red Elemental creature token created by Young Pyromancer and a 4/4 green Elemental creature token created by Walker of the Grove are both named “Elemental.”"
3459
+ },
3460
+ {
3461
+ "date": "12/7/2018",
3462
+ "text": "If Maelstrom Pulse resolves but the target permanent isn’t destroyed (perhaps because it regenerates or has indestructible), all other permanents with the same name as it will still be destroyed."
3463
+ }
3464
+ ]
2423
3465
  },
2424
3466
  {
2425
3467
  "name": "Marrow Chomper",
@@ -2447,7 +3489,8 @@
2447
3489
  "loyalty": null,
2448
3490
  "multiverse_id": 183014,
2449
3491
  "other_part": null,
2450
- "color_indicator": null
3492
+ "color_indicator": null,
3493
+ "rulings": []
2451
3494
  },
2452
3495
  {
2453
3496
  "name": "Morbid Bloom",
@@ -2471,7 +3514,17 @@
2471
3514
  "loyalty": null,
2472
3515
  "multiverse_id": 179614,
2473
3516
  "other_part": null,
2474
- "color_indicator": null
3517
+ "color_indicator": null,
3518
+ "rulings": [
3519
+ {
3520
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3521
+ "text": "If the targeted card is removed from the graveyard before Morbid Bloom resolves, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t get any Saproling tokens."
3522
+ },
3523
+ {
3524
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3525
+ "text": "If a creature card has “*” in its toughness, the ability that defines “*” works in all zones. The value of X is equal to the toughness of the targeted creature card as it last existed in the graveyard."
3526
+ }
3527
+ ]
2475
3528
  },
2476
3529
  {
2477
3530
  "name": "Putrid Leech",
@@ -2498,7 +3551,8 @@
2498
3551
  "loyalty": null,
2499
3552
  "multiverse_id": 179612,
2500
3553
  "other_part": null,
2501
- "color_indicator": null
3554
+ "color_indicator": null,
3555
+ "rulings": []
2502
3556
  },
2503
3557
  {
2504
3558
  "name": "Cerodon Yearling",
@@ -2524,7 +3578,8 @@
2524
3578
  "loyalty": null,
2525
3579
  "multiverse_id": 180604,
2526
3580
  "other_part": null,
2527
- "color_indicator": null
3581
+ "color_indicator": null,
3582
+ "rulings": []
2528
3583
  },
2529
3584
  {
2530
3585
  "name": "Fight to the Death",
@@ -2548,7 +3603,25 @@
2548
3603
  "loyalty": null,
2549
3604
  "multiverse_id": 179562,
2550
3605
  "other_part": null,
2551
- "color_indicator": null
3606
+ "color_indicator": null,
3607
+ "rulings": [
3608
+ {
3609
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3610
+ "text": "A “blocking creature” is one that has been declared as a blocker this combat, or one that was put onto the battlefield blocking this combat. Unless that creature leaves combat, it continues to be a blocking creature through the end of combat step, even if the creature or creatures that it was blocking are no longer on the battlefield or have otherwise left combat by then."
3611
+ },
3612
+ {
3613
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3614
+ "text": "A “blocked creature” is an attacking creature that has been blocked by a creature this combat, or has become blocked as the result of a spell or ability this combat. Unless the attacking creature leaves combat, it continues to be a blocked creature through the end of combat step, even if the creature or creatures that blocked it are no longer on the battlefield or have otherwise left combat by then."
3615
+ },
3616
+ {
3617
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3618
+ "text": "Attacking creatures that haven’t been blocked are unaffected by Fight to the Death."
3619
+ },
3620
+ {
3621
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3622
+ "text": "If Fight to the Death is cast before blockers are declared or after combat ends, it won’t do anything."
3623
+ }
3624
+ ]
2552
3625
  },
2553
3626
  {
2554
3627
  "name": "Glory of Warfare",
@@ -2573,7 +3646,13 @@
2573
3646
  "loyalty": null,
2574
3647
  "multiverse_id": 179611,
2575
3648
  "other_part": null,
2576
- "color_indicator": null
3649
+ "color_indicator": null,
3650
+ "rulings": [
3651
+ {
3652
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3653
+ "text": "There is never a point at which Glory of Warfare will give a creature you control +2/+2 or +0/+0. A creature that’s normally 1/1, for example, will change from being 3/1 to being 1/3 when your turn ends and another player’s turn begins. At no time will it be 3/3 or 1/1."
3654
+ }
3655
+ ]
2577
3656
  },
2578
3657
  {
2579
3658
  "name": "Intimidation Bolt",
@@ -2597,7 +3676,21 @@
2597
3676
  "loyalty": null,
2598
3677
  "multiverse_id": 179568,
2599
3678
  "other_part": null,
2600
- "color_indicator": null
3679
+ "color_indicator": null,
3680
+ "rulings": [
3681
+ {
3682
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3683
+ "text": "If the targeted creature has become an illegal target by the time Intimidation Bolt resolves, Intimidation Bolt doesn’t resolve. Creatures will still be able to attack that turn."
3684
+ },
3685
+ {
3686
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3687
+ "text": "If the targeted creature survives the damage, it can attack this turn, but no other creatures can. If the targeted creature is destroyed, no creatures can attack this turn, including creatures that enter the battlefield later on."
3688
+ },
3689
+ {
3690
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3691
+ "text": "For the second part of Intimidation Bolt’s effect to do anything, it must be cast before attackers are declared."
3692
+ }
3693
+ ]
2601
3694
  },
2602
3695
  {
2603
3696
  "name": "Stun Sniper",
@@ -2624,7 +3717,8 @@
2624
3717
  "loyalty": null,
2625
3718
  "multiverse_id": 179589,
2626
3719
  "other_part": null,
2627
- "color_indicator": null
3720
+ "color_indicator": null,
3721
+ "rulings": []
2628
3722
  },
2629
3723
  {
2630
3724
  "name": "Lorescale Coatl",
@@ -2650,7 +3744,17 @@
2650
3744
  "loyalty": null,
2651
3745
  "multiverse_id": 179633,
2652
3746
  "other_part": null,
2653
- "color_indicator": null
3747
+ "color_indicator": null,
3748
+ "rulings": [
3749
+ {
3750
+ "date": "3/16/2018",
3751
+ "text": "If a spell or ability causes you to draw multiple cards, Lorescale Coatl’s ability triggers that many times."
3752
+ },
3753
+ {
3754
+ "date": "3/16/2018",
3755
+ "text": "If a spell or ability causes you to put cards in your hand without specifically using the word “draw,” Lorescale Coatl’s ability won’t trigger."
3756
+ }
3757
+ ]
2654
3758
  },
2655
3759
  {
2656
3760
  "name": "Nulltread Gargantuan",
@@ -2676,7 +3780,17 @@
2676
3780
  "loyalty": null,
2677
3781
  "multiverse_id": 179580,
2678
3782
  "other_part": null,
2679
- "color_indicator": null
3783
+ "color_indicator": null,
3784
+ "rulings": [
3785
+ {
3786
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3787
+ "text": "Nulltread Gargantuan’s ability doesn’t target the creature you put on top of its owner’s library. You don’t choose one until the ability resolves. No one can respond to the choice."
3788
+ },
3789
+ {
3790
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3791
+ "text": "If you control no other creatures, you’ll have to put Nulltread Gargantuan on top of its owner’s library."
3792
+ }
3793
+ ]
2680
3794
  },
2681
3795
  {
2682
3796
  "name": "Sages of the Anima",
@@ -2703,7 +3817,33 @@
2703
3817
  "loyalty": null,
2704
3818
  "multiverse_id": 180601,
2705
3819
  "other_part": null,
2706
- "color_indicator": null
3820
+ "color_indicator": null,
3821
+ "rulings": [
3822
+ {
3823
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3824
+ "text": "Other players don’t get to see the order that you put the cards on the bottom of your library."
3825
+ },
3826
+ {
3827
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3828
+ "text": "If an effect would cause you to draw multiple cards, each individual draw is replaced by Sages of the Anima’s effect. Process the draws one at a time."
3829
+ },
3830
+ {
3831
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3832
+ "text": "If there are fewer than three cards in your library, you’ll reveal all of them."
3833
+ },
3834
+ {
3835
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3836
+ "text": "This effect is mandatory. Even if there are no more creature cards in your library, you have to do this instead of drawing a card."
3837
+ },
3838
+ {
3839
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3840
+ "text": "If a spell or ability causes you to put cards in your hand without specifically using the word “draw,” Sages of the Anima’s ability won’t affect it."
3841
+ },
3842
+ {
3843
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3844
+ "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. It’s possible that after applying one of them, the others will no longer be applicable because the player would no longer draw a card. For example, if you have more than one Sages of the Anima on the battlefield and you would draw a card, each Sages of the Anima’s replacement effect could apply. Once you use one, the rest are no longer applicable."
3845
+ }
3846
+ ]
2707
3847
  },
2708
3848
  {
2709
3849
  "name": "Vedalken Heretic",
@@ -2730,7 +3870,13 @@
2730
3870
  "loyalty": null,
2731
3871
  "multiverse_id": 180619,
2732
3872
  "other_part": null,
2733
- "color_indicator": null
3873
+ "color_indicator": null,
3874
+ "rulings": [
3875
+ {
3876
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3877
+ "text": "Vedalken Heretic’s ability triggers when it deals any damage to an opponent, not just combat damage."
3878
+ }
3879
+ ]
2734
3880
  },
2735
3881
  {
2736
3882
  "name": "Winged Coatl",
@@ -2758,7 +3904,8 @@
2758
3904
  "loyalty": null,
2759
3905
  "multiverse_id": 179603,
2760
3906
  "other_part": null,
2761
- "color_indicator": null
3907
+ "color_indicator": null,
3908
+ "rulings": []
2762
3909
  },
2763
3910
  {
2764
3911
  "name": "Enigma Sphinx",
@@ -2787,7 +3934,49 @@
2787
3934
  "loyalty": null,
2788
3935
  "multiverse_id": 180597,
2789
3936
  "other_part": null,
2790
- "color_indicator": null
3937
+ "color_indicator": null,
3938
+ "rulings": [
3939
+ {
3940
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3941
+ "text": "Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade."
3942
+ },
3943
+ {
3944
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3945
+ "text": "When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled."
3946
+ },
3947
+ {
3948
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3949
+ "text": "If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally."
3950
+ },
3951
+ {
3952
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3953
+ "text": "You exile the cards face-up. All players will be able to see them."
3954
+ },
3955
+ {
3956
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3957
+ "text": "If you cast the last exiled card, you’re casting it as a spell. It can be countered. If that card has cascade, the new spell’s cascade ability will trigger, and you’ll repeat the process for the new spell."
3958
+ },
3959
+ {
3960
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3961
+ "text": "After you’re done exiling cards and casting the last one if you chose to do so, the remaining exiled cards are randomly placed on the bottom of your library. Neither you nor any other player is allowed to know the order of those cards."
3962
+ },
3963
+ {
3964
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3965
+ "text": "After Enigma Sphinx’s middle ability triggers, if Enigma Sphinx is removed from your graveyard in response, it won’t be put into your library."
3966
+ },
3967
+ {
3968
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3969
+ "text": "If you have zero or one card left in your library when Enigma Sphinx’s middle ability resolves, Enigma Sphinx is put on the bottom of your library."
3970
+ },
3971
+ {
3972
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
3973
+ "text": "If you control an Enigma Sphinx that’s owned by another player, it’s put into that player’s graveyard from the battlefield, so Enigma Sphinx’s middle ability won’t trigger."
3974
+ },
3975
+ {
3976
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
3977
+ "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves."
3978
+ }
3979
+ ]
2791
3980
  },
2792
3981
  {
2793
3982
  "name": "Esper Sojourners",
@@ -2816,7 +4005,29 @@
2816
4005
  "loyalty": null,
2817
4006
  "multiverse_id": 188967,
2818
4007
  "other_part": null,
2819
- "color_indicator": null
4008
+ "color_indicator": null,
4009
+ "rulings": [
4010
+ {
4011
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
4012
+ "text": "Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not."
4013
+ },
4014
+ {
4015
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4016
+ "text": "The triggered ability acts as a cycle-triggered ability or as a leaves-the-battlefield ability, as appropriate. The player who controls the triggered ability is the player who cycled the Sojourner, or the player who last controlled the Sojourner on the battlefield."
4017
+ },
4018
+ {
4019
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4020
+ "text": "If you cycle this card, the cycling ability goes on the stack, then the triggered ability goes on the stack on top of it. The triggered ability will resolve before you draw a card from the cycling ability."
4021
+ },
4022
+ {
4023
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4024
+ "text": "The cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. If the triggered ability doesn’t resolve (due to being countered with Stifle, for example, or if all its targets have become illegal), the cycling ability will still resolve and you’ll draw a card."
4025
+ },
4026
+ {
4027
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4028
+ "text": "You can cycle this card even if there are no targets for the triggered ability. That’s because the cycling ability itself has no targets."
4029
+ }
4030
+ ]
2820
4031
  },
2821
4032
  {
2822
4033
  "name": "Etherwrought Page",
@@ -2843,7 +4054,17 @@
2843
4054
  "loyalty": null,
2844
4055
  "multiverse_id": 179618,
2845
4056
  "other_part": null,
2846
- "color_indicator": null
4057
+ "color_indicator": null,
4058
+ "rulings": [
4059
+ {
4060
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4061
+ "text": "You choose a mode when the ability triggers."
4062
+ },
4063
+ {
4064
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4065
+ "text": "You may choose a different mode each time it triggers."
4066
+ }
4067
+ ]
2847
4068
  },
2848
4069
  {
2849
4070
  "name": "Sen Triplets",
@@ -2873,7 +4094,45 @@
2873
4094
  "loyalty": null,
2874
4095
  "multiverse_id": 180607,
2875
4096
  "other_part": null,
2876
- "color_indicator": null
4097
+ "color_indicator": null,
4098
+ "rulings": [
4099
+ {
4100
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4101
+ "text": "Playing a card this way works just like playing any other card, with one exception: You're playing the card from your opponent's hand rather than your own. To be specific:\r\n -- A card played this way follows 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 a card from the targeted opponent's hand during your end step unless it's an instant or has flash.\r\n -- To cast a nonland card from your opponent's hand this way, you must pay its mana cost.\r\n -- You can play a land card from the targeted opponent's hand only if you haven't played a land yet that turn."
4102
+ },
4103
+ {
4104
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4105
+ "text": "You control the spells you cast from your opponent’s hand, so you make decisions for them as appropriate. For example, if one of those spells says “target creature you control,” you’ll target one of your creatures, not one of your opponent’s creatures."
4106
+ },
4107
+ {
4108
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4109
+ "text": "If you cast a spell with cascade this way, you’ll control the cascade ability. When it resolves, you’ll find a new card to cast from your own library."
4110
+ },
4111
+ {
4112
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4113
+ "text": "You can cast spells from the targeted player’s hand, but you can’t activate abilities. Specifically, you can’t cycle cards in that player’s hand."
4114
+ },
4115
+ {
4116
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4117
+ "text": "This ability doesn’t prevent the targeted opponent’s triggered abilities from triggering. If one does, that player puts it on the stack and, if applicable, chooses targets for it. Those abilities will resolve as normal."
4118
+ },
4119
+ {
4120
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4121
+ "text": "If the resolution of a spell or ability involves having the targeted player cast a spell, that part of the effect simply won’t work."
4122
+ },
4123
+ {
4124
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4125
+ "text": "After this ability resolves, the targeted player still gets priority at the appropriate times, and can still perform special actions (such as turning a face-down creature face up). However, since that player can’t cast any spells or activate abilities — including mana abilities — there’s not much they can actually accomplish this way."
4126
+ },
4127
+ {
4128
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4129
+ "text": "If you start to play a card from the targeted opponent’s hand, there’s no way for the opponent to get rid of that card in response (like discarding it to pay Gathan Raiders’s morph cost, for example). That’s because the first thing that happens when you start to cast a spell is that it moves to the stack, so it’s not in your opponent’s hand anymore."
4130
+ },
4131
+ {
4132
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4133
+ "text": "Once Sen Triplets’s ability resolves, it remains in effect for the rest of the turn whether or not you still control Sen Triplets."
4134
+ }
4135
+ ]
2877
4136
  },
2878
4137
  {
2879
4138
  "name": "Sphinx of the Steel Wind",
@@ -2900,7 +4159,8 @@
2900
4159
  "loyalty": null,
2901
4160
  "multiverse_id": 189641,
2902
4161
  "other_part": null,
2903
- "color_indicator": null
4162
+ "color_indicator": null,
4163
+ "rulings": []
2904
4164
  },
2905
4165
  {
2906
4166
  "name": "Drastic Revelation",
@@ -2924,7 +4184,21 @@
2924
4184
  "loyalty": null,
2925
4185
  "multiverse_id": 179587,
2926
4186
  "other_part": null,
2927
- "color_indicator": null
4187
+ "color_indicator": null,
4188
+ "rulings": [
4189
+ {
4190
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4191
+ "text": "You discard your hand as part of Drastic Revelation’s effect, not as an additional cost. If you have no cards in hand at this point, you simply don’t discard any; the rest of the spell will still have its effect."
4192
+ },
4193
+ {
4194
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4195
+ "text": "You’ll discard three cards at random even if some other effect replaces your seven draws."
4196
+ },
4197
+ {
4198
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4199
+ "text": "If there are fewer than seven cards left in your library, you’ll draw all the cards in your library, then you’ll discard three cards at random. Then you’ll lose the game as a state-based action."
4200
+ }
4201
+ ]
2928
4202
  },
2929
4203
  {
2930
4204
  "name": "Grixis Sojourners",
@@ -2952,7 +4226,33 @@
2952
4226
  "loyalty": null,
2953
4227
  "multiverse_id": 188972,
2954
4228
  "other_part": null,
2955
- "color_indicator": null
4229
+ "color_indicator": null,
4230
+ "rulings": [
4231
+ {
4232
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
4233
+ "text": "Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not."
4234
+ },
4235
+ {
4236
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4237
+ "text": "The triggered ability acts as a cycle-triggered ability or as a leaves-the-battlefield ability, as appropriate. The player who controls the triggered ability is the player who cycled the Sojourner, or the player who last controlled the Sojourner on the battlefield."
4238
+ },
4239
+ {
4240
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4241
+ "text": "If you cycle this card, the cycling ability goes on the stack, then the triggered ability goes on the stack on top of it. The triggered ability will resolve before you draw a card from the cycling ability."
4242
+ },
4243
+ {
4244
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4245
+ "text": "The cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. If the triggered ability doesn’t resolve (due to being countered with Stifle, for example, or if all its targets have become illegal), the cycling ability will still resolve and you’ll draw a card."
4246
+ },
4247
+ {
4248
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4249
+ "text": "You can cycle this card even if there are no targets for the triggered ability. That’s because the cycling ability itself has no targets."
4250
+ },
4251
+ {
4252
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4253
+ "text": "Grixis Sojourner’s triggered ability may target Grixis Sojourners itself. By the time the ability triggers, Grixis Sojourner will already be in your graveyard."
4254
+ }
4255
+ ]
2956
4256
  },
2957
4257
  {
2958
4258
  "name": "Thraximundar",
@@ -2983,7 +4283,17 @@
2983
4283
  "loyalty": null,
2984
4284
  "multiverse_id": 180595,
2985
4285
  "other_part": null,
2986
- "color_indicator": null
4286
+ "color_indicator": null,
4287
+ "rulings": [
4288
+ {
4289
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4290
+ "text": "Thraximundar’s middle ability resolves during the declare attackers step. The defending player sacrifices a creature before it would get a chance to block."
4291
+ },
4292
+ {
4293
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4294
+ "text": "Thraximundar’s last ability triggers whenever any player (including you) sacrifices a creature for any reason. It doesn’t trigger only when a creature is sacrificed due to its middle ability. Note that Thraximundar itself doesn’t allow you to sacrifice any creatures."
4295
+ }
4296
+ ]
2987
4297
  },
2988
4298
  {
2989
4299
  "name": "Unscythe, Killer of Kings",
@@ -3013,7 +4323,21 @@
3013
4323
  "loyalty": null,
3014
4324
  "multiverse_id": 189651,
3015
4325
  "other_part": null,
3016
- "color_indicator": null
4326
+ "color_indicator": null,
4327
+ "rulings": [
4328
+ {
4329
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4330
+ "text": "Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, check whether that creature had been dealt damage this turn by the creature that Unscythe is currently attached to. If so, Unscythe’s second ability will trigger. This is true even if Unscythe wasn’t attached to the creature at the time it dealt that damage. Only the currently equipped creature is checked, not any creatures that Unscythe may have been attached to earlier in the turn."
4331
+ },
4332
+ {
4333
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4334
+ "text": "Unscythe’s second ability cares about any damage, not just combat damage."
4335
+ },
4336
+ {
4337
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4338
+ "text": "If Unscythe’s second ability triggers, but the creature that was put into a graveyard is somehow removed from the graveyard in response (or it was a token), it won’t be able to be exiled with Unscythe’s ability. You won’t get a Zombie token."
4339
+ }
4340
+ ]
3017
4341
  },
3018
4342
  {
3019
4343
  "name": "Dragon Appeasement",
@@ -3038,7 +4362,13 @@
3038
4362
  "loyalty": null,
3039
4363
  "multiverse_id": 180616,
3040
4364
  "other_part": null,
3041
- "color_indicator": null
4365
+ "color_indicator": null,
4366
+ "rulings": [
4367
+ {
4368
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4369
+ "text": "Dragon Appeasement itself doesn’t allow you to sacrifice any creatures. Its last ability triggers whenever you sacrifice a creature because some other spell, ability, or cost instructed you to."
4370
+ }
4371
+ ]
3042
4372
  },
3043
4373
  {
3044
4374
  "name": "Jund Sojourners",
@@ -3066,7 +4396,29 @@
3066
4396
  "loyalty": null,
3067
4397
  "multiverse_id": 188966,
3068
4398
  "other_part": null,
3069
- "color_indicator": null
4399
+ "color_indicator": null,
4400
+ "rulings": [
4401
+ {
4402
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
4403
+ "text": "Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not."
4404
+ },
4405
+ {
4406
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4407
+ "text": "The triggered ability acts as a cycle-triggered ability or as a leaves-the-battlefield ability, as appropriate. The player who controls the triggered ability is the player who cycled the Sojourner, or the player who last controlled the Sojourner on the battlefield."
4408
+ },
4409
+ {
4410
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4411
+ "text": "If you cycle this card, the cycling ability goes on the stack, then the triggered ability goes on the stack on top of it. The triggered ability will resolve before you draw a card from the cycling ability."
4412
+ },
4413
+ {
4414
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4415
+ "text": "The cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. If the triggered ability doesn’t resolve (due to being countered with Stifle, for example, or if all its targets have become illegal), the cycling ability will still resolve and you’ll draw a card."
4416
+ },
4417
+ {
4418
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4419
+ "text": "You can cycle this card even if there are no targets for the triggered ability. That’s because the cycling ability itself has no targets."
4420
+ }
4421
+ ]
3070
4422
  },
3071
4423
  {
3072
4424
  "name": "Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund",
@@ -3096,7 +4448,17 @@
3096
4448
  "loyalty": null,
3097
4449
  "multiverse_id": 180587,
3098
4450
  "other_part": null,
3099
- "color_indicator": null
4451
+ "color_indicator": null,
4452
+ "rulings": [
4453
+ {
4454
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4455
+ "text": "The triggered ability’s control-change effect has no duration. Each Dragon you gain control of this way will remain under your control until the game ends, that permanent leaves the battlefield, or some other effect changes its controller."
4456
+ },
4457
+ {
4458
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4459
+ "text": "When the triggered ability resolves, you’ll gain control of all Dragons, including the Dragons you already control (such as Karrthus itself). Usually this will have no appreciable effect, though it will override any previous control-change abilities (such as if you had gained control of one of those Dragons only for the rest of the turn). Then you’ll untap all Dragons, including the ones you already controlled and Karrthus itself (if it had somehow managed to become tapped by then)."
4460
+ }
4461
+ ]
3100
4462
  },
3101
4463
  {
3102
4464
  "name": "Lavalanche",
@@ -3120,7 +4482,17 @@
3120
4482
  "loyalty": null,
3121
4483
  "multiverse_id": 180612,
3122
4484
  "other_part": null,
3123
- "color_indicator": null
4485
+ "color_indicator": null,
4486
+ "rulings": [
4487
+ {
4488
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4489
+ "text": "If the targeted player has become an illegal target by the time Lavalanche resolves, Lavalanche doesn’t resolve. Nothing will be dealt damage."
4490
+ },
4491
+ {
4492
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4493
+ "text": "Because Lavalanche doesn’t target any creatures, it will deal damage to creatures with shroud. Any damage it would deal to creatures with appropriate protection abilities will still be prevented, however."
4494
+ }
4495
+ ]
3124
4496
  },
3125
4497
  {
3126
4498
  "name": "Madrush Cyclops",
@@ -3147,7 +4519,13 @@
3147
4519
  "loyalty": null,
3148
4520
  "multiverse_id": 180625,
3149
4521
  "other_part": null,
3150
- "color_indicator": null
4522
+ "color_indicator": null,
4523
+ "rulings": [
4524
+ {
4525
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4526
+ "text": "Madrush Cyclops gives itself haste."
4527
+ }
4528
+ ]
3151
4529
  },
3152
4530
  {
3153
4531
  "name": "Gloryscale Viashino",
@@ -3174,7 +4552,8 @@
3174
4552
  "loyalty": null,
3175
4553
  "multiverse_id": 189654,
3176
4554
  "other_part": null,
3177
- "color_indicator": null
4555
+ "color_indicator": null,
4556
+ "rulings": []
3178
4557
  },
3179
4558
  {
3180
4559
  "name": "Mayael's Aria",
@@ -3198,7 +4577,17 @@
3198
4577
  "loyalty": null,
3199
4578
  "multiverse_id": 180620,
3200
4579
  "other_part": null,
3201
- "color_indicator": null
4580
+ "color_indicator": null,
4581
+ "rulings": [
4582
+ {
4583
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4584
+ "text": "This ability triggers at the beginning of each of your upkeeps. Whether you control any applicable creatures is checked only when the ability resolves."
4585
+ },
4586
+ {
4587
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4588
+ "text": "The three parts of the ability happen sequentially. For example, if you control a creature with 9 power when the ability starts to resolve, you’ll put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control — and now, since you control a creature with 10 power, you’ll gain 10 life."
4589
+ }
4590
+ ]
3202
4591
  },
3203
4592
  {
3204
4593
  "name": "Naya Sojourners",
@@ -3226,7 +4615,29 @@
3226
4615
  "loyalty": null,
3227
4616
  "multiverse_id": 188970,
3228
4617
  "other_part": null,
3229
- "color_indicator": null
4618
+ "color_indicator": null,
4619
+ "rulings": [
4620
+ {
4621
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
4622
+ "text": "Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not."
4623
+ },
4624
+ {
4625
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4626
+ "text": "The triggered ability acts as a cycle-triggered ability or as a leaves-the-battlefield ability, as appropriate. The player who controls the triggered ability is the player who cycled the Sojourner, or the player who last controlled the Sojourner on the battlefield."
4627
+ },
4628
+ {
4629
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4630
+ "text": "If you cycle this card, the cycling ability goes on the stack, then the triggered ability goes on the stack on top of it. The triggered ability will resolve before you draw a card from the cycling ability."
4631
+ },
4632
+ {
4633
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4634
+ "text": "The cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. If the triggered ability doesn’t resolve (due to being countered with Stifle, for example, or if all its targets have become illegal), the cycling ability will still resolve and you’ll draw a card."
4635
+ },
4636
+ {
4637
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4638
+ "text": "You can cycle this card even if there are no targets for the triggered ability. That’s because the cycling ability itself has no targets."
4639
+ }
4640
+ ]
3230
4641
  },
3231
4642
  {
3232
4643
  "name": "Retaliator Griffin",
@@ -3253,7 +4664,29 @@
3253
4664
  "loyalty": null,
3254
4665
  "multiverse_id": 147530,
3255
4666
  "other_part": null,
3256
- "color_indicator": null
4667
+ "color_indicator": null,
4668
+ "rulings": [
4669
+ {
4670
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4671
+ "text": "The source of combat damage is the creature that dealt it."
4672
+ },
4673
+ {
4674
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4675
+ "text": "If a spell causes 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, Breath of Malfegor says “Breath of Malfegor deals 5 damage to each opponent.”"
4676
+ },
4677
+ {
4678
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4679
+ "text": "If an ability causes 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, Deathbringer Thoctar’s ability says “Deathbringer Thoctar deals 1 damage to any target.”"
4680
+ },
4681
+ {
4682
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4683
+ "text": "If the source of the damage is a permanent, Retaliator Griffin checks whether an opponent controls that permanent at the time that damage is dealt. If the permanent has left the battlefield by then, its last known information is used. If the source of the damage is a spell, whether it’s controlled by an opponent is obvious. If the source of the damage is a card in some other zone (such as a cycled Jund Sojourners), Retaliator Griffin checks whether the card’s owner, rather than its controller, is an opponent."
4684
+ },
4685
+ {
4686
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4687
+ "text": "If Retaliator Griffin is dealt lethal damage at the same time that you’re dealt damage by a source an opponent controls, Retaliator Griffin will be put into a graveyard before it would receive any counters. Its ability will still trigger, but it will do nothing when it resolves."
4688
+ }
4689
+ ]
3257
4690
  },
3258
4691
  {
3259
4692
  "name": "Uril, the Miststalker",
@@ -3282,7 +4715,8 @@
3282
4715
  "loyalty": null,
3283
4716
  "multiverse_id": 189645,
3284
4717
  "other_part": null,
3285
- "color_indicator": null
4718
+ "color_indicator": null,
4719
+ "rulings": []
3286
4720
  },
3287
4721
  {
3288
4722
  "name": "Bant Sojourners",
@@ -3310,7 +4744,25 @@
3310
4744
  "loyalty": null,
3311
4745
  "multiverse_id": 188963,
3312
4746
  "other_part": null,
3313
- "color_indicator": null
4747
+ "color_indicator": null,
4748
+ "rulings": [
4749
+ {
4750
+ "date": "10/1/2008",
4751
+ "text": "Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not."
4752
+ },
4753
+ {
4754
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4755
+ "text": "The triggered ability acts as a cycle-triggered ability or as a leaves-the-battlefield ability, as appropriate. The player who controls the triggered ability is the player who cycled the Sojourner, or the player who last controlled the Sojourner on the battlefield."
4756
+ },
4757
+ {
4758
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4759
+ "text": "If you cycle this card, the cycling ability goes on the stack, then the triggered ability goes on the stack on top of it. The triggered ability will resolve before you draw a card from the cycling ability."
4760
+ },
4761
+ {
4762
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4763
+ "text": "The cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. If the triggered ability doesn’t resolve (due to being countered with Stifle, for example, or if all its targets have become illegal), the cycling ability will still resolve and you’ll draw a card."
4764
+ }
4765
+ ]
3314
4766
  },
3315
4767
  {
3316
4768
  "name": "Finest Hour",
@@ -3335,7 +4787,17 @@
3335
4787
  "loyalty": null,
3336
4788
  "multiverse_id": 180609,
3337
4789
  "other_part": null,
3338
- "color_indicator": null
4790
+ "color_indicator": null,
4791
+ "rulings": [
4792
+ {
4793
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4794
+ "text": "Finest Hour’s second ability has an “intervening ‘if’ clause.” The ability won’t trigger at all unless it’s the first combat phase of the turn."
4795
+ },
4796
+ {
4797
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4798
+ "text": "Unlike other similar cards, Finest Hour doesn’t create a main phase in between the two combat phases. The second combat phase will begin immediately after the current one ends."
4799
+ }
4800
+ ]
3339
4801
  },
3340
4802
  {
3341
4803
  "name": "Flurry of Wings",
@@ -3359,7 +4821,21 @@
3359
4821
  "loyalty": null,
3360
4822
  "multiverse_id": 179605,
3361
4823
  "other_part": null,
3362
- "color_indicator": null
4824
+ "color_indicator": null,
4825
+ "rulings": [
4826
+ {
4827
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4828
+ "text": "An “attacking creature” is one that has been declared as an attacker this combat, or one that was put onto the battlefield attacking this combat. Unless that creature leaves combat, it continues to be an attacking creature through the end of combat step, even if the player it was attacking has left the game, or the planeswalker it was attacking has left combat."
4829
+ },
4830
+ {
4831
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4832
+ "text": "Flurry of Wings counts the number of creatures that are attacking as it resolves. It doesn’t matter how many creatures were originally declared as attackers that turn. It also doesn’t matter who controls those creatures, or who or what they’re attacking."
4833
+ },
4834
+ {
4835
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4836
+ "text": "If Flurry of Wings is cast before attackers have been declared or after combat ends, it won’t do anything."
4837
+ }
4838
+ ]
3363
4839
  },
3364
4840
  {
3365
4841
  "name": "Jenara, Asura of War",
@@ -3388,7 +4864,8 @@
3388
4864
  "loyalty": null,
3389
4865
  "multiverse_id": 180605,
3390
4866
  "other_part": null,
3391
- "color_indicator": null
4867
+ "color_indicator": null,
4868
+ "rulings": []
3392
4869
  },
3393
4870
  {
3394
4871
  "name": "Wargate",
@@ -3412,7 +4889,17 @@
3412
4889
  "loyalty": null,
3413
4890
  "multiverse_id": 180592,
3414
4891
  "other_part": null,
3415
- "color_indicator": null
4892
+ "color_indicator": null,
4893
+ "rulings": [
4894
+ {
4895
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4896
+ "text": "A permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card."
4897
+ },
4898
+ {
4899
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4900
+ "text": "You may always find a permanent card with converted mana cost 0. (If X is 0, that’s all you can find.) Cards with no mana cost (such as land cards), cards with mana cost {0}, and cards with mana cost {X} all have converted mana cost 0."
4901
+ }
4902
+ ]
3416
4903
  },
3417
4904
  {
3418
4905
  "name": "Maelstrom Nexus",
@@ -3436,7 +4923,53 @@
3436
4923
  "loyalty": null,
3437
4924
  "multiverse_id": 179540,
3438
4925
  "other_part": null,
3439
- "color_indicator": null
4926
+ "color_indicator": null,
4927
+ "rulings": [
4928
+ {
4929
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4930
+ "text": "Cascade triggers when you cast the spell, meaning that it resolves before that spell. If you end up casting the exiled card, it will go on the stack above the spell with cascade."
4931
+ },
4932
+ {
4933
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4934
+ "text": "When the cascade ability resolves, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether or not you cast the last card exiled."
4935
+ },
4936
+ {
4937
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4938
+ "text": "If a spell with cascade is countered, the cascade ability will still resolve normally."
4939
+ },
4940
+ {
4941
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4942
+ "text": "You exile the cards face-up. All players will be able to see them."
4943
+ },
4944
+ {
4945
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4946
+ "text": "If you cast the last exiled card, you’re casting it as a spell. It can be countered. If that card has cascade, the new spell’s cascade ability will trigger, and you’ll repeat the process for the new spell."
4947
+ },
4948
+ {
4949
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4950
+ "text": "After you’re done exiling cards and casting the last one if you chose to do so, the remaining exiled cards are randomly placed on the bottom of your library. Neither you nor any other player is allowed to know the order of those cards."
4951
+ },
4952
+ {
4953
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4954
+ "text": "Maelstrom Nexus affects the first spell you cast each turn, not just the first spell you cast on your own turn."
4955
+ },
4956
+ {
4957
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4958
+ "text": "If the first spell you cast in a turn already has cascade, both cascade abilities will trigger separately. Deal with them one at a time: First one cascade ability will resolve, and you’ll cast the applicable card if you want. That new spell will resolve. Then the other cascade ability will resolve in the same way. Finally, the original spell will resolve."
4959
+ },
4960
+ {
4961
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4962
+ "text": "This effect takes into account spells that were cast earlier in the turn that Maelstrom Nexus entered the battlefield, including any spells still on the stack. If you’ve already cast any spells that turn (including Maelstrom Nexus itself), this ability won’t give any of your spells cascade that turn."
4963
+ },
4964
+ {
4965
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
4966
+ "text": "A spell’s converted mana cost is determined solely by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner. If its mana cost includes {X}, take the chosen value of X into account. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions."
4967
+ },
4968
+ {
4969
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
4970
+ "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If cascade allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half but not both halves."
4971
+ }
4972
+ ]
3440
4973
  },
3441
4974
  {
3442
4975
  "name": "Arsenal Thresher",
@@ -3463,7 +4996,17 @@
3463
4996
  "loyalty": null,
3464
4997
  "multiverse_id": 189652,
3465
4998
  "other_part": null,
3466
- "color_indicator": null
4999
+ "color_indicator": null,
5000
+ "rulings": [
5001
+ {
5002
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
5003
+ "text": "If multiple Arsenal Threshers are entering the battlefield at the same time (for example, if Warp World is resolving), you may reveal the same artifact cards from your hand for each of them."
5004
+ },
5005
+ {
5006
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
5007
+ "text": "If Arsenal Thresher and another artifact are entering the battlefield from your hand at the same time, you may reveal that other artifact for Arsenal Thresher. If that artifact is a second Arsenal Thresher, you may reveal each Arsenal Thresher for the other."
5008
+ }
5009
+ ]
3467
5010
  },
3468
5011
  {
3469
5012
  "name": "Esper Stormblade",
@@ -3491,7 +5034,8 @@
3491
5034
  "loyalty": null,
3492
5035
  "multiverse_id": 188968,
3493
5036
  "other_part": null,
3494
- "color_indicator": null
5037
+ "color_indicator": null,
5038
+ "rulings": []
3495
5039
  },
3496
5040
  {
3497
5041
  "name": "Thopter Foundry",
@@ -3515,7 +5059,13 @@
3515
5059
  "loyalty": null,
3516
5060
  "multiverse_id": 183017,
3517
5061
  "other_part": null,
3518
- "color_indicator": null
5062
+ "color_indicator": null,
5063
+ "rulings": [
5064
+ {
5065
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
5066
+ "text": "The nontoken artifact you sacrifice may be Thopter Foundry itself."
5067
+ }
5068
+ ]
3519
5069
  },
3520
5070
  {
3521
5071
  "name": "Grixis Grimblade",
@@ -3542,7 +5092,8 @@
3542
5092
  "loyalty": null,
3543
5093
  "multiverse_id": 188976,
3544
5094
  "other_part": null,
3545
- "color_indicator": null
5095
+ "color_indicator": null,
5096
+ "rulings": []
3546
5097
  },
3547
5098
  {
3548
5099
  "name": "Sewn-Eye Drake",
@@ -3569,7 +5120,8 @@
3569
5120
  "loyalty": null,
3570
5121
  "multiverse_id": 179594,
3571
5122
  "other_part": null,
3572
- "color_indicator": null
5123
+ "color_indicator": null,
5124
+ "rulings": []
3573
5125
  },
3574
5126
  {
3575
5127
  "name": "Slave of Bolas",
@@ -3593,7 +5145,17 @@
3593
5145
  "loyalty": null,
3594
5146
  "multiverse_id": 188971,
3595
5147
  "other_part": null,
3596
- "color_indicator": null
5148
+ "color_indicator": null,
5149
+ "rulings": [
5150
+ {
5151
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
5152
+ "text": "You may target a creature you already control."
5153
+ },
5154
+ {
5155
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
5156
+ "text": "If you don’t control the targeted creature when the “at end of turn” ability resolves, it won’t be sacrificed. If it’s still on the battlefield but under another player’s control, the ability won’t try to have you sacrifice it again at the end of the turn after that."
5157
+ }
5158
+ ]
3597
5159
  },
3598
5160
  {
3599
5161
  "name": "Giant Ambush Beetle",
@@ -3620,7 +5182,25 @@
3620
5182
  "loyalty": null,
3621
5183
  "multiverse_id": 179598,
3622
5184
  "other_part": null,
3623
- "color_indicator": null
5185
+ "color_indicator": null,
5186
+ "rulings": [
5187
+ {
5188
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
5189
+ "text": "You decide whether to have the targeted creature block Giant Ambush Beetle this turn if able at the time the enters-the-battlefield ability resolves, not at the time Giant Ambush Beetle attacks."
5190
+ },
5191
+ {
5192
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
5193
+ "text": "Deciding to have the targeted creature block doesn’t force you to attack with Giant Ambush Beetle that turn. If Giant Ambush Beetle doesn’t attack, the targeted creature is free to block whichever creature its controller chooses, or block no creatures at all."
5194
+ },
5195
+ {
5196
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
5197
+ "text": "If you choose to have the targeted creature block but that creature isn’t able to block Giant Ambush Beetle (for example, because the targeted creature can block only creatures with flying), the requirement to block does nothing. The targeted creature is free to block whichever creature its controller chooses, or block no creatures at all."
5198
+ },
5199
+ {
5200
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
5201
+ "text": "Tapped creatures, creatures that can’t block as the result of an effect, creatures with unpaid costs to block (such as those from War Cadence), and creatures that aren’t controlled by the defending player are exempt from effects that would require them to block. Such creatures can be targeted by Giant Ambush Beetle’s ability, but the requirement to block does nothing."
5202
+ }
5203
+ ]
3624
5204
  },
3625
5205
  {
3626
5206
  "name": "Jund Hackblade",
@@ -3647,7 +5227,8 @@
3647
5227
  "loyalty": null,
3648
5228
  "multiverse_id": 188973,
3649
5229
  "other_part": null,
3650
- "color_indicator": null
5230
+ "color_indicator": null,
5231
+ "rulings": []
3651
5232
  },
3652
5233
  {
3653
5234
  "name": "Sangrite Backlash",
@@ -3674,7 +5255,8 @@
3674
5255
  "loyalty": null,
3675
5256
  "multiverse_id": 179553,
3676
5257
  "other_part": null,
3677
- "color_indicator": null
5258
+ "color_indicator": null,
5259
+ "rulings": []
3678
5260
  },
3679
5261
  {
3680
5262
  "name": "Marisi's Twinclaws",
@@ -3701,7 +5283,8 @@
3701
5283
  "loyalty": null,
3702
5284
  "multiverse_id": 179585,
3703
5285
  "other_part": null,
3704
- "color_indicator": null
5286
+ "color_indicator": null,
5287
+ "rulings": []
3705
5288
  },
3706
5289
  {
3707
5290
  "name": "Naya Hushblade",
@@ -3728,7 +5311,8 @@
3728
5311
  "loyalty": null,
3729
5312
  "multiverse_id": 188969,
3730
5313
  "other_part": null,
3731
- "color_indicator": null
5314
+ "color_indicator": null,
5315
+ "rulings": []
3732
5316
  },
3733
5317
  {
3734
5318
  "name": "Trace of Abundance",
@@ -3756,7 +5340,8 @@
3756
5340
  "loyalty": null,
3757
5341
  "multiverse_id": 161292,
3758
5342
  "other_part": null,
3759
- "color_indicator": null
5343
+ "color_indicator": null,
5344
+ "rulings": []
3760
5345
  },
3761
5346
  {
3762
5347
  "name": "Bant Sureblade",
@@ -3783,7 +5368,8 @@
3783
5368
  "loyalty": null,
3784
5369
  "multiverse_id": 188975,
3785
5370
  "other_part": null,
3786
- "color_indicator": null
5371
+ "color_indicator": null,
5372
+ "rulings": []
3787
5373
  },
3788
5374
  {
3789
5375
  "name": "Crystallization",
@@ -3811,7 +5397,13 @@
3811
5397
  "loyalty": null,
3812
5398
  "multiverse_id": 179621,
3813
5399
  "other_part": null,
3814
- "color_indicator": null
5400
+ "color_indicator": null,
5401
+ "rulings": [
5402
+ {
5403
+ "date": "5/1/2009",
5404
+ "text": "When the enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, Crystallization’s last ability will trigger. When that ability resolves, that creature will be exiled, even if Crystallization has left the battlefield or is enchanting a different creature by that time. If Crystallization is still enchanting the same creature, Crystallization will then be put into its owner’s graveyard as a state-based action."
5405
+ }
5406
+ ]
3815
5407
  },
3816
5408
  {
3817
5409
  "name": "Messenger Falcons",
@@ -3838,6 +5430,7 @@
3838
5430
  "loyalty": null,
3839
5431
  "multiverse_id": 189644,
3840
5432
  "other_part": null,
3841
- "color_indicator": null
5433
+ "color_indicator": null,
5434
+ "rulings": []
3842
5435
  }
3843
5436
  ]