mtg-db 2.0.0 → 2.1.0

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  1. checksums.yaml +4 -4
  2. data/data/sets/10e.json +2053 -390
  3. data/data/sets/2ed.json +2261 -305
  4. data/data/sets/3ed.json +2137 -309
  5. data/data/sets/4ed.json +2390 -379
  6. data/data/sets/5dn.json +889 -167
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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
  27. data/data/sets/brb.json +520 -136
  28. data/data/sets/btd.json +414 -90
  29. data/data/sets/c13.json +3069 -359
  30. data/data/sets/c14.json +2986 -338
  31. data/data/sets/c15.json +3462 -342
  32. data/data/sets/c16.json +3978 -357
  33. data/data/sets/c17.json +3417 -309
  34. data/data/sets/c18.json +4122 -310
  35. data/data/sets/chk.json +1396 -317
  36. data/data/sets/chr.json +864 -125
  37. data/data/sets/cm1.json +240 -18
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  39. data/data/sets/cma.json +2356 -320
  40. data/data/sets/cmd.json +2446 -321
  41. data/data/sets/cn2.json +3021 -223
  42. data/data/sets/cns.json +2499 -210
  43. data/data/sets/con.json +1182 -146
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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
  51. data/data/sets/ddd.json +401 -64
  52. data/data/sets/dde.json +358 -71
  53. data/data/sets/ddf.json +558 -80
  54. data/data/sets/ddg.json +463 -82
  55. data/data/sets/ddh.json +527 -84
  56. data/data/sets/ddi.json +572 -79
  57. data/data/sets/ddj.json +647 -92
  58. data/data/sets/ddk.json +479 -81
  59. data/data/sets/ddl.json +522 -82
  60. data/data/sets/ddm.json +685 -88
  61. data/data/sets/ddn.json +650 -82
  62. data/data/sets/ddo.json +387 -66
  63. data/data/sets/ddp.json +695 -75
  64. data/data/sets/ddq.json +460 -76
  65. data/data/sets/ddr.json +404 -74
  66. data/data/sets/dds.json +579 -65
  67. data/data/sets/ddt.json +419 -64
  68. data/data/sets/ddu.json +521 -77
  69. data/data/sets/dgm.json +2945 -171
  70. data/data/sets/dis.json +1072 -194
  71. data/data/sets/dka.json +1261 -171
  72. data/data/sets/dom.json +2654 -282
  73. data/data/sets/drb.json +110 -15
  74. data/data/sets/drk.json +769 -119
  75. data/data/sets/dst.json +908 -166
  76. data/data/sets/dtk.json +3140 -266
  77. data/data/sets/e01.json +947 -108
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  79. data/data/sets/ema.json +1689 -252
  80. data/data/sets/emn.json +2709 -226
  81. data/data/sets/eve.json +2054 -180
  82. data/data/sets/evg.json +271 -62
  83. data/data/sets/exo.json +878 -143
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  85. data/data/sets/fem.json +1270 -194
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  87. data/data/sets/fut.json +2076 -180
  88. data/data/sets/g18.json +10 -5
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  95. data/data/sets/gtc.json +2949 -257
  96. data/data/sets/h09.json +413 -41
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  98. data/data/sets/hop.json +934 -172
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  100. data/data/sets/ice.json +2341 -384
  101. data/data/sets/ima.json +2797 -252
  102. data/data/sets/inv.json +1557 -356
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  104. data/data/sets/jou.json +2363 -165
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  106. data/data/sets/kld.json +3982 -275
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  120. data/data/sets/mbs.json +993 -159
  121. data/data/sets/md1.json +211 -26
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  127. data/data/sets/mor.json +1486 -150
  128. data/data/sets/mps_akh.json +540 -54
  129. data/data/sets/mps_grn.json +120 -8
  130. data/data/sets/mps_kld.json +533 -54
  131. data/data/sets/mps_rna.json +196 -8
  132. data/data/sets/mps_war.json +143 -8
  133. data/data/sets/mrd.json +1475 -306
  134. data/data/sets/nem.json +588 -144
  135. data/data/sets/nph.json +1729 -179
  136. data/data/sets/ody.json +1160 -351
  137. data/data/sets/ogw.json +1672 -186
  138. data/data/sets/ons.json +1573 -350
  139. data/data/sets/ori.json +2651 -296
  140. data/data/sets/pc2.json +1385 -156
  141. data/data/sets/pca.json +1385 -156
  142. data/data/sets/pcy.json +607 -143
  143. data/data/sets/pd2.json +240 -35
  144. data/data/sets/pd3.json +187 -31
  145. data/data/sets/plc.json +2060 -169
  146. data/data/sets/pls.json +1067 -146
  147. data/data/sets/po2.json +525 -165
  148. data/data/sets/por.json +649 -222
  149. data/data/sets/ptk.json +782 -180
  150. data/data/sets/rav.json +2219 -316
  151. data/data/sets/rix.json +2268 -213
  152. data/data/sets/rna.json +2706 -283
  153. data/data/sets/roe.json +3710 -248
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  158. data/data/sets/shm.json +2625 -301
  159. data/data/sets/soi.json +3874 -330
  160. data/data/sets/sok.json +969 -170
  161. data/data/sets/som.json +2621 -256
  162. data/data/sets/ss1.json +59 -8
  163. data/data/sets/sth.json +894 -145
  164. data/data/sets/ths.json +3061 -250
  165. data/data/sets/tmp.json +1904 -351
  166. data/data/sets/tor.json +569 -144
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  168. data/data/sets/tsp.json +3224 -302
  169. data/data/sets/uds.json +889 -144
  170. data/data/sets/ugl.json +2482 -0
  171. data/data/sets/ulg.json +859 -145
  172. data/data/sets/uma.json +3354 -255
  173. data/data/sets/uma_box.json +675 -40
  174. data/data/sets/unh.json +3829 -0
  175. data/data/sets/usg.json +2277 -351
  176. data/data/sets/ust.json +11302 -0
  177. data/data/sets/v09.json +116 -15
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  182. data/data/sets/v14.json +183 -15
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  184. data/data/sets/v16.json +169 -16
  185. data/data/sets/v17.json +607 -32
  186. data/data/sets/vis.json +1063 -167
  187. data/data/sets/w16.json +98 -16
  188. data/data/sets/w17.json +170 -30
  189. data/data/sets/war.json +3430 -275
  190. data/data/sets/wth.json +1325 -169
  191. data/data/sets/wwk.json +1497 -145
  192. data/data/sets/xln.json +2689 -300
  193. data/data/sets/zen.json +2199 -271
  194. data/lib/mtg-db.rb +1 -1
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data/data/sets/hou.json CHANGED
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+ "text": "You can cast Act of Heroism even if the target creature won’t be able to block right away, perhaps because you’re the attacking player."
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+ {
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+ "date": "3/16/2018",
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+ "text": "Untapping an attacking creature doesn’t remove it from combat."
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+ {
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+ "date": "3/16/2018",
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+ "text": "Act of Heroism can target an untapped creature. It still gets +2/+2 and can block an additional creature."
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+ "date": "3/16/2018",
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+ "text": "The effects of Act of Heroism are cumulative. If multiples resolve targeting the same creature, that creature can block that many additional creatures this turn."
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+ "date": "7/14/2017",
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+ "text": "For each card with eternalize, a corresponding game play supplement token can be found in some Hour of Devastation booster packs. These supplements are not required to play with cards with eternalize; you can use the same items to represent an eternalized token as you would any other token."
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+ "text": "If a creature card with eternalize is put into your graveyard during your main phase, you’ll have priority immediately afterward. You can activate its eternalize ability before any player can try to exile it, such as with Crook of Condemnation, if it’s legal for you to do so."
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+ "text": "Once you’ve activated an eternalize ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
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+ "text": "The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics specifically modified by eternalize. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard."
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+ "text": "The token is a Zombie in addition to its other types and is black instead of its other colors. Its base power and toughness are 4/4. It has no mana cost, and thus its converted mana cost is 0. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy."
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+ "text": "You can’t exert a creature unless an effect allows you to do so. Similar effects that “tap and freeze” a creature (such as that of Decision Paralysis) don’t exert that creature."
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+ "text": "If Angel of Condemnation leaves the battlefield before its first activated ability resolves, the target creature is still exiled. That card returns to the battlefield even if Angel of Condemnation has left the battlefield before the next end step."
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+ "text": "If you cast a spell that’s two or more of these colors, you gain only 1 life."
512
+ },
513
+ {
514
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
515
+ "text": "The triggered ability of God-Pharaoh’s Faithful will resolve before the spell that caused it to trigger. The ability will resolve even if that spell is countered."
516
+ }
517
+ ]
376
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  },
377
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  {
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  "name": "Hour of Revelation",
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397
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398
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  "multiverse_id": 430704,
399
541
  "other_part": null,
400
- "color_indicator": null
542
+ "color_indicator": null,
543
+ "rulings": [
544
+ {
545
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
546
+ "text": "You determine the cost to cast Hour of Revelation before you pay any of that cost. For example, if the only nonland permanents on the battlefield are Tezzeret the Schemer and nine Etherium Cells he’s given you, Hour of Revelation costs {W}{W}{W} to cast. You may sacrifice three Etherium Cells to pay this cost, even though there are no longer ten or more nonland permanents after you produce {W}{W}{W}."
547
+ },
548
+ {
549
+ "date": "1/19/2018",
550
+ "text": "There are many important moments in the story, but the most crucial—called “story spotlights”—are shown on cards. These cards have the Planeswalker symbol in their text box; this symbol has no effect on gameplay. You can read more about these events in the official Magic fiction at http://www.mtgstory.com."
551
+ }
552
+ ]
401
553
  },
402
554
  {
403
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  "name": "Mummy Paramount",
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423
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  "loyalty": null,
424
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  "multiverse_id": 430705,
425
577
  "other_part": null,
426
- "color_indicator": null
578
+ "color_indicator": null,
579
+ "rulings": []
427
580
  },
428
581
  {
429
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  "name": "Oketra's Avenger",
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450
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  "loyalty": null,
451
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  "multiverse_id": 430706,
452
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  "other_part": null,
453
- "color_indicator": null
606
+ "color_indicator": null,
607
+ "rulings": [
608
+ {
609
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
610
+ "text": "You can’t exert a creature unless an effect allows you to do so. Similar effects that “tap and freeze” a creature (such as that of Decision Paralysis) don’t exert that creature."
611
+ },
612
+ {
613
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
614
+ "text": "If an exerted creature is already untapped during your next untap step (most likely because it had vigilance or an effect untapped it), exert’s effect preventing it from untapping expires without having done anything."
615
+ },
616
+ {
617
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
618
+ "text": "If you gain control of another player’s creature until end of turn and exert it, it will untap during that player’s untap step."
619
+ },
620
+ {
621
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
622
+ "text": "All cards in the Amonkhet set that let you exert a creature let you do so as you declare it as an attacking creature, as do some of the cards in the Hour of Devastation set. You can’t do so later in combat, and creatures put onto the battlefield attacking can’t be exerted. Any abilities that trigger on exerting an attacking creature will resolve before blockers are declared."
623
+ }
624
+ ]
454
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  },
455
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  {
456
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  "name": "Oketra's Last Mercy",
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474
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  "loyalty": null,
475
646
  "multiverse_id": 430707,
476
647
  "other_part": null,
477
- "color_indicator": null
648
+ "color_indicator": null,
649
+ "rulings": [
650
+ {
651
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
652
+ "text": "For your life total to become your starting life total (normally 20), you gain or lose the appropriate amount of life. For example, if your life total is 4 when Oketra’s Last Mercy resolves, it will cause you to gain 16 life; alternatively, if your life total is 25 when it resolves, it will cause you to lose 5 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly."
653
+ },
654
+ {
655
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
656
+ "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, Oketra’s Last Mercy causes the team’s life total to become the team’s starting life total (normally 30), but only you actually gain or lose life."
657
+ },
658
+ {
659
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
660
+ "text": "No lands that you control will untap during your next untap step, even lands that aren’t tapped as this spell resolves. This includes lands that enter the battlefield after this spell resolves."
661
+ },
662
+ {
663
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
664
+ "text": "If more than one spell says that lands you control don’t untap during your next untap step, the effects will all wear off during that untap step. You’ll untap lands you control during your untap step after that one."
665
+ }
666
+ ]
478
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  },
479
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  {
480
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  "name": "Overwhelming Splendor",
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503
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504
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  "multiverse_id": 430708,
505
694
  "other_part": null,
506
- "color_indicator": null
695
+ "color_indicator": null,
696
+ "rulings": [
697
+ {
698
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
699
+ "text": "Overwhelming Splendor overwrites all previous effects that set a creature’s base power and toughness to specific values. Any power- or toughness-setting effects that start to apply to a creature after Overwhelming Splendor becomes attached to its controller will overwrite this effect. For example, the enchanted player’s Riddleform will become a 3/3 creature if player casts a noncreature spell."
700
+ },
701
+ {
702
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
703
+ "text": "Effects that modify a creature’s power and/or toughness, such as the effect of Titanic Growth, will apply to the creatures no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for any counters that change their power and/or toughness."
704
+ },
705
+ {
706
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
707
+ "text": "If an effect grants a creature an ability after Overwhelming Splendor has become attached to its controller, that creature won’t lose that ability."
708
+ },
709
+ {
710
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
711
+ "text": "If a noncreature permanent becomes a creature, it will lose all abilities it has. However, if the effect that makes that permanent a creature grants it an ability, it will continue to have that ability. For example, the enchanted player’s Riddleform will have flying once it becomes a creature."
712
+ },
713
+ {
714
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
715
+ "text": "If Overwhelming Splendor leaves the battlefield at the same time as a creature enchanted player controls, any “when [this creature] [dies or leaves the battlefield]” abilities of that creature won’t trigger."
716
+ },
717
+ {
718
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
719
+ "text": "Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities (such as equip and eternalize) are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. Triggered abilities (starting with “when,” “whenever,” or “at”) of noncreature permanents are unaffected by the last ability of Overwhelming Splendor."
720
+ },
721
+ {
722
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
723
+ "text": "An activated mana ability is one that produces mana as it resolves, not one that costs mana to activate. A loyalty ability is an ability of a planeswalker whose cost specifies how many loyalty counters to give or remove."
724
+ },
725
+ {
726
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
727
+ "text": "While the enchanted player can still activate mana abilities and loyalty abilities, creatures that player controls won’t normally have any of those abilities to be activated."
728
+ },
729
+ {
730
+ "date": "9/29/2017",
731
+ "text": "If a creature enters the battlefield under enchanted player’s control, any “when [this creature] enters the battlefield” abilities of that creature won’t trigger. Any “as [this creature] enters the battlefield” or “[this creature] enters the battlefield with” abilities won’t be applied. This is a change from previous rulings."
732
+ }
733
+ ]
507
734
  },
508
735
  {
509
736
  "name": "Sandblast",
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527
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  "loyalty": null,
528
755
  "multiverse_id": 430709,
529
756
  "other_part": null,
530
- "color_indicator": null
757
+ "color_indicator": null,
758
+ "rulings": []
531
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  },
532
760
  {
533
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  "name": "Saving Grace",
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556
784
  "loyalty": null,
557
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  "multiverse_id": 430710,
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  "other_part": null,
559
- "color_indicator": null
787
+ "color_indicator": null,
788
+ "rulings": [
789
+ {
790
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
791
+ "text": "Saving Grace’s ability has no effect on damage already dealt earlier in the turn."
792
+ },
793
+ {
794
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
795
+ "text": "If Saving Grace leaves the battlefield during the turn its triggered ability resolved, damage will continue to be redirected to the creature it enchanted before it left the battlefield. If the creature Saving Grace was last attached to isn’t on the battlefield or isn’t a creature at the time damage would be dealt, it won’t be redirected."
796
+ },
797
+ {
798
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
799
+ "text": "More damage can be redirected to the enchanted creature than it has toughness, as long as that damage is all dealt at once (like combat damage is)."
800
+ },
801
+ {
802
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
803
+ "text": "Saving Grace’s redirection effect doesn’t change the source of the damage or whether the damage is combat damage."
804
+ },
805
+ {
806
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
807
+ "text": "If you have more than one Saving Grace enter the battlefield in one turn, all damage that would be dealt at once to you and/or permanents you control is dealt to one of the enchanted creatures of your choice. It’s not dealt to all of them, and you can’t split the damage between them."
808
+ }
809
+ ]
560
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  },
561
811
  {
562
812
  "name": "Solemnity",
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  "loyalty": null,
582
832
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833
  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
834
+ "color_indicator": null,
835
+ "rulings": [
836
+ {
837
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
838
+ "text": "Solemnity doesn’t remove any counters players or permanents already have."
839
+ },
840
+ {
841
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
842
+ "text": "Solemnity stops counters from being put on an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land as it enters the battlefield, as well as stopping counters from being put on them later."
843
+ },
844
+ {
845
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
846
+ "text": "If the cost of an ability or an additional cost of a spell requires putting counters on an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land, that cost can’t be paid. If a resolving spell or ability says that a player may put counters on one of those objects, that player can’t choose to do so."
847
+ },
848
+ {
849
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
850
+ "text": "If a replacement effect allows a player to modify or replace an event by putting counters on an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land, that player may apply that replacement effect. Counters won’t be put on the object, but if the original event is entirely replaced (such as by applying Soul-Scar Mage’s replacement effect), the original event won’t happen."
851
+ },
852
+ {
853
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
854
+ "text": "If an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land would enter the battlefield with counters on it at the same time that Solemnity enters the battlefield, Solemnity doesn’t stop it from getting those counters."
855
+ },
856
+ {
857
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
858
+ "text": "Damage from a source with wither has no effect on creatures. No -1/-1 counters are put on them, and no damage is marked on them. The damage is still dealt for purposes of effects that care about damage, such as lifelink."
859
+ },
860
+ {
861
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
862
+ "text": "Damage from a source with infect has no effect on creatures or players. No -1/-1 counters are put on creatures, and no damage is marked on them. Players don’t get poison counters and they don’t lose life. The damage is still dealt for purposes of effects that care about damage, such as lifelink."
863
+ },
864
+ {
865
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
866
+ "text": "Counters can be put on cards that aren't on the battlefield. Notably, suspended cards will still get time counters."
867
+ },
868
+ {
869
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
870
+ "text": "If a creature with tribute is entering the battlefield, the chosen opponent can’t pay tribute even if they want to."
871
+ },
872
+ {
873
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
874
+ "text": "While resolving a cumulative upkeep trigger of a permanent, you’ll fail to put a counter on that permanent, then you may pay for the age counters already on it. If it has no age counters on it, you may pay {0}."
875
+ }
876
+ ]
585
877
  },
586
878
  {
587
879
  "name": "Solitary Camel",
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607
899
  "loyalty": null,
608
900
  "multiverse_id": 430712,
609
901
  "other_part": null,
610
- "color_indicator": null
902
+ "color_indicator": null,
903
+ "rulings": [
904
+ {
905
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
906
+ "text": "If an ability checks whether you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, having more than one doesn’t matter. Controlling one is the same as controlling five. There is also no extra bonus for both controlling one and having one in your graveyard."
907
+ }
908
+ ]
611
909
  },
612
910
  {
613
911
  "name": "Steadfast Sentinel",
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635
933
  "loyalty": null,
636
934
  "multiverse_id": 430713,
637
935
  "other_part": null,
638
- "color_indicator": null
936
+ "color_indicator": null,
937
+ "rulings": [
938
+ {
939
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
940
+ "text": "For each card with eternalize, a corresponding game play supplement token can be found in some Hour of Devastation booster packs. These supplements are not required to play with cards with eternalize; you can use the same items to represent an eternalized token as you would any other token."
941
+ },
942
+ {
943
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
944
+ "text": "If a creature card with eternalize is put into your graveyard during your main phase, you’ll have priority immediately afterward. You can activate its eternalize ability before any player can try to exile it, such as with Crook of Condemnation, if it’s legal for you to do so."
945
+ },
946
+ {
947
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
948
+ "text": "Once you’ve activated an eternalize ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
949
+ },
950
+ {
951
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
952
+ "text": "The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics specifically modified by eternalize. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard."
953
+ },
954
+ {
955
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
956
+ "text": "The token is a Zombie in addition to its other types and is black instead of its other colors. Its base power and toughness are 4/4. It has no mana cost, and thus its converted mana cost is 0. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy."
957
+ }
958
+ ]
639
959
  },
640
960
  {
641
961
  "name": "Steward of Solidarity",
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662
982
  "loyalty": null,
663
983
  "multiverse_id": 430714,
664
984
  "other_part": null,
665
- "color_indicator": null
985
+ "color_indicator": null,
986
+ "rulings": [
987
+ {
988
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
989
+ "text": "You can’t exert a creature unless an effect allows you to do so. Similar effects that “tap and freeze” a creature (such as that of Decision Paralysis) don’t exert that creature."
990
+ },
991
+ {
992
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
993
+ "text": "If an exerted creature is already untapped during your next untap step (most likely because it had vigilance or an effect untapped it), exert’s effect preventing it from untapping expires without having done anything."
994
+ },
995
+ {
996
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
997
+ "text": "If you gain control of another player’s creature until end of turn and exert it, it will untap during that player’s untap step."
998
+ },
999
+ {
1000
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1001
+ "text": "Some cards in the Hour of Devastation set let you exert a creature as a cost to activate one of its abilities. You can exert it to pay that cost even if you’ve already exerted it earlier in the turn. Exerting it multiple times will keep it tapped only during your next untap step."
1002
+ }
1003
+ ]
666
1004
  },
667
1005
  {
668
1006
  "name": "Sunscourge Champion",
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690
1028
  "loyalty": null,
691
1029
  "multiverse_id": 430715,
692
1030
  "other_part": null,
693
- "color_indicator": null
1031
+ "color_indicator": null,
1032
+ "rulings": [
1033
+ {
1034
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1035
+ "text": "The amount of life you gain is determined as Sunscourge Champion’s triggered ability resolves. Players may respond to the ability by attempting to change its power."
1036
+ },
1037
+ {
1038
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1039
+ "text": "If Sunscourge Champion leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, use its power as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how much life to gain. If that number is negative, you don’t gain any life and you don’t lose any life."
1040
+ },
1041
+ {
1042
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1043
+ "text": "For each card with eternalize, a corresponding game play supplement token can be found in some Hour of Devastation booster packs. These supplements are not required to play with cards with eternalize; you can use the same items to represent an eternalized token as you would any other token."
1044
+ },
1045
+ {
1046
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1047
+ "text": "If a creature card with eternalize is put into your graveyard during your main phase, you’ll have priority immediately afterward. You can activate its eternalize ability before any player can try to exile it, such as with Crook of Condemnation, if it’s legal for you to do so."
1048
+ },
1049
+ {
1050
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1051
+ "text": "Once you’ve activated an eternalize ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
1052
+ },
1053
+ {
1054
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1055
+ "text": "The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics specifically modified by eternalize. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard."
1056
+ },
1057
+ {
1058
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1059
+ "text": "The token is a Zombie in addition to its other types and is black instead of its other colors. Its base power and toughness are 4/4. It has no mana cost, and thus its converted mana cost is 0. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy."
1060
+ },
1061
+ {
1062
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1063
+ "text": "If the card copied by the token had any “when [this permanent] enters the battlefield” abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it’s created. Similarly, any “as [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[this permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities that the token has copied will also work."
1064
+ },
1065
+ {
1066
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1067
+ "text": "Several cards have an eternalize cost that includes “Discard a card.” You can’t discard the card with eternalize to pay its own cost because the card has to be in your graveyard to begin activating its eternalize ability."
1068
+ }
1069
+ ]
694
1070
  },
695
1071
  {
696
1072
  "name": "Unconventional Tactics",
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715
1091
  "loyalty": null,
716
1092
  "multiverse_id": 430716,
717
1093
  "other_part": null,
718
- "color_indicator": null
1094
+ "color_indicator": null,
1095
+ "rulings": []
719
1096
  },
720
1097
  {
721
1098
  "name": "Vizier of the True",
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743
1120
  "loyalty": null,
744
1121
  "multiverse_id": 430717,
745
1122
  "other_part": null,
746
- "color_indicator": null
1123
+ "color_indicator": null,
1124
+ "rulings": [
1125
+ {
1126
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1127
+ "text": "You can’t exert a creature unless an effect allows you to do so. Similar effects that “tap and freeze” a creature (such as that of Decision Paralysis) don’t exert that creature."
1128
+ },
1129
+ {
1130
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1131
+ "text": "If an exerted creature is already untapped during your next untap step (most likely because it had vigilance or an effect untapped it), exert’s effect preventing it from untapping expires without having done anything."
1132
+ },
1133
+ {
1134
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1135
+ "text": "If you gain control of another player’s creature until end of turn and exert it, it will untap during that player’s untap step."
1136
+ },
1137
+ {
1138
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1139
+ "text": "If a creature has a targeted triggered ability that triggers when you exert it, you can exert it even if there isn’t a legal target for that triggered ability."
1140
+ },
1141
+ {
1142
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1143
+ "text": "Some cards have abilities that trigger whenever you exert any creature. These abilities trigger when you exert that creature or any other creature you control."
1144
+ },
1145
+ {
1146
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1147
+ "text": "All cards in the Amonkhet set that let you exert a creature let you do so as you declare it as an attacking creature, as do some of the cards in the Hour of Devastation set. You can’t do so later in combat, and creatures put onto the battlefield attacking can’t be exerted. Any abilities that trigger on exerting an attacking creature will resolve before blockers are declared."
1148
+ }
1149
+ ]
747
1150
  },
748
1151
  {
749
1152
  "name": "Aerial Guide",
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1173
  "loyalty": null,
771
1174
  "multiverse_id": 430718,
772
1175
  "other_part": null,
773
- "color_indicator": null
1176
+ "color_indicator": null,
1177
+ "rulings": []
774
1178
  },
775
1179
  {
776
1180
  "name": "Aven Reedstalker",
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798
1202
  "loyalty": null,
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1203
  "multiverse_id": 430719,
800
1204
  "other_part": null,
801
- "color_indicator": null
1205
+ "color_indicator": null,
1206
+ "rulings": []
802
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  },
803
1208
  {
804
1209
  "name": "Champion of Wits",
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  "loyalty": null,
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  "multiverse_id": 430720,
828
1233
  "other_part": null,
829
- "color_indicator": null
1234
+ "color_indicator": null,
1235
+ "rulings": [
1236
+ {
1237
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1238
+ "text": "Use Champion of Wits’s power as the first ability resolves to determine if you want to use the ability and how many cards you draw if you do. If you use the ability, you discard two cards regardless of how many cards you draw. If Champion of Wits leaves the battlefield before that ability resolves, use its last known power."
1239
+ },
1240
+ {
1241
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1242
+ "text": "For each card with eternalize, a corresponding game play supplement token can be found in some Hour of Devastation booster packs. These supplements are not required to play with cards with eternalize; you can use the same items to represent an eternalized token as you would any other token."
1243
+ },
1244
+ {
1245
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1246
+ "text": "If a creature card with eternalize is put into your graveyard during your main phase, you’ll have priority immediately afterward. You can activate its eternalize ability before any player can try to exile it, such as with Crook of Condemnation, if it’s legal for you to do so."
1247
+ },
1248
+ {
1249
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1250
+ "text": "Once you’ve activated an eternalize ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
1251
+ },
1252
+ {
1253
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1254
+ "text": "The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics specifically modified by eternalize. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard."
1255
+ },
1256
+ {
1257
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1258
+ "text": "The token is a Zombie in addition to its other types and is black instead of its other colors. Its base power and toughness are 4/4. It has no mana cost, and thus its converted mana cost is 0. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy."
1259
+ },
1260
+ {
1261
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1262
+ "text": "If the card copied by the token had any “when [this permanent] enters the battlefield” abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it’s created. Similarly, any “as [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[this permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities that the token has copied will also work."
1263
+ }
1264
+ ]
830
1265
  },
831
1266
  {
832
1267
  "name": "Countervailing Winds",
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851
1286
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852
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1288
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854
- "color_indicator": null
1289
+ "color_indicator": null,
1290
+ "rulings": [
1291
+ {
1292
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1293
+ "text": "Count the number of cards in your graveyard as Countervailing Winds resolves to determine how much mana the controller of the target spell must pay to avoid the spell being countered. Countervailing Winds is still on the stack at this time and won’t count toward this number."
1294
+ }
1295
+ ]
855
1296
  },
856
1297
  {
857
1298
  "name": "Cunning Survivor",
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878
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879
1320
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1321
  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
1322
+ "color_indicator": null,
1323
+ "rulings": [
1324
+ {
1325
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1326
+ "text": "Some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability."
1327
+ },
1328
+ {
1329
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1330
+ "text": "An ability that triggers whenever you discard a card doesn’t give you permission to discard cards. You’ll need another effect that instructs or allows you to discard them."
1331
+ },
1332
+ {
1333
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1334
+ "text": "An ability that triggers whenever you “cycle or discard” a card triggers only once if you cycle a card. The ability “Whenever you discard a card” is functionally identical to this ability; cycling is mentioned for clarity."
1335
+ },
1336
+ {
1337
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1338
+ "text": "If a player discards a card during their cleanup step due to having too many cards in hand, any appropriate abilities that trigger on discarding that card trigger. If this happens, those triggered abilities are put onto the stack and players receive priority in that cleanup step to cast spells or activate abilities (normally, no players may take actions during a cleanup step). Another cleanup step is created following that one."
1339
+ }
1340
+ ]
882
1341
  },
883
1342
  {
884
1343
  "name": "Eternal of Harsh Truths",
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906
1365
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907
1366
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909
- "color_indicator": null
1368
+ "color_indicator": null,
1369
+ "rulings": [
1370
+ {
1371
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1372
+ "text": "An ability that triggers when something “attacks and isn’t blocked” triggers in the declare blockers step after blockers are declared if (1) that creature is attacking and (2) no creatures are declared to block it. It will trigger even if that creature was put onto the battlefield attacking rather than having been declared as an attacker in the declare attackers step."
1373
+ },
1374
+ {
1375
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1376
+ "text": "If multiple creatures block a creature with afflict, afflict triggers only once."
1377
+ },
1378
+ {
1379
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1380
+ "text": "Afflict causes the defending player to lose life; it’s not damage or combat damage."
1381
+ },
1382
+ {
1383
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1384
+ "text": "If a creature is attacking a planeswalker, that planeswalker’s controller is the defending player."
1385
+ },
1386
+ {
1387
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1388
+ "text": "Afflict resolves before combat damage is dealt. If this loss of life brings a player to 0 life or less, that player loses the game immediately. A blocking creature with lifelink won’t deal combat damage in time to save that player."
1389
+ }
1390
+ ]
910
1391
  },
911
1392
  {
912
1393
  "name": "Fraying Sanity",
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934
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935
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  "multiverse_id": 430724,
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  "other_part": null,
937
- "color_indicator": null
1418
+ "color_indicator": null,
1419
+ "rulings": [
1420
+ {
1421
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1422
+ "text": "Fraying Sanity’s triggered ability counts the number of cards that were put into the enchanted player’s graveyard during the turn, even if Fraying Sanity wasn’t on the battlefield at the time those cards were put there, and even if those cards have left that graveyard."
1423
+ },
1424
+ {
1425
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1426
+ "text": "The value of X is determined only as Fraying Sanity’s triggered ability resolves. For example, if three Fraying Sanity Auras are attached to one player who had four cards put into their graveyard this turn, X will be four for the first ability to resolve, eight for the second, and sixteen for the third."
1427
+ }
1428
+ ]
938
1429
  },
939
1430
  {
940
1431
  "name": "Hour of Eternity",
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958
1449
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959
1450
  "multiverse_id": 430725,
960
1451
  "other_part": null,
961
- "color_indicator": null
1452
+ "color_indicator": null,
1453
+ "rulings": [
1454
+ {
1455
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1456
+ "text": "Each token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics it specifically modifies. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard."
1457
+ },
1458
+ {
1459
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1460
+ "text": "The tokens are Zombies instead of their other types (unlike Zombies created by an eternalize ability) and are black instead of their other colors. Their power and toughness are 4/4. These are copiable values of the tokens that other effects may copy."
1461
+ },
1462
+ {
1463
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1464
+ "text": "Unlike the tokens created by an eternalize ability, the tokens have the mana cost and thus converted mana cost of the cards they’re copying."
1465
+ },
1466
+ {
1467
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1468
+ "text": "If a card copied by one of the tokens had any “when [this permanent] enters the battlefield” abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it’s created. Similarly, any “as [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[this permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities that the token has copied will also work."
1469
+ },
1470
+ {
1471
+ "date": "1/19/2018",
1472
+ "text": "There are many important moments in the story, but the most crucial—called “story spotlights”—are shown on cards. These cards have the Planeswalker symbol in their text box; this symbol has no effect on gameplay. You can read more about these events in the official Magic fiction at http://www.mtgstory.com."
1473
+ }
1474
+ ]
962
1475
  },
963
1476
  {
964
1477
  "name": "Imaginary Threats",
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983
1496
  "loyalty": null,
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1497
  "multiverse_id": 430726,
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1498
  "other_part": null,
986
- "color_indicator": null
1499
+ "color_indicator": null,
1500
+ "rulings": [
1501
+ {
1502
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1503
+ "text": "No creatures that player controls will untap during their next untap step, even creatures that don’t attack. This includes creatures that enter the battlefield or become tapped after this spell resolves."
1504
+ },
1505
+ {
1506
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1507
+ "text": "If the opponent exerts any creatures they control, exert and the effect from Imaginary Threats stopping them from untapping both apply in the same untap step. Those creatures will untap as normal in the player’s subsequent untap step."
1508
+ },
1509
+ {
1510
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1511
+ "text": "If, during that player’s declare attackers step, a creature that player controls is tapped or is affected by a spell or ability that says it can’t attack, then it doesn’t attack. If there’s a cost associated with having a creature attack, its controller isn’t forced to pay that cost, so it doesn’t have to attack in that case either."
1512
+ }
1513
+ ]
987
1514
  },
988
1515
  {
989
1516
  "name": "Jace's Defeat",
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1007
1534
  "loyalty": null,
1008
1535
  "multiverse_id": 430727,
1009
1536
  "other_part": null,
1010
- "color_indicator": null
1537
+ "color_indicator": null,
1538
+ "rulings": []
1011
1539
  },
1012
1540
  {
1013
1541
  "name": "Kefnet's Last Word",
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1031
1559
  "loyalty": null,
1032
1560
  "multiverse_id": 430728,
1033
1561
  "other_part": null,
1034
- "color_indicator": null
1562
+ "color_indicator": null,
1563
+ "rulings": [
1564
+ {
1565
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1566
+ "text": "The control-change effect of Kefnet’s Last Word lasts indefinitely. It doesn’t wear off during the cleanup step."
1567
+ },
1568
+ {
1569
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1570
+ "text": "If the target permanent is an illegal target by the time Kefnet’s Last Word resolves, the entire spell doesn’t resolve. Your lands will untap during your next untap step as normal."
1571
+ },
1572
+ {
1573
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1574
+ "text": "Gaining control of a creature doesn’t cause you to gain control of any Auras or Equipment attached to it. They’ll remain attached, but an Aura’s effect that affects “you” still affects its controller rather than you, the controller of an Equipment can move it during their next main phase, and so on."
1575
+ },
1576
+ {
1577
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1578
+ "text": "In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well, and any effects that give the player control of permanents immediately end."
1579
+ },
1580
+ {
1581
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1582
+ "text": "No lands that you control will untap during your next untap step, even lands that aren’t tapped as this spell resolves. This includes lands that enter the battlefield after this spell resolves."
1583
+ },
1584
+ {
1585
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1586
+ "text": "If more than one spell says that lands you control don’t untap during your next untap step, the effects will all wear off during that untap step. You’ll untap lands you control during your untap step after that one."
1587
+ }
1588
+ ]
1035
1589
  },
1036
1590
  {
1037
1591
  "name": "Nimble Obstructionist",
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1061
1615
  "loyalty": null,
1062
1616
  "multiverse_id": 430729,
1063
1617
  "other_part": null,
1064
- "color_indicator": null
1618
+ "color_indicator": null,
1619
+ "rulings": [
1620
+ {
1621
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1622
+ "text": "Some cards with cycling have an ability that triggers when you cycle them. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability."
1623
+ },
1624
+ {
1625
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1626
+ "text": "Triggered abilities from cycling a card and the cycling ability itself aren’t spells. Effects that interact with spells (such as that of Cancel) won’t affect them."
1627
+ },
1628
+ {
1629
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1630
+ "text": "You can cycle a card even if it has a triggered ability from cycling that won’t have a legal target. This is because the cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. This also means that if either ability doesn’t resolve (due to being countered with Disallow, for example, or if the triggered ability’s targets have become illegal), the other ability will still resolve."
1631
+ },
1632
+ {
1633
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1634
+ "text": "Activated abilities are written in the form “Cost: Effect.” Some keyword abilities, such as equip and eternalize, are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder texts."
1635
+ },
1636
+ {
1637
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1638
+ "text": "Triggered abilities use the word “when,” “whenever,” or “at.” They’re often written as “[Trigger condition], [effect].” Some keyword abilities, such as prowess and afflict, are triggered abilities and will have “when,” “whenever,” or “at” in their reminder text."
1639
+ },
1640
+ {
1641
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1642
+ "text": "If you counter a delayed triggered ability that triggers at the beginning of the “next” occurrence of a specified step or phase, that ability won’t trigger again the following time that phase or step occurs."
1643
+ },
1644
+ {
1645
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1646
+ "text": "Mana abilities can’t be targeted. An activated mana ability is one that adds mana to a player’s mana pool as it resolves, doesn’t have a target, and isn’t a loyalty ability. A triggered mana ability is one that adds mana to a player’s mana pool and triggers on an activated mana ability."
1647
+ },
1648
+ {
1649
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1650
+ "text": "Abilities that create replacement effects, such as a permanent entering the battlefield tapped or with counters on it, can’t be targeted. Abilities that apply “as [this creature] enters the battlefield” are also replacement effects and can’t be targeted."
1651
+ }
1652
+ ]
1065
1653
  },
1066
1654
  {
1067
1655
  "name": "Ominous Sphinx",
@@ -1088,7 +1676,25 @@
1088
1676
  "loyalty": null,
1089
1677
  "multiverse_id": 430730,
1090
1678
  "other_part": null,
1091
- "color_indicator": null
1679
+ "color_indicator": null,
1680
+ "rulings": [
1681
+ {
1682
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1683
+ "text": "Some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability."
1684
+ },
1685
+ {
1686
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1687
+ "text": "An ability that triggers whenever you discard a card doesn’t give you permission to discard cards. You’ll need another effect that instructs or allows you to discard them."
1688
+ },
1689
+ {
1690
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1691
+ "text": "An ability that triggers whenever you “cycle or discard” a card triggers only once if you cycle a card. The ability “Whenever you discard a card” is functionally identical to this ability; cycling is mentioned for clarity."
1692
+ },
1693
+ {
1694
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
1695
+ "text": "If a player discards a card during their cleanup step due to having too many cards in hand, any appropriate abilities that trigger on discarding that card trigger. If this happens, those triggered abilities are put onto the stack and players receive priority in that cleanup step to cast spells or activate abilities (normally, no players may take actions during a cleanup step). Another cleanup step is created following that one."
1696
+ }
1697
+ ]
1092
1698
  },
1093
1699
  {
1094
1700
  "name": "Proven Combatant",
@@ -1115,7 +1721,29 @@
1115
1721
  "loyalty": null,
1116
1722
  "multiverse_id": 430731,
1117
1723
  "other_part": null,
1118
- "color_indicator": null
1724
+ "color_indicator": null,
1725
+ "rulings": [
1726
+ {
1727
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1728
+ "text": "For each card with eternalize, a corresponding game play supplement token can be found in some Hour of Devastation booster packs. These supplements are not required to play with cards with eternalize; you can use the same items to represent an eternalized token as you would any other token."
1729
+ },
1730
+ {
1731
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1732
+ "text": "If a creature card with eternalize is put into your graveyard during your main phase, you’ll have priority immediately afterward. You can activate its eternalize ability before any player can try to exile it, such as with Crook of Condemnation, if it’s legal for you to do so."
1733
+ },
1734
+ {
1735
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1736
+ "text": "Once you’ve activated an eternalize ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
1737
+ },
1738
+ {
1739
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1740
+ "text": "The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics specifically modified by eternalize. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard."
1741
+ },
1742
+ {
1743
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1744
+ "text": "The token is a Zombie in addition to its other types and is black instead of its other colors. Its base power and toughness are 4/4. It has no mana cost, and thus its converted mana cost is 0. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy."
1745
+ }
1746
+ ]
1119
1747
  },
1120
1748
  {
1121
1749
  "name": "Riddleform",
@@ -1140,7 +1768,17 @@
1140
1768
  "loyalty": null,
1141
1769
  "multiverse_id": 430732,
1142
1770
  "other_part": null,
1143
- "color_indicator": null
1771
+ "color_indicator": null,
1772
+ "rulings": [
1773
+ {
1774
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1775
+ "text": "Riddleform’s first ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger, but after targets for that spell are chosen. It will resolve even if that spell is countered. This means that if a spell affects each creature or each creature you control, it will affect Riddleform if you choose for Riddleform to become a creature, but a spell can’t target Riddleform if that spell requires a “target creature.”"
1776
+ },
1777
+ {
1778
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1779
+ "text": "If Riddleform becomes a creature the same turn it enters the battlefield, you can’t attack with it or use any of its {T} abilities (if it gains any)."
1780
+ }
1781
+ ]
1144
1782
  },
1145
1783
  {
1146
1784
  "name": "Seer of the Last Tomorrow",
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1167
1805
  "loyalty": null,
1168
1806
  "multiverse_id": 430733,
1169
1807
  "other_part": null,
1170
- "color_indicator": null
1808
+ "color_indicator": null,
1809
+ "rulings": []
1171
1810
  },
1172
1811
  {
1173
1812
  "name": "Sinuous Striker",
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1195
1834
  "loyalty": null,
1196
1835
  "multiverse_id": 430734,
1197
1836
  "other_part": null,
1198
- "color_indicator": null
1837
+ "color_indicator": null,
1838
+ "rulings": [
1839
+ {
1840
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1841
+ "text": "For each card with eternalize, a corresponding game play supplement token can be found in some Hour of Devastation booster packs. These supplements are not required to play with cards with eternalize; you can use the same items to represent an eternalized token as you would any other token."
1842
+ },
1843
+ {
1844
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1845
+ "text": "If a creature card with eternalize is put into your graveyard during your main phase, you’ll have priority immediately afterward. You can activate its eternalize ability before any player can try to exile it, such as with Crook of Condemnation, if it’s legal for you to do so."
1846
+ },
1847
+ {
1848
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1849
+ "text": "Once you’ve activated an eternalize ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
1850
+ },
1851
+ {
1852
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1853
+ "text": "The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics specifically modified by eternalize. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard."
1854
+ },
1855
+ {
1856
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1857
+ "text": "The token is a Zombie in addition to its other types and is black instead of its other colors. Its base power and toughness are 4/4. It has no mana cost, and thus its converted mana cost is 0. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy."
1858
+ },
1859
+ {
1860
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1861
+ "text": "Several cards have an eternalize cost that includes “Discard a card.” You can’t discard the card with eternalize to pay its own cost because the card has to be in your graveyard to begin activating its eternalize ability."
1862
+ }
1863
+ ]
1199
1864
  },
1200
1865
  {
1201
1866
  "name": "Spellweaver Eternal",
@@ -1224,7 +1889,25 @@
1224
1889
  "loyalty": null,
1225
1890
  "multiverse_id": 430735,
1226
1891
  "other_part": null,
1227
- "color_indicator": null
1892
+ "color_indicator": null,
1893
+ "rulings": [
1894
+ {
1895
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1896
+ "text": "If multiple creatures block a creature with afflict, afflict triggers only once."
1897
+ },
1898
+ {
1899
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1900
+ "text": "Afflict causes the defending player to lose life; it’s not damage or combat damage."
1901
+ },
1902
+ {
1903
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1904
+ "text": "If a creature is attacking a planeswalker, that planeswalker’s controller is the defending player."
1905
+ },
1906
+ {
1907
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
1908
+ "text": "Afflict resolves before combat damage is dealt. If this loss of life brings a player to 0 life or less, that player loses the game immediately. A blocking creature with lifelink won’t deal combat damage in time to save that player."
1909
+ }
1910
+ ]
1228
1911
  },
1229
1912
  {
1230
1913
  "name": "Strategic Planning",
@@ -1248,7 +1931,13 @@
1248
1931
  "loyalty": null,
1249
1932
  "multiverse_id": 430736,
1250
1933
  "other_part": null,
1251
- "color_indicator": null
1934
+ "color_indicator": null,
1935
+ "rulings": [
1936
+ {
1937
+ "date": "10/1/2009",
1938
+ "text": "If there are fewer than three cards in your library, you look at all of them, put one of them into your hand, and put the rest into your graveyard."
1939
+ }
1940
+ ]
1252
1941
  },
1253
1942
  {
1254
1943
  "name": "Striped Riverwinder",
@@ -1275,7 +1964,8 @@
1275
1964
  "loyalty": null,
1276
1965
  "multiverse_id": 430737,
1277
1966
  "other_part": null,
1278
- "color_indicator": null
1967
+ "color_indicator": null,
1968
+ "rulings": []
1279
1969
  },
1280
1970
  {
1281
1971
  "name": "Supreme Will",
@@ -1301,7 +1991,8 @@
1301
1991
  "loyalty": null,
1302
1992
  "multiverse_id": 430738,
1303
1993
  "other_part": null,
1304
- "color_indicator": null
1994
+ "color_indicator": null,
1995
+ "rulings": []
1305
1996
  },
1306
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  {
1307
1998
  "name": "Swarm Intelligence",
@@ -1325,7 +2016,41 @@
1325
2016
  "loyalty": null,
1326
2017
  "multiverse_id": 430739,
1327
2018
  "other_part": null,
1328
- "color_indicator": null
2019
+ "color_indicator": null,
2020
+ "rulings": [
2021
+ {
2022
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2023
+ "text": "Swarm Intelligence can copy any instant or sorcery spell, not just one with targets."
2024
+ },
2025
+ {
2026
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2027
+ "text": "Swarm Intelligence can copy the spell even if it’s countered before Swarm Intelligence’s triggered ability resolves."
2028
+ },
2029
+ {
2030
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2031
+ "text": "The copy is created on the stack, so it’s not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell (such as Swarm Intelligence’s own ability) won’t trigger."
2032
+ },
2033
+ {
2034
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2035
+ "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. If, for one of the targets, you can’t choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal)."
2036
+ },
2037
+ {
2038
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2039
+ "text": "If the spell that’s copied is modal (that is, it says “Choose one —” or the like), the copy will have the same mode. A different mode can’t be chosen."
2040
+ },
2041
+ {
2042
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2043
+ "text": "If the spell that’s copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast (like Torment of Hailfire does), the copy will have the same value of X."
2044
+ },
2045
+ {
2046
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2047
+ "text": "If the spell has damage divided as it was cast (like Chandra’s Pyrohelix), the division can’t be changed (although the targets receiving that damage still can)."
2048
+ },
2049
+ {
2050
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2051
+ "text": "The controller of a copy can’t choose to pay any alternative or additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any alternative or additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy."
2052
+ }
2053
+ ]
1329
2054
  },
1330
2055
  {
1331
2056
  "name": "Tragic Lesson",
@@ -1349,7 +2074,13 @@
1349
2074
  "loyalty": null,
1350
2075
  "multiverse_id": 430740,
1351
2076
  "other_part": null,
1352
- "color_indicator": null
2077
+ "color_indicator": null,
2078
+ "rulings": [
2079
+ {
2080
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2081
+ "text": "You don’t choose which land to return to its owner’s hand or whether to discard a card instead until you see the two cards you draw."
2082
+ }
2083
+ ]
1353
2084
  },
1354
2085
  {
1355
2086
  "name": "Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign",
@@ -1379,7 +2110,29 @@
1379
2110
  "loyalty": null,
1380
2111
  "multiverse_id": 430741,
1381
2112
  "other_part": null,
1382
- "color_indicator": null
2113
+ "color_indicator": null,
2114
+ "rulings": [
2115
+ {
2116
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2117
+ "text": "To determine the total cost of a Sphinx spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you’re paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The converted mana cost of the creature remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was."
2118
+ },
2119
+ {
2120
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2121
+ "text": "Unesh’s cost-reduction ability doesn’t reduce the cost to cast itself."
2122
+ },
2123
+ {
2124
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2125
+ "text": "You (not your opponent) choose which pile to put into your hand and which to put into your graveyard."
2126
+ },
2127
+ {
2128
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2129
+ "text": "A pile can have no cards in it. In this case, you’ll choose whether to put all the revealed cards into your hand or into your graveyard."
2130
+ },
2131
+ {
2132
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2133
+ "text": "In multiplayer games, you choose an opponent to separate the cards when the ability resolves. This doesn’t target that opponent. Because the cards are revealed, all players may see the cards and offer opinions."
2134
+ }
2135
+ ]
1383
2136
  },
1384
2137
  {
1385
2138
  "name": "Unquenchable Thirst",
@@ -1407,7 +2160,17 @@
1407
2160
  "loyalty": null,
1408
2161
  "multiverse_id": 430742,
1409
2162
  "other_part": null,
1410
- "color_indicator": null
2163
+ "color_indicator": null,
2164
+ "rulings": [
2165
+ {
2166
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2167
+ "text": "If an ability checks whether you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, having more than one doesn’t matter. Controlling one is the same as controlling five. There is also no extra bonus for both controlling one and having one in your graveyard."
2168
+ },
2169
+ {
2170
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2171
+ "text": "For abilities that trigger only if you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, one condition must be true as the ability triggers and one must be true as the ability resolves. They don’t have to be the same condition, though. For example, you could sacrifice your only Desert after the ability triggers but before it has resolved."
2172
+ }
2173
+ ]
1411
2174
  },
1412
2175
  {
1413
2176
  "name": "Unsummon",
@@ -1431,7 +2194,8 @@
1431
2194
  "loyalty": null,
1432
2195
  "multiverse_id": 430743,
1433
2196
  "other_part": null,
1434
- "color_indicator": null
2197
+ "color_indicator": null,
2198
+ "rulings": []
1435
2199
  },
1436
2200
  {
1437
2201
  "name": "Vizier of the Anointed",
@@ -1459,7 +2223,13 @@
1459
2223
  "loyalty": null,
1460
2224
  "multiverse_id": 430744,
1461
2225
  "other_part": null,
1462
- "color_indicator": null
2226
+ "color_indicator": null,
2227
+ "rulings": [
2228
+ {
2229
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2230
+ "text": "If you activate an eternalize or embalm ability, you’ll draw a card before that ability resolves, but after you’ve paid all of the costs for that ability. If an eternalize ability requires a discard to activate, you’ll need to have another card available to discard."
2231
+ }
2232
+ ]
1463
2233
  },
1464
2234
  {
1465
2235
  "name": "Accursed Horde",
@@ -1485,7 +2255,17 @@
1485
2255
  "loyalty": null,
1486
2256
  "multiverse_id": 430745,
1487
2257
  "other_part": null,
1488
- "color_indicator": null
2258
+ "color_indicator": null,
2259
+ "rulings": [
2260
+ {
2261
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2262
+ "text": "Accursed Horde’s ability can target itself while it’s attacking."
2263
+ },
2264
+ {
2265
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2266
+ "text": "The target Zombie gains indestructible for the rest of the turn, even after it stops being an attacking creature."
2267
+ }
2268
+ ]
1489
2269
  },
1490
2270
  {
1491
2271
  "name": "Ammit Eternal",
@@ -1515,7 +2295,29 @@
1515
2295
  "loyalty": null,
1516
2296
  "multiverse_id": 430746,
1517
2297
  "other_part": null,
1518
- "color_indicator": null
2298
+ "color_indicator": null,
2299
+ "rulings": [
2300
+ {
2301
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2302
+ "text": "Ammit Eternal’s middle ability will resolve before the spell that caused it to trigger. The ability will resolve even if that spell is countered."
2303
+ },
2304
+ {
2305
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2306
+ "text": "If multiple creatures block a creature with afflict, afflict triggers only once."
2307
+ },
2308
+ {
2309
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2310
+ "text": "Afflict causes the defending player to lose life; it’s not damage or combat damage."
2311
+ },
2312
+ {
2313
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2314
+ "text": "If a creature is attacking a planeswalker, that planeswalker’s controller is the defending player."
2315
+ },
2316
+ {
2317
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2318
+ "text": "Afflict resolves before combat damage is dealt. If this loss of life brings a player to 0 life or less, that player loses the game immediately. A blocking creature with lifelink won’t deal combat damage in time to save that player."
2319
+ }
2320
+ ]
1519
2321
  },
1520
2322
  {
1521
2323
  "name": "Apocalypse Demon",
@@ -1543,7 +2345,13 @@
1543
2345
  "loyalty": null,
1544
2346
  "multiverse_id": 430747,
1545
2347
  "other_part": null,
1546
- "color_indicator": null
2348
+ "color_indicator": null,
2349
+ "rulings": [
2350
+ {
2351
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2352
+ "text": "The ability that defines Apocalypse Demon’s power and toughness works in all zones, not just the battlefield."
2353
+ }
2354
+ ]
1547
2355
  },
1548
2356
  {
1549
2357
  "name": "Banewhip Punisher",
@@ -1571,7 +2379,8 @@
1571
2379
  "loyalty": null,
1572
2380
  "multiverse_id": 430748,
1573
2381
  "other_part": null,
1574
- "color_indicator": null
2382
+ "color_indicator": null,
2383
+ "rulings": []
1575
2384
  },
1576
2385
  {
1577
2386
  "name": "Bontu's Last Reckoning",
@@ -1595,7 +2404,17 @@
1595
2404
  "loyalty": null,
1596
2405
  "multiverse_id": 430749,
1597
2406
  "other_part": null,
1598
- "color_indicator": null
2407
+ "color_indicator": null,
2408
+ "rulings": [
2409
+ {
2410
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2411
+ "text": "No lands that you control will untap during your next untap step, even lands that aren’t tapped as this spell resolves. This includes lands that enter the battlefield after this spell resolves."
2412
+ },
2413
+ {
2414
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2415
+ "text": "If more than one spell says that lands you control don’t untap during your next untap step, the effects will all wear off during that untap step. You’ll untap lands you control during your untap step after that one."
2416
+ }
2417
+ ]
1599
2418
  },
1600
2419
  {
1601
2420
  "name": "Carrion Screecher",
@@ -1622,7 +2441,8 @@
1622
2441
  "loyalty": null,
1623
2442
  "multiverse_id": 430750,
1624
2443
  "other_part": null,
1625
- "color_indicator": null
2444
+ "color_indicator": null,
2445
+ "rulings": []
1626
2446
  },
1627
2447
  {
1628
2448
  "name": "Doomfall",
@@ -1648,7 +2468,17 @@
1648
2468
  "loyalty": null,
1649
2469
  "multiverse_id": 430751,
1650
2470
  "other_part": null,
1651
- "color_indicator": null
2471
+ "color_indicator": null,
2472
+ "rulings": [
2473
+ {
2474
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2475
+ "text": "If you choose Doomfall’s first mode, the target opponent chooses which creature to exile. That creature isn’t targeted, so a creature with hexproof can be exiled this way."
2476
+ },
2477
+ {
2478
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2479
+ "text": "If you choose Doomfall’s second mode, you must exile a nonland card from that player’s hand if able. If you can’t, most likely because that player’s hand contains only land cards, nothing happens. That player won’t exile a creature they control instead."
2480
+ }
2481
+ ]
1652
2482
  },
1653
2483
  {
1654
2484
  "name": "Dreamstealer",
@@ -1677,7 +2507,33 @@
1677
2507
  "loyalty": null,
1678
2508
  "multiverse_id": 430752,
1679
2509
  "other_part": null,
1680
- "color_indicator": null
2510
+ "color_indicator": null,
2511
+ "rulings": [
2512
+ {
2513
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2514
+ "text": "For each card with eternalize, a corresponding game play supplement token can be found in some Hour of Devastation booster packs. These supplements are not required to play with cards with eternalize; you can use the same items to represent an eternalized token as you would any other token."
2515
+ },
2516
+ {
2517
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2518
+ "text": "If a creature card with eternalize is put into your graveyard during your main phase, you’ll have priority immediately afterward. You can activate its eternalize ability before any player can try to exile it, such as with Crook of Condemnation, if it’s legal for you to do so."
2519
+ },
2520
+ {
2521
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2522
+ "text": "Once you’ve activated an eternalize ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
2523
+ },
2524
+ {
2525
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2526
+ "text": "The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics specifically modified by eternalize. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard."
2527
+ },
2528
+ {
2529
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2530
+ "text": "The token is a Zombie in addition to its other types and is black instead of its other colors. Its base power and toughness are 4/4. It has no mana cost, and thus its converted mana cost is 0. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy."
2531
+ },
2532
+ {
2533
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2534
+ "text": "If the card copied by the token had any “when [this permanent] enters the battlefield” abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it’s created. Similarly, any “as [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[this permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities that the token has copied will also work."
2535
+ }
2536
+ ]
1681
2537
  },
1682
2538
  {
1683
2539
  "name": "Grisly Survivor",
@@ -1704,7 +2560,25 @@
1704
2560
  "loyalty": null,
1705
2561
  "multiverse_id": 430753,
1706
2562
  "other_part": null,
1707
- "color_indicator": null
2563
+ "color_indicator": null,
2564
+ "rulings": [
2565
+ {
2566
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
2567
+ "text": "Some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability."
2568
+ },
2569
+ {
2570
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
2571
+ "text": "An ability that triggers whenever you discard a card doesn’t give you permission to discard cards. You’ll need another effect that instructs or allows you to discard them."
2572
+ },
2573
+ {
2574
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
2575
+ "text": "An ability that triggers whenever you “cycle or discard” a card triggers only once if you cycle a card. The ability “Whenever you discard a card” is functionally identical to this ability; cycling is mentioned for clarity."
2576
+ },
2577
+ {
2578
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
2579
+ "text": "If a player discards a card during their cleanup step due to having too many cards in hand, any appropriate abilities that trigger on discarding that card trigger. If this happens, those triggered abilities are put onto the stack and players receive priority in that cleanup step to cast spells or activate abilities (normally, no players may take actions during a cleanup step). Another cleanup step is created following that one."
2580
+ }
2581
+ ]
1708
2582
  },
1709
2583
  {
1710
2584
  "name": "Hour of Glory",
@@ -1728,7 +2602,17 @@
1728
2602
  "loyalty": null,
1729
2603
  "multiverse_id": 430754,
1730
2604
  "other_part": null,
1731
- "color_indicator": null
2605
+ "color_indicator": null,
2606
+ "rulings": [
2607
+ {
2608
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2609
+ "text": "If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Hour of Glory resolves, the entire spell doesn’t resolve. No player reveals their hand or exiles cards from it."
2610
+ },
2611
+ {
2612
+ "date": "1/19/2018",
2613
+ "text": "There are many important moments in the story, but the most crucial—called “story spotlights”—are shown on cards. These cards have the Planeswalker symbol in their text box; this symbol has no effect on gameplay. You can read more about these events in the official Magic fiction at http://www.mtgstory.com."
2614
+ }
2615
+ ]
1732
2616
  },
1733
2617
  {
1734
2618
  "name": "Khenra Eternal",
@@ -1756,7 +2640,25 @@
1756
2640
  "loyalty": null,
1757
2641
  "multiverse_id": 430755,
1758
2642
  "other_part": null,
1759
- "color_indicator": null
2643
+ "color_indicator": null,
2644
+ "rulings": [
2645
+ {
2646
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2647
+ "text": "If multiple creatures block a creature with afflict, afflict triggers only once."
2648
+ },
2649
+ {
2650
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2651
+ "text": "Afflict causes the defending player to lose life; it’s not damage or combat damage."
2652
+ },
2653
+ {
2654
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2655
+ "text": "If a creature is attacking a planeswalker, that planeswalker’s controller is the defending player."
2656
+ },
2657
+ {
2658
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2659
+ "text": "Afflict resolves before combat damage is dealt. If this loss of life brings a player to 0 life or less, that player loses the game immediately. A blocking creature with lifelink won’t deal combat damage in time to save that player."
2660
+ }
2661
+ ]
1760
2662
  },
1761
2663
  {
1762
2664
  "name": "Lethal Sting",
@@ -1781,7 +2683,13 @@
1781
2683
  "loyalty": null,
1782
2684
  "multiverse_id": 430756,
1783
2685
  "other_part": null,
1784
- "color_indicator": null
2686
+ "color_indicator": null,
2687
+ "rulings": [
2688
+ {
2689
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2690
+ "text": "If you don’t control any creatures or can’t put any -1/-1 counters on any creature you control, you can’t cast Lethal Sting."
2691
+ }
2692
+ ]
1785
2693
  },
1786
2694
  {
1787
2695
  "name": "Liliana's Defeat",
@@ -1805,7 +2713,8 @@
1805
2713
  "loyalty": null,
1806
2714
  "multiverse_id": 430757,
1807
2715
  "other_part": null,
1808
- "color_indicator": null
2716
+ "color_indicator": null,
2717
+ "rulings": []
1809
2718
  },
1810
2719
  {
1811
2720
  "name": "Lurching Rotbeast",
@@ -1832,7 +2741,8 @@
1832
2741
  "loyalty": null,
1833
2742
  "multiverse_id": 430758,
1834
2743
  "other_part": null,
1835
- "color_indicator": null
2744
+ "color_indicator": null,
2745
+ "rulings": []
1836
2746
  },
1837
2747
  {
1838
2748
  "name": "Marauding Boneslasher",
@@ -1859,7 +2769,17 @@
1859
2769
  "loyalty": null,
1860
2770
  "multiverse_id": 430759,
1861
2771
  "other_part": null,
1862
- "color_indicator": null
2772
+ "color_indicator": null,
2773
+ "rulings": [
2774
+ {
2775
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2776
+ "text": "Whether you control another Zombie is checked only as you declare blockers. Marauding Boneslasher won’t stop blocking if you don’t control one later."
2777
+ },
2778
+ {
2779
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2780
+ "text": "The other Zombie doesn’t have to block."
2781
+ }
2782
+ ]
1863
2783
  },
1864
2784
  {
1865
2785
  "name": "Merciless Eternal",
@@ -1887,7 +2807,25 @@
1887
2807
  "loyalty": null,
1888
2808
  "multiverse_id": 430760,
1889
2809
  "other_part": null,
1890
- "color_indicator": null
2810
+ "color_indicator": null,
2811
+ "rulings": [
2812
+ {
2813
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2814
+ "text": "If multiple creatures block a creature with afflict, afflict triggers only once."
2815
+ },
2816
+ {
2817
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2818
+ "text": "Afflict causes the defending player to lose life; it’s not damage or combat damage."
2819
+ },
2820
+ {
2821
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2822
+ "text": "If a creature is attacking a planeswalker, that planeswalker’s controller is the defending player."
2823
+ },
2824
+ {
2825
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2826
+ "text": "Afflict resolves before combat damage is dealt. If this loss of life brings a player to 0 life or less, that player loses the game immediately. A blocking creature with lifelink won’t deal combat damage in time to save that player."
2827
+ }
2828
+ ]
1891
2829
  },
1892
2830
  {
1893
2831
  "name": "Moaning Wall",
@@ -1915,7 +2853,8 @@
1915
2853
  "loyalty": null,
1916
2854
  "multiverse_id": 430761,
1917
2855
  "other_part": null,
1918
- "color_indicator": null
2856
+ "color_indicator": null,
2857
+ "rulings": []
1919
2858
  },
1920
2859
  {
1921
2860
  "name": "Razaketh, the Foulblooded",
@@ -1944,7 +2883,8 @@
1944
2883
  "loyalty": null,
1945
2884
  "multiverse_id": 430762,
1946
2885
  "other_part": null,
1947
- "color_indicator": null
2886
+ "color_indicator": null,
2887
+ "rulings": []
1948
2888
  },
1949
2889
  {
1950
2890
  "name": "Razaketh's Rite",
@@ -1969,7 +2909,8 @@
1969
2909
  "loyalty": null,
1970
2910
  "multiverse_id": 430763,
1971
2911
  "other_part": null,
1972
- "color_indicator": null
2912
+ "color_indicator": null,
2913
+ "rulings": []
1973
2914
  },
1974
2915
  {
1975
2916
  "name": "Ruin Rat",
@@ -1996,7 +2937,13 @@
1996
2937
  "loyalty": null,
1997
2938
  "multiverse_id": 430764,
1998
2939
  "other_part": null,
1999
- "color_indicator": null
2940
+ "color_indicator": null,
2941
+ "rulings": [
2942
+ {
2943
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
2944
+ "text": "If Ruin Rat dies at the same time as another creature, most likely because they were in combat together, its triggered ability can exile that other card."
2945
+ }
2946
+ ]
2000
2947
  },
2001
2948
  {
2002
2949
  "name": "Scrounger of Souls",
@@ -2022,7 +2969,8 @@
2022
2969
  "loyalty": null,
2023
2970
  "multiverse_id": 430765,
2024
2971
  "other_part": null,
2025
- "color_indicator": null
2972
+ "color_indicator": null,
2973
+ "rulings": []
2026
2974
  },
2027
2975
  {
2028
2976
  "name": "Torment of Hailfire",
@@ -2046,7 +2994,33 @@
2046
2994
  "loyalty": null,
2047
2995
  "multiverse_id": 430766,
2048
2996
  "other_part": null,
2049
- "color_indicator": null
2997
+ "color_indicator": null,
2998
+ "rulings": [
2999
+ {
3000
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3001
+ "text": "If X is 0, Torment of Hailfire resolves with no effect."
3002
+ },
3003
+ {
3004
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3005
+ "text": "While resolving Torment of Hailfire, your opponent chooses a card to be discarded without revealing it, chooses a nonland permanent to be sacrificed, or chooses to do neither. Then that player discards that card, sacrifices that permanent, or loses 3 life, then repeats this process if it hasn’t been done X times yet. Your opponent can always choose to lose 3 life, even if they have cards to discard or nonland permanents to sacrifice."
3006
+ },
3007
+ {
3008
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3009
+ "text": "Each repetition through this process is done separately. If an opponent sacrifices a creature with an ability that triggers when another creature dies, for example, it will see creatures that are sacrificed before it, but not those are sacrificed after it."
3010
+ },
3011
+ {
3012
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3013
+ "text": "State-based actions aren’t checked in between repetitions of this process, so the game state may be a little unusual while making the choice. For example, a player may sacrifice a creature and then later sacrifice an Aura that was attached to that creature."
3014
+ },
3015
+ {
3016
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3017
+ "text": "In a multiplayer game, each opponent in turn order makes their choice once, then all of the actions occur simultaneously, then they repeat this process if it hasn’t been done X times yet. Opponents will know choices made by earlier opponents when making their choices, although a card chosen to be discarded this way isn’t revealed until it’s discarded."
3018
+ },
3019
+ {
3020
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3021
+ "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, Torment of Hailfire causes both opponents to sacrifice a nonland permanent, discard a card, or lose 3 life X times. Your opponents can choose the same torment or different ones each time."
3022
+ }
3023
+ ]
2050
3024
  },
2051
3025
  {
2052
3026
  "name": "Torment of Scarabs",
@@ -2074,7 +3048,13 @@
2074
3048
  "loyalty": null,
2075
3049
  "multiverse_id": 430767,
2076
3050
  "other_part": null,
2077
- "color_indicator": null
3051
+ "color_indicator": null,
3052
+ "rulings": [
3053
+ {
3054
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3055
+ "text": "While resolving the triggered ability of Torment of Scarabs, the enchanted player chooses a card to be discarded without revealing it, chooses a nonland permanent to be sacrificed, or chooses to do neither. Then that player discards that card, sacrifices that permanent, or loses 3 life. That player can always choose to lose 3 life, even if they have cards to discard or nonland permanents to sacrifice."
3056
+ }
3057
+ ]
2078
3058
  },
2079
3059
  {
2080
3060
  "name": "Torment of Venom",
@@ -2098,7 +3078,21 @@
2098
3078
  "loyalty": null,
2099
3079
  "multiverse_id": 430768,
2100
3080
  "other_part": null,
2101
- "color_indicator": null
3081
+ "color_indicator": null,
3082
+ "rulings": [
3083
+ {
3084
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3085
+ "text": "If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Torment of Venom resolves, the entire spell doesn’t resolve. The creature’s controller won’t be tormented."
3086
+ },
3087
+ {
3088
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3089
+ "text": "Because state-based actions aren’t performed while Torment of Venom is resolving, the target creature is still on the battlefield while its controller is tormented. If that creature has an Aura attached to it, that Aura can be sacrificed."
3090
+ },
3091
+ {
3092
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3093
+ "text": "While resolving Torment of Venom, the creature’s controller chooses a card to be discarded without revealing it, chooses a nonland permanent to be sacrificed, or chooses to do neither. Then that player discards that card, sacrifices that permanent, or loses 3 life. That player can always choose to lose 3 life, even if they have cards to discard or nonland permanents to sacrifice."
3094
+ }
3095
+ ]
2102
3096
  },
2103
3097
  {
2104
3098
  "name": "Vile Manifestation",
@@ -2125,7 +3119,21 @@
2125
3119
  "loyalty": null,
2126
3120
  "multiverse_id": 430769,
2127
3121
  "other_part": null,
2128
- "color_indicator": null
3122
+ "color_indicator": null,
3123
+ "rulings": [
3124
+ {
3125
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3126
+ "text": "Vile Manifestation’s first ability counts only the cards with cycling abilities in your graveyard. It doesn’t care whether or not they were cycled to get there."
3127
+ },
3128
+ {
3129
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3130
+ "text": "Vile Manifestation’s first ability applies only while it’s on the battlefield. In all other zones, its power is 0."
3131
+ },
3132
+ {
3133
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3134
+ "text": "Certain older cards have variants of cycling, such as basic landcycling or Wizardcycling. Vile Manifestation’s effect counts these cards."
3135
+ }
3136
+ ]
2129
3137
  },
2130
3138
  {
2131
3139
  "name": "Without Weakness",
@@ -2150,7 +3158,8 @@
2150
3158
  "loyalty": null,
2151
3159
  "multiverse_id": 430770,
2152
3160
  "other_part": null,
2153
- "color_indicator": null
3161
+ "color_indicator": null,
3162
+ "rulings": []
2154
3163
  },
2155
3164
  {
2156
3165
  "name": "Wretched Camel",
@@ -2177,7 +3186,17 @@
2177
3186
  "loyalty": null,
2178
3187
  "multiverse_id": 430771,
2179
3188
  "other_part": null,
2180
- "color_indicator": null
3189
+ "color_indicator": null,
3190
+ "rulings": [
3191
+ {
3192
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3193
+ "text": "If an ability checks whether you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, having more than one doesn’t matter. Controlling one is the same as controlling five. There is also no extra bonus for both controlling one and having one in your graveyard."
3194
+ },
3195
+ {
3196
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3197
+ "text": "For abilities that trigger only if you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, one condition must be true as the ability triggers and one must be true as the ability resolves. They don’t have to be the same condition, though. For example, you could sacrifice your only Desert after the ability triggers but before it has resolved."
3198
+ }
3199
+ ]
2181
3200
  },
2182
3201
  {
2183
3202
  "name": "Abrade",
@@ -2203,7 +3222,8 @@
2203
3222
  "loyalty": null,
2204
3223
  "multiverse_id": 430772,
2205
3224
  "other_part": null,
2206
- "color_indicator": null
3225
+ "color_indicator": null,
3226
+ "rulings": []
2207
3227
  },
2208
3228
  {
2209
3229
  "name": "Blur of Blades",
@@ -2227,7 +3247,13 @@
2227
3247
  "loyalty": null,
2228
3248
  "multiverse_id": 430773,
2229
3249
  "other_part": null,
2230
- "color_indicator": null
3250
+ "color_indicator": null,
3251
+ "rulings": [
3252
+ {
3253
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3254
+ "text": "If the targeted creature is an illegal target by the time Blur of Blades resolves, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. Blur of Blades won’t deal damage to any player."
3255
+ }
3256
+ ]
2231
3257
  },
2232
3258
  {
2233
3259
  "name": "Burning-Fist Minotaur",
@@ -2255,7 +3281,8 @@
2255
3281
  "loyalty": null,
2256
3282
  "multiverse_id": 430774,
2257
3283
  "other_part": null,
2258
- "color_indicator": null
3284
+ "color_indicator": null,
3285
+ "rulings": []
2259
3286
  },
2260
3287
  {
2261
3288
  "name": "Chandra's Defeat",
@@ -2279,7 +3306,8 @@
2279
3306
  "loyalty": null,
2280
3307
  "multiverse_id": 430775,
2281
3308
  "other_part": null,
2282
- "color_indicator": null
3309
+ "color_indicator": null,
3310
+ "rulings": []
2283
3311
  },
2284
3312
  {
2285
3313
  "name": "Chaos Maw",
@@ -2305,7 +3333,8 @@
2305
3333
  "loyalty": null,
2306
3334
  "multiverse_id": 430776,
2307
3335
  "other_part": null,
2308
- "color_indicator": null
3336
+ "color_indicator": null,
3337
+ "rulings": []
2309
3338
  },
2310
3339
  {
2311
3340
  "name": "Crash Through",
@@ -2330,7 +3359,17 @@
2330
3359
  "loyalty": null,
2331
3360
  "multiverse_id": 430777,
2332
3361
  "other_part": null,
2333
- "color_indicator": null
3362
+ "color_indicator": null,
3363
+ "rulings": [
3364
+ {
3365
+ "date": "7/13/2018",
3366
+ "text": "Crash Through affects only creatures you control at the time it resolves. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won’t gain trample."
3367
+ },
3368
+ {
3369
+ "date": "7/13/2018",
3370
+ "text": "You may cast Crash Through even if you control no creatures. If you control no creatures as the spell resolves, you’ll just draw a card."
3371
+ }
3372
+ ]
2334
3373
  },
2335
3374
  {
2336
3375
  "name": "Defiant Khenra",
@@ -2355,7 +3394,8 @@
2355
3394
  "loyalty": null,
2356
3395
  "multiverse_id": 430778,
2357
3396
  "other_part": null,
2358
- "color_indicator": null
3397
+ "color_indicator": null,
3398
+ "rulings": []
2359
3399
  },
2360
3400
  {
2361
3401
  "name": "Earthshaker Khenra",
@@ -2384,7 +3424,41 @@
2384
3424
  "loyalty": null,
2385
3425
  "multiverse_id": 430779,
2386
3426
  "other_part": null,
2387
- "color_indicator": null
3427
+ "color_indicator": null,
3428
+ "rulings": [
3429
+ {
3430
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3431
+ "text": "The target creature’s power is checked when you target it with Earthshaker Khenra’s ability and when that ability resolves. Once the ability resolves, if the creature’s power increases or Earthshaker Khenra’s power decreases, the target creature will still be unable to block."
3432
+ },
3433
+ {
3434
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3435
+ "text": "Spells, activated abilities, and triggered abilities can’t raise Earthshaker Khenra’s power before you have to choose a target for its ability. Static abilities, such as that of Lord of the Accursed, will raise its power in time to let you target a larger creature."
3436
+ },
3437
+ {
3438
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3439
+ "text": "For each card with eternalize, a corresponding game play supplement token can be found in some Hour of Devastation booster packs. These supplements are not required to play with cards with eternalize; you can use the same items to represent an eternalized token as you would any other token."
3440
+ },
3441
+ {
3442
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3443
+ "text": "If a creature card with eternalize is put into your graveyard during your main phase, you’ll have priority immediately afterward. You can activate its eternalize ability before any player can try to exile it, such as with Crook of Condemnation, if it’s legal for you to do so."
3444
+ },
3445
+ {
3446
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3447
+ "text": "Once you’ve activated an eternalize ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
3448
+ },
3449
+ {
3450
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3451
+ "text": "The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics specifically modified by eternalize. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard."
3452
+ },
3453
+ {
3454
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3455
+ "text": "The token is a Zombie in addition to its other types and is black instead of its other colors. Its base power and toughness are 4/4. It has no mana cost, and thus its converted mana cost is 0. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy."
3456
+ },
3457
+ {
3458
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3459
+ "text": "If the card copied by the token had any “when [this permanent] enters the battlefield” abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it’s created. Similarly, any “as [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[this permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities that the token has copied will also work."
3460
+ }
3461
+ ]
2388
3462
  },
2389
3463
  {
2390
3464
  "name": "Fervent Paincaster",
@@ -2412,7 +3486,25 @@
2412
3486
  "loyalty": null,
2413
3487
  "multiverse_id": 430780,
2414
3488
  "other_part": null,
2415
- "color_indicator": null
3489
+ "color_indicator": null,
3490
+ "rulings": [
3491
+ {
3492
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
3493
+ "text": "You can’t exert a creature unless an effect allows you to do so. Similar effects that “tap and freeze” a creature (such as that of Decision Paralysis) don’t exert that creature."
3494
+ },
3495
+ {
3496
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
3497
+ "text": "If an exerted creature is already untapped during your next untap step (most likely because it had vigilance or an effect untapped it), exert’s effect preventing it from untapping expires without having done anything."
3498
+ },
3499
+ {
3500
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
3501
+ "text": "If you gain control of another player’s creature until end of turn and exert it, it will untap during that player’s untap step."
3502
+ },
3503
+ {
3504
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3505
+ "text": "Some cards in the Hour of Devastation set let you exert a creature as a cost to activate one of its abilities. You can exert it to pay that cost even if you’ve already exerted it earlier in the turn. Exerting it multiple times will keep it tapped only during your next untap step."
3506
+ }
3507
+ ]
2416
3508
  },
2417
3509
  {
2418
3510
  "name": "Firebrand Archer",
@@ -2439,7 +3531,17 @@
2439
3531
  "loyalty": null,
2440
3532
  "multiverse_id": 430781,
2441
3533
  "other_part": null,
2442
- "color_indicator": null
3534
+ "color_indicator": null,
3535
+ "rulings": [
3536
+ {
3537
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3538
+ "text": "Firebrand Archer’s ability will resolve before the spell that caused it to trigger. The ability will resolve even if that spell is countered."
3539
+ },
3540
+ {
3541
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3542
+ "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, Firebrand Archer’s ability causes it to deal a total of 2 damage to the opposing team."
3543
+ }
3544
+ ]
2443
3545
  },
2444
3546
  {
2445
3547
  "name": "Frontline Devastator",
@@ -2468,7 +3570,25 @@
2468
3570
  "loyalty": null,
2469
3571
  "multiverse_id": 430782,
2470
3572
  "other_part": null,
2471
- "color_indicator": null
3573
+ "color_indicator": null,
3574
+ "rulings": [
3575
+ {
3576
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3577
+ "text": "If multiple creatures block a creature with afflict, afflict triggers only once."
3578
+ },
3579
+ {
3580
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3581
+ "text": "Afflict causes the defending player to lose life; it’s not damage or combat damage."
3582
+ },
3583
+ {
3584
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3585
+ "text": "If a creature is attacking a planeswalker, that planeswalker’s controller is the defending player."
3586
+ },
3587
+ {
3588
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3589
+ "text": "Afflict resolves before combat damage is dealt. If this loss of life brings a player to 0 life or less, that player loses the game immediately. A blocking creature with lifelink won’t deal combat damage in time to save that player."
3590
+ }
3591
+ ]
2472
3592
  },
2473
3593
  {
2474
3594
  "name": "Gilded Cerodon",
@@ -2494,7 +3614,17 @@
2494
3614
  "loyalty": null,
2495
3615
  "multiverse_id": 430783,
2496
3616
  "other_part": null,
2497
- "color_indicator": null
3617
+ "color_indicator": null,
3618
+ "rulings": [
3619
+ {
3620
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3621
+ "text": "If an ability checks whether you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, having more than one doesn’t matter. Controlling one is the same as controlling five. There is also no extra bonus for both controlling one and having one in your graveyard."
3622
+ },
3623
+ {
3624
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3625
+ "text": "For abilities that trigger only if you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, one condition must be true as the ability triggers and one must be true as the ability resolves. They don’t have to be the same condition, though. For example, you could sacrifice your only Desert after the ability triggers but before it has resolved."
3626
+ }
3627
+ ]
2498
3628
  },
2499
3629
  {
2500
3630
  "name": "Granitic Titan",
@@ -2521,7 +3651,8 @@
2521
3651
  "loyalty": null,
2522
3652
  "multiverse_id": 430784,
2523
3653
  "other_part": null,
2524
- "color_indicator": null
3654
+ "color_indicator": null,
3655
+ "rulings": []
2525
3656
  },
2526
3657
  {
2527
3658
  "name": "Hazoret's Undying Fury",
@@ -2545,7 +3676,45 @@
2545
3676
  "loyalty": null,
2546
3677
  "multiverse_id": 430785,
2547
3678
  "other_part": null,
2548
- "color_indicator": null
3679
+ "color_indicator": null,
3680
+ "rulings": [
3681
+ {
3682
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3683
+ "text": "Each individual spell you cast this way must have converted mana cost 5 or less. Their total converted mana cost could be greater."
3684
+ },
3685
+ {
3686
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3687
+ "text": "No player may take any actions between the time you shuffle your library and the time you exile the top four cards."
3688
+ },
3689
+ {
3690
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3691
+ "text": "If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as emerge costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Tormenting Voice, you must pay those to cast the card."
3692
+ },
3693
+ {
3694
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3695
+ "text": "If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost."
3696
+ },
3697
+ {
3698
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3699
+ "text": "If any abilities trigger as you cast any of those cards, they won’t be put on the stack until after you’re done casting them. They’ll resolve before any of those spells."
3700
+ },
3701
+ {
3702
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3703
+ "text": "If you cast any of those cards, you do so as part of the resolution of Hazoret’s Undying Fury. You can’t wait to cast them later in the turn."
3704
+ },
3705
+ {
3706
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3707
+ "text": "If a spell you cast this way targets another spell, it may target a spell you cast earlier during the resolution of Hazoret’s Undying Fury. It may target Hazoret’s Undying Fury as well, but Hazoret’s Undying Fury will be put into your graveyard soon afterwards and the spell’s target will become illegal."
3708
+ },
3709
+ {
3710
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3711
+ "text": "No lands that you control will untap during your next untap step, even lands that aren’t tapped as this spell resolves. This includes lands that enter the battlefield after this spell resolves."
3712
+ },
3713
+ {
3714
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3715
+ "text": "If more than one spell says that lands you control don’t untap during your next untap step, the effects will all wear off during that untap step. You’ll untap lands you control during your untap step after that one."
3716
+ }
3717
+ ]
2549
3718
  },
2550
3719
  {
2551
3720
  "name": "Hour of Devastation",
@@ -2569,7 +3738,21 @@
2569
3738
  "loyalty": null,
2570
3739
  "multiverse_id": 430786,
2571
3740
  "other_part": null,
2572
- "color_indicator": null
3741
+ "color_indicator": null,
3742
+ "rulings": [
3743
+ {
3744
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3745
+ "text": "Creatures with indestructible that enter the battlefield after Hour of Devastation resolves will still have indestructible."
3746
+ },
3747
+ {
3748
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3749
+ "text": "Once Hour of Devastation begins to resolve, no player may take actions until it’s done. Notably, players can’t try to give a creature indestructible again to save it from the damage."
3750
+ },
3751
+ {
3752
+ "date": "1/19/2018",
3753
+ "text": "There are many important moments in the story, but the most crucial—called “story spotlights”—are shown on cards. These cards have the Planeswalker symbol in their text box; this symbol has no effect on gameplay. You can read more about these events in the official Magic fiction at http://www.mtgstory.com."
3754
+ }
3755
+ ]
2573
3756
  },
2574
3757
  {
2575
3758
  "name": "Imminent Doom",
@@ -2594,7 +3777,21 @@
2594
3777
  "loyalty": null,
2595
3778
  "multiverse_id": 430787,
2596
3779
  "other_part": null,
2597
- "color_indicator": null
3780
+ "color_indicator": null,
3781
+ "rulings": [
3782
+ {
3783
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3784
+ "text": "Imminent Doom’s triggered ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. The ability will resolve even if that spell is countered."
3785
+ },
3786
+ {
3787
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3788
+ "text": "If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, include the value chosen for that X when determining the converted mana cost of that spell."
3789
+ },
3790
+ {
3791
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3792
+ "text": "The amount of damage Imminent Doom’s triggered ability deals is the number of counters it had on it as the ability triggered. For example, if you cast Shock and then respond to Imminent Doom’s triggered ability with a second Shock, both abilities cause Imminent Doom to deal 1 damage and Imminent Doom will end up with three doom counters on it."
3793
+ }
3794
+ ]
2598
3795
  },
2599
3796
  {
2600
3797
  "name": "Inferno Jet",
@@ -2619,7 +3816,8 @@
2619
3816
  "loyalty": null,
2620
3817
  "multiverse_id": 430788,
2621
3818
  "other_part": null,
2622
- "color_indicator": null
3819
+ "color_indicator": null,
3820
+ "rulings": []
2623
3821
  },
2624
3822
  {
2625
3823
  "name": "Khenra Scrapper",
@@ -2647,7 +3845,25 @@
2647
3845
  "loyalty": null,
2648
3846
  "multiverse_id": 430789,
2649
3847
  "other_part": null,
2650
- "color_indicator": null
3848
+ "color_indicator": null,
3849
+ "rulings": [
3850
+ {
3851
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
3852
+ "text": "You can’t exert a creature unless an effect allows you to do so. Similar effects that “tap and freeze” a creature (such as that of Decision Paralysis) don’t exert that creature."
3853
+ },
3854
+ {
3855
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
3856
+ "text": "If an exerted creature is already untapped during your next untap step (most likely because it had vigilance or an effect untapped it), exert’s effect preventing it from untapping expires without having done anything."
3857
+ },
3858
+ {
3859
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
3860
+ "text": "If you gain control of another player’s creature until end of turn and exert it, it will untap during that player’s untap step."
3861
+ },
3862
+ {
3863
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
3864
+ "text": "All cards in the Amonkhet set that let you exert a creature let you do so as you declare it as an attacking creature, as do some of the cards in the Hour of Devastation set. You can’t do so later in combat, and creatures put onto the battlefield attacking can’t be exerted. Any abilities that trigger on exerting an attacking creature will resolve before blockers are declared."
3865
+ }
3866
+ ]
2651
3867
  },
2652
3868
  {
2653
3869
  "name": "Kindled Fury",
@@ -2671,7 +3887,13 @@
2671
3887
  "loyalty": null,
2672
3888
  "multiverse_id": 430790,
2673
3889
  "other_part": null,
2674
- "color_indicator": null
3890
+ "color_indicator": null,
3891
+ "rulings": [
3892
+ {
3893
+ "date": "7/1/2012",
3894
+ "text": "Giving a creature first strike after creatures with first strike deal combat damage doesn’t prevent that creature from dealing combat damage."
3895
+ }
3896
+ ]
2675
3897
  },
2676
3898
  {
2677
3899
  "name": "Magmaroth",
@@ -2698,7 +3920,13 @@
2698
3920
  "loyalty": null,
2699
3921
  "multiverse_id": 430791,
2700
3922
  "other_part": null,
2701
- "color_indicator": null
3923
+ "color_indicator": null,
3924
+ "rulings": [
3925
+ {
3926
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3927
+ "text": "Magmaroth’s second ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. The ability will resolve even if that spell is countered."
3928
+ }
3929
+ ]
2702
3930
  },
2703
3931
  {
2704
3932
  "name": "Manticore Eternal",
@@ -2726,7 +3954,29 @@
2726
3954
  "loyalty": null,
2727
3955
  "multiverse_id": 430792,
2728
3956
  "other_part": null,
2729
- "color_indicator": null
3957
+ "color_indicator": null,
3958
+ "rulings": [
3959
+ {
3960
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3961
+ "text": "If, during your declare attackers step, Manticore Eternal is tapped or is affected by a spell or ability that says it can’t attack, then it doesn’t attack. If there’s a cost associated with having it attack, you aren’t forced to pay that cost, so it doesn’t have to attack in that case either."
3962
+ },
3963
+ {
3964
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3965
+ "text": "If multiple creatures block a creature with afflict, afflict triggers only once."
3966
+ },
3967
+ {
3968
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3969
+ "text": "Afflict causes the defending player to lose life; it’s not damage or combat damage."
3970
+ },
3971
+ {
3972
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3973
+ "text": "If a creature is attacking a planeswalker, that planeswalker’s controller is the defending player."
3974
+ },
3975
+ {
3976
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
3977
+ "text": "Afflict resolves before combat damage is dealt. If this loss of life brings a player to 0 life or less, that player loses the game immediately. A blocking creature with lifelink won’t deal combat damage in time to save that player."
3978
+ }
3979
+ ]
2730
3980
  },
2731
3981
  {
2732
3982
  "name": "Neheb, the Eternal",
@@ -2757,7 +4007,53 @@
2757
4007
  "loyalty": null,
2758
4008
  "multiverse_id": 430793,
2759
4009
  "other_part": null,
2760
- "color_indicator": null
4010
+ "color_indicator": null,
4011
+ "rulings": [
4012
+ {
4013
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4014
+ "text": "Damage dealt to a player causes that player to lose that much life."
4015
+ },
4016
+ {
4017
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4018
+ "text": "Because it triggers at the beginning of a phase, Neheb’s last ability isn’t a mana ability. It uses the stack and can be countered by effects that interact with triggered abilities, such as that of Nimble Obstructionist."
4019
+ },
4020
+ {
4021
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4022
+ "text": "You get a postcombat main phase even if no creatures attacked during a turn. Neheb’s last ability will trigger."
4023
+ },
4024
+ {
4025
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4026
+ "text": "If an opponent loses life but Neheb leaves the battlefield before your postcombat main phase begins, its last ability doesn’t trigger."
4027
+ },
4028
+ {
4029
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4030
+ "text": "Neheb’s ability checks only how much life opponents lost during the turn, not by how much their life total decreased compared to the start of the turn. For example, if an opponent lost 2 life and then gained 8 life before your postcombat main phase, you’ll add {R}{R} to your mana pool."
4031
+ },
4032
+ {
4033
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4034
+ "text": "If an opponent loses life and subsequently loses the game before your postcombat main phase, Neheb’s last ability counts that loss of life."
4035
+ },
4036
+ {
4037
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4038
+ "text": "If you somehow have more than two main phases in a turn, each main phase after your first one is a postcombat main phase, and Neheb’s last ability triggers at the beginning of each of them."
4039
+ },
4040
+ {
4041
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4042
+ "text": "If multiple creatures block a creature with afflict, afflict triggers only once."
4043
+ },
4044
+ {
4045
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4046
+ "text": "Afflict causes the defending player to lose life; it’s not damage or combat damage."
4047
+ },
4048
+ {
4049
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4050
+ "text": "If a creature is attacking a planeswalker, that planeswalker’s controller is the defending player."
4051
+ },
4052
+ {
4053
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4054
+ "text": "Afflict resolves before combat damage is dealt. If this loss of life brings a player to 0 life or less, that player loses the game immediately. A blocking creature with lifelink won’t deal combat damage in time to save that player."
4055
+ }
4056
+ ]
2761
4057
  },
2762
4058
  {
2763
4059
  "name": "Open Fire",
@@ -2781,7 +4077,8 @@
2781
4077
  "loyalty": null,
2782
4078
  "multiverse_id": 430794,
2783
4079
  "other_part": null,
2784
- "color_indicator": null
4080
+ "color_indicator": null,
4081
+ "rulings": []
2785
4082
  },
2786
4083
  {
2787
4084
  "name": "Puncturing Blow",
@@ -2805,7 +4102,13 @@
2805
4102
  "loyalty": null,
2806
4103
  "multiverse_id": 430795,
2807
4104
  "other_part": null,
2808
- "color_indicator": null
4105
+ "color_indicator": null,
4106
+ "rulings": [
4107
+ {
4108
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4109
+ "text": "Puncturing Blow’s replacement effect will exile the target creature if it would die this turn for any reason, not just due to lethal damage. It applies to the target creature even if Puncturing Blow deals no damage to it (due to a prevention effect) or Puncturing Blow deals damage to a different creature (due to a redirection effect)."
4110
+ }
4111
+ ]
2809
4112
  },
2810
4113
  {
2811
4114
  "name": "Sand Strangler",
@@ -2831,7 +4134,17 @@
2831
4134
  "loyalty": null,
2832
4135
  "multiverse_id": 430796,
2833
4136
  "other_part": null,
2834
- "color_indicator": null
4137
+ "color_indicator": null,
4138
+ "rulings": [
4139
+ {
4140
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4141
+ "text": "If an ability checks whether you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, having more than one doesn’t matter. Controlling one is the same as controlling five. There is also no extra bonus for both controlling one and having one in your graveyard."
4142
+ },
4143
+ {
4144
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4145
+ "text": "For abilities that trigger only if you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, one condition must be true as the ability triggers and one must be true as the ability resolves. They don’t have to be the same condition, though. For example, you could sacrifice your only Desert after the ability triggers but before it has resolved."
4146
+ }
4147
+ ]
2835
4148
  },
2836
4149
  {
2837
4150
  "name": "Thorned Moloch",
@@ -2858,7 +4171,8 @@
2858
4171
  "loyalty": null,
2859
4172
  "multiverse_id": 430797,
2860
4173
  "other_part": null,
2861
- "color_indicator": null
4174
+ "color_indicator": null,
4175
+ "rulings": []
2862
4176
  },
2863
4177
  {
2864
4178
  "name": "Wildfire Eternal",
@@ -2887,7 +4201,41 @@
2887
4201
  "loyalty": null,
2888
4202
  "multiverse_id": 430798,
2889
4203
  "other_part": null,
2890
- "color_indicator": null
4204
+ "color_indicator": null,
4205
+ "rulings": [
4206
+ {
4207
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4208
+ "text": "An ability that triggers when something “attacks and isn’t blocked” triggers in the declare blockers step after blockers are declared if (1) that creature is attacking and (2) no creatures are declared to block it. It will trigger even if that creature was put onto the battlefield attacking rather than having been declared as an attacker in the declare attackers step."
4209
+ },
4210
+ {
4211
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4212
+ "text": "Wildfire Eternal’s second ability resolves before combat damage is dealt, and you must cast a spell at that time if you wish to cast one without paying its mana cost. You can cast a sorcery during the declare blockers step this way."
4213
+ },
4214
+ {
4215
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4216
+ "text": "If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Tormenting Voice, those must be paid to cast the card."
4217
+ },
4218
+ {
4219
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4220
+ "text": "If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost."
4221
+ },
4222
+ {
4223
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4224
+ "text": "If multiple creatures block a creature with afflict, afflict triggers only once."
4225
+ },
4226
+ {
4227
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4228
+ "text": "Afflict causes the defending player to lose life; it’s not damage or combat damage."
4229
+ },
4230
+ {
4231
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4232
+ "text": "If a creature is attacking a planeswalker, that planeswalker’s controller is the defending player."
4233
+ },
4234
+ {
4235
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4236
+ "text": "Afflict resolves before combat damage is dealt. If this loss of life brings a player to 0 life or less, that player loses the game immediately. A blocking creature with lifelink won’t deal combat damage in time to save that player."
4237
+ }
4238
+ ]
2891
4239
  },
2892
4240
  {
2893
4241
  "name": "Ambuscade",
@@ -2911,7 +4259,13 @@
2911
4259
  "loyalty": null,
2912
4260
  "multiverse_id": 430799,
2913
4261
  "other_part": null,
2914
- "color_indicator": null
4262
+ "color_indicator": null,
4263
+ "rulings": [
4264
+ {
4265
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4266
+ "text": "If the creature you control leaves the battlefield before Ambuscade resolves, Ambuscade has no effect and no damage is dealt. If the creature an opponent controls leaves the battlefield instead, the creature you control gets +1/+0 even though it won’t deal any damage."
4267
+ }
4268
+ ]
2915
4269
  },
2916
4270
  {
2917
4271
  "name": "Beneath the Sands",
@@ -2936,7 +4290,8 @@
2936
4290
  "loyalty": null,
2937
4291
  "multiverse_id": 430800,
2938
4292
  "other_part": null,
2939
- "color_indicator": null
4293
+ "color_indicator": null,
4294
+ "rulings": []
2940
4295
  },
2941
4296
  {
2942
4297
  "name": "Bitterbow Sharpshooters",
@@ -2963,7 +4318,8 @@
2963
4318
  "loyalty": null,
2964
4319
  "multiverse_id": 430801,
2965
4320
  "other_part": null,
2966
- "color_indicator": null
4321
+ "color_indicator": null,
4322
+ "rulings": []
2967
4323
  },
2968
4324
  {
2969
4325
  "name": "Devotee of Strength",
@@ -2990,7 +4346,8 @@
2990
4346
  "loyalty": null,
2991
4347
  "multiverse_id": 430802,
2992
4348
  "other_part": null,
2993
- "color_indicator": null
4349
+ "color_indicator": null,
4350
+ "rulings": []
2994
4351
  },
2995
4352
  {
2996
4353
  "name": "Dune Diviner",
@@ -3017,7 +4374,13 @@
3017
4374
  "loyalty": null,
3018
4375
  "multiverse_id": 430803,
3019
4376
  "other_part": null,
3020
- "color_indicator": null
4377
+ "color_indicator": null,
4378
+ "rulings": [
4379
+ {
4380
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4381
+ "text": "You can’t tap a single untapped Desert both to pay {1} and also to pay “Tap an untapped Desert you control.”"
4382
+ }
4383
+ ]
3021
4384
  },
3022
4385
  {
3023
4386
  "name": "Feral Prowler",
@@ -3043,7 +4406,8 @@
3043
4406
  "loyalty": null,
3044
4407
  "multiverse_id": 430804,
3045
4408
  "other_part": null,
3046
- "color_indicator": null
4409
+ "color_indicator": null,
4410
+ "rulings": []
3047
4411
  },
3048
4412
  {
3049
4413
  "name": "Frilled Sandwalla",
@@ -3069,7 +4433,8 @@
3069
4433
  "loyalty": null,
3070
4434
  "multiverse_id": 430805,
3071
4435
  "other_part": null,
3072
- "color_indicator": null
4436
+ "color_indicator": null,
4437
+ "rulings": []
3073
4438
  },
3074
4439
  {
3075
4440
  "name": "Gift of Strength",
@@ -3093,7 +4458,8 @@
3093
4458
  "loyalty": null,
3094
4459
  "multiverse_id": 430806,
3095
4460
  "other_part": null,
3096
- "color_indicator": null
4461
+ "color_indicator": null,
4462
+ "rulings": []
3097
4463
  },
3098
4464
  {
3099
4465
  "name": "Harrier Naga",
@@ -3118,7 +4484,8 @@
3118
4484
  "loyalty": null,
3119
4485
  "multiverse_id": 430807,
3120
4486
  "other_part": null,
3121
- "color_indicator": null
4487
+ "color_indicator": null,
4488
+ "rulings": []
3122
4489
  },
3123
4490
  {
3124
4491
  "name": "Hope Tender",
@@ -3146,7 +4513,25 @@
3146
4513
  "loyalty": null,
3147
4514
  "multiverse_id": 430808,
3148
4515
  "other_part": null,
3149
- "color_indicator": null
4516
+ "color_indicator": null,
4517
+ "rulings": [
4518
+ {
4519
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
4520
+ "text": "You can’t exert a creature unless an effect allows you to do so. Similar effects that “tap and freeze” a creature (such as that of Decision Paralysis) don’t exert that creature."
4521
+ },
4522
+ {
4523
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
4524
+ "text": "If an exerted creature is already untapped during your next untap step (most likely because it had vigilance or an effect untapped it), exert’s effect preventing it from untapping expires without having done anything."
4525
+ },
4526
+ {
4527
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
4528
+ "text": "If you gain control of another player’s creature until end of turn and exert it, it will untap during that player’s untap step."
4529
+ },
4530
+ {
4531
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4532
+ "text": "Some cards in the Hour of Devastation set let you exert a creature as a cost to activate one of its abilities. You can exert it to pay that cost even if you’ve already exerted it earlier in the turn. Exerting it multiple times will keep it tapped only during your next untap step."
4533
+ }
4534
+ ]
3150
4535
  },
3151
4536
  {
3152
4537
  "name": "Hour of Promise",
@@ -3170,7 +4555,17 @@
3170
4555
  "loyalty": null,
3171
4556
  "multiverse_id": 430809,
3172
4557
  "other_part": null,
3173
- "color_indicator": null
4558
+ "color_indicator": null,
4559
+ "rulings": [
4560
+ {
4561
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4562
+ "text": "When Hour of Promise checks the number of Deserts you control, it includes any Deserts you found earlier with Hour of Promise."
4563
+ },
4564
+ {
4565
+ "date": "1/19/2018",
4566
+ "text": "There are many important moments in the story, but the most crucial—called “story spotlights”—are shown on cards. These cards have the Planeswalker symbol in their text box; this symbol has no effect on gameplay. You can read more about these events in the official Magic fiction at http://www.mtgstory.com."
4567
+ }
4568
+ ]
3174
4569
  },
3175
4570
  {
3176
4571
  "name": "Life Goes On",
@@ -3194,7 +4589,17 @@
3194
4589
  "loyalty": null,
3195
4590
  "multiverse_id": 430810,
3196
4591
  "other_part": null,
3197
- "color_indicator": null
4592
+ "color_indicator": null,
4593
+ "rulings": [
4594
+ {
4595
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4596
+ "text": "You won’t gain more than 8 life if more than one creature died this turn."
4597
+ },
4598
+ {
4599
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4600
+ "text": "Life Goes On checks whether a creature has died during the turn only as it resolves."
4601
+ }
4602
+ ]
3198
4603
  },
3199
4604
  {
3200
4605
  "name": "Majestic Myriarch",
@@ -3221,7 +4626,29 @@
3221
4626
  "loyalty": null,
3222
4627
  "multiverse_id": 430811,
3223
4628
  "other_part": null,
3224
- "color_indicator": null
4629
+ "color_indicator": null,
4630
+ "rulings": [
4631
+ {
4632
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4633
+ "text": "Majestic Myriarch’s first ability applies in all zones. While it’s on the battlefield, it counts itself, so it’ll be at least 2/2."
4634
+ },
4635
+ {
4636
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4637
+ "text": "Majestic Myriarch’s second ability triggers at the beginning of each combat, not just combat on your turn, whether or not any creatures you control have any of the listed abilities."
4638
+ },
4639
+ {
4640
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4641
+ "text": "Which abilities Majestic Myriarch gains is determined as the ability resolves. They won’t change even if every other creature that has the abilities leaves the battlefield or if creatures enter the battlefield or gain abilities."
4642
+ },
4643
+ {
4644
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4645
+ "text": "If a creature gains one of the listed abilities before Majestic Mryiarch’s triggered ability resolves, perhaps due to another ability that triggered at the beginning of combat, Majestic Myriarch will gain that ability."
4646
+ },
4647
+ {
4648
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4649
+ "text": "Multiple instances of any of the abilities Majestic Myriarch can gain are redundant."
4650
+ }
4651
+ ]
3225
4652
  },
3226
4653
  {
3227
4654
  "name": "Nissa's Defeat",
@@ -3245,7 +4672,13 @@
3245
4672
  "loyalty": null,
3246
4673
  "multiverse_id": 430812,
3247
4674
  "other_part": null,
3248
- "color_indicator": null
4675
+ "color_indicator": null,
4676
+ "rulings": [
4677
+ {
4678
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4679
+ "text": "Most nonbasic lands that produce green mana aren’t Forests. For example, Desert of the Indomitable isn’t a Forest. Some nonbasic lands (such as Sheltered Thicket from the Amonkhet set) do have basic land types printed on the type line and may be Forests."
4680
+ }
4681
+ ]
3249
4682
  },
3250
4683
  {
3251
4684
  "name": "Oasis Ritualist",
@@ -3273,7 +4706,25 @@
3273
4706
  "loyalty": null,
3274
4707
  "multiverse_id": 430813,
3275
4708
  "other_part": null,
3276
- "color_indicator": null
4709
+ "color_indicator": null,
4710
+ "rulings": [
4711
+ {
4712
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
4713
+ "text": "You can’t exert a creature unless an effect allows you to do so. Similar effects that “tap and freeze” a creature (such as that of Decision Paralysis) don’t exert that creature."
4714
+ },
4715
+ {
4716
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
4717
+ "text": "If an exerted creature is already untapped during your next untap step (most likely because it had vigilance or an effect untapped it), exert’s effect preventing it from untapping expires without having done anything."
4718
+ },
4719
+ {
4720
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
4721
+ "text": "If you gain control of another player’s creature until end of turn and exert it, it will untap during that player’s untap step."
4722
+ },
4723
+ {
4724
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4725
+ "text": "Some cards in the Hour of Devastation set let you exert a creature as a cost to activate one of its abilities. You can exert it to pay that cost even if you’ve already exerted it earlier in the turn. Exerting it multiple times will keep it tapped only during your next untap step."
4726
+ }
4727
+ ]
3277
4728
  },
3278
4729
  {
3279
4730
  "name": "Overcome",
@@ -3297,7 +4748,8 @@
3297
4748
  "loyalty": null,
3298
4749
  "multiverse_id": 430814,
3299
4750
  "other_part": null,
3300
- "color_indicator": null
4751
+ "color_indicator": null,
4752
+ "rulings": []
3301
4753
  },
3302
4754
  {
3303
4755
  "name": "Pride Sovereign",
@@ -3324,7 +4776,29 @@
3324
4776
  "loyalty": null,
3325
4777
  "multiverse_id": 430815,
3326
4778
  "other_part": null,
3327
- "color_indicator": null
4779
+ "color_indicator": null,
4780
+ "rulings": [
4781
+ {
4782
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
4783
+ "text": "You can’t exert a creature unless an effect allows you to do so. Similar effects that “tap and freeze” a creature (such as that of Decision Paralysis) don’t exert that creature."
4784
+ },
4785
+ {
4786
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
4787
+ "text": "If an exerted creature is already untapped during your next untap step (most likely because it had vigilance or an effect untapped it), exert’s effect preventing it from untapping expires without having done anything."
4788
+ },
4789
+ {
4790
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
4791
+ "text": "If you gain control of another player’s creature until end of turn and exert it, it will untap during that player’s untap step."
4792
+ },
4793
+ {
4794
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4795
+ "text": "Because damage remains marked on a creature until it’s removed as the turn ends, the damage Pride Sovereign takes during combat may become lethal if other Cats you control leave the battlefield later in the turn."
4796
+ },
4797
+ {
4798
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4799
+ "text": "Some cards in the Hour of Devastation set let you exert a creature as a cost to activate one of its abilities. You can exert it to pay that cost even if you’ve already exerted it earlier in the turn. Exerting it multiple times will keep it tapped only during your next untap step."
4800
+ }
4801
+ ]
3328
4802
  },
3329
4803
  {
3330
4804
  "name": "Quarry Beetle",
@@ -3350,7 +4824,13 @@
3350
4824
  "loyalty": null,
3351
4825
  "multiverse_id": 430816,
3352
4826
  "other_part": null,
3353
- "color_indicator": null
4827
+ "color_indicator": null,
4828
+ "rulings": [
4829
+ {
4830
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4831
+ "text": "Quarry Beetle’s ability doesn’t count as playing a land. It can return a land card to the battlefield even if you’ve already played as many lands as able this turn."
4832
+ }
4833
+ ]
3354
4834
  },
3355
4835
  {
3356
4836
  "name": "Rampaging Hippo",
@@ -3377,7 +4857,8 @@
3377
4857
  "loyalty": null,
3378
4858
  "multiverse_id": 430817,
3379
4859
  "other_part": null,
3380
- "color_indicator": null
4860
+ "color_indicator": null,
4861
+ "rulings": []
3381
4862
  },
3382
4863
  {
3383
4864
  "name": "Ramunap Excavator",
@@ -3404,7 +4885,17 @@
3404
4885
  "loyalty": null,
3405
4886
  "multiverse_id": 430818,
3406
4887
  "other_part": null,
3407
- "color_indicator": null
4888
+ "color_indicator": null,
4889
+ "rulings": [
4890
+ {
4891
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4892
+ "text": "Ramunap Excavator doesn’t change the times when you can play those land cards. You can still play only one land per turn, and only during your main phase when you have priority and the stack is empty."
4893
+ },
4894
+ {
4895
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4896
+ "text": "Ramunap Excavator doesn’t allow you to activate activated abilities (such as cycling) of land cards in your graveyard."
4897
+ }
4898
+ ]
3408
4899
  },
3409
4900
  {
3410
4901
  "name": "Ramunap Hydra",
@@ -3433,7 +4924,13 @@
3433
4924
  "loyalty": null,
3434
4925
  "multiverse_id": 430819,
3435
4926
  "other_part": null,
3436
- "color_indicator": null
4927
+ "color_indicator": null,
4928
+ "rulings": [
4929
+ {
4930
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4931
+ "text": "Unlike other cards in this set that care only whether you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, Ramunap Hydra’s abilities reward you for meeting both conditions. If you control one or more Deserts and have one or more Desert cards in your graveyard, it’ll get +2/+2."
4932
+ }
4933
+ ]
3437
4934
  },
3438
4935
  {
3439
4936
  "name": "Resilient Khenra",
@@ -3461,7 +4958,45 @@
3461
4958
  "loyalty": null,
3462
4959
  "multiverse_id": 430820,
3463
4960
  "other_part": null,
3464
- "color_indicator": null
4961
+ "color_indicator": null,
4962
+ "rulings": [
4963
+ {
4964
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4965
+ "text": "The value of X is determined only as Resilient Khenra’s triggered ability resolves. Once that happens, the value of X won’t change later in the turn even if Resilient Khenra’s power changes."
4966
+ },
4967
+ {
4968
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4969
+ "text": "If Resilient Khenra leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, use its power as it last existed on the battlefield to determine the value of X."
4970
+ },
4971
+ {
4972
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4973
+ "text": "If Resilient Khenra’s power is negative as its triggered ability resolves, X is considered to be 0. (This is a change from previous rules.)"
4974
+ },
4975
+ {
4976
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4977
+ "text": "For each card with eternalize, a corresponding game play supplement token can be found in some Hour of Devastation booster packs. These supplements are not required to play with cards with eternalize; you can use the same items to represent an eternalized token as you would any other token."
4978
+ },
4979
+ {
4980
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4981
+ "text": "If a creature card with eternalize is put into your graveyard during your main phase, you’ll have priority immediately afterward. You can activate its eternalize ability before any player can try to exile it, such as with Crook of Condemnation, if it’s legal for you to do so."
4982
+ },
4983
+ {
4984
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4985
+ "text": "Once you’ve activated an eternalize ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
4986
+ },
4987
+ {
4988
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4989
+ "text": "The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics specifically modified by eternalize. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard."
4990
+ },
4991
+ {
4992
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4993
+ "text": "The token is a Zombie in addition to its other types and is black instead of its other colors. Its base power and toughness are 4/4. It has no mana cost, and thus its converted mana cost is 0. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy."
4994
+ },
4995
+ {
4996
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
4997
+ "text": "If the card copied by the token had any “when [this permanent] enters the battlefield” abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it’s created. Similarly, any “as [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[this permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities that the token has copied will also work."
4998
+ }
4999
+ ]
3465
5000
  },
3466
5001
  {
3467
5002
  "name": "Rhonas's Last Stand",
@@ -3485,7 +5020,17 @@
3485
5020
  "loyalty": null,
3486
5021
  "multiverse_id": 430821,
3487
5022
  "other_part": null,
3488
- "color_indicator": null
5023
+ "color_indicator": null,
5024
+ "rulings": [
5025
+ {
5026
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5027
+ "text": "No lands that you control will untap during your next untap step, even lands that aren’t tapped as this spell resolves. This includes lands that enter the battlefield after this spell resolves."
5028
+ },
5029
+ {
5030
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5031
+ "text": "If more than one spell says that lands you control don’t untap during your next untap step, the effects will all wear off during that untap step. You’ll untap lands you control during your untap step after that one."
5032
+ }
5033
+ ]
3489
5034
  },
3490
5035
  {
3491
5036
  "name": "Rhonas's Stalwart",
@@ -3512,7 +5057,29 @@
3512
5057
  "loyalty": null,
3513
5058
  "multiverse_id": 430822,
3514
5059
  "other_part": null,
3515
- "color_indicator": null
5060
+ "color_indicator": null,
5061
+ "rulings": [
5062
+ {
5063
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5064
+ "text": "You can’t exert a creature unless an effect allows you to do so. Similar effects that “tap and freeze” a creature (such as that of Decision Paralysis) don’t exert that creature."
5065
+ },
5066
+ {
5067
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5068
+ "text": "If an exerted creature is already untapped during your next untap step (most likely because it had vigilance or an effect untapped it), exert’s effect preventing it from untapping expires without having done anything."
5069
+ },
5070
+ {
5071
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5072
+ "text": "If you gain control of another player’s creature until end of turn and exert it, it will untap during that player’s untap step."
5073
+ },
5074
+ {
5075
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5076
+ "text": "All cards in the Amonkhet set that let you exert a creature let you do so as you declare it as an attacking creature, as do some of the cards in the Hour of Devastation set. You can’t do so later in combat, and creatures put onto the battlefield attacking can’t be exerted. Any abilities that trigger on exerting an attacking creature will resolve before blockers are declared."
5077
+ },
5078
+ {
5079
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5080
+ "text": "Once a creature with power 3 or greater has blocked an exerted Rhonas’s Stalwart, changing the power of the blocking creature won’t cause Rhonas’s Stalwart to become unblocked."
5081
+ }
5082
+ ]
3516
5083
  },
3517
5084
  {
3518
5085
  "name": "Sidewinder Naga",
@@ -3539,7 +5106,13 @@
3539
5106
  "loyalty": null,
3540
5107
  "multiverse_id": 430823,
3541
5108
  "other_part": null,
3542
- "color_indicator": null
5109
+ "color_indicator": null,
5110
+ "rulings": [
5111
+ {
5112
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5113
+ "text": "If an ability checks whether you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, having more than one doesn’t matter. Controlling one is the same as controlling five. There is also no extra bonus for both controlling one and having one in your graveyard."
5114
+ }
5115
+ ]
3543
5116
  },
3544
5117
  {
3545
5118
  "name": "Sifter Wurm",
@@ -3566,7 +5139,21 @@
3566
5139
  "loyalty": null,
3567
5140
  "multiverse_id": 430824,
3568
5141
  "other_part": null,
3569
- "color_indicator": null
5142
+ "color_indicator": null,
5143
+ "rulings": [
5144
+ {
5145
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5146
+ "text": "Once Sifter Wurm’s triggered ability begins to resolve, no player may take other actions until it’s done. Notably, opponents can’t try to change your library after you scry but before you reveal the top card of your library."
5147
+ },
5148
+ {
5149
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5150
+ "text": "For cards in your library with {X} in their mana costs, X is considered to be 0."
5151
+ },
5152
+ {
5153
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5154
+ "text": "The converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves."
5155
+ }
5156
+ ]
3570
5157
  },
3571
5158
  {
3572
5159
  "name": "Tenacious Hunter",
@@ -3592,7 +5179,17 @@
3592
5179
  "loyalty": null,
3593
5180
  "multiverse_id": 430825,
3594
5181
  "other_part": null,
3595
- "color_indicator": null
5182
+ "color_indicator": null,
5183
+ "rulings": [
5184
+ {
5185
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5186
+ "text": "A creature with a -1/-1 counter on it controlled by any player satisfies Tenacious Hunter’s ability."
5187
+ },
5188
+ {
5189
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5190
+ "text": "If Tenacious Hunter loses vigilance after attacking, it will remain untapped."
5191
+ }
5192
+ ]
3596
5193
  },
3597
5194
  {
3598
5195
  "name": "Uncage the Menagerie",
@@ -3616,7 +5213,17 @@
3616
5213
  "loyalty": null,
3617
5214
  "multiverse_id": 430826,
3618
5215
  "other_part": null,
3619
- "color_indicator": null
5216
+ "color_indicator": null,
5217
+ "rulings": [
5218
+ {
5219
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5220
+ "text": "If you cast Uncage the Menagerie with X as 0, you’ll search your library and shuffle it, but you won’t be able to find any cards."
5221
+ },
5222
+ {
5223
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5224
+ "text": "For cards in your library with {X} in their mana costs, X is considered to be 0."
5225
+ }
5226
+ ]
3620
5227
  },
3621
5228
  {
3622
5229
  "name": "Bloodwater Entity",
@@ -3644,7 +5251,8 @@
3644
5251
  "loyalty": null,
3645
5252
  "multiverse_id": 430827,
3646
5253
  "other_part": null,
3647
- "color_indicator": null
5254
+ "color_indicator": null,
5255
+ "rulings": []
3648
5256
  },
3649
5257
  {
3650
5258
  "name": "The Locust God",
@@ -3675,7 +5283,21 @@
3675
5283
  "loyalty": null,
3676
5284
  "multiverse_id": 430828,
3677
5285
  "other_part": null,
3678
- "color_indicator": null
5286
+ "color_indicator": null,
5287
+ "rulings": [
5288
+ {
5289
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5290
+ "text": "If a spell or ability causes you to put cards into your hand without specifically using the word “draw,” The Locust God’s first triggered ability won’t trigger."
5291
+ },
5292
+ {
5293
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5294
+ "text": "If this creature dies but leaves your graveyard before the next end step, it will remain in its new zone."
5295
+ },
5296
+ {
5297
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5298
+ "text": "The “next end step” refers to the next end step that occurs, not the end step of the next turn. If this creature dies before a turn’s end step (for example, during combat), it will be returned to its owner’s hand at the beginning of that turn’s end step."
5299
+ }
5300
+ ]
3679
5301
  },
3680
5302
  {
3681
5303
  "name": "Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh",
@@ -3706,7 +5328,41 @@
3706
5328
  "loyalty": "7",
3707
5329
  "multiverse_id": 430829,
3708
5330
  "other_part": null,
3709
- "color_indicator": null
5331
+ "color_indicator": null,
5332
+ "rulings": [
5333
+ {
5334
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5335
+ "text": "The cards exiled by Nicol Bolas’s first and second abilities are exiled face up."
5336
+ },
5337
+ {
5338
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5339
+ "text": "You may cast the nonland card exiled by Nicol Bolas’s first ability that turn even if Nicol Bolas is no longer on the battlefield or under your control."
5340
+ },
5341
+ {
5342
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5343
+ "text": "Casting the card exiled with Nicol Bolas’s first ability follows the normal timing rules for casting that card. For example, if the card is a creature card, you can cast that card only during your main phase while the stack is empty."
5344
+ },
5345
+ {
5346
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5347
+ "text": "If you don’t cast the card exiled by Nicol Bolas’s first ability that turn, it will remain exiled."
5348
+ },
5349
+ {
5350
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5351
+ "text": "If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as emerge costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Tormenting Voice, you must pay those to cast the card."
5352
+ },
5353
+ {
5354
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5355
+ "text": "If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost."
5356
+ },
5357
+ {
5358
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5359
+ "text": "While resolving Nicol Bolas’s second ability, each opponent chooses which cards to exile from their hand. Any opponent with two or fewer cards exiles their entire hand."
5360
+ },
5361
+ {
5362
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5363
+ "text": "In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spell or permanent cards you control from Nicol Bolas’s first ability are exiled."
5364
+ }
5365
+ ]
3710
5366
  },
3711
5367
  {
3712
5368
  "name": "Obelisk Spider",
@@ -3734,7 +5390,37 @@
3734
5390
  "loyalty": null,
3735
5391
  "multiverse_id": 430830,
3736
5392
  "other_part": null,
3737
- "color_indicator": null
5393
+ "color_indicator": null,
5394
+ "rulings": [
5395
+ {
5396
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5397
+ "text": "If a creature with wither or infect deals damage to a creature, the controller of the creature with wither or infect puts that many -1/-1 counters on the second creature."
5398
+ },
5399
+ {
5400
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5401
+ "text": "Obelisk Spider’s first triggered ability puts only one -1/-1 counter on the creature, no matter how much combat damage it dealt."
5402
+ },
5403
+ {
5404
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5405
+ "text": "If Obelisk Spider deals combat damage to a creature but that creature isn’t on the battlefield as Obelisk Spider’s first triggered ability resolves, most likely because Obelisk Spider killed that creature already, that ability won’t put a -1/-1 counter on it."
5406
+ },
5407
+ {
5408
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5409
+ "text": "Because damage remains marked on a creature until it’s removed as the turn ends, the counter Obelisk Spider’s first triggered ability puts on a creature may cause previously marked damage to become lethal."
5410
+ },
5411
+ {
5412
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5413
+ "text": "If Obelisk Spider deals combat damage to a creature at the same time Obelisk Spider is dealt lethal damage, its first triggered ability will put a -1/-1 counter on the other creature. However, because Obelisk Spider has left the battlefield before that ability resolves, its last ability won’t trigger."
5414
+ },
5415
+ {
5416
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5417
+ "text": "If you put one or more -1/-1 counter on each of multiple creatures at the same time, Obelisk Spider’s last ability triggers once for each of those creatures."
5418
+ },
5419
+ {
5420
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5421
+ "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, Obelisk Spider’s last ability causes the opposing team to lose 2 life and you gain 1 life."
5422
+ }
5423
+ ]
3738
5424
  },
3739
5425
  {
3740
5426
  "name": "Resolute Survivors",
@@ -3762,7 +5448,33 @@
3762
5448
  "loyalty": null,
3763
5449
  "multiverse_id": 430831,
3764
5450
  "other_part": null,
3765
- "color_indicator": null
5451
+ "color_indicator": null,
5452
+ "rulings": [
5453
+ {
5454
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5455
+ "text": "You can’t exert a creature unless an effect allows you to do so. Similar effects that “tap and freeze” a creature (such as that of Decision Paralysis) don’t exert that creature."
5456
+ },
5457
+ {
5458
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5459
+ "text": "If an exerted creature is already untapped during your next untap step (most likely because it had vigilance or an effect untapped it), exert’s effect preventing it from untapping expires without having done anything."
5460
+ },
5461
+ {
5462
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5463
+ "text": "If you gain control of another player’s creature until end of turn and exert it, it will untap during that player’s untap step."
5464
+ },
5465
+ {
5466
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5467
+ "text": "Some cards have abilities that trigger whenever you exert any creature. These abilities trigger when you exert that creature or any other creature you control."
5468
+ },
5469
+ {
5470
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5471
+ "text": "All cards in the Amonkhet set that let you exert a creature let you do so as you declare it as an attacking creature, as do some of the cards in the Hour of Devastation set. You can’t do so later in combat, and creatures put onto the battlefield attacking can’t be exerted. Any abilities that trigger on exerting an attacking creature will resolve before blockers are declared."
5472
+ },
5473
+ {
5474
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5475
+ "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, Resolute Survivors’s last ability causes it to deal a total of 2 damage to the opposing team and you gain 1 life."
5476
+ }
5477
+ ]
3766
5478
  },
3767
5479
  {
3768
5480
  "name": "River Hoopoe",
@@ -3789,7 +5501,8 @@
3789
5501
  "loyalty": null,
3790
5502
  "multiverse_id": 430832,
3791
5503
  "other_part": null,
3792
- "color_indicator": null
5504
+ "color_indicator": null,
5505
+ "rulings": []
3793
5506
  },
3794
5507
  {
3795
5508
  "name": "Samut, the Tested",
@@ -3819,7 +5532,21 @@
3819
5532
  "loyalty": "4",
3820
5533
  "multiverse_id": 430833,
3821
5534
  "other_part": null,
3822
- "color_indicator": null
5535
+ "color_indicator": null,
5536
+ "rulings": [
5537
+ {
5538
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5539
+ "text": "You divide the damage as you activate Samut’s second ability, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage. In other words, as you activate the ability, you choose whether to have it deal 2 damage to a single target, or deal 1 damage to each of two targets."
5540
+ },
5541
+ {
5542
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5543
+ "text": "If Samut’s second ability has two targets and one becomes an illegal target, the remaining target is dealt 1 damage, not 2."
5544
+ },
5545
+ {
5546
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5547
+ "text": "While resolving Samut’s last ability, all of the creatures and planeswalkers put onto the battlefield this way enter at the same time. If any have triggered abilities that trigger on something else entering the battlefield, they’ll see each other."
5548
+ }
5549
+ ]
3823
5550
  },
3824
5551
  {
3825
5552
  "name": "The Scarab God",
@@ -3849,7 +5576,41 @@
3849
5576
  "loyalty": null,
3850
5577
  "multiverse_id": 430834,
3851
5578
  "other_part": null,
3852
- "color_indicator": null
5579
+ "color_indicator": null,
5580
+ "rulings": [
5581
+ {
5582
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5583
+ "text": "The number of Zombies you control is counted as The Scarab God’s first ability resolves. Players can try to change that number in response to the ability (perhaps by activating its second ability)."
5584
+ },
5585
+ {
5586
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5587
+ "text": "The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics it specifically modifies. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into its owner’s graveyard."
5588
+ },
5589
+ {
5590
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5591
+ "text": "The token is a Zombie instead of its other types (unlike Zombies created by an eternalize ability) and is black instead of its other colors. Its power and toughness are 4/4. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy."
5592
+ },
5593
+ {
5594
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5595
+ "text": "Unlike the tokens created by an eternalize ability, this token has the mana cost and thus converted mana cost of the card it’s copying."
5596
+ },
5597
+ {
5598
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5599
+ "text": "If the card copied by the token had any “when [this permanent] enters the battlefield” abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it’s created. Similarly, any “as [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[this permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities that the token has copied will also work."
5600
+ },
5601
+ {
5602
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5603
+ "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, The Scarab God’s first ability causes the opposing team to lose life equal to twice the number of Zombies you control, although you scry only equal to the number of Zombies you control."
5604
+ },
5605
+ {
5606
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5607
+ "text": "If this creature dies but leaves your graveyard before the next end step, it will remain in its new zone."
5608
+ },
5609
+ {
5610
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5611
+ "text": "The “next end step” refers to the next end step that occurs, not the end step of the next turn. If this creature dies before a turn’s end step (for example, during combat), it will be returned to its owner’s hand at the beginning of that turn’s end step."
5612
+ }
5613
+ ]
3853
5614
  },
3854
5615
  {
3855
5616
  "name": "The Scorpion God",
@@ -3879,7 +5640,25 @@
3879
5640
  "loyalty": null,
3880
5641
  "multiverse_id": 430835,
3881
5642
  "other_part": null,
3882
- "color_indicator": null
5643
+ "color_indicator": null,
5644
+ "rulings": [
5645
+ {
5646
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5647
+ "text": "You’ll draw only one card when a creature with more than one -1/-1 counter on it dies."
5648
+ },
5649
+ {
5650
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5651
+ "text": "If a creature with a -1/-1 counter on it dies at the same time as The Scorpion God does, you’ll draw a card. The same is true if The Scorpion God dies with a -1/-1 counter on it."
5652
+ },
5653
+ {
5654
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5655
+ "text": "If this creature dies but leaves your graveyard before the next end step, it will remain in its new zone."
5656
+ },
5657
+ {
5658
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5659
+ "text": "The “next end step” refers to the next end step that occurs, not the end step of the next turn. If this creature dies before a turn’s end step (for example, during combat), it will be returned to its owner’s hand at the beginning of that turn’s end step."
5660
+ }
5661
+ ]
3883
5662
  },
3884
5663
  {
3885
5664
  "name": "Unraveling Mummy",
@@ -3906,7 +5685,21 @@
3906
5685
  "loyalty": null,
3907
5686
  "multiverse_id": 430836,
3908
5687
  "other_part": null,
3909
- "color_indicator": null
5688
+ "color_indicator": null,
5689
+ "rulings": [
5690
+ {
5691
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5692
+ "text": "Unraveling Mummy’s abilities can target itself while it’s attacking."
5693
+ },
5694
+ {
5695
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5696
+ "text": "The target Zombie will still have lifelink or deathtouch even after combat when it stops being an attacking creature."
5697
+ },
5698
+ {
5699
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5700
+ "text": "Multiple instances of lifelink and deathtouch are redundant."
5701
+ }
5702
+ ]
3910
5703
  },
3911
5704
  {
3912
5705
  "name": "Farm (Farm/Market)",
@@ -3930,7 +5723,45 @@
3930
5723
  "loyalty": null,
3931
5724
  "multiverse_id": 430837,
3932
5725
  "other_part": "Market (Farm/Market)",
3933
- "color_indicator": null
5726
+ "color_indicator": null,
5727
+ "rulings": [
5728
+ {
5729
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5730
+ "text": "Split cards with aftermath have a new frame treatment—the half you can cast from your hand is oriented the same as other cards you’d cast from your hand, while the half you can cast from your graveyard is a traditional split card half. This frame treatment is for your convenience and has no rules significance."
5731
+ },
5732
+ {
5733
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5734
+ "text": "All split cards have two card faces on a single card, and you put a split card onto the stack with only the half you’re casting. The characteristics of the half of the card you didn’t cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. For example, if an effect prevents you from casting green spells, you can cast Destined of Destined // Lead, but not Lead."
5735
+ },
5736
+ {
5737
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5738
+ "text": "Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard one, you’ve discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Destined // Lead counts once, not twice."
5739
+ },
5740
+ {
5741
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5742
+ "text": "Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one, but not both."
5743
+ },
5744
+ {
5745
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5746
+ "text": "While not on the stack, the characteristics of a split card are the combination of its two halves. For example, Destined // Lead is a green and black card, it is both an instant card and a sorcery card, and its converted mana cost is 6. This means that if an effect allows you to cast a card with converted mana cost 2 from your hand, you can’t cast Destined. This is a change from the previous rules for split cards."
5747
+ },
5748
+ {
5749
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5750
+ "text": "If you cast the first half of a split card with aftermath during your turn, you’ll have priority immediately after it resolves. You can cast the half with aftermath from your graveyard before any player can take any other action if it’s legal for you to do so."
5751
+ },
5752
+ {
5753
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5754
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from any zone other than a graveyard, you can’t cast the half with aftermath."
5755
+ },
5756
+ {
5757
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5758
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from a graveyard, you may cast either half. If you cast the half that has aftermath, you’ll exile the card if it would leave the stack."
5759
+ },
5760
+ {
5761
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5762
+ "text": "A spell with aftermath cast from a graveyard will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it’s countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way."
5763
+ }
5764
+ ]
3934
5765
  },
3935
5766
  {
3936
5767
  "name": "Market (Farm/Market)",
@@ -3955,7 +5786,13 @@
3955
5786
  "loyalty": null,
3956
5787
  "multiverse_id": 430837,
3957
5788
  "other_part": "Farm (Farm/Market)",
3958
- "color_indicator": null
5789
+ "color_indicator": null,
5790
+ "rulings": [
5791
+ {
5792
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5793
+ "text": "Once you’ve started to cast a spell with aftermath from your graveyard, the card is immediately moved to the stack. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
5794
+ }
5795
+ ]
3959
5796
  },
3960
5797
  {
3961
5798
  "name": "Consign (Consign/Oblivion)",
@@ -3979,7 +5816,45 @@
3979
5816
  "loyalty": null,
3980
5817
  "multiverse_id": 430838,
3981
5818
  "other_part": "Oblivion (Consign/Oblivion)",
3982
- "color_indicator": null
5819
+ "color_indicator": null,
5820
+ "rulings": [
5821
+ {
5822
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5823
+ "text": "Split cards with aftermath have a new frame treatment—the half you can cast from your hand is oriented the same as other cards you’d cast from your hand, while the half you can cast from your graveyard is a traditional split card half. This frame treatment is for your convenience and has no rules significance."
5824
+ },
5825
+ {
5826
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5827
+ "text": "All split cards have two card faces on a single card, and you put a split card onto the stack with only the half you’re casting. The characteristics of the half of the card you didn’t cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. For example, if an effect prevents you from casting green spells, you can cast Destined of Destined // Lead, but not Lead."
5828
+ },
5829
+ {
5830
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5831
+ "text": "Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard one, you’ve discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Destined // Lead counts once, not twice."
5832
+ },
5833
+ {
5834
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5835
+ "text": "Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one, but not both."
5836
+ },
5837
+ {
5838
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5839
+ "text": "While not on the stack, the characteristics of a split card are the combination of its two halves. For example, Destined // Lead is a green and black card, it is both an instant card and a sorcery card, and its converted mana cost is 6. This means that if an effect allows you to cast a card with converted mana cost 2 from your hand, you can’t cast Destined. This is a change from the previous rules for split cards."
5840
+ },
5841
+ {
5842
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5843
+ "text": "If you cast the first half of a split card with aftermath during your turn, you’ll have priority immediately after it resolves. You can cast the half with aftermath from your graveyard before any player can take any other action if it’s legal for you to do so."
5844
+ },
5845
+ {
5846
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5847
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from any zone other than a graveyard, you can’t cast the half with aftermath."
5848
+ },
5849
+ {
5850
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5851
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from a graveyard, you may cast either half. If you cast the half that has aftermath, you’ll exile the card if it would leave the stack."
5852
+ },
5853
+ {
5854
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5855
+ "text": "A spell with aftermath cast from a graveyard will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it’s countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way."
5856
+ }
5857
+ ]
3983
5858
  },
3984
5859
  {
3985
5860
  "name": "Oblivion (Consign/Oblivion)",
@@ -4004,7 +5879,13 @@
4004
5879
  "loyalty": null,
4005
5880
  "multiverse_id": 430838,
4006
5881
  "other_part": "Consign (Consign/Oblivion)",
4007
- "color_indicator": null
5882
+ "color_indicator": null,
5883
+ "rulings": [
5884
+ {
5885
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5886
+ "text": "Once you’ve started to cast a spell with aftermath from your graveyard, the card is immediately moved to the stack. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
5887
+ }
5888
+ ]
4008
5889
  },
4009
5890
  {
4010
5891
  "name": "Claim (Claim/Fame)",
@@ -4028,7 +5909,45 @@
4028
5909
  "loyalty": null,
4029
5910
  "multiverse_id": 430839,
4030
5911
  "other_part": "Fame (Claim/Fame)",
4031
- "color_indicator": null
5912
+ "color_indicator": null,
5913
+ "rulings": [
5914
+ {
5915
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5916
+ "text": "Split cards with aftermath have a new frame treatment—the half you can cast from your hand is oriented the same as other cards you’d cast from your hand, while the half you can cast from your graveyard is a traditional split card half. This frame treatment is for your convenience and has no rules significance."
5917
+ },
5918
+ {
5919
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5920
+ "text": "All split cards have two card faces on a single card, and you put a split card onto the stack with only the half you’re casting. The characteristics of the half of the card you didn’t cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. For example, if an effect prevents you from casting green spells, you can cast Destined of Destined // Lead, but not Lead."
5921
+ },
5922
+ {
5923
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5924
+ "text": "Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard one, you’ve discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Destined // Lead counts once, not twice."
5925
+ },
5926
+ {
5927
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5928
+ "text": "Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one, but not both."
5929
+ },
5930
+ {
5931
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5932
+ "text": "While not on the stack, the characteristics of a split card are the combination of its two halves. For example, Destined // Lead is a green and black card, it is both an instant card and a sorcery card, and its converted mana cost is 6. This means that if an effect allows you to cast a card with converted mana cost 2 from your hand, you can’t cast Destined. This is a change from the previous rules for split cards."
5933
+ },
5934
+ {
5935
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5936
+ "text": "If you cast the first half of a split card with aftermath during your turn, you’ll have priority immediately after it resolves. You can cast the half with aftermath from your graveyard before any player can take any other action if it’s legal for you to do so."
5937
+ },
5938
+ {
5939
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5940
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from any zone other than a graveyard, you can’t cast the half with aftermath."
5941
+ },
5942
+ {
5943
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5944
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from a graveyard, you may cast either half. If you cast the half that has aftermath, you’ll exile the card if it would leave the stack."
5945
+ },
5946
+ {
5947
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
5948
+ "text": "A spell with aftermath cast from a graveyard will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it’s countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way."
5949
+ }
5950
+ ]
4032
5951
  },
4033
5952
  {
4034
5953
  "name": "Fame (Claim/Fame)",
@@ -4053,7 +5972,13 @@
4053
5972
  "loyalty": null,
4054
5973
  "multiverse_id": 430839,
4055
5974
  "other_part": "Claim (Claim/Fame)",
4056
- "color_indicator": null
5975
+ "color_indicator": null,
5976
+ "rulings": [
5977
+ {
5978
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
5979
+ "text": "Once you’ve started to cast a spell with aftermath from your graveyard, the card is immediately moved to the stack. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
5980
+ }
5981
+ ]
4057
5982
  },
4058
5983
  {
4059
5984
  "name": "Struggle (Struggle/Survive)",
@@ -4077,7 +6002,45 @@
4077
6002
  "loyalty": null,
4078
6003
  "multiverse_id": 430840,
4079
6004
  "other_part": "Survive (Struggle/Survive)",
4080
- "color_indicator": null
6005
+ "color_indicator": null,
6006
+ "rulings": [
6007
+ {
6008
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6009
+ "text": "Split cards with aftermath have a new frame treatment—the half you can cast from your hand is oriented the same as other cards you’d cast from your hand, while the half you can cast from your graveyard is a traditional split card half. This frame treatment is for your convenience and has no rules significance."
6010
+ },
6011
+ {
6012
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6013
+ "text": "All split cards have two card faces on a single card, and you put a split card onto the stack with only the half you’re casting. The characteristics of the half of the card you didn’t cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. For example, if an effect prevents you from casting green spells, you can cast Destined of Destined // Lead, but not Lead."
6014
+ },
6015
+ {
6016
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6017
+ "text": "Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard one, you’ve discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Destined // Lead counts once, not twice."
6018
+ },
6019
+ {
6020
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6021
+ "text": "Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one, but not both."
6022
+ },
6023
+ {
6024
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6025
+ "text": "While not on the stack, the characteristics of a split card are the combination of its two halves. For example, Destined // Lead is a green and black card, it is both an instant card and a sorcery card, and its converted mana cost is 6. This means that if an effect allows you to cast a card with converted mana cost 2 from your hand, you can’t cast Destined. This is a change from the previous rules for split cards."
6026
+ },
6027
+ {
6028
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6029
+ "text": "If you cast the first half of a split card with aftermath during your turn, you’ll have priority immediately after it resolves. You can cast the half with aftermath from your graveyard before any player can take any other action if it’s legal for you to do so."
6030
+ },
6031
+ {
6032
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6033
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from any zone other than a graveyard, you can’t cast the half with aftermath."
6034
+ },
6035
+ {
6036
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6037
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from a graveyard, you may cast either half. If you cast the half that has aftermath, you’ll exile the card if it would leave the stack."
6038
+ },
6039
+ {
6040
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6041
+ "text": "A spell with aftermath cast from a graveyard will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it’s countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way."
6042
+ }
6043
+ ]
4081
6044
  },
4082
6045
  {
4083
6046
  "name": "Survive (Struggle/Survive)",
@@ -4102,7 +6065,17 @@
4102
6065
  "loyalty": null,
4103
6066
  "multiverse_id": 430840,
4104
6067
  "other_part": "Struggle (Struggle/Survive)",
4105
- "color_indicator": null
6068
+ "color_indicator": null,
6069
+ "rulings": [
6070
+ {
6071
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6072
+ "text": "If a player has no cards in their graveyard when Survive resolves, that player just shuffles their library."
6073
+ },
6074
+ {
6075
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6076
+ "text": "Once you’ve started to cast a spell with aftermath from your graveyard, the card is immediately moved to the stack. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
6077
+ }
6078
+ ]
4106
6079
  },
4107
6080
  {
4108
6081
  "name": "Appeal (Appeal/Authority)",
@@ -4126,7 +6099,49 @@
4126
6099
  "loyalty": null,
4127
6100
  "multiverse_id": 430841,
4128
6101
  "other_part": "Authority (Appeal/Authority)",
4129
- "color_indicator": null
6102
+ "color_indicator": null,
6103
+ "rulings": [
6104
+ {
6105
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6106
+ "text": "Split cards with aftermath have a new frame treatment—the half you can cast from your hand is oriented the same as other cards you’d cast from your hand, while the half you can cast from your graveyard is a traditional split card half. This frame treatment is for your convenience and has no rules significance."
6107
+ },
6108
+ {
6109
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6110
+ "text": "All split cards have two card faces on a single card, and you put a split card onto the stack with only the half you’re casting. The characteristics of the half of the card you didn’t cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. For example, if an effect prevents you from casting green spells, you can cast Destined of Destined // Lead, but not Lead."
6111
+ },
6112
+ {
6113
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6114
+ "text": "Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard one, you’ve discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Destined // Lead counts once, not twice."
6115
+ },
6116
+ {
6117
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6118
+ "text": "Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one, but not both."
6119
+ },
6120
+ {
6121
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6122
+ "text": "While not on the stack, the characteristics of a split card are the combination of its two halves. For example, Destined // Lead is a green and black card, it is both an instant card and a sorcery card, and its converted mana cost is 6. This means that if an effect allows you to cast a card with converted mana cost 2 from your hand, you can’t cast Destined. This is a change from the previous rules for split cards."
6123
+ },
6124
+ {
6125
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6126
+ "text": "If you cast the first half of a split card with aftermath during your turn, you’ll have priority immediately after it resolves. You can cast the half with aftermath from your graveyard before any player can take any other action if it’s legal for you to do so."
6127
+ },
6128
+ {
6129
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6130
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from any zone other than a graveyard, you can’t cast the half with aftermath."
6131
+ },
6132
+ {
6133
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6134
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from a graveyard, you may cast either half. If you cast the half that has aftermath, you’ll exile the card if it would leave the stack."
6135
+ },
6136
+ {
6137
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6138
+ "text": "A spell with aftermath cast from a graveyard will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it’s countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way."
6139
+ },
6140
+ {
6141
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6142
+ "text": "The value of X is determined only as Appeal begins to resolve. It won’t change later in the turn if the number of creatures you control changes."
6143
+ }
6144
+ ]
4130
6145
  },
4131
6146
  {
4132
6147
  "name": "Authority (Appeal/Authority)",
@@ -4151,7 +6166,17 @@
4151
6166
  "loyalty": null,
4152
6167
  "multiverse_id": 430841,
4153
6168
  "other_part": "Appeal (Appeal/Authority)",
4154
- "color_indicator": null
6169
+ "color_indicator": null,
6170
+ "rulings": [
6171
+ {
6172
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6173
+ "text": "You may cast Authority without choosing any target creatures. Creatures you control will still gain vigilance until end of turn. However, if you choose any targets and each of those targets become illegal before Authority resolves, the spell won’t resolve and your creatures won’t gain vigilance."
6174
+ },
6175
+ {
6176
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6177
+ "text": "Once you’ve started to cast a spell with aftermath from your graveyard, the card is immediately moved to the stack. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
6178
+ }
6179
+ ]
4155
6180
  },
4156
6181
  {
4157
6182
  "name": "Leave (Leave/Chance)",
@@ -4175,7 +6200,49 @@
4175
6200
  "loyalty": null,
4176
6201
  "multiverse_id": 430842,
4177
6202
  "other_part": "Chance (Leave/Chance)",
4178
- "color_indicator": null
6203
+ "color_indicator": null,
6204
+ "rulings": [
6205
+ {
6206
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6207
+ "text": "Split cards with aftermath have a new frame treatment—the half you can cast from your hand is oriented the same as other cards you’d cast from your hand, while the half you can cast from your graveyard is a traditional split card half. This frame treatment is for your convenience and has no rules significance."
6208
+ },
6209
+ {
6210
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6211
+ "text": "All split cards have two card faces on a single card, and you put a split card onto the stack with only the half you’re casting. The characteristics of the half of the card you didn’t cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. For example, if an effect prevents you from casting green spells, you can cast Destined of Destined // Lead, but not Lead."
6212
+ },
6213
+ {
6214
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6215
+ "text": "Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard one, you’ve discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Destined // Lead counts once, not twice."
6216
+ },
6217
+ {
6218
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6219
+ "text": "Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one, but not both."
6220
+ },
6221
+ {
6222
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6223
+ "text": "While not on the stack, the characteristics of a split card are the combination of its two halves. For example, Destined // Lead is a green and black card, it is both an instant card and a sorcery card, and its converted mana cost is 6. This means that if an effect allows you to cast a card with converted mana cost 2 from your hand, you can’t cast Destined. This is a change from the previous rules for split cards."
6224
+ },
6225
+ {
6226
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6227
+ "text": "If you cast the first half of a split card with aftermath during your turn, you’ll have priority immediately after it resolves. You can cast the half with aftermath from your graveyard before any player can take any other action if it’s legal for you to do so."
6228
+ },
6229
+ {
6230
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6231
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from any zone other than a graveyard, you can’t cast the half with aftermath."
6232
+ },
6233
+ {
6234
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6235
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from a graveyard, you may cast either half. If you cast the half that has aftermath, you’ll exile the card if it would leave the stack."
6236
+ },
6237
+ {
6238
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6239
+ "text": "A spell with aftermath cast from a graveyard will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it’s countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way."
6240
+ },
6241
+ {
6242
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6243
+ "text": "You are a permanent’s owner if the card representing it began the game in your deck, or if it’s a token that entered the battlefield under your control. Leave can target a permanent you own but don’t control."
6244
+ }
6245
+ ]
4179
6246
  },
4180
6247
  {
4181
6248
  "name": "Chance (Leave/Chance)",
@@ -4200,7 +6267,13 @@
4200
6267
  "loyalty": null,
4201
6268
  "multiverse_id": 430842,
4202
6269
  "other_part": "Leave (Leave/Chance)",
4203
- "color_indicator": null
6270
+ "color_indicator": null,
6271
+ "rulings": [
6272
+ {
6273
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6274
+ "text": "Once you’ve started to cast a spell with aftermath from your graveyard, the card is immediately moved to the stack. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
6275
+ }
6276
+ ]
4204
6277
  },
4205
6278
  {
4206
6279
  "name": "Reason (Reason/Believe)",
@@ -4224,7 +6297,45 @@
4224
6297
  "loyalty": null,
4225
6298
  "multiverse_id": 430843,
4226
6299
  "other_part": "Believe (Reason/Believe)",
4227
- "color_indicator": null
6300
+ "color_indicator": null,
6301
+ "rulings": [
6302
+ {
6303
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6304
+ "text": "Split cards with aftermath have a new frame treatment—the half you can cast from your hand is oriented the same as other cards you’d cast from your hand, while the half you can cast from your graveyard is a traditional split card half. This frame treatment is for your convenience and has no rules significance."
6305
+ },
6306
+ {
6307
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6308
+ "text": "All split cards have two card faces on a single card, and you put a split card onto the stack with only the half you’re casting. The characteristics of the half of the card you didn’t cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. For example, if an effect prevents you from casting green spells, you can cast Destined of Destined // Lead, but not Lead."
6309
+ },
6310
+ {
6311
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6312
+ "text": "Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard one, you’ve discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Destined // Lead counts once, not twice."
6313
+ },
6314
+ {
6315
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6316
+ "text": "Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one, but not both."
6317
+ },
6318
+ {
6319
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6320
+ "text": "While not on the stack, the characteristics of a split card are the combination of its two halves. For example, Destined // Lead is a green and black card, it is both an instant card and a sorcery card, and its converted mana cost is 6. This means that if an effect allows you to cast a card with converted mana cost 2 from your hand, you can’t cast Destined. This is a change from the previous rules for split cards."
6321
+ },
6322
+ {
6323
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6324
+ "text": "If you cast the first half of a split card with aftermath during your turn, you’ll have priority immediately after it resolves. You can cast the half with aftermath from your graveyard before any player can take any other action if it’s legal for you to do so."
6325
+ },
6326
+ {
6327
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6328
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from any zone other than a graveyard, you can’t cast the half with aftermath."
6329
+ },
6330
+ {
6331
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6332
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from a graveyard, you may cast either half. If you cast the half that has aftermath, you’ll exile the card if it would leave the stack."
6333
+ },
6334
+ {
6335
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6336
+ "text": "A spell with aftermath cast from a graveyard will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it’s countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way."
6337
+ }
6338
+ ]
4228
6339
  },
4229
6340
  {
4230
6341
  "name": "Believe (Reason/Believe)",
@@ -4249,7 +6360,21 @@
4249
6360
  "loyalty": null,
4250
6361
  "multiverse_id": 430843,
4251
6362
  "other_part": "Reason (Reason/Believe)",
4252
- "color_indicator": null
6363
+ "color_indicator": null,
6364
+ "rulings": [
6365
+ {
6366
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6367
+ "text": "For Believe, you put the top card of your library into your hand if you don’t put it onto the battlefield for any reason, whether it’s not a creature card or whether you just didn’t want to put it onto the battlefield."
6368
+ },
6369
+ {
6370
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6371
+ "text": "If you don’t put the top card of your library onto the battlefield, you don’t reveal it before putting it into your hand."
6372
+ },
6373
+ {
6374
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6375
+ "text": "Once you’ve started to cast a spell with aftermath from your graveyard, the card is immediately moved to the stack. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
6376
+ }
6377
+ ]
4253
6378
  },
4254
6379
  {
4255
6380
  "name": "Grind (Grind/Dust)",
@@ -4273,7 +6398,49 @@
4273
6398
  "loyalty": null,
4274
6399
  "multiverse_id": 430844,
4275
6400
  "other_part": "Dust (Grind/Dust)",
4276
- "color_indicator": null
6401
+ "color_indicator": null,
6402
+ "rulings": [
6403
+ {
6404
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6405
+ "text": "Split cards with aftermath have a new frame treatment—the half you can cast from your hand is oriented the same as other cards you’d cast from your hand, while the half you can cast from your graveyard is a traditional split card half. This frame treatment is for your convenience and has no rules significance."
6406
+ },
6407
+ {
6408
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6409
+ "text": "All split cards have two card faces on a single card, and you put a split card onto the stack with only the half you’re casting. The characteristics of the half of the card you didn’t cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. For example, if an effect prevents you from casting green spells, you can cast Destined of Destined // Lead, but not Lead."
6410
+ },
6411
+ {
6412
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6413
+ "text": "Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard one, you’ve discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Destined // Lead counts once, not twice."
6414
+ },
6415
+ {
6416
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6417
+ "text": "Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one, but not both."
6418
+ },
6419
+ {
6420
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6421
+ "text": "While not on the stack, the characteristics of a split card are the combination of its two halves. For example, Destined // Lead is a green and black card, it is both an instant card and a sorcery card, and its converted mana cost is 6. This means that if an effect allows you to cast a card with converted mana cost 2 from your hand, you can’t cast Destined. This is a change from the previous rules for split cards."
6422
+ },
6423
+ {
6424
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6425
+ "text": "If you cast the first half of a split card with aftermath during your turn, you’ll have priority immediately after it resolves. You can cast the half with aftermath from your graveyard before any player can take any other action if it’s legal for you to do so."
6426
+ },
6427
+ {
6428
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6429
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from any zone other than a graveyard, you can’t cast the half with aftermath."
6430
+ },
6431
+ {
6432
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6433
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from a graveyard, you may cast either half. If you cast the half that has aftermath, you’ll exile the card if it would leave the stack."
6434
+ },
6435
+ {
6436
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6437
+ "text": "A spell with aftermath cast from a graveyard will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it’s countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way."
6438
+ },
6439
+ {
6440
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6441
+ "text": "You can’t target the same creature twice with Grind to give it two -1/-1 counters."
6442
+ }
6443
+ ]
4277
6444
  },
4278
6445
  {
4279
6446
  "name": "Dust (Grind/Dust)",
@@ -4298,7 +6465,17 @@
4298
6465
  "loyalty": null,
4299
6466
  "multiverse_id": 430844,
4300
6467
  "other_part": "Grind (Grind/Dust)",
4301
- "color_indicator": null
6468
+ "color_indicator": null,
6469
+ "rulings": [
6470
+ {
6471
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6472
+ "text": "If one of Dust’s target creatures loses its -1/-1 counters, leaves the battlefield, or otherwise becomes an illegal target before the spell resolves, it won’t be exiled, but the remaining legal targets will be exiled."
6473
+ },
6474
+ {
6475
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6476
+ "text": "Once you’ve started to cast a spell with aftermath from your graveyard, the card is immediately moved to the stack. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
6477
+ }
6478
+ ]
4302
6479
  },
4303
6480
  {
4304
6481
  "name": "Refuse (Refuse/Cooperate)",
@@ -4322,7 +6499,49 @@
4322
6499
  "loyalty": null,
4323
6500
  "multiverse_id": 430845,
4324
6501
  "other_part": "Cooperate (Refuse/Cooperate)",
4325
- "color_indicator": null
6502
+ "color_indicator": null,
6503
+ "rulings": [
6504
+ {
6505
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6506
+ "text": "Split cards with aftermath have a new frame treatment—the half you can cast from your hand is oriented the same as other cards you’d cast from your hand, while the half you can cast from your graveyard is a traditional split card half. This frame treatment is for your convenience and has no rules significance."
6507
+ },
6508
+ {
6509
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6510
+ "text": "All split cards have two card faces on a single card, and you put a split card onto the stack with only the half you’re casting. The characteristics of the half of the card you didn’t cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. For example, if an effect prevents you from casting green spells, you can cast Destined of Destined // Lead, but not Lead."
6511
+ },
6512
+ {
6513
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6514
+ "text": "Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard one, you’ve discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Destined // Lead counts once, not twice."
6515
+ },
6516
+ {
6517
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6518
+ "text": "Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one, but not both."
6519
+ },
6520
+ {
6521
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6522
+ "text": "While not on the stack, the characteristics of a split card are the combination of its two halves. For example, Destined // Lead is a green and black card, it is both an instant card and a sorcery card, and its converted mana cost is 6. This means that if an effect allows you to cast a card with converted mana cost 2 from your hand, you can’t cast Destined. This is a change from the previous rules for split cards."
6523
+ },
6524
+ {
6525
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6526
+ "text": "If you cast the first half of a split card with aftermath during your turn, you’ll have priority immediately after it resolves. You can cast the half with aftermath from your graveyard before any player can take any other action if it’s legal for you to do so."
6527
+ },
6528
+ {
6529
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6530
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from any zone other than a graveyard, you can’t cast the half with aftermath."
6531
+ },
6532
+ {
6533
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6534
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from a graveyard, you may cast either half. If you cast the half that has aftermath, you’ll exile the card if it would leave the stack."
6535
+ },
6536
+ {
6537
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6538
+ "text": "A spell with aftermath cast from a graveyard will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it’s countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way."
6539
+ },
6540
+ {
6541
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6542
+ "text": "If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, include the value chosen for that X when determining the converted mana cost of that spell."
6543
+ }
6544
+ ]
4326
6545
  },
4327
6546
  {
4328
6547
  "name": "Cooperate (Refuse/Cooperate)",
@@ -4347,7 +6566,45 @@
4347
6566
  "loyalty": null,
4348
6567
  "multiverse_id": 430845,
4349
6568
  "other_part": "Refuse (Refuse/Cooperate)",
4350
- "color_indicator": null
6569
+ "color_indicator": null,
6570
+ "rulings": [
6571
+ {
6572
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6573
+ "text": "Cooperate can copy any instant or sorcery spell, not just one with targets."
6574
+ },
6575
+ {
6576
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6577
+ "text": "The copy is created on the stack, so it’s not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won’t trigger."
6578
+ },
6579
+ {
6580
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6581
+ "text": "If you copy a spell, you control the copy. It will resolve before the original spell does."
6582
+ },
6583
+ {
6584
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6585
+ "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. If, for one of the targets, you can’t choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal)."
6586
+ },
6587
+ {
6588
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6589
+ "text": "If the spell that’s copied is modal (that is, it says “Choose one —” or the like), the copy will have the same mode. A different mode can’t be chosen."
6590
+ },
6591
+ {
6592
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6593
+ "text": "If the spell that’s copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast (like Torment of Hailfire does), the copy will have the same value of X."
6594
+ },
6595
+ {
6596
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6597
+ "text": "If the spell has damage divided as it was cast (like Chandra’s Pyrohelix), the division can’t be changed (although the targets receiving that damage still can)."
6598
+ },
6599
+ {
6600
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6601
+ "text": "The controller of a copy can’t choose to pay any alternative or additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any alternative or additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy."
6602
+ },
6603
+ {
6604
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6605
+ "text": "Once you’ve started to cast a spell with aftermath from your graveyard, the card is immediately moved to the stack. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
6606
+ }
6607
+ ]
4351
6608
  },
4352
6609
  {
4353
6610
  "name": "Driven (Driven/Despair)",
@@ -4371,7 +6628,57 @@
4371
6628
  "loyalty": null,
4372
6629
  "multiverse_id": 430846,
4373
6630
  "other_part": "Despair (Driven/Despair)",
4374
- "color_indicator": null
6631
+ "color_indicator": null,
6632
+ "rulings": [
6633
+ {
6634
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6635
+ "text": "Split cards with aftermath have a new frame treatment—the half you can cast from your hand is oriented the same as other cards you’d cast from your hand, while the half you can cast from your graveyard is a traditional split card half. This frame treatment is for your convenience and has no rules significance."
6636
+ },
6637
+ {
6638
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6639
+ "text": "All split cards have two card faces on a single card, and you put a split card onto the stack with only the half you’re casting. The characteristics of the half of the card you didn’t cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. For example, if an effect prevents you from casting green spells, you can cast Destined of Destined // Lead, but not Lead."
6640
+ },
6641
+ {
6642
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6643
+ "text": "Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard one, you’ve discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Destined // Lead counts once, not twice."
6644
+ },
6645
+ {
6646
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6647
+ "text": "Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one, but not both."
6648
+ },
6649
+ {
6650
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6651
+ "text": "While not on the stack, the characteristics of a split card are the combination of its two halves. For example, Destined // Lead is a green and black card, it is both an instant card and a sorcery card, and its converted mana cost is 6. This means that if an effect allows you to cast a card with converted mana cost 2 from your hand, you can’t cast Destined. This is a change from the previous rules for split cards."
6652
+ },
6653
+ {
6654
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6655
+ "text": "If you cast the first half of a split card with aftermath during your turn, you’ll have priority immediately after it resolves. You can cast the half with aftermath from your graveyard before any player can take any other action if it’s legal for you to do so."
6656
+ },
6657
+ {
6658
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6659
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from any zone other than a graveyard, you can’t cast the half with aftermath."
6660
+ },
6661
+ {
6662
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6663
+ "text": "If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from a graveyard, you may cast either half. If you cast the half that has aftermath, you’ll exile the card if it would leave the stack."
6664
+ },
6665
+ {
6666
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
6667
+ "text": "A spell with aftermath cast from a graveyard will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it’s countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way."
6668
+ },
6669
+ {
6670
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6671
+ "text": "If you resolve multiples of Driven or of Despair in one turn, your creatures have that many instances of the appropriate triggered ability. Each instance triggers separately."
6672
+ },
6673
+ {
6674
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6675
+ "text": "Multiple instances of trample or menace are redundant."
6676
+ },
6677
+ {
6678
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6679
+ "text": "Driven and Despair each affect only creatures you control at the time it resolves. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won’t gain the keyword ability or the triggered ability."
6680
+ }
6681
+ ]
4375
6682
  },
4376
6683
  {
4377
6684
  "name": "Despair (Driven/Despair)",
@@ -4396,7 +6703,25 @@
4396
6703
  "loyalty": null,
4397
6704
  "multiverse_id": 430846,
4398
6705
  "other_part": "Driven (Driven/Despair)",
4399
- "color_indicator": null
6706
+ "color_indicator": null,
6707
+ "rulings": [
6708
+ {
6709
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6710
+ "text": "If you resolve multiples of Driven or of Despair in one turn, your creatures have that many instances of the appropriate triggered ability. Each instance triggers separately."
6711
+ },
6712
+ {
6713
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6714
+ "text": "Multiple instances of trample or menace are redundant."
6715
+ },
6716
+ {
6717
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6718
+ "text": "Driven and Despair each affect only creatures you control at the time it resolves. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won’t gain the keyword ability or the triggered ability."
6719
+ },
6720
+ {
6721
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6722
+ "text": "Once you’ve started to cast a spell with aftermath from your graveyard, the card is immediately moved to the stack. Opponents can’t try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation."
6723
+ }
6724
+ ]
4400
6725
  },
4401
6726
  {
4402
6727
  "name": "Abandoned Sarcophagus",
@@ -4421,7 +6746,25 @@
4421
6746
  "loyalty": null,
4422
6747
  "multiverse_id": 430847,
4423
6748
  "other_part": null,
4424
- "color_indicator": null
6749
+ "color_indicator": null,
6750
+ "rulings": [
6751
+ {
6752
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6753
+ "text": "A token permanent with cycling will go to your graveyard before ceasing to exist. It won’t be exiled. Similarly, a nontoken permanent that lost cycling while it was on the battlefield will also go to your graveyard."
6754
+ },
6755
+ {
6756
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6757
+ "text": "If you cycle an instant card, you may cast it from your graveyard right away before any player may take any other action. If you do, that spell will resolve before the cycling ability. If you cycle a noninstant card without flash, you can’t cast it until after the cycling ability has resolved."
6758
+ },
6759
+ {
6760
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6761
+ "text": "Abandoned Sarcophagus doesn’t grant you permission to do anything with those cards except cast them. For example, you can’t cycle nonland cards with cycling from your graveyard."
6762
+ },
6763
+ {
6764
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6765
+ "text": "Certain older cards have variants of cycling, such as basic landcycling or Wizardcycling. Abandoned Sarcophagus’s effect lets you cast these cards and exiles them if they weren’t discarded for their cycling variant’s ability."
6766
+ }
6767
+ ]
4425
6768
  },
4426
6769
  {
4427
6770
  "name": "Crook of Condemnation",
@@ -4446,7 +6789,8 @@
4446
6789
  "loyalty": null,
4447
6790
  "multiverse_id": 430848,
4448
6791
  "other_part": null,
4449
- "color_indicator": null
6792
+ "color_indicator": null,
6793
+ "rulings": []
4450
6794
  },
4451
6795
  {
4452
6796
  "name": "Dagger of the Worthy",
@@ -4473,7 +6817,29 @@
4473
6817
  "loyalty": null,
4474
6818
  "multiverse_id": 430849,
4475
6819
  "other_part": null,
4476
- "color_indicator": null
6820
+ "color_indicator": null,
6821
+ "rulings": [
6822
+ {
6823
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6824
+ "text": "If a creature has multiple instances of afflict, each triggers separately."
6825
+ },
6826
+ {
6827
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6828
+ "text": "If multiple creatures block a creature with afflict, afflict triggers only once."
6829
+ },
6830
+ {
6831
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6832
+ "text": "Afflict causes the defending player to lose life; it’s not damage or combat damage."
6833
+ },
6834
+ {
6835
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6836
+ "text": "If a creature is attacking a planeswalker, that planeswalker’s controller is the defending player."
6837
+ },
6838
+ {
6839
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6840
+ "text": "Afflict resolves before combat damage is dealt. If this loss of life brings a player to 0 life or less, that player loses the game immediately. A blocking creature with lifelink won’t deal combat damage in time to save that player."
6841
+ }
6842
+ ]
4477
6843
  },
4478
6844
  {
4479
6845
  "name": "God-Pharaoh's Gift",
@@ -4497,7 +6863,29 @@
4497
6863
  "loyalty": null,
4498
6864
  "multiverse_id": 430850,
4499
6865
  "other_part": null,
4500
- "color_indicator": null
6866
+ "color_indicator": null,
6867
+ "rulings": [
6868
+ {
6869
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6870
+ "text": "The ability of God-Pharaoh’s Gift doesn’t target the creature card you’ll exile. You choose one as the ability resolves. No player may take actions between the time you choose a creature card to exile and the time you create the token."
6871
+ },
6872
+ {
6873
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6874
+ "text": "The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics it specifically modifies. It doesn’t copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard."
6875
+ },
6876
+ {
6877
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6878
+ "text": "The token is a Zombie instead of its other types (unlike Zombies created by an eternalize ability) and is black instead of its other colors. Its power and toughness are 4/4. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy."
6879
+ },
6880
+ {
6881
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6882
+ "text": "Unlike the tokens created by an eternalize ability, this token has the mana cost and thus converted mana cost of the card it’s copying."
6883
+ },
6884
+ {
6885
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6886
+ "text": "If the card copied by the token had any “when [this permanent] enters the battlefield” abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it’s created. Similarly, any “as [this permanent] enters the battlefield” or “[this permanent] enters the battlefield with” abilities that the token has copied will also work."
6887
+ }
6888
+ ]
4501
6889
  },
4502
6890
  {
4503
6891
  "name": "Graven Abomination",
@@ -4524,7 +6912,8 @@
4524
6912
  "loyalty": null,
4525
6913
  "multiverse_id": 430851,
4526
6914
  "other_part": null,
4527
- "color_indicator": null
6915
+ "color_indicator": null,
6916
+ "rulings": []
4528
6917
  },
4529
6918
  {
4530
6919
  "name": "Hollow One",
@@ -4552,7 +6941,21 @@
4552
6941
  "loyalty": null,
4553
6942
  "multiverse_id": 430852,
4554
6943
  "other_part": null,
4555
- "color_indicator": null
6944
+ "color_indicator": null,
6945
+ "rulings": [
6946
+ {
6947
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6948
+ "text": "Hollow One’s cost is reduced even if the cards you’ve cycled or discarded aren’t in your graveyard."
6949
+ },
6950
+ {
6951
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6952
+ "text": "Once you’ve discarded three cards, Hollow One costs {0} to cast. It won’t stop at {1} or cost negative amounts of mana."
6953
+ },
6954
+ {
6955
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
6956
+ "text": "Hollow One’s first ability doesn’t give you permission to discard cards. You’ll need another effect that instructs or allows you to discard them."
6957
+ }
6958
+ ]
4556
6959
  },
4557
6960
  {
4558
6961
  "name": "Manalith",
@@ -4576,7 +6979,8 @@
4576
6979
  "loyalty": null,
4577
6980
  "multiverse_id": 430853,
4578
6981
  "other_part": null,
4579
- "color_indicator": null
6982
+ "color_indicator": null,
6983
+ "rulings": []
4580
6984
  },
4581
6985
  {
4582
6986
  "name": "Mirage Mirror",
@@ -4600,7 +7004,41 @@
4600
7004
  "loyalty": null,
4601
7005
  "multiverse_id": 430854,
4602
7006
  "other_part": null,
4603
- "color_indicator": null
7007
+ "color_indicator": null,
7008
+ "rulings": [
7009
+ {
7010
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7011
+ "text": "Once Mirage Mirror’s ability resolves, it no longer has that ability."
7012
+ },
7013
+ {
7014
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7015
+ "text": "Mirage Mirror copies the printed values of the target permanent, plus any copy effects that have been applied to it. It won’t copy counters on that permanent or effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on. Notably, it won’t copy effects that made the target permanent become a creature."
7016
+ },
7017
+ {
7018
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7019
+ "text": "If Mirage Mirror copies a permanent that’s copying something else, it will become whatever the target is copying."
7020
+ },
7021
+ {
7022
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7023
+ "text": "If you activate Mirage Mirror’s ability multiple times in a turn in response to itself, then each time one of those abilities resolves, it will overwrite whatever Mirage Mirror is copying. Mirage Mirror will wind up as a copy of the permanent targeted by the last ability to resolve. When the turn ends, all instances of the ability will wear off at the same time."
7024
+ },
7025
+ {
7026
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7027
+ "text": "If an effect begins to apply to Mirage Mirror before it becomes a copy of another permanent, that effect will continue to apply. For example, if Mirage Mirror is activated twice in response to itself targeting first Rampaging Hippo then Frilled Sandwalla, the ability it has while it’s a copy of Frilled Sandwalla can be activated and its effect will continue to apply while Mirage Mirror is a copy of Rampaging Hippo."
7028
+ },
7029
+ {
7030
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7031
+ "text": "If Mirage Mirror becomes a creature the same turn it enters the battlefield, you can’t attack with it or use any of its {T} abilities (if it gains any) unless it has haste."
7032
+ },
7033
+ {
7034
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7035
+ "text": "If Mirage Mirror becomes a copy of a legendary permanent you control, you’ll put one of them into your graveyard."
7036
+ },
7037
+ {
7038
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7039
+ "text": "If Mirage Mirror becomes a copy of an Aura, it’s put into its owner’s graveyard unless it’s somehow attached to an appropriate object or player already. If it becomes a copy of an Equipment and is attached to a creature, it’ll become unattached when it becomes a non-Equipment artifact again."
7040
+ }
7041
+ ]
4604
7042
  },
4605
7043
  {
4606
7044
  "name": "Sunset Pyramid",
@@ -4626,7 +7064,8 @@
4626
7064
  "loyalty": null,
4627
7065
  "multiverse_id": 430855,
4628
7066
  "other_part": null,
4629
- "color_indicator": null
7067
+ "color_indicator": null,
7068
+ "rulings": []
4630
7069
  },
4631
7070
  {
4632
7071
  "name": "Traveler's Amulet",
@@ -4650,7 +7089,8 @@
4650
7089
  "loyalty": null,
4651
7090
  "multiverse_id": 430856,
4652
7091
  "other_part": null,
4653
- "color_indicator": null
7092
+ "color_indicator": null,
7093
+ "rulings": []
4654
7094
  },
4655
7095
  {
4656
7096
  "name": "Wall of Forgotten Pharaohs",
@@ -4678,7 +7118,13 @@
4678
7118
  "loyalty": null,
4679
7119
  "multiverse_id": 430857,
4680
7120
  "other_part": null,
4681
- "color_indicator": null
7121
+ "color_indicator": null,
7122
+ "rulings": [
7123
+ {
7124
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7125
+ "text": "If an ability checks whether you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard, having more than one doesn’t matter. Controlling one is the same as controlling five. There is also no extra bonus for both controlling one and having one in your graveyard."
7126
+ }
7127
+ ]
4682
7128
  },
4683
7129
  {
4684
7130
  "name": "Crypt of the Eternals",
@@ -4704,7 +7150,8 @@
4704
7150
  "loyalty": null,
4705
7151
  "multiverse_id": 430858,
4706
7152
  "other_part": null,
4707
- "color_indicator": null
7153
+ "color_indicator": null,
7154
+ "rulings": []
4708
7155
  },
4709
7156
  {
4710
7157
  "name": "Desert of the Fervent",
@@ -4732,7 +7179,13 @@
4732
7179
  "loyalty": null,
4733
7180
  "multiverse_id": 430859,
4734
7181
  "other_part": null,
4735
- "color_indicator": null
7182
+ "color_indicator": null,
7183
+ "rulings": [
7184
+ {
7185
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7186
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7187
+ }
7188
+ ]
4736
7189
  },
4737
7190
  {
4738
7191
  "name": "Desert of the Glorified",
@@ -4760,7 +7213,13 @@
4760
7213
  "loyalty": null,
4761
7214
  "multiverse_id": 430860,
4762
7215
  "other_part": null,
4763
- "color_indicator": null
7216
+ "color_indicator": null,
7217
+ "rulings": [
7218
+ {
7219
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7220
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7221
+ }
7222
+ ]
4764
7223
  },
4765
7224
  {
4766
7225
  "name": "Desert of the Indomitable",
@@ -4788,7 +7247,13 @@
4788
7247
  "loyalty": null,
4789
7248
  "multiverse_id": 430861,
4790
7249
  "other_part": null,
4791
- "color_indicator": null
7250
+ "color_indicator": null,
7251
+ "rulings": [
7252
+ {
7253
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7254
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7255
+ }
7256
+ ]
4792
7257
  },
4793
7258
  {
4794
7259
  "name": "Desert of the Mindful",
@@ -4816,7 +7281,13 @@
4816
7281
  "loyalty": null,
4817
7282
  "multiverse_id": 430862,
4818
7283
  "other_part": null,
4819
- "color_indicator": null
7284
+ "color_indicator": null,
7285
+ "rulings": [
7286
+ {
7287
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7288
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7289
+ }
7290
+ ]
4820
7291
  },
4821
7292
  {
4822
7293
  "name": "Desert of the True",
@@ -4844,7 +7315,13 @@
4844
7315
  "loyalty": null,
4845
7316
  "multiverse_id": 430863,
4846
7317
  "other_part": null,
4847
- "color_indicator": null
7318
+ "color_indicator": null,
7319
+ "rulings": [
7320
+ {
7321
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7322
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7323
+ }
7324
+ ]
4848
7325
  },
4849
7326
  {
4850
7327
  "name": "Dunes of the Dead",
@@ -4871,7 +7348,21 @@
4871
7348
  "loyalty": null,
4872
7349
  "multiverse_id": 430864,
4873
7350
  "other_part": null,
4874
- "color_indicator": null
7351
+ "color_indicator": null,
7352
+ "rulings": [
7353
+ {
7354
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7355
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7356
+ },
7357
+ {
7358
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7359
+ "text": "Dunes of the Dead’s second ability doesn’t allow you to sacrifice it whenever you’d like. You must find another way to get Dunes of the Dead into the graveyard."
7360
+ },
7361
+ {
7362
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7363
+ "text": "If you sacrifice Dunes of the Dead to pay the activation cost of an ability, you’ll create the Zombie token before that activated ability resolves."
7364
+ }
7365
+ ]
4875
7366
  },
4876
7367
  {
4877
7368
  "name": "Endless Sands",
@@ -4899,7 +7390,21 @@
4899
7390
  "loyalty": null,
4900
7391
  "multiverse_id": 430865,
4901
7392
  "other_part": null,
4902
- "color_indicator": null
7393
+ "color_indicator": null,
7394
+ "rulings": [
7395
+ {
7396
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7397
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7398
+ },
7399
+ {
7400
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7401
+ "text": "The last ability of Endless Sands returns only creature cards exiled by that card. If Endless Sands leaves the battlefield before you activate that ability, the exiled creatures are lost in the dunes forever."
7402
+ },
7403
+ {
7404
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7405
+ "text": "If you exile a creature that isn’t a creature card with the second ability of Endless Sands (such as a token creature or a land that has become a creature), the third ability won’t return that token or card from exile."
7406
+ }
7407
+ ]
4903
7408
  },
4904
7409
  {
4905
7410
  "name": "Hashep Oasis",
@@ -4927,7 +7432,17 @@
4927
7432
  "loyalty": null,
4928
7433
  "multiverse_id": 430866,
4929
7434
  "other_part": null,
4930
- "color_indicator": null
7435
+ "color_indicator": null,
7436
+ "rulings": [
7437
+ {
7438
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7439
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7440
+ },
7441
+ {
7442
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7443
+ "text": "If a Desert has an ability with a cost of “Sacrifice a Desert,” you can sacrifice that Desert to pay the cost for its own ability."
7444
+ }
7445
+ ]
4931
7446
  },
4932
7447
  {
4933
7448
  "name": "Hostile Desert",
@@ -4954,7 +7469,17 @@
4954
7469
  "loyalty": null,
4955
7470
  "multiverse_id": 430867,
4956
7471
  "other_part": null,
4957
- "color_indicator": null
7472
+ "color_indicator": null,
7473
+ "rulings": [
7474
+ {
7475
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7476
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7477
+ },
7478
+ {
7479
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7480
+ "text": "If Hostile Desert becomes a creature the same turn it enters the battlefield, you can’t attack with it or tap it for mana."
7481
+ }
7482
+ ]
4958
7483
  },
4959
7484
  {
4960
7485
  "name": "Ifnir Deadlands",
@@ -4982,7 +7507,17 @@
4982
7507
  "loyalty": null,
4983
7508
  "multiverse_id": 430868,
4984
7509
  "other_part": null,
4985
- "color_indicator": null
7510
+ "color_indicator": null,
7511
+ "rulings": [
7512
+ {
7513
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7514
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7515
+ },
7516
+ {
7517
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7518
+ "text": "If a Desert has an ability with a cost of “Sacrifice a Desert,” you can sacrifice that Desert to pay the cost for its own ability."
7519
+ }
7520
+ ]
4986
7521
  },
4987
7522
  {
4988
7523
  "name": "Ipnu Rivulet",
@@ -5010,7 +7545,17 @@
5010
7545
  "loyalty": null,
5011
7546
  "multiverse_id": 430869,
5012
7547
  "other_part": null,
5013
- "color_indicator": null
7548
+ "color_indicator": null,
7549
+ "rulings": [
7550
+ {
7551
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7552
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7553
+ },
7554
+ {
7555
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7556
+ "text": "If a Desert has an ability with a cost of “Sacrifice a Desert,” you can sacrifice that Desert to pay the cost for its own ability."
7557
+ }
7558
+ ]
5014
7559
  },
5015
7560
  {
5016
7561
  "name": "Ramunap Ruins",
@@ -5038,7 +7583,21 @@
5038
7583
  "loyalty": null,
5039
7584
  "multiverse_id": 430870,
5040
7585
  "other_part": null,
5041
- "color_indicator": null
7586
+ "color_indicator": null,
7587
+ "rulings": [
7588
+ {
7589
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7590
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7591
+ },
7592
+ {
7593
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7594
+ "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, Ramunap Ruins’s last ability causes it to deal a total of 4 damage to the opposing team."
7595
+ },
7596
+ {
7597
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7598
+ "text": "If a Desert has an ability with a cost of “Sacrifice a Desert,” you can sacrifice that Desert to pay the cost for its own ability."
7599
+ }
7600
+ ]
5042
7601
  },
5043
7602
  {
5044
7603
  "name": "Scavenger Grounds",
@@ -5065,7 +7624,21 @@
5065
7624
  "loyalty": null,
5066
7625
  "multiverse_id": 430871,
5067
7626
  "other_part": null,
5068
- "color_indicator": null
7627
+ "color_indicator": null,
7628
+ "rulings": [
7629
+ {
7630
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7631
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7632
+ },
7633
+ {
7634
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7635
+ "text": "The sacrificed Desert will be in your graveyard to be exiled by the last ability of Scavenger Grounds."
7636
+ },
7637
+ {
7638
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7639
+ "text": "If a Desert has an ability with a cost of “Sacrifice a Desert,” you can sacrifice that Desert to pay the cost for its own ability."
7640
+ }
7641
+ ]
5069
7642
  },
5070
7643
  {
5071
7644
  "name": "Shefet Dunes",
@@ -5093,7 +7666,17 @@
5093
7666
  "loyalty": null,
5094
7667
  "multiverse_id": 430872,
5095
7668
  "other_part": null,
5096
- "color_indicator": null
7669
+ "color_indicator": null,
7670
+ "rulings": [
7671
+ {
7672
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7673
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7674
+ },
7675
+ {
7676
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7677
+ "text": "If a Desert has an ability with a cost of “Sacrifice a Desert,” you can sacrifice that Desert to pay the cost for its own ability."
7678
+ }
7679
+ ]
5097
7680
  },
5098
7681
  {
5099
7682
  "name": "Survivors' Encampment",
@@ -5120,7 +7703,17 @@
5120
7703
  "loyalty": null,
5121
7704
  "multiverse_id": 430873,
5122
7705
  "other_part": null,
5123
- "color_indicator": null
7706
+ "color_indicator": null,
7707
+ "rulings": [
7708
+ {
7709
+ "date": "4/18/2017",
7710
+ "text": "Desert is a land subtype with no special meaning. It doesn’t grant the land an intrinsic mana ability. Other cards may care about which lands are Deserts."
7711
+ },
7712
+ {
7713
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
7714
+ "text": "To activate the last ability, you may tap any untapped creature you control, including one you haven’t controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn. (Note that tapping the creature doesn’t use {T} [the tap symbol].)"
7715
+ }
7716
+ ]
5124
7717
  },
5125
7718
  {
5126
7719
  "name": "Plains",
@@ -5148,7 +7741,8 @@
5148
7741
  "loyalty": null,
5149
7742
  "multiverse_id": 430874,
5150
7743
  "other_part": null,
5151
- "color_indicator": null
7744
+ "color_indicator": null,
7745
+ "rulings": []
5152
7746
  },
5153
7747
  {
5154
7748
  "name": "Plains",
@@ -5176,7 +7770,8 @@
5176
7770
  "loyalty": null,
5177
7771
  "multiverse_id": 430879,
5178
7772
  "other_part": null,
5179
- "color_indicator": null
7773
+ "color_indicator": null,
7774
+ "rulings": []
5180
7775
  },
5181
7776
  {
5182
7777
  "name": "Plains",
@@ -5204,7 +7799,8 @@
5204
7799
  "loyalty": null,
5205
7800
  "multiverse_id": 430880,
5206
7801
  "other_part": null,
5207
- "color_indicator": null
7802
+ "color_indicator": null,
7803
+ "rulings": []
5208
7804
  },
5209
7805
  {
5210
7806
  "name": "Island",
@@ -5232,7 +7828,8 @@
5232
7828
  "loyalty": null,
5233
7829
  "multiverse_id": 430875,
5234
7830
  "other_part": null,
5235
- "color_indicator": null
7831
+ "color_indicator": null,
7832
+ "rulings": []
5236
7833
  },
5237
7834
  {
5238
7835
  "name": "Island",
@@ -5260,7 +7857,8 @@
5260
7857
  "loyalty": null,
5261
7858
  "multiverse_id": 430881,
5262
7859
  "other_part": null,
5263
- "color_indicator": null
7860
+ "color_indicator": null,
7861
+ "rulings": []
5264
7862
  },
5265
7863
  {
5266
7864
  "name": "Island",
@@ -5288,7 +7886,8 @@
5288
7886
  "loyalty": null,
5289
7887
  "multiverse_id": 430882,
5290
7888
  "other_part": null,
5291
- "color_indicator": null
7889
+ "color_indicator": null,
7890
+ "rulings": []
5292
7891
  },
5293
7892
  {
5294
7893
  "name": "Swamp",
@@ -5316,7 +7915,8 @@
5316
7915
  "loyalty": null,
5317
7916
  "multiverse_id": 430876,
5318
7917
  "other_part": null,
5319
- "color_indicator": null
7918
+ "color_indicator": null,
7919
+ "rulings": []
5320
7920
  },
5321
7921
  {
5322
7922
  "name": "Swamp",
@@ -5344,7 +7944,8 @@
5344
7944
  "loyalty": null,
5345
7945
  "multiverse_id": 430883,
5346
7946
  "other_part": null,
5347
- "color_indicator": null
7947
+ "color_indicator": null,
7948
+ "rulings": []
5348
7949
  },
5349
7950
  {
5350
7951
  "name": "Swamp",
@@ -5372,7 +7973,8 @@
5372
7973
  "loyalty": null,
5373
7974
  "multiverse_id": 430884,
5374
7975
  "other_part": null,
5375
- "color_indicator": null
7976
+ "color_indicator": null,
7977
+ "rulings": []
5376
7978
  },
5377
7979
  {
5378
7980
  "name": "Mountain",
@@ -5400,7 +8002,8 @@
5400
8002
  "loyalty": null,
5401
8003
  "multiverse_id": 430877,
5402
8004
  "other_part": null,
5403
- "color_indicator": null
8005
+ "color_indicator": null,
8006
+ "rulings": []
5404
8007
  },
5405
8008
  {
5406
8009
  "name": "Mountain",
@@ -5428,7 +8031,8 @@
5428
8031
  "loyalty": null,
5429
8032
  "multiverse_id": 430885,
5430
8033
  "other_part": null,
5431
- "color_indicator": null
8034
+ "color_indicator": null,
8035
+ "rulings": []
5432
8036
  },
5433
8037
  {
5434
8038
  "name": "Mountain",
@@ -5456,7 +8060,8 @@
5456
8060
  "loyalty": null,
5457
8061
  "multiverse_id": 430886,
5458
8062
  "other_part": null,
5459
- "color_indicator": null
8063
+ "color_indicator": null,
8064
+ "rulings": []
5460
8065
  },
5461
8066
  {
5462
8067
  "name": "Forest",
@@ -5484,7 +8089,8 @@
5484
8089
  "loyalty": null,
5485
8090
  "multiverse_id": 430878,
5486
8091
  "other_part": null,
5487
- "color_indicator": null
8092
+ "color_indicator": null,
8093
+ "rulings": []
5488
8094
  },
5489
8095
  {
5490
8096
  "name": "Forest",
@@ -5512,7 +8118,8 @@
5512
8118
  "loyalty": null,
5513
8119
  "multiverse_id": 430887,
5514
8120
  "other_part": null,
5515
- "color_indicator": null
8121
+ "color_indicator": null,
8122
+ "rulings": []
5516
8123
  },
5517
8124
  {
5518
8125
  "name": "Forest",
@@ -5540,7 +8147,8 @@
5540
8147
  "loyalty": null,
5541
8148
  "multiverse_id": 430888,
5542
8149
  "other_part": null,
5543
- "color_indicator": null
8150
+ "color_indicator": null,
8151
+ "rulings": []
5544
8152
  },
5545
8153
  {
5546
8154
  "name": "Nissa, Genesis Mage",
@@ -5570,7 +8178,17 @@
5570
8178
  "loyalty": "5",
5571
8179
  "multiverse_id": 432879,
5572
8180
  "other_part": null,
5573
- "color_indicator": null
8181
+ "color_indicator": null,
8182
+ "rulings": [
8183
+ {
8184
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
8185
+ "text": "You can activate Nissa’s first ability with fewer than four targets. For example, you could target one creature and two lands, or no creatures and two lands. You could even choose no targets at all."
8186
+ },
8187
+ {
8188
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
8189
+ "text": "While resolving Nissa’s last ability, all creatures and lands put onto the battlefield this way enter at the same time. If any have triggered abilities that trigger on something else entering the battlefield, they’ll see each other."
8190
+ }
8191
+ ]
5574
8192
  },
5575
8193
  {
5576
8194
  "name": "Avid Reclaimer",
@@ -5597,7 +8215,17 @@
5597
8215
  "loyalty": null,
5598
8216
  "multiverse_id": 432880,
5599
8217
  "other_part": null,
5600
- "color_indicator": null
8218
+ "color_indicator": null,
8219
+ "rulings": [
8220
+ {
8221
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
8222
+ "text": "You can activate Avid Reclaimer’s ability even if you don’t have anything to spend that mana on. You’ll still gain 2 life if you control a Nissa planeswalker."
8223
+ },
8224
+ {
8225
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
8226
+ "text": "Avid Reclaimer’s ability is a mana ability. It doesn’t use the stack and can’t be responded to. You’ll immediately add mana to your mana pool and gain 2 life, if applicable."
8227
+ }
8228
+ ]
5601
8229
  },
5602
8230
  {
5603
8231
  "name": "Brambleweft Behemoth",
@@ -5623,7 +8251,8 @@
5623
8251
  "loyalty": null,
5624
8252
  "multiverse_id": 432881,
5625
8253
  "other_part": null,
5626
- "color_indicator": null
8254
+ "color_indicator": null,
8255
+ "rulings": []
5627
8256
  },
5628
8257
  {
5629
8258
  "name": "Nissa's Encouragement",
@@ -5647,7 +8276,17 @@
5647
8276
  "loyalty": null,
5648
8277
  "multiverse_id": 432882,
5649
8278
  "other_part": null,
5650
- "color_indicator": null
8279
+ "color_indicator": null,
8280
+ "rulings": [
8281
+ {
8282
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
8283
+ "text": "You can find any or all of the cards listed with Nissa’s Encouragement. You could even find none, but that wouldn’t be very encouraging."
8284
+ },
8285
+ {
8286
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
8287
+ "text": "Nissa’s Encouragement can’t be used to find a card with the land type Forest that isn’t also named Forest (such as Sheltered Thicket from the Amonkhet set)."
8288
+ }
8289
+ ]
5651
8290
  },
5652
8291
  {
5653
8292
  "name": "Woodland Stream",
@@ -5672,7 +8311,8 @@
5672
8311
  "loyalty": null,
5673
8312
  "multiverse_id": 432883,
5674
8313
  "other_part": null,
5675
- "color_indicator": null
8314
+ "color_indicator": null,
8315
+ "rulings": []
5676
8316
  },
5677
8317
  {
5678
8318
  "name": "Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver",
@@ -5702,7 +8342,25 @@
5702
8342
  "loyalty": "5",
5703
8343
  "multiverse_id": 432884,
5704
8344
  "other_part": null,
5705
- "color_indicator": null
8345
+ "color_indicator": null,
8346
+ "rulings": [
8347
+ {
8348
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
8349
+ "text": "While resolving Nicol Bolas’s first ability, your opponent chooses a card to be discarded without revealing it, chooses a nonland permanent to be sacrificed, or chooses to do neither. Then that player discards that card, sacrifices that permanent, or loses 3 life. Your opponent can always choose to lose 3 life, even if they have cards to discard or nonland permanents to sacrifice."
8350
+ },
8351
+ {
8352
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
8353
+ "text": "In a multiplayer game, each opponent in turn order makes their choice for Nicol Bolas’s first ability, then all of the actions occur simultaneously. Opponents will know choices made by earlier opponents when making their choices, although a card chosen to be discarded this way isn’t revealed until it’s discarded."
8354
+ },
8355
+ {
8356
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
8357
+ "text": "If the target of Nicol Bolas’s second ability becomes illegal, the ability doesn’t resolve and you won’t draw a card. If that target is legal but can’t be destroyed, most likely because it has indestructible, you still draw a card."
8358
+ },
8359
+ {
8360
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
8361
+ "text": "If Nicol Bolas’s third ability causes each opponent to have 0 or less life, but it also causes you to try to draw more cards than you have in your library, the game ends in a draw."
8362
+ }
8363
+ ]
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  },
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  {
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  "name": "Wasp of the Bitter End",
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  "loyalty": null,
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  "multiverse_id": 432885,
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  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
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+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": [
8393
+ {
8394
+ "date": "7/14/2017",
8395
+ "text": "You choose a target for Wasp of the Bitter End’s triggered ability right after casting a Bolas planeswalker spell, but you don’t choose whether to sacrifice Wasp of the Bitter End or not until that ability resolves. If the creature becomes an illegal target, the entire ability doesn’t resolve and you can’t sacrifice Wasp of the Bitter End."
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+ }
8397
+ ]
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  },
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  {
5736
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  "name": "Zealot of the God-Pharaoh",
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  "loyalty": null,
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  "multiverse_id": 432886,
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  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
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+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": []
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  },
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  {
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  "name": "Visage of Bolas",
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  "loyalty": null,
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  "multiverse_id": 432887,
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  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
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+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": []
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  },
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  {
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  "name": "Cinder Barrens",
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  "loyalty": null,
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  "multiverse_id": 432888,
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  "other_part": null,
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- "color_indicator": null
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+ "color_indicator": null,
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+ "rulings": []
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  }
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  ]