mtg-db 2.3.10 → 2.4.2

data/data/sets/3ed.json

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3UU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)"
+      "Flying"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "These spirits of the air are winsome and wild, and cannot be truly contained. Only marginally intelligent, they often substitute whimsy for strategy, delighting in mischief and mayhem.",
     "power": "4",
@@ -3413,7 +3413,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1RR",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Other Goblin creatures get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)"
+      "Other Goblins get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "To become king of the Goblins, one must assassinate the previous king. Thus, only the most foolish seek positions of leadership.",
     "power": "2",
@@ -4543,10 +4543,6 @@
         "date": "8/1/2005",
         "text": "If Kudzu is destroyed directly, or the land is destroyed by a spell or ability, then Kudzu goes to the graveyard like any Aura would."
       },
-      {
-        "date": "4/1/2008",
-        "text": "The controller of the destroyed land must attach it to another land if possible. If there are no valid choices, Kudzu is simply put into the graveyard."
-      },
       {
         "date": "4/1/2008",
         "text": "Because the ability isn’t targeted, the controller of the destroyed land may attach it to a land that can’t be the target of abilities."
@@ -5449,7 +5445,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{2}, {T}: Target player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "{2}, {T}: Target player mills two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "More than one mage was driven insane by the sound of the Millstone relentlessly grinding away.",
     "power": null,

data/data/sets/4ed.json

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3UU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)"
+      "Flying"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "These spirits of the air are winsome and wild and cannot be truly contained. Only marginally intelligent, they often substitute whimsy for strategy, delighting in mischief and mayhem.",
     "power": "4",
@@ -4343,7 +4343,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1RR",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Other Goblin creatures get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)"
+      "Other Goblins get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "To become king of the Goblins, one must assassinate the previous king. Thus, only the most foolish seek positions of leadership.",
     "power": "2",
@@ -6621,7 +6621,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{2}, {T}: Target player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "{2}, {T}: Target player mills two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "More than one mage was driven insane by the sound of the Millstone relentlessly grinding away.",
     "power": null,
@@ -8163,7 +8163,7 @@
     "rulings": [
       {
         "date": "11/24/2014",
-        "text": "The number of targets chosen for Pyrotechnics must be at least one and at most four. You choose how the damage is divided as you cast the spell, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
+        "text": "You choose how the damage is divided as you cast the spell, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
       },
       {
         "date": "11/24/2014",

data/data/sets/5dn.json

@@ -3043,7 +3043,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "6",
     "converted_mana_cost": 6,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Modular—Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)"
+      "Modular—Sunburst (This creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "0",
@@ -3364,7 +3364,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "You may play land cards from your graveyard."
+      "You may play lands from your graveyard."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Amidst the darkest ashes grow the strongest seeds.",
     "power": null,
@@ -3815,7 +3815,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Target player puts the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.",
+      "{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Target player mills three cards.",
       "Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, you may untap Grinding Station."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
@@ -3941,7 +3941,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste.",
-      "{1}: If you control Equipment named Helm of Kaldra, Sword of Kaldra, and Shield of Kaldra, create a legendary 4/4 colorless Avatar creature token named Kaldra and attach those Equipment to it.",
+      "{1}: If you control Equipment named Helm of Kaldra, Sword of Kaldra, and Shield of Kaldra, create Kaldra, a legendary 4/4 colorless Avatar creature token. Attach those Equipment to it.",
       "Equip {2}"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,

data/data/sets/5ed.json

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3UU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)"
+      "Flying"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "These spirits of the air are winsome and wild and cannot be truly contained. Only marginally intelligent, they often substitute whimsy for strategy, delighting in mischief and mayhem.",
     "power": "4",
@@ -1416,10 +1416,6 @@
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "It is only considered “tapped for mana” if you activate its mana ability and generate mana from it."
       },
-      {
-        "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "This enters the battlefield tapped even if a continuous effect immediately changes it to something else."
-      },
       {
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "If the land is tapped by some external effect, no counters are removed from it."
@@ -3495,10 +3491,6 @@
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "It is only considered “tapped for mana” if you activate its mana ability and generate mana from it."
       },
-      {
-        "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "This enters the battlefield tapped even if a continuous effect immediately changes it to something else."
-      },
       {
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "If the land is tapped by some external effect, no counters are removed from it."
@@ -5276,7 +5268,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1RR",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Other Goblin creatures get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)"
+      "Other Goblins get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "To be king, Numsgil did in Blog, who did in Unkful, who did in Viddle, who did in Loll, who did in Alrok . . . .",
     "power": "2",
@@ -5710,10 +5702,6 @@
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "It is only considered “tapped for mana” if you activate its mana ability and generate mana from it."
       },
-      {
-        "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "This enters the battlefield tapped even if a continuous effect immediately changes it to something else."
-      },
       {
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "If the land is tapped by some external effect, no counters are removed from it."
@@ -6117,10 +6105,6 @@
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "It is only considered “tapped for mana” if you activate its mana ability and generate mana from it."
       },
-      {
-        "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "This enters the battlefield tapped even if a continuous effect immediately changes it to something else."
-      },
       {
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "If the land is tapped by some external effect, no counters are removed from it."
@@ -8349,7 +8333,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{2}, {T}: Target player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "{2}, {T}: Target player mills two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "More than one mage has been driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away.",
     "power": null,
@@ -10233,7 +10217,7 @@
     "rulings": [
       {
         "date": "11/24/2014",
-        "text": "The number of targets chosen for Pyrotechnics must be at least one and at most four. You choose how the damage is divided as you cast the spell, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
+        "text": "You choose how the damage is divided as you cast the spell, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
       },
       {
         "date": "11/24/2014",
@@ -10461,7 +10445,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1UU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Whenever Reef Pirates deals damage to an opponent, that player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard."
+      "Whenever Reef Pirates deals damage to an opponent, that player mills a card."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Relentless as the tides, souls dark as a moonless night. Bloodshed on their minds, and greed burning in their hearts like molten gold.",
     "power": "2",
@@ -10780,10 +10764,6 @@
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "It is only considered “tapped for mana” if you activate its mana ability and generate mana from it."
       },
-      {
-        "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "This enters the battlefield tapped even if a continuous effect immediately changes it to something else."
-      },
       {
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "If the land is tapped by some external effect, no counters are removed from it."

data/data/sets/6ed.json

@@ -1094,10 +1094,6 @@
       {
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "You choose the targets and you choose how to divide up the 5 damage on announcement."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "You can’t choose zero targets. You must choose at least one target."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -1683,7 +1679,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3UU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)"
+      "Flying"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "As insubstantial, and as powerful, as the wind that carries it.",
     "power": "4",
@@ -5520,7 +5516,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1RR",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Other Goblin creatures get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)"
+      "Other Goblins get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "To be king, Numsgil did in Blog, who did in Unkful, who did in Viddle, who did in Loll, who did in Alrok . . . .\"",
     "power": "2",
@@ -5938,7 +5934,7 @@
     "rulings": [
       {
         "date": "11/24/2014",
-        "text": "The number of targets chosen for Pyrotechnics must be at least one and at most four. You choose how the damage is divided as you cast the spell, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
+        "text": "You choose how the damage is divided as you cast the spell, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
       },
       {
         "date": "11/24/2014",
@@ -6353,7 +6349,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4RR",
     "converted_mana_cost": 6,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying",
+      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)",
       "Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Speed and fire are always a deadly combination.",
@@ -8726,7 +8722,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{2}, {T}: Target player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "{2}, {T}: Target player mills two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "More than one mage has been driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away.",
     "power": null,

data/data/sets/7ed.json

@@ -1669,7 +1669,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3UU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)"
+      "Flying"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Where psycho meets cyclone.",
     "power": "4",
@@ -4058,7 +4058,7 @@
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
       "Zombie",
-      "Hound"
+      "Dog"
     ],
     "rarity": "Common",
     "mana_cost": "4B",
@@ -5476,7 +5476,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1RR",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Other Goblin creatures get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)"
+      "Other Goblins get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "To be king, Numsgil did in Blog, who did in Unkful, who did in Viddle, who did in Loll, who did in Alrok. . . .",
     "power": "2",
@@ -5508,7 +5508,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2R",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Goblin Matron enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a Goblin card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library."
+      "When Goblin Matron enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a Goblin card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "1",
@@ -5523,8 +5523,8 @@
         "text": "Because the “search” requires you to find a card with certain characteristics, you don’t have to find the card if you don’t want to."
       },
       {
-        "date": "4/1/2008",
-        "text": "You can search for any card with the creature type Goblin, including Creature or Tribal cards. Older cards of type “Summon Goblin” and “Summon Goblins” also count. You can’t search for cards that have Goblin in the name but don’t have the creature type Goblin."
+        "date": "6/14/2019",
+        "text": "If an effect refers to a “[subtype] spell” or “[subtype] card,” it refers only to a spell or card that has that subtype. For example, Goblin War Party is a card that references and creates Goblins, but it isn’t a Goblin card."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -6058,7 +6058,7 @@
     "rulings": [
       {
         "date": "11/24/2014",
-        "text": "The number of targets chosen for Pyrotechnics must be at least one and at most four. You choose how the damage is divided as you cast the spell, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
+        "text": "You choose how the damage is divided as you cast the spell, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
       },
       {
         "date": "11/24/2014",
@@ -7874,18 +7874,6 @@
     "other_part": null,
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
-      {
-        "date": "4/27/2018",
-        "text": "You can decide to assign damage to the defending player or planeswalker even if the blocking creature has protection from green or damage preventing effects on it."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "4/27/2018",
-        "text": "When assigning combat damage, you choose whether you want to assign all damage to blocking creatures, or if you want to assign all of it to the player or planeswalker this creature is attacking. You can’t split the damage assignment between them."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "4/27/2018",
-        "text": "If blocked by a creature with banding, the defending player decides whether or not the damage is assigned “as though it weren’t blocked”."
-      },
       {
         "date": "4/27/2018",
         "text": "You can decide to assign damage to the defending player or planeswalker even if the blocking creature has protection from green or damage preventing effects on it."
@@ -8865,7 +8853,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{2}, {T}: Target player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "{2}, {T}: Target player mills two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "More than one mage has been driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away.",
     "power": null,

data/data/sets/8ed.json

@@ -1664,7 +1664,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3UU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)"
+      "Flying"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Pray that it doesn't seek the safety of your lungs.",
     "power": "4",
@@ -2780,20 +2780,16 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "3/14/2017",
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
         "text": "Rewind targets only a spell. It doesn’t target any lands. The lands are chosen as Rewind resolves."
       },
       {
-        "date": "3/14/2017",
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
         "text": "You can choose up to four lands, no matter who controls any of them. Those lands untap once. You can’t choose one land and have it untap four times, for example."
       },
       {
-        "date": "3/14/2017",
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
         "text": "If the spell is an illegal target when Rewind tries to resolve, perhaps because it was countered by another spell or ability, Rewind won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won’t untap any lands."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "3/14/2017",
-        "text": "If Rewind resolves but the target spell can’t be countered, you’ll still untap lands."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -4831,6 +4827,10 @@
       {
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "In a multi-player game, it affects all opponents."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "1/24/2020",
+        "text": "If a spell or ability causes you to put cards into your hand without specifically using the word “draw,” it’s not a card drawn."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -5447,7 +5447,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1RR",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Other Goblin creatures get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)"
+      "Other Goblins get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "To be king, Numsgil did in Blog, who did in Unkful, who did in Viddle, who did in Loll, who did in Alrok. . . .",
     "power": "2",
@@ -5668,7 +5668,7 @@
     ],
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
-      "Hound"
+      "Dog"
     ],
     "rarity": "Rare",
     "mana_cost": "2RR",
@@ -6054,7 +6054,7 @@
     "rulings": [
       {
         "date": "11/24/2014",
-        "text": "The number of targets chosen for Pyrotechnics must be at least one and at most four. You choose how the damage is divided as you cast the spell, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
+        "text": "You choose how the damage is divided as you cast the spell, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
       },
       {
         "date": "11/24/2014",
@@ -8180,18 +8180,6 @@
     "other_part": null,
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
-      {
-        "date": "4/27/2018",
-        "text": "You can decide to assign damage to the defending player or planeswalker even if the blocking creature has protection from green or damage preventing effects on it."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "4/27/2018",
-        "text": "When assigning combat damage, you choose whether you want to assign all damage to blocking creatures, or if you want to assign all of it to the player or planeswalker this creature is attacking. You can’t split the damage assignment between them."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "4/27/2018",
-        "text": "If blocked by a creature with banding, the defending player decides whether or not the damage is assigned “as though it weren’t blocked”."
-      },
       {
         "date": "4/27/2018",
         "text": "You can decide to assign damage to the defending player or planeswalker even if the blocking creature has protection from green or damage preventing effects on it."
@@ -8880,7 +8868,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{2}, {T}: Target player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "{2}, {T}: Target player mills two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "More than one mage has been driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away.",
     "power": null,

data/data/sets/9ed.json

@@ -1629,7 +1629,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3UU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)"
+      "Flying"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Pray that it doesn't seek the safety of your lungs.",
     "power": "4",
@@ -2742,20 +2742,16 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "3/14/2017",
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
         "text": "Rewind targets only a spell. It doesn’t target any lands. The lands are chosen as Rewind resolves."
       },
       {
-        "date": "3/14/2017",
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
         "text": "You can choose up to four lands, no matter who controls any of them. Those lands untap once. You can’t choose one land and have it untap four times, for example."
       },
       {
-        "date": "3/14/2017",
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
         "text": "If the spell is an illegal target when Rewind tries to resolve, perhaps because it was countered by another spell or ability, Rewind won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won’t untap any lands."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "3/14/2017",
-        "text": "If Rewind resolves but the target spell can’t be countered, you’ll still untap lands."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -3151,7 +3147,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3UU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Target player puts the top half of their library, rounded down, into their graveyard."
+      "Target player mills half their library, rounded down."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "You won't know what you're missing.",
     "power": null,
@@ -4002,7 +3998,7 @@
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
       "Zombie",
-      "Hound"
+      "Dog"
     ],
     "rarity": "Common",
     "mana_cost": "4B",
@@ -4860,6 +4856,10 @@
       {
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "In a multi-player game, it affects all opponents."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "1/24/2020",
+        "text": "If a spell or ability causes you to put cards into your hand without specifically using the word “draw,” it’s not a card drawn."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -5595,7 +5595,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1RR",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Other Goblin creatures get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)"
+      "Other Goblins get +1/+1 and have mountainwalk."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "To be king, Numsgil did in Blog, who did in Unkful, who did in Viddle, who did in Loll, who did in Alrok. . . .",
     "power": "2",
@@ -8947,7 +8947,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{2}, {T}: Target player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "{2}, {T}: Target player mills two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "More than one mage has been driven insane by the sound of the millstone relentlessly grinding away.",
     "power": null,