mtg-db 2.3.10 → 2.4.2

data/data/sets/m15.json

@@ -2084,8 +2084,8 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "11/17/2017",
-        "text": "Frost Lynx’s ability can target a creature that’s already tapped. That creature still won’t untap during its controller’s next untap step."
+        "date": "4/17/2020",
+        "text": "Frost Lynx’s triggered ability can target a creature that’s already tapped. That creature won’t untap during its controller’s next untap step."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -2503,7 +2503,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "You may have Mercurial Pretender enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature you control, except it has \"{2}{U}{U}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.\""
+      "You may have Mercurial Pretender enter the battlefield as a copy of a creature you control, except it has \"{2}{U}{U}: Return this creature to its owner's hand.\""
     ],
     "flavor_text": "The king went off to find himself. Imagine his terror when he succeeded.",
     "power": "0",
@@ -2599,7 +2599,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Target opponent puts the top seven cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "Target opponent mills seven cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"Your mind was a curious mix of madness and genius. I just took away the genius.\"\n—Jace Beleren",
     "power": null,
@@ -3846,7 +3846,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2B",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Necromancer's Assistant enters the battlefield, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard."
+      "When Necromancer's Assistant enters the battlefield, mill three cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Zombies and necromancers agree: easy access to brains is preferred.",
     "power": "3",
@@ -5667,7 +5667,7 @@
     ],
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
-      "Hound"
+      "Dog"
     ],
     "rarity": "Common",
     "mana_cost": "3R",
@@ -7688,7 +7688,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
       "{T}: Put a charge counter on Grindclock.",
-      "{T}: Target player puts the top X cards of their library into their graveyard, where X is the number of charge counters on Grindclock."
+      "{T}: Target player mills X cards, where X is the number of charge counters on Grindclock."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Pray you never hear it chime.",
     "power": null,

data/data/sets/m19.json

@@ -1483,7 +1483,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
         "text": "A creature spell that can’t be countered is a legal target for Bone to Ash. The creature spell won’t be countered when Bone to Ash resolves, but you’ll still draw a card."
       }
     ]
@@ -1771,7 +1771,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
         "text": "Once Frilled Sea Serpent has been blocked, activating its ability won’t change or undo that block."
       }
     ]
@@ -1908,7 +1908,7 @@
       },
       {
         "date": "7/13/2018",
-        "text": "Metamorphic Alteration copies exactly what is printed on the chosen creature (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it as any counters on it or any Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on."
+        "text": "Metamorphic Alteration copies exactly what is printed on the chosen creature (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or any Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on."
       },
       {
         "date": "7/13/2018",
@@ -1960,7 +1960,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "You may have Mirror Image enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature you control."
+      "You may have Mirror Image enter the battlefield as a copy of a creature you control."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "The life of a shapeshifter is one of constant change.",
     "power": "0",
@@ -1972,7 +1972,7 @@
     "rulings": [
       {
         "date": "7/13/2018",
-        "text": "Mirror Image copies exactly what was printed on the original creature (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it as any counters on it or any Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on."
+        "text": "Mirror Image copies exactly what was printed on the original creature (unless that creature is copying something else or is a token; see below). It doesn’t copy whether that creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or any Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on."
       },
       {
         "date": "7/13/2018",
@@ -2196,7 +2196,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3UU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent puts the top three cards of their library into their graveyard, then you draw a card for each land card put into that graveyard this way."
+      "At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent mills three cards, then you draw a card for each land card put into their graveyard this way."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Nicol Bolas would not rest until he was restored to his former glory.",
     "power": null,
@@ -2230,7 +2230,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Whenever you draw a card, each opponent puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"To break another's mind is to deliver a fate worse than death. It is a terrifying power.\"\n—Jace Beleren",
     "power": null,
@@ -2458,7 +2458,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying"
+      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Foul-tempered, poorly trained, and mule-stubborn, the drake is the perfect test of the master's will.",
     "power": "3",
@@ -3085,20 +3085,20 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
-        "text": "The ability of Epicure of Blood triggers just once for each life-gaining event, whether it’s 1 life from Ajani’s Welcome or 3 life from Revitalize."
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "The ability of Epicure of Blood triggers just once for each life-gaining event, whether it’s 1 life from Impassioned Orator or 4 life from Dawning Angel. If you gain an amount of life “for each” of something or “equal to the number” of something, that life is gained as one event and the ability of Epicure of Blood triggers only once."
       },
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
         "text": "Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Epicure of Blood’s ability will trigger twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will trigger only once."
       },
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
-        "text": "If you gain an amount of life “for each” of something, that life is gained as one event and the ability of Epicure of Blood triggers only once."
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won’t cause the ability to trigger, even though it caused your team’s life total to increase."
       },
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
-        "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won’t cause the ability to trigger, even though it caused your team’s life total to increase."
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, Epicure of Blood’s ability causes the opposing team to lose 1 life twice."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -3356,11 +3356,11 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
         "text": "The player who controlled the creature when it died is the one who will draw a card."
       },
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
         "text": "If Infernal Scarring and the enchanted creature are destroyed at the same time, the player will draw a card."
       }
     ]
@@ -3469,9 +3469,9 @@
     "mana_cost": "2BB",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "+1: Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard. If at least one of them is a Zombie card, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.",
+      "+1: Mill three cards. If at least one Zombie card is milled this way, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.",
       "−2: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Zombies you control.",
-      "−3: You may cast Zombie cards from your graveyard this turn."
+      "−3: You may cast Zombie spells from your graveyard this turn."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": null,
@@ -3958,7 +3958,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "B",
     "converted_mana_cost": 1,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Stitcher's Supplier enters the battlefield or dies, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard."
+      "When Stitcher's Supplier enters the battlefield or dies, mill three cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "No part goes to waste.",
     "power": "1",
@@ -4063,7 +4063,8 @@
     ],
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
-      "Vampire"
+      "Vampire",
+      "Noble"
     ],
     "rarity": "Uncommon",
     "mana_cost": "3BB",
@@ -4120,7 +4121,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2R",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn."
+      "Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack and {T} this turn.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "She learned a tragic lesson that day: even the purest can be corrupted when the heart's emotions are twisted.",
     "power": null,
@@ -4131,11 +4132,11 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "1/25/2019",
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
         "text": "Act of Treason can target any creature, even one that’s untapped or one you already control."
       },
       {
-        "date": "1/25/2019",
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
         "text": "Gaining control of a creature doesn’t cause you to gain control of any Auras or Equipment attached to it."
       }
     ]
@@ -4193,7 +4194,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "7RRR",
     "converted_mana_cost": 10,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Exile the top seven cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast nonland cards exiled this way.",
+      "Exile the top seven cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among them.",
       "If this spell was cast from your hand, add ten mana of any one color."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"As I desire, so it shall be.\"\n—Nicol Bolas",
@@ -4347,11 +4348,11 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
         "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."
       },
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
         "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."
       }
     ]
@@ -5219,7 +5220,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1R",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn."
+      "Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "To survive imminent doom, it sometimes takes a foolhardy soul who acts first and fears later.",
     "power": null,
@@ -5255,12 +5256,12 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
-        "text": "If the land is an illegal target when Tectonic Rift tries to resolve, Tectonic Rift won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. Creatures without flying will be able to block as normal."
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "If the target land is an illegal target by the time Tectonic Rift tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. Creatures without flying will be able to block as normal. If the target is legal but not destroyed (most likely because it has indestructible), creatures without flying will be unable to block."
       },
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
-        "text": "Because the second part of Tectonic Rift’s effect doesn’t change the characteristics of any permanents, the set of creatures affected by it is constantly updated. Creatures without flying that enter the battlefield later in the turn can’t block, and creatures that gain flying later in the turn can block."
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "Because it doesn’t modify the characteristics of creatures, Tectonic Rift can affect creatures that enter the battlefield or lose flying after the spell resolves, and it will stop affecting creatures that gain flying."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -5416,7 +5417,7 @@
     "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": "Sometimes an eruption in Shiv produces something more dangerous than a mere river of molten rock.",
@@ -5516,7 +5517,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
+        "date": "4/17/2020",
         "text": "If Bristling Boar gains menace, it can’t be blocked at all."
       }
     ]
@@ -5947,7 +5948,12 @@
     "multiverse_id": 447320,
     "other_part": null,
     "color_indicator": null,
-    "rulings": []
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "If the target land is an illegal target by the time Gift of Paradise tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. It won’t enter the battlefield, so you won’t gain 3 life."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Gigantosaurus",
@@ -6261,7 +6267,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
         "text": "If either creature is an illegal target as Rabid Bite tries to resolve, the creature you control won’t deal damage."
       }
     ]
@@ -7469,7 +7475,7 @@
     "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,
@@ -7835,7 +7841,7 @@
     "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": "Minds, like mountains, are never so grand and mighty that they can't be reduced to dust.",
     "power": null,
@@ -9081,7 +9087,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4WW",
     "converted_mana_cost": 6,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying",
+      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)",
       "Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.)",
       "Other creatures you control have vigilance."
     ],
@@ -9092,7 +9098,12 @@
     "multiverse_id": 450231,
     "other_part": null,
     "color_indicator": null,
-    "rulings": []
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "A creature losing vigilance after it has attacked (most likely because Serra’s Guardian leaves the battlefield) won’t cause it to become tapped."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Silverbeak Griffin",
@@ -9221,7 +9232,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4UU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 6,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying",
+      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)",
       "When Riddlemaster Sphinx enters the battlefield, you may return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"Safe passage requires only a simple answer to a simple question, traveler.\"",
@@ -9411,7 +9422,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4BB",
     "converted_mana_cost": 6,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying",
+      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)",
       "{5}{B}{B}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Once every seven years it flies on spectral wings over the moors of ancient battlefields.",
@@ -9423,7 +9434,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2018",
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
         "text": "Gravewaker’s ability can be activated only while it’s on the battlefield. It can’t return itself from your graveyard."
       }
     ]
@@ -9880,7 +9891,7 @@
     "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 the ship approached, the jade totem rose high overhead. Power rippled. Eyes of stone glowed and crackled. Out hissed a breath of the world, and a windstorm came alive.",
     "power": "4",
@@ -9917,7 +9928,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "4/27/2018",
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
         "text": "If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Befuddle tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t draw a card."
       }
     ]

data/data/sets/m20.json

@@ -2109,7 +2109,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "date": "4/17/2020",
         "text": "Frost Lynx’s triggered ability can target a creature that’s already tapped. That creature won’t untap during its controller’s next untap step."
       }
     ]
@@ -2476,7 +2476,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Whenever another blue creature enters the battlefield under your control, target player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "Whenever another blue creature enters the battlefield under your control, target player mills two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"Forget what you have learned from other teachers. I bring you the truth.\"",
     "power": "2",
@@ -3325,7 +3325,7 @@
       },
       {
         "date": "7/12/2019",
-        "text": "Hybrid mana symbols are treated as the actual symbols, not as either of their two components individually. For example, , {B}, and {R} are three different mana costs."
+        "text": "Hybrid mana symbols are treated as the actual symbols, not as either of their two components individually. For example, {B/R}, {B}, and {R} are three different mana costs."
       },
       {
         "date": "7/12/2019",
@@ -3457,7 +3457,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Flying",
-      "When Gorging Vulture enters the battlefield, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard. You gain 1 life for each creature card put into your graveyard this way."
+      "When Gorging Vulture enters the battlefield, mill four cards. You gain 1 life for each creature card put into your graveyard this way."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "2",
@@ -4292,7 +4292,7 @@
     "oracle_text": [
       "0: Put a loyalty counter on each red planeswalker you control.",
       "0: Create two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.",
-      "−2: You may cast target instant or sorcery card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard. If that card would be put into your graveyard this turn, exile it instead."
+      "−2: You may cast target instant or sorcery card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard this turn, exile it instead."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": null,
@@ -5198,7 +5198,7 @@
     ],
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
-      "Hound"
+      "Dog"
     ],
     "rarity": "Common",
     "mana_cost": "1R",
@@ -7991,7 +7991,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
       "You may look at the top card of your library any time.",
-      "You may cast the top card of your library if it's an artifact card or a colorless nonland card.",
+      "You may cast artifact spells and colorless spells from the top of your library.",
       "{T}, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
@@ -10167,7 +10167,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2GG",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Trample  (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)",
+      "Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)",
       "Whenever you cast a spell that targets Gnarlback Rhino, draw a card."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"I think it's trying to tell us that the forest is angry.\"\n—Vivien Reid",
@@ -10291,7 +10291,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1W",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)"
+      "Flying"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "In the cloudy skies and dim light of autumn, a flash of white wings is a reminder that better times lie ahead.",
     "power": "1",
@@ -11243,7 +11243,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "date": "4/17/2020",
         "text": "If Bristling Boar gains menace, it can’t be blocked at all."
       }
     ]