mtg-db 2.3.11 → 2.4.2.1

data/data/sets/emn.json

@@ -1973,7 +1973,7 @@
       },
       {
         "date": "7/13/2016",
-        "text": "A player’s “opening hand” is the hand of cards the player has after all players have taken mulligans and “scryed” if applicable. If players have any cards in hand that allow actions to be taken with them from a player’s opening hand, the starting player takes all such actions first in any order, followed by each other player in turn order. Then the first turn begins."
+        "text": "A player’s “opening hand” is the hand of cards the player has after all players have taken mulligans. If players have any cards in hand that allow actions to be taken with them from a player’s opening hand, the starting player takes all such actions first in any order, followed by each other player in turn order. Then the first turn begins."
       },
       {
         "date": "7/13/2016",
@@ -2870,7 +2870,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{T}: Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard. Then if there is a colorless creature card in your graveyard, transform Grizzled Angler."
+      "{T}: Mill two cards. Then if there is a colorless creature card in your graveyard, transform Grizzled Angler."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"There's no question that these waters are treacherous, but if there's one thing I've learned in all my years of sailing . . .\"",
     "power": "2",
@@ -3082,7 +3082,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Laboratory Brute enters the battlefield, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard."
+      "When Laboratory Brute enters the battlefield, mill four cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "It keeps intruders out and experiments in.",
     "power": "3",
@@ -3490,12 +3490,8 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2016",
-        "text": "Spells that can’t be countered can be returned to their owner’s hand by Unsubstantiate. They won’t resolve."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "7/13/2016",
-        "text": "A spell that’s a copy ceases to exist as a state-based action after being returned to its owner’s hand. It can’t be cast, and it never counts as a “card” in the player’s hand."
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
+        "text": "If a spell is returned to its owner’s hand, it’s removed from the stack and thus will not resolve. The spell isn’t countered; it just no longer exists. This works against a spell that can’t be countered."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -4020,7 +4016,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
       "+1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-1 until your next turn.",
-      "−2: Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.",
+      "−2: Mill two cards, then you may return a creature card from your graveyard to your hand.",
       "−7: You get an emblem with \"At the beginning of your end step, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is two plus the number of Zombies you control.\""
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
@@ -4582,7 +4578,7 @@
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
       "Zombie",
-      "Hound"
+      "Dog"
     ],
     "rarity": "Common",
     "mana_cost": "2B",
@@ -4759,7 +4755,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1B",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Wailing Ghoul enters the battlefield, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard."
+      "When Wailing Ghoul enters the battlefield, mill two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"Don't worry, sweet brother. Help is on the way.\"\n—Ghoulcaller Gisa",
     "power": "1",
@@ -6365,7 +6361,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "G",
     "converted_mana_cost": 1,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put the top card of your library into your graveyard.",
+      "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may mill a card.",
       "Delirium — {2}{G}, Sacrifice Crop Sigil: Return up to one target creature card and up to one target land card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
@@ -6596,7 +6592,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1G",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard, then you may return a creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand."
+      "Mill three cards, then you may return a creature or land card from your graveyard to your hand."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Emrakul does not grant wishes. Desires simply align to her will.",
     "power": null,
@@ -7340,8 +7336,12 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "7/13/2016",
-        "text": "If the target becomes illegal while Wolfkin Bond is on the stack, the spell doesn’t resolve. It won’t enter the battlefield and you won’t get a Wolf token."
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "You need a creature for Wolfkin Bond to target as you cast it. It can’t enter the battlefield attached to the Wolf token it will create."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Wolfkin Bond tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. It won’t enter the battlefield, so its ability won’t trigger."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -7493,8 +7493,8 @@
     "mana_cost": "2UB",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Gisa and Geralf enters the battlefield, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.",
-      "During each of your turns, you may cast a Zombie creature card from your graveyard."
+      "When Gisa and Geralf enters the battlefield, mill four cards.",
+      "During each of your turns, you may cast a Zombie creature spell from your graveyard."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"These fiends are slightly less tolerable than you.\"\n\"A sentiment that warms my heart, sister.\"",
     "power": "4",

data/data/sets/eve.json

@@ -1043,7 +1043,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "UUU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Chroma — Reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each blue mana symbol in the mana costs of the revealed cards, target opponent puts the top card of their library into their graveyard. Then put the cards you revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order."
+      "Chroma — Reveal the top ten cards of your library. For each blue mana symbol in the mana costs of the revealed cards, target opponent mills a card. Then put the cards you revealed this way on the bottom of your library in any order."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": null,
@@ -2925,7 +2925,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1{W/B}",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if {W} was spent to cast Batwing Brume. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature they control if {B} was spent to cast Batwing Brume. (Do both if {W}{B} was spent.)"
+      "Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn if {W} was spent to cast this spell. Each player loses 1 life for each attacking creature they control if {B} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {W}{B} was spent.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": null,
@@ -4142,7 +4142,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2{U/R}",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0 until end of turn if {U} was spent to cast Unnerving Assault, and creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn if {R} was spent to cast it. (Do both if {U}{R} was spent.)"
+      "Creatures your opponents control get -1/-0 until end of turn if {U} was spent to cast this spell, and creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn if {R} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {U}{R} was spent.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "The scales of battle rarely balance.",
     "power": null,
@@ -4221,7 +4221,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3{B/G}",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "If {B} was spent to cast Cankerous Thirst, you may have target creature get -3/-3 until end of turn. If {G} was spent to cast Cankerous Thirst, you may have target creature get +3/+3 until end of turn. (Do both if {B}{G} was spent.)"
+      "If {B} was spent to cast this spell, you may have target creature get -3/-3 until end of turn. If {G} was spent to cast this spell, you may have target creature get +3/+3 until end of turn. (Do both if {B}{G} was spent.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Nothing warms the bark on a chilly day like a draught of elf.",
     "power": null,
@@ -5265,7 +5265,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2{R/W}",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Target player can't play lands this turn if {R} was spent to cast Moonhold and can't cast creature spells this turn if {W} was spent to cast it. (Do both if {R}{W} was spent.)"
+      "Target player can't play lands this turn if {R} was spent to cast this spell and can't cast creature spells this turn if {W} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {R}{W} was spent.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": null,
@@ -5739,7 +5739,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3{G/U}",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Creatures your opponents control lose flying until end of turn if {G} was spent to cast Invert the Skies, and creatures you control gain flying until end of turn if {U} was spent to cast it. (Do both if {G}{U} was spent.)"
+      "Creatures your opponents control lose flying until end of turn if {G} was spent to cast this spell, and creatures you control gain flying until end of turn if {U} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {G}{U} was spent.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": null,

data/data/sets/evg.json

@@ -1169,7 +1169,7 @@
     "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": "There's always room for one more.",
     "power": "1",
@@ -1184,8 +1184,8 @@
         "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."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3R",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Haste",
+      "Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)",
       "When Goblin Ringleader enters the battlefield, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Goblin cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
@@ -1215,7 +1215,12 @@
     "multiverse_id": 157937,
     "other_part": null,
     "color_indicator": null,
-    "rulings": []
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "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 Gathering is a card that creates Goblins and features Goblins in its illustration, but it isn’t a Goblin card."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Goblin Sledder",

data/data/sets/exo.json

@@ -2385,7 +2385,7 @@
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
       "Vampire",
-      "Hound"
+      "Dog"
     ],
     "rarity": "Common",
     "mana_cost": "2B",
@@ -2740,7 +2740,7 @@
     ],
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
-      "Hound"
+      "Dog"
     ],
     "rarity": "Rare",
     "mana_cost": "3R",

data/data/sets/fem.json

@@ -298,10 +298,6 @@
         "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."
@@ -618,7 +614,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 8,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Trample",
-      "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Deep Spawn unless you put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.",
+      "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Deep Spawn unless you mill two cards.",
       "{U}: Deep Spawn gains shroud until end of turn and doesn't untap during your next untap step. Tap Deep Spawn. (A creature with shroud can't be the target of spells or abilities.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
@@ -860,10 +856,6 @@
         "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."
@@ -2374,10 +2366,6 @@
         "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."
@@ -3435,10 +3423,6 @@
         "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."
@@ -4694,10 +4678,6 @@
         "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."
@@ -5274,10 +5254,6 @@
       {
         "date": "10/4/2004",
         "text": "Damages the player putting the land onto the battlefield, even if they are not the controller of the land after it is on the battlefield."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "Only checks the type of the land as it is put onto the battlefield. If the land gets changed after it enters the battlefield (even by a continuous effect), the Chant causes no additional effect."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -5700,12 +5676,7 @@
     "multiverse_id": 1869,
     "other_part": null,
     "color_indicator": null,
-    "rulings": [
-      {
-        "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "Only checks the type of the land as it is put onto the battlefield. If the land gets changed after it enters the battlefield (even by a continuous effect), the Chant causes no additional effect."
-      }
-    ]
+    "rulings": []
   },
   {
     "name": "Tourach's Gate",

data/data/sets/frf.json

@@ -36,6 +36,18 @@
       {
         "date": "11/24/2014",
         "text": "Ugin, the Spirit Dragon is not a Dragon card; that is, he doesn’t have the creature type Dragon. Spells and abilities that refer to Dragon cards or Dragons don’t apply to Ugin."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
+        "text": "If a permanent has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
+        "text": "The converted mana cost of a token that isn’t a copy of another object is 0. A token that is a copy of another object has the same mana cost as that object."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
+        "text": "A permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -1509,7 +1521,7 @@
     "oracle_text": [
       "Choose one —",
       "• Each player draws X cards.",
-      "• Each player puts the top X cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "• Each player mills X cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": null,
@@ -1883,7 +1895,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 6,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Flying",
-      "Whenever Mindscour Dragon deals combat damage to an opponent, target player puts the top four cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "Whenever Mindscour Dragon deals combat damage to an opponent, target player mills four cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"The bells may one day ring as an anthem of our own end.\"\n—Kyu, Sage-Eye mystic",
     "power": "4",
@@ -2176,20 +2188,12 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "11/24/2014",
-        "text": "You can use mana generated by the first ability to pay an alternative cost or an additional cost to cast an artifact spell. It’s not limited to paying just that spell’s mana cost."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "11/24/2014",
-        "text": "An activated ability appears in the form “Cost: Effect.” Some keywords, including equip, are activated abilities."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "11/24/2014",
-        "text": "Notably, turning a face-down creature face up isn’t an activated ability. If you manifest an artifact creature card or cast an artifact card face down using the morph ability, you can’t use mana generated by the first ability to turn it face up."
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keyword abilities, such as equip, are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text. You can’t spend mana added by this ability to pay costs of triggered abilities of artifacts such as the first ability of Chandra’s Regulator."
       },
       {
-        "date": "11/24/2014",
-        "text": "The mana generated by the first ability can’t be spent to activate abilities of artifact sources that aren’t on the battlefield."
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "The mana generated by Renowned Weaponsmith’s first ability can’t be spent to activate abilities of artifact sources that aren’t on the battlefield."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -2401,7 +2405,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Sultai Skullkeeper enters the battlefield, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard."
+      "When Sultai Skullkeeper enters the battlefield, mill two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "A skullkeeper is the first to arrive after the palace archers strike down intruders, probing their brains for choice bits of knowledge.",
     "power": "2",
@@ -3106,7 +3110,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1B",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Choose target creature. Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard, then put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each creature card in your graveyard."
+      "Choose target creature. Mill three cards, then put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each creature card in your graveyard."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "So long as death follows life, the supply lines of the Sultai will never be cut.",
     "power": null,
@@ -3562,7 +3566,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4B",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Sibsig Host enters the battlefield, each player puts the top three cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "When Sibsig Host enters the battlefield, each player mills three cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"They were your friends, your family, your clan. They want only to welcome you.\"\n—Tasigur, the Golden Fang",
     "power": "2",
@@ -3676,6 +3680,10 @@
       {
         "date": "11/24/2014",
         "text": "Because delve isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "1/24/2020",
+        "text": "If one of those creature cards has one or more variants of the listed keywords (for example, hexproof from white), this creature gains those specific variants."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -3809,7 +3817,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 6,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)",
-      "{2}{G/U}{G/U}: Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard, then return a nonland card of an opponent's choice from your graveyard to your hand."
+      "{2}{G/U}{G/U}: Mill two cards, then return a nonland card of an opponent's choice from your graveyard to your hand."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "4",
@@ -4822,7 +4830,7 @@
     "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",
@@ -5141,7 +5149,7 @@
     ],
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
-      "Hound",
+      "Dog",
       "Shaman"
     ],
     "rarity": "Uncommon",
@@ -5206,7 +5214,7 @@
     ],
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
-      "Hound",
+      "Dog",
       "Scout"
     ],
     "rarity": "Common",
@@ -5911,7 +5919,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3G",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard, then return a creature card and a land card from your graveyard to your hand."
+      "Mill four cards, then return a creature card and a land card from your graveyard to your hand."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"There is no secret buried so deep that we will never find it.\"\n—Kurtar, Sultai necromancer",
     "power": null,

data/data/sets/frf_ugin.json

@@ -36,6 +36,18 @@
       {
         "date": "11/24/2014",
         "text": "Ugin, the Spirit Dragon is not a Dragon card; that is, he doesn’t have the creature type Dragon. Spells and abilities that refer to Dragon cards or Dragons don’t apply to Ugin."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
+        "text": "If a permanent has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
+        "text": "The converted mana cost of a token that isn’t a copy of another object is 0. A token that is a copy of another object has the same mana cost as that object."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
+        "text": "A permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -872,7 +884,7 @@
     ],
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
-      "Hound",
+      "Dog",
       "Scout"
     ],
     "rarity": "Common",
@@ -1468,7 +1480,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1",
     "converted_mana_cost": 1,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent puts the top card of their library into their graveyard."
+      "Whenever another permanent enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent mills a card."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Supplicants offer flesh and silver, flowers and blood. The altar takes what it will, eyes gleaming with unspoken promises.",
     "power": null,