mtg-db 2.3.12 → 2.4.0

data/data/sets/dde.json

@@ -58,12 +58,7 @@
     "multiverse_id": 210133,
     "other_part": null,
     "color_indicator": null,
-    "rulings": [
-      {
-        "date": "6/8/2016",
-        "text": "You can sacrifice Carrion Feeder to activate its own ability. The ability will have no effect as it resolves."
-      }
-    ]
+    "rulings": []
   },
   {
     "name": "Phyrexian Battleflies",
@@ -1037,20 +1032,12 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "This spell has a self-replacement in it . This means that if Urza’s Rage is kicked, the 3 damage is replaced with 10 unpreventable damage before any other replacements can be applied. For example, you can’t use Healing Salve to prevent the 3 damage before it gets changed."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "You can target this spell with spells and abilities, so you can change its target. Those spells and abilities just can’t counter it."
+        "date": "6/14/2019",
+        "text": "A spell or ability that counters spells can still target Urza’s Rage. When that spell or ability resolves, Urza’s Rage won’t be countered, but any additional effects of that spell or ability will still happen."
       },
       {
-        "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "The damage is unpreventable, but it can be affected by replacement effects."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "Counterspells can be cast that target it, but when they resolve they simply don’t counter it since it can’t be countered."
+        "date": "6/14/2019",
+        "text": "If the target for Urza’s Rage becomes an illegal target, the spell won’t resolve and will be put into its owner’s graveyard with no effect. This is true even if its damage can’t be prevented and even though it can’t be countered."
       }
     ]
   },

data/data/sets/ddf.json

@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@
     "rulings": [
       {
         "date": "5/1/2007",
-        "text": "You choose how the damage prevention shields will be divided when you put the triggered ability on the stack. The number of targets must be at least one and at most five."
+        "text": "You choose how the damage prevention shields will be divided when you put the triggered ability on the stack."
       },
       {
         "date": "10/5/2018",
@@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1",
     "converted_mana_cost": 1,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)"
+      "Modular 1 (This creature enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "The parts are as strong as the whole.",
     "power": "0",
@@ -1470,8 +1470,8 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "8/15/2010",
-        "text": "Steel Overseer is affected by its own ability (assuming that, by the time the ability resolves, you still control Steel Overseer and its types haven’t changed). You’ll put a +1/+1 counter on it, as well as on each other artifact creature you control."
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "Steel Overseer’s ability puts a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control, including Steel Overseer."
       }
     ]
   },

data/data/sets/ddg.json

@@ -1955,7 +1955,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Armillary Sphere: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library."
+      "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Armillary Sphere: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle your library."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "The mysterious purpose of two of the rings had eluded Esper mages—until now.",
     "power": null,
@@ -2423,7 +2423,7 @@
       },
       {
         "date": "5/1/2008",
-        "text": "If you control any Mountains as you cast Jaws of Stone, the number of targets must be at least one and at most X. You divide the damage among the targets as you cast Jaws of Stone. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
+        "text": "You divide the damage among the targets as you cast Jaws of Stone. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
       }
     ]
   },

data/data/sets/ddh.json

@@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
       "Elemental",
-      "Hound"
+      "Dog"
     ],
     "rarity": "Uncommon",
     "mana_cost": "2R",
@@ -1569,7 +1569,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Steamcore Weird enters the battlefield, if {R} was spent to cast Steamcore Weird, it deals 2 damage to any target."
+      "When Steamcore Weird enters the battlefield, if {R} was spent to cast it, it deals 2 damage to any target."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Like many Izzet creations, weirds are based on wild contradictions yet somehow manage to work.",
     "power": "1",
@@ -1737,7 +1737,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4R",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Ogre Savant enters the battlefield, if {U} was spent to cast Ogre Savant, return target creature to its owner's hand."
+      "When Ogre Savant enters the battlefield, if {U} was spent to cast it, return target creature to its owner's hand."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "He's an oxymoron.",
     "power": "3",

data/data/sets/ddi.json

@@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
       "Elemental",
-      "Hound"
+      "Dog"
     ],
     "rarity": "Common",
     "mana_cost": "1RR",
@@ -2134,7 +2134,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Armillary Sphere: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library."
+      "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Armillary Sphere: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle your library."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "The mysterious purpose of two of the rings had eluded Esper mages—until now.",
     "power": null,
@@ -2391,7 +2391,7 @@
       },
       {
         "date": "5/1/2008",
-        "text": "If you control any Mountains as you cast Jaws of Stone, the number of targets must be at least one and at most X. You divide the damage among the targets as you cast Jaws of Stone. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
+        "text": "You divide the damage among the targets as you cast Jaws of Stone. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -2419,12 +2419,7 @@
     "multiverse_id": 270855,
     "other_part": null,
     "color_indicator": null,
-    "rulings": [
-      {
-        "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "You can’t choose zero targets. You must choose between 1 and 6 targets."
-      }
-    ]
+    "rulings": []
   },
   {
     "name": "Mountain",

data/data/sets/ddj.json

@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Steamcore Weird enters the battlefield, if {R} was spent to cast Steamcore Weird, it deals 2 damage to any target."
+      "When Steamcore Weird enters the battlefield, if {R} was spent to cast it, it deals 2 damage to any target."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Like many Izzet creations, weirds are based on wild contradictions yet somehow manage to work.",
     "power": "1",
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4R",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Ogre Savant enters the battlefield, if {U} was spent to cast Ogre Savant, return target creature to its owner's hand."
+      "When Ogre Savant enters the battlefield, if {U} was spent to cast it, return target creature to its owner's hand."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "He's an oxymoron.",
     "power": "3",
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3RR",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost."
+      "At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if it's an instant or sorcery spell."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "It chews open Mirrodin's husk and feeds on the outpouring of energy.",
     "power": "3",
@@ -1203,7 +1203,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 0,
     "oracle_text": [
       "{T}: Add {C}.",
-      "{2}{U}{R}, {T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until your next turn, you may cast that card if it's an instant or sorcery card."
+      "{2}{U}{R}, {T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until your next turn, you may cast it if it's an instant or sorcery spell."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Niv-Mizzet's genius and vanity reverberate throughout the mirrored halls of Nivix.",
     "power": null,
@@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
       "When Golgari Thug dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.",
-      "Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly four cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)"
+      "Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "1",
@@ -1772,7 +1772,7 @@
     "oracle_text": [
       "Flying",
       "Whenever Stinkweed Imp deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature.",
-      "Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly five cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)"
+      "Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "1",
@@ -1885,7 +1885,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Sacrifice Shambling Shell: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.",
-      "Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)"
+      "Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "3",
@@ -1940,13 +1940,13 @@
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
       "Plant",
-      "Hound"
+      "Dog"
     ],
     "rarity": "Common",
     "mana_cost": "3G",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)"
+      "Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Man's best fungus.",
     "power": "3",
@@ -1989,7 +1989,7 @@
     "oracle_text": [
       "Golgari Grave-Troll enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.",
       "{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Golgari Grave-Troll: Regenerate Golgari Grave-Troll.",
-      "Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly six cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)"
+      "Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, you may mill six cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "0",
@@ -2276,7 +2276,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.",
-      "Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)"
+      "Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": null,
@@ -2397,7 +2397,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Target player reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card.",
-      "Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly two cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)"
+      "Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": null,
@@ -2439,7 +2439,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2BB",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If {G} was spent to cast Vigor Mortis, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it."
+      "Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. If {G} was spent to cast this spell, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "After fear and weakness rot away, that which remains is stronger than its living form.",
     "power": null,
@@ -2623,7 +2623,7 @@
     "oracle_text": [
       "Dakmor Salvage enters the battlefield tapped.",
       "{T}: Add {B}.",
-      "Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly two cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)"
+      "Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": null,

data/data/sets/ddk.json

@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "5/3/2019",
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
         "text": "If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Sorin’s Thirst tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t gain 2 life."
       }
     ]
@@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
       "Elemental",
-      "Hound"
+      "Dog"
     ],
     "rarity": "Common",
     "mana_cost": "1R",
@@ -2125,7 +2125,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4{B/R}",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield if {B} was spent to cast Torrent of Souls. Creatures target player controls get +2/+0 and gain haste until end of turn if {R} was spent to cast Torrent of Souls. (Do both if {B}{R} was spent.)"
+      "Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield if {B} was spent to cast this spell. Creatures target player controls get +2/+0 and gain haste until end of turn if {R} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {B}{R} was spent.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": null,

data/data/sets/ddl.json

@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "9/22/2011",
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
         "text": "Multiple instances of lifelink on the same creature are redundant."
       }
     ]
@@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@
     "rulings": [
       {
         "date": "6/8/2016",
-        "text": "The number of targets must be at least one and at most four. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
+        "text": "Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
       },
       {
         "date": "6/8/2016",
@@ -1522,7 +1522,7 @@
       },
       {
         "date": "9/15/2013",
-        "text": "The number of targets chosen for the triggered ability must be at least one (if X wasn’t 0) and at most X. You choose the division of damage as you put the ability on the stack, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage. In multiplayer games, you may choose creatures controlled by different opponents."
+        "text": "You choose the division of damage as you put the ability on the stack, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage. In multiplayer games, you may choose creatures controlled by different opponents."
       },
       {
         "date": "9/15/2013",

data/data/sets/ddm.json

@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Whenever Crosstown Courier deals combat damage to a player, that player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard."
+      "Whenever Crosstown Courier deals combat damage to a player, that player mills that many cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Information travels quickly through Ravnica's network of messengers and thought agents.",
     "power": "2",
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 6,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Flying",
-      "When Jace's Mindseeker enters the battlefield, target opponent puts the top five cards of their library into their graveyard. You may cast an instant or sorcery card from among them without paying its mana cost."
+      "When Jace's Mindseeker enters the battlefield, target opponent mills five cards. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from among them without paying its mana cost."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "4",
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 1,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Target player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.",
+      "Target player mills two cards.",
       "Draw a card."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"As you inject the viscus vitae into the brain stem, don't let the spastic moaning bother you. It will soon become music to your ears.\"\n—Stitcher Geralf",
@@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Play with the top card of your library revealed.",
-      "You may play the top card of your library."
+      "You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"Is the inevitable any less miraculous?\"\n—Veldka, wandering sage",
     "power": null,
@@ -1230,24 +1230,20 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "6/8/2016",
-        "text": "The top card of your library isn’t in your hand, so you can’t suspend it, cycle it, discard it, or activate any of its activated abilities."
+        "date": "6/14/2019",
+        "text": "The top card of your library isn’t in your hand, so you can’t suspend it, cycle it, or activate any of its abilities."
       },
       {
-        "date": "6/8/2016",
-        "text": "You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions for the top card of your library and pay its costs. If it has alternative or additional costs, you may pay those. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those."
+        "date": "6/14/2019",
+        "text": "You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions for the top card of your library and pay its costs. If the card has alternative or additional costs, you may pay those. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those."
       },
       {
-        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "date": "6/14/2019",
         "text": "If the top card of your library is a land, you may play that land only if you have any available land plays."
       },
       {
-        "date": "6/8/2016",
-        "text": "If the top card of your library changes while you’re casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability (perhaps because that top card is the card you’re casting) the new top card won’t be revealed until you finish doing so."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "6/8/2016",
-        "text": "As soon as you finish playing the card on top of your library, reveal the next card in your library."
+        "date": "6/14/2019",
+        "text": "If the top card of your library changes while you’re casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability (most likely because that top card is the card you’re playing), the new top card won’t be revealed until you finish doing so."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -2540,7 +2536,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2BB",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Destroy target nonartifact creature. Its controller puts a number of cards equal to that creature's power from the top of their library into their graveyard."
+      "Destroy target nonartifact creature. Its controller mills cards equal to that creature's power."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"Watch people flock to a murder scene. Then tell me we're not all a little sick in the head.\"\n—Juri, proprietor of the Juri Revue",
     "power": null,

data/data/sets/ddn.json

@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3R",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Raid — When Mardu Heart-Piercer enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, Mardu Heart-Piercer deals 2 damage to any target."
+      "Raid — When Mardu Heart-Piercer enters the battlefield, if you attacked this turn, Mardu Heart-Piercer deals 2 damage to any target."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"Those who have never ridden before the wind do not know the true joy of war.\"",
     "power": "2",
@@ -770,16 +770,12 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "3/14/2017",
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
         "text": "You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you can’t cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you can’t sacrifice additional creatures."
       },
       {
-        "date": "3/14/2017",
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
         "text": "Once you begin to cast Bone Splinters, no player may take actions until you’re done. Notably, opponents can’t try to remove the creature you wish to sacrifice."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "3/14/2017",
-        "text": "You can cast Bone Splinters targeting the creature you intend to sacrifice for its cost. This is because targets are chosen before costs are paid. Bone Splinters won’t resolve as it tries to resolve in this case."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -872,7 +868,7 @@
     "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": "\"Rage courses in every heart, yearning to betray its rational prison.\"\n—Sarkhan Vol",
     "power": null,
@@ -883,11 +879,11 @@
     "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."
       }
     ]
@@ -1527,6 +1523,10 @@
       {
         "date": "9/20/2014",
         "text": "Once it triggers, prowess isn’t connected to the spell that caused it to trigger. If that spell is countered, prowess will still resolve."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
+        "text": "You draw a card and discard a card all while Jeskai Elder’s ability is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -2439,7 +2439,7 @@
       },
       {
         "date": "10/1/2009",
-        "text": "The number of targets must be at least 1 and at most 5. You divide the damage as you cast Arrow Volley Trap, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
+        "text": "You divide the damage as you cast Arrow Volley Trap, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage."
       }
     ]
   },