mtg-db 2.3.12 → 2.4.0

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,

data/data/sets/fut.json

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     "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",
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@
     "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": "Those gifted with the sight have one eye in the present and the other in the future.",
     "power": "2",
@@ -1446,24 +1446,20 @@
     "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."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -5327,7 +5323,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2GG",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Spend only mana produced by basic lands to cast Imperiosaur."
+      "Spend only mana produced by basic lands to cast this spell."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"An ancient, powerful force has overtaken the valley. I sympathize for its former inhabitants, but I rejoice for the land itself.\"\n—Olanti, Muraganda druid",
     "power": "5",
@@ -6265,7 +6261,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{X}{X}, {T}: Target player puts the top X cards of their library into their graveyard.",
+      "{X}{X}, {T}: Target player mills X cards.",
       "Morph {3} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
@@ -6293,7 +6289,7 @@
     "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/g18.json

@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
     "mana_cost": "4WW",
     "converted_mana_cost": 6,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying",
-      "Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, they gain indestructible until end of turn."
+      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)",
+      "Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, they gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say \"destroy\" don't destroy them.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"No single arrow can pierce an entire flock.\"",
     "power": "5",
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4RR",
     "converted_mana_cost": 6,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying",
+      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)",
       "When Immortal Phoenix dies, return it to its owner's hand."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Their fires burn quietly, allowing the phoenixes to glide silently through the canyon.",
@@ -109,7 +109,12 @@
     "multiverse_id": 456519,
     "other_part": null,
     "color_indicator": null,
-    "rulings": []
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "If Immortal Phoenix leaves the graveyard after it dies but before its triggered ability resolves, it won’t be returned to its owner’s hand."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Rampaging Brontodon",

data/data/sets/gk1.json

@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4B",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Ribbons of Night deals 4 damage to target creature and you gain 4 life. If {U} was spent to cast Ribbons of Night, draw a card."
+      "Ribbons of Night deals 4 damage to target creature and you gain 4 life. If {U} was spent to cast this spell, draw a card."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"My favorite meal is angel's flesh, slain in agony and iced with black vinegar.\"\n—Aszala of House Dimir",
     "power": null,
@@ -393,10 +393,6 @@
         "date": "10/1/2005",
         "text": "Circu’s last ability applies to all of its controller’s opponents, not just the owner of the exiled card."
       },
-      {
-        "date": "10/1/2005",
-        "text": "Circu’s last ability doesn’t prevent copies of the exiled cards from being cast because copies aren’t cards."
-      },
       {
         "date": "10/1/2005",
         "text": "If a split card is exiled this way, opponents can’t cast either half of the split card."
@@ -588,7 +584,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "UB",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Target player puts the top ten cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "Target player mills ten cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"I am confident that if anyone actually penetrates our facades, even the most perceptive would still be fundamentally unprepared for the truth of House Dimir.\"\n—Szadek",
     "power": null,
@@ -727,7 +723,7 @@
     "oracle_text": [
       "Flying",
       "Whenever Nightveil Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of their library.",
-      "You may play cards exiled with Nightveil Specter."
+      "You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled with Nightveil Specter."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "2",
@@ -770,7 +766,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 7,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Flying",
-      "If Szadek, Lord of Secrets would deal combat damage to a player, instead put that many +1/+1 counters on Szadek and that player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard."
+      "If Szadek, Lord of Secrets would deal combat damage to a player, instead put that many +1/+1 counters on Szadek and that player mills that many cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "5",
@@ -1921,7 +1917,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 1,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.",
-      "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,
@@ -2003,7 +1999,7 @@
     "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",
@@ -2045,7 +2041,7 @@
     "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,
@@ -2170,7 +2166,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4BG",
     "converted_mana_cost": 6,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Deadbridge Chant enters the battlefield, put the top ten cards of your library into your graveyard.",
+      "When Deadbridge Chant enters the battlefield, mill ten cards.",
       "At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a card at random in your graveyard. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
@@ -2248,7 +2244,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "BG",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Choose target creature. Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard, then that creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each land card in your graveyard."
+      "Choose target creature. Mill four cards, then that creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each land card in your graveyard."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "The rot farmer's first rite of passage is to craft a pair of work stilts.",
     "power": null,
@@ -2343,7 +2339,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
       "{1}, Sacrifice Grave-Shell Scarab: Draw a card.",
-      "Dredge 1 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly one card 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 1 (If you would draw a card, you may mill a card instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "4",
@@ -2589,7 +2585,7 @@
     "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",
@@ -4438,7 +4434,7 @@
     "oracle_text": [
       "Other green creatures you control get +1/+1.",
       "Other white creatures you control get +1/+1.",
-      "{T}: Create a legendary 2/2 green and white Wolf creature token named Voja."
+      "{T}: Create Voja, a legendary 2/2 green and white Wolf creature token."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "3",

data/data/sets/gk2.json

@@ -1952,7 +1952,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Cackling Flames deals 3 damage to any target.",
-      "Hellbent — Cackling Flames deals 5 damage to that permanent or player instead if you have no cards in hand."
+      "Hellbent — Cackling Flames deals 5 damage instead if you have no cards in hand."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"I like a little entertainment with my dinner.\"\n—Rakdos",
     "power": null,

data/data/sets/gn2.json

@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Flying",
-      "When Crow of Dark Tidings enters the battlefield or dies, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard."
+      "When Crow of Dark Tidings enters the battlefield or dies, mill two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "2",
@@ -1216,11 +1216,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "2/9/2017",
-        "text": "You choose which mode you’re using as you cast Destructive Tampering. Once this choice is made, it can’t be changed."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "2/9/2017",
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
         "text": "Because the effect of Destructive Tampering’s second mode 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 won’t be able to block."
       }
     ]

data/data/sets/gnt.json

@@ -405,6 +405,10 @@
       {
         "date": "4/8/2016",
         "text": "The set of creatures affected by Inspiring Captain’s ability is determined as the ability resolves. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won’t get +1/+1."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "Inspiring Captain’s triggered ability affects only creatures you control at the time it resolves. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won’t get +1/+1."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -540,7 +544,7 @@
     "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",
@@ -805,16 +809,12 @@
     "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."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@
     "rulings": [
       {
         "date": "10/4/2004",
-        "text": "If X is greater than 0, you can’t choose zero targets. You must choose between one and X targets. If X is 0, you can’t choose any targets."
+        "text": "If X is 0, you can’t choose any targets."
       },
       {
         "date": "8/25/2015",
@@ -1465,7 +1465,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3GG",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain trample until end of turn."
+      "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and gain trample until end of turn. (They can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker they're attacking.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"Forward! Until the horizon is ours!\"\n—Khemses, charioteer",
     "power": null,
@@ -1474,7 +1474,12 @@
     "multiverse_id": 456568,
     "other_part": null,
     "color_indicator": null,
-    "rulings": []
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "Overcome affects only creatures you control at the time it resolves. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn won’t get +2/+2 or gain trample."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Seek the Wilds",
@@ -1555,10 +1560,6 @@
     "other_part": null,
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
-      {
-        "date": "9/20/2016",
-        "text": "As Eager Construct’s triggered ability resolves, first the player whose turn it is scrys 1, then each other player in turn order does the same. Each player will know the choices made by players who chose before them."
-      },
       {
         "date": "6/8/2018",
         "text": "If multiple players are instructed to scry at once, such as while resolving Eager Construct’s triggered ability, those players each look at the top card of their library at the same time, then they choose in turn order whether to put those cards on the top or bottom of their library."