mtg-db 2.3.12 → 2.4.0

data/data/sets/8ed.json

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

data/data/sets/9ed.json

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

data/data/sets/a25.json

@@ -512,7 +512,8 @@
     "mana_cost": "W",
     "converted_mana_cost": 1,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)"
+      "Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. (It can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything of that color.)",
+      "Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Honor the gods of Theros, and they will return the favor.",
     "power": null,
@@ -541,6 +542,14 @@
       {
         "date": "9/15/2013",
         "text": "Scry appears on some spells and abilities with one or more targets. If all of the spell or ability’s targets are illegal when it tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won’t scry."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "You can’t choose “artifact” or “colorless” as Gods Willing asks you to choose a color because those are not colors."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Gods Willing tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t scry 1. If the target creature becomes an illegal target while Gods Willing is resolving (most likely because you gave it protection from white), you do scry 1."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -776,10 +785,6 @@
       {
         "date": "3/16/2018",
         "text": "You can activate Luminarch Ascension’s last ability during the end step in which it receives its fourth quest counter."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "3/16/2018",
-        "text": "In a Two-Headed Giant game, Luminarch Ascension’s first ability will trigger twice at the beginning of the opposing team’s end step if you didn’t lose life that turn. It doesn’t matter whether your teammate lost life or not."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -1889,7 +1894,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "3/16/2018",
+        "date": "6/14/2019",
         "text": "Exclude can target a creature spell that can’t be countered. When Exclude resolves, that spell won’t be countered, but you’ll still draw a card."
       }
     ]
@@ -2194,7 +2199,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "date": "6/14/2019",
         "text": "If there are no other creatures on the battlefield when Man-o’-War enters the battlefield, its ability must target itself."
       }
     ]
@@ -3878,6 +3883,10 @@
       {
         "date": "10/1/2008",
         "text": "Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/14/2019",
+        "text": "If a card in a player’s graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -4019,7 +4028,7 @@
     "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,
@@ -4030,11 +4039,11 @@
     "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."
       }
     ]
@@ -4247,8 +4256,8 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "3/16/2018",
-        "text": "If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Chandra’s Outrage resolves, the spell doesn’t resolve. No player is dealt damage."
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Chandra’s Outrage tries to resolve, the spell doesn’t resolve. No player is dealt damage."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -5004,7 +5013,7 @@
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
       "Elemental",
-      "Hound"
+      "Dog"
     ],
     "rarity": "Common",
     "mana_cost": "3R",
@@ -5416,7 +5425,7 @@
     ],
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
-      "Hound",
+      "Dog",
       "Shaman"
     ],
     "rarity": "Common",
@@ -5559,8 +5568,8 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "3/16/2018",
-        "text": "Azusa’s ability is cumulative with other effects that allow you to play additional lands, such as that of Wayward Swordtooth (from the Rivals of Ixalan set)."
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
+        "text": "Azusa’s ability is cumulative with other effects that allow you to play additional lands, such as that of Song of Creation (from the Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths set)."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -5643,7 +5652,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Play with the top card of your library revealed.",
-      "You may play the top card of your library if it's a land card.",
+      "You may play lands from the top of your library.",
       "Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
@@ -5923,7 +5932,12 @@
     "multiverse_id": 442160,
     "other_part": null,
     "color_indicator": null,
-    "rulings": []
+    "rulings": [
+      {
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
+        "text": "If a card in a player’s library has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0."
+      }
+    ]
   },
   {
     "name": "Giant Growth",
@@ -7154,7 +7168,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1GU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Whenever you draw a card, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Lorescale Coatl."
+      "Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Lorescale Coatl."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"The enlightenment I never found in etherium I have found traced in the coatl's scales.\"\n—Ranalus, vedalken heretic",
     "power": "2",
@@ -7165,12 +7179,8 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "3/16/2018",
-        "text": "If a spell or ability causes you to draw multiple cards, Lorescale Coatl’s ability triggers that many times."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "3/16/2018",
-        "text": "If a spell or ability causes you to put cards in your hand without specifically using the word “draw,” Lorescale Coatl’s ability won’t trigger."
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
+        "text": "If a spell or ability causes you to put a card into your hand without specifically using the word “draw,” it’s not a card drawn."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -7560,7 +7570,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4RG",
     "converted_mana_cost": 6,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Stangg enters the battlefield, create a legendary 3/4 red and green Human Warrior creature token named Stangg Twin. Exile that token when Stangg leaves the battlefield. Sacrifice Stangg when that token leaves the battlefield."
+      "When Stangg enters the battlefield, create Stangg Twin, a legendary 3/4 red and green Human Warrior creature token. Exile that token when Stangg leaves the battlefield. Sacrifice Stangg when that token leaves the battlefield."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": "3",

data/data/sets/aer.json

@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Create three 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.",
-      "You may cast a card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost."
+      "You may cast a spell with converted mana cost 3 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"It's important to always have the right tool for the job. This one is for picking my teeth.\"",
     "power": null,
@@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Return up to three target artifacts and/or creatures to their owners' hands.",
-      "You may cast a card with converted mana cost 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost."
+      "You may cast a spell with converted mana cost 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"Get out of my way.\"",
     "power": null,
@@ -3292,7 +3292,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
       "All creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn.",
-      "You may cast a card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost."
+      "You may cast a spell with converted mana cost 3 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"The Consulate pushed me to my limit, darling, and this is the result.\"",
     "power": null,
@@ -3452,11 +3452,7 @@
     "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."
       }
     ]
@@ -3812,7 +3808,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
       "First strike, menace",
-      "Whenever Kari Zev, Skyship Raider attacks, create a legendary 2/1 red Monkey creature token named Ragavan that's tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat."
+      "Whenever Kari Zev, Skyship Raider attacks, create Ragavan, a legendary 2/1 red Monkey creature token. Ragavan enters the battlefield tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Aboard her ship, the Dragon's Smile, Kari follows no one's rules but her own.",
     "power": "1",
@@ -3851,7 +3847,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Gain control of target creature or Vehicle until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn.",
-      "You may cast a card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost."
+      "You may cast a spell with converted mana cost 2 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"I was made for this!\"",
     "power": null,
@@ -4814,8 +4810,12 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "2/9/2017",
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
         "text": "The set of permanents affected by Heroic Intervention is determined as the spell resolves. Permanents you begin to control later in the turn won’t gain hexproof and indestructible."
+      },
+      {
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
+        "text": "A planeswalker with indestructible still loses loyalty counters as it’s dealt damage and will still be put into its owner’s graveyard if its loyalty reaches 0."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -5313,6 +5313,7 @@
     ],
     "supertypes": [],
     "subtypes": [
+      "Pangolin",
       "Beast"
     ],
     "rarity": "Uncommon",
@@ -5389,7 +5390,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 6,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.",
-      "You may cast a card with converted mana cost 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost."
+      "You may cast a spell with converted mana cost 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"Control the Great Conduit? You might as well try to divert a river with your hands.\"",
     "power": null,

data/data/sets/akh.json

@@ -1906,7 +1906,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Target player puts the top five cards of their library into their graveyard.",
+      "Target player mills five cards.",
       "Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"How can there be doubt in the presence of such blessings?\"\n—Ukhat, vizier of initiation",
@@ -2968,7 +2968,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Each player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Each player mills two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"I have foreseen that you will not pass my trial.\"",
     "power": null,
@@ -3692,7 +3692,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3BB",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.",
+      "+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards.",
       "−3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.",
       "−7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures."
     ],
@@ -4932,20 +4932,16 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "8/15/2010",
+        "date": "10/4/2019",
         "text": "The sacrificed creature’s last known existence on the battlefield is checked to determine its power."
       },
       {
-        "date": "8/15/2010",
-        "text": "If you sacrifice an attacking or blocking creature during the declare blockers step, it won’t deal combat damage. If you wait until the combat damage step, but that creature is dealt lethal damage, it’ll be destroyed before you get a chance to sacrifice it."
+        "date": "10/4/2019",
+        "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": "4/15/2013",
-        "text": "You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you cannot cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you cannot sacrifice additional creatures."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "4/15/2013",
-        "text": "Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell."
+        "date": "10/4/2019",
+        "text": "Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to interfere with the creature you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -4963,7 +4959,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "2R",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities on the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and \"this turn\" and \"until end of turn\" effects end.)",
+      "End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and \"this turn\" and \"until end of turn\" effects end.)",
       "At the beginning of your next end step, you lose the game."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
@@ -6195,7 +6191,12 @@
     "multiverse_id": 426869,
     "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": "Greater Sandwurm",
@@ -6225,7 +6226,7 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "4/18/2017",
+        "date": "4/17/2020",
         "text": "Once a creature with power 3 or greater has blocked Greater Sandwurm, changing the power of the blocking creature won’t cause Greater Sandwurm to become unblocked."
       }
     ]
@@ -6998,7 +6999,7 @@
     "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 a creature card.",
+      "You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.",
       "You may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast creature spells."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
@@ -9330,7 +9331,7 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
       "Activated abilities of creature cards in your graveyard cost {1} less to activate.",
-      "Tap an untapped Zombie you control: Target player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard."
+      "Tap an untapped Zombie you control: Target player mills a card."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"They might be dead, but these mummies are masters of their trade.\"\n—Jace Beleren",
     "power": null,