mtg-db 2.3.8 → 2.4.0

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."

data/data/sets/gpt.json

@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@
       },
       {
         "date": "6/8/2016",
-        "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."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@
       },
       {
         "date": "6/8/2016",
-        "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."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@
     "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",
@@ -1569,25 +1569,21 @@
     "other_part": null,
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
-      {
-        "date": "2/1/2006",
-        "text": "Leyline of the Void affects cards that would be put into opponents’ graveyards from anywhere, not just from the battlefield."
-      },
       {
         "date": "8/15/2010",
-        "text": "Leyline of the Void’s second ability prevents cards from ever reaching your opponents’ graveyards. Abilities that would trigger when those cards are put into an opponent’s graveyard (such as Hoarding Dragon’s last ability) won’t trigger."
+        "text": "If your opponent discards a card while you control Leyline of the Void, abilities that function when that card is discarded (such as Liliana’s Caress’s ability, or a madness ability of the discarded card) still work, even though that card never reaches that player’s graveyard. In addition, spells or abilities that check the characteristics of the discarded card (such as Chandra Ablaze’s first ability) can find that card in exile."
       },
       {
-        "date": "8/15/2010",
-        "text": "Leyline of the Void’s second ability doesn’t affect token permanents that would be put into an opponent’s graveyard from the battlefield. They’ll be put into that graveyard as normal (causing any applicable triggered abilities to trigger), then they’ll cease to exist."
+        "date": "6/8/2016",
+        "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": "8/15/2010",
-        "text": "If your opponent discards a card while you control Leyline of the Void, abilities that function when that card is discarded (such as Liliana’s Caress’s ability, or a madness ability of the discarded card) still work, even though that card never reaches that player’s graveyard. In addition, spells or abilities that check the characteristics of the discarded card (such as Chandra Ablaze’s first ability) can find that card in exile."
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "While Leyline of the Void is on the battlefield, nontoken creatures your opponents control won’t die. They’ll be exiled instead. Abilities that would trigger when those creatures die won’t trigger."
       },
       {
-        "date": "6/8/2016",
-        "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."
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "Tokens still die while Leyline of the Void is on the battlefield."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -2097,7 +2093,7 @@
       },
       {
         "date": "6/8/2016",
-        "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."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -2154,7 +2150,7 @@
     "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",
@@ -2393,7 +2389,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1R",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Tin Street Hooligan enters the battlefield, if {G} was spent to cast Tin Street Hooligan, destroy target artifact."
+      "When Tin Street Hooligan enters the battlefield, if {G} was spent to cast it, destroy target artifact."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"Rauck-Chauv's like a holiday! Only it isn't on the calendars, and instead of dancing you knock people flat, and instead of giving gifts you break stuff.\"",
     "power": "2",
@@ -2738,7 +2734,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3G",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Gruul Scrapper enters the battlefield, if {R} was spent to cast Gruul Scrapper, it gains haste until end of turn."
+      "When Gruul Scrapper enters the battlefield, if {R} was spent to cast it, it gains haste until end of turn."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "The Gruul aren't satisfied with just smashing things. They continue smashing other things with the things they just smashed.",
     "power": "3",
@@ -2776,7 +2772,7 @@
     "rulings": [
       {
         "date": "6/8/2016",
-        "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."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -4989,7 +4985,7 @@
     "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,

data/data/sets/grn.json

@@ -1100,7 +1100,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flash",
+      "Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)",
       "Enchant creature",
       "When Capture Sphere enters the battlefield, tap enchanted creature.",
       "Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step."
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Whenever you cast a blue spell, target player puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard."
+      "Whenever you cast a blue spell, target player mills two cards."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Beneath Ravnica's streets runs a layer of tunnels, then caverns and waterways, then terrors and nightmares.",
     "power": null,
@@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "UU",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. If that card would be put into your graveyard this turn, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)"
+      "Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard this turn, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
     "power": null,
@@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "4U",
     "converted_mana_cost": 5,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{2}{U}, {T}: You may cast an instant or sorcery card from your hand without paying its mana cost."
+      "{2}{U}, {T}: You may cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand without paying its mana cost."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "She memorized every arcane text in the Ismeri Library by the time she was sixteen. Now she quizzes sphinxes in her spare time.",
     "power": "3",
@@ -2249,7 +2249,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "3B",
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Flying"
+      "Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"Bats are welcome to eat thousands of my pets. I have multitudes more that will ultimately eat the bats.\"\n—Izoni",
     "power": "3",
@@ -3204,7 +3204,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "B",
     "converted_mana_cost": 1,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Vicious Rumors deals 1 damage to each opponent. Each opponent discards a card, then puts the top card of their library into their graveyard. You gain 1 life."
+      "Vicious Rumors deals 1 damage to each opponent. Each opponent discards a card, then mills a card. You gain 1 life."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"The alliances were already frayed. All we do is find the loose threads and pluck.\"\n—Lazav",
     "power": null,
@@ -3556,8 +3556,8 @@
     "converted_mana_cost": 4,
     "oracle_text": [
       "You may look at the top card of your library any time.",
-      "You may play the top card of your library.",
-      "You can't play cards from your hand.",
+      "You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.",
+      "You can't play lands or cast spells from your hand.",
       "{3}{R}: Destroy Experimental Frenzy."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Turns out coffee is the weird aunt of invention.",
@@ -4221,7 +4221,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1R",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn."
+      "Target creature gets +3/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)"
     ],
     "flavor_text": "\"I packed three more electroconduits into each test wand. You'll experience a brief tingling sensation.\"",
     "power": null,
@@ -4909,11 +4909,11 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "10/5/2018",
-        "text": "The bonus is determined as Might of the Masses resolves. It won’t change if the number of creatures you control changes later in the turn."
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
+        "text": "The size of the bonus is determined as Might of the Masses resolves; it won’t change if the number of creatures you control changes later in the turn."
       },
       {
-        "date": "10/5/2018",
+        "date": "7/12/2019",
         "text": "If you target a creature you control with Might of the Masses, remember to count that creature when determining the amount of the bonus."
       }
     ]
@@ -5146,7 +5146,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "G",
     "converted_mana_cost": 1,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Defender",
+      "Defender (This creature can't attack.)",
       "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature with defender: Draw a card."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Nature's way of saying \"take the long way home.\"",
@@ -5158,12 +5158,8 @@
     "color_indicator": null,
     "rulings": [
       {
-        "date": "10/5/2018",
-        "text": "You can sacrifice Portcullis Vine to pay the cost for its own ability."
-      },
-      {
-        "date": "10/5/2018",
-        "text": "If you sacrifice a blocking creature, the attacking creature it blocked doesn’t become unblocked. Unless it has trample or has other creatures blocking it, that attacking creature won’t deal combat damage."
+        "date": "6/23/2020",
+        "text": "Portcullis Vine can be sacrificed to pay the cost of its last ability."
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -6332,7 +6328,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "BG",
     "converted_mana_cost": 2,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "When Glowspore Shaman enters the battlefield, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard. You may put a land card from your graveyard on top of your library."
+      "When Glowspore Shaman enters the battlefield, mill three cards. You may put a land card from your graveyard on top of your library."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "From death she grows living grandeur.",
     "power": "3",
@@ -6964,7 +6960,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1UB",
     "converted_mana_cost": 3,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "Exile all cards from all opponents' graveyards. You may cast those cards this turn, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast those spells. At the beginning of the next end step, if any of those cards remain exiled, return them to their owners' graveyards.",
+      "Exile all cards from all opponents' graveyards. You may cast spells from among those cards this turn, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast those spells. At the beginning of the next end step, if any of those cards remain exiled, return them to their owners' graveyards.",
       "Exile Mnemonic Betrayal."
     ],
     "flavor_text": null,
@@ -9227,7 +9223,7 @@
     "mana_cost": "1",
     "converted_mana_cost": 1,
     "oracle_text": [
-      "{T}: Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.",
+      "{T}: Mill a card.",
       "{2}, {T}, Exile Wand of Vertebrae: Shuffle up to five target cards from your graveyard into your library."
     ],
     "flavor_text": "Made by the mad for the work of the wicked.",