============================================================================== Card Rulings Summary (CHANGES ONLY) Updated 05/16/99 ============================================================================== Rulings are collected from many sources. See credits and disclaimer at the end of the file for details. This is the FINAL release under the FIFTH EDITION rules. Complete text is included for cards from all expansions except Fallen Empires, Ice Age, Homelands, Alliances and Mirage. Text (and entries in general) may or may not be available for these card sets depending on whether or not any rulings were made on those cards. These rulings are updated monthly. The most recent version is available on the web (WWW) as either of the following: http://www.crystalkeep.com/magic/rules/index.html If you do not have web access, send e-mail to "dangelo@crystalkeep.com" requesting a copy of the current Rulings Summaries. A '+' is used to mark changes since the last released version on 04/21/99. Thanx, Stephen. ---- Stephen D'Angelo | Official Rulings Summary NetRep dangelo@crystalkeep.com | Network Representative, Wizards of the Coast, Inc. ============================================================================== Printing Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No changes to this section. Card Rulings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - * - * - A - * - * - - - - * - * - B - * - * - - - - * - * - C - * - * - - - - * - * - D - * - * - - - - * - * - E - * - * - - Equilibrium: + A creature spell is any "Summon" or "Artifact Creature" spell. [D'Angelo 04/22/99] - - * - * - F - * - * - - - - * - * - G - * - * - - - - * - * - H - * - * - - - - * - * - I - * - * - - - - * - * - J - * - * - - - - * - * - K - * - * - - - - * - * - L - * - * - - Living Death: + Any "comes into play" triggers for the creatures entering play are resolved before putting the creatures that used to be in play into the graveyard. [D'Angelo 04/25/99] - - * - * - M - * - * - - Maro: + His toughness is checked after completing each "event" in a spell's resolution. Thus, his toughness does go to zero during a Wheel of Fortune, it is checked at the "then" in the middle of the card's text (a "then" marks the split of the resolution into two "events"). So he will die because you will zero cards in hand when the event event ends. If another spell had your number of cards go to zero during the middle of resolution, but you did not have zero when the spell ended, then Maro would live. [D'Angelo 04/30/99] Mogg Conscripts: + A creature spell is any "Summon" or "Artifact Creature" spell. [D'Angelo 04/22/99] - - * - * - N - * - * - - - - * - * - O - * - * - - Onslaught: + A creature spell is any "Summon" or "Artifact Creature" spell. [D'Angelo 04/22/99] Opal Archangel: + A creature spell is any "Summon" or "Artifact Creature" spell. [D'Angelo 04/22/99] Opal Caryatid: + A creature spell is any "Summon" or "Artifact Creature" spell. [D'Angelo 04/22/99] Opal Champion: + A creature spell is any "Summon" or "Artifact Creature" spell. [D'Angelo 04/22/99] Opal Gargoyle: + A creature spell is any "Summon" or "Artifact Creature" spell. [D'Angelo 04/22/99] Opal Titan: + A creature spell is any "Summon" or "Artifact Creature" spell. [D'Angelo 04/22/99] - - * - * - P - * - * - - Predatory Hunger: + A creature spell is any "Summon" or "Artifact Creature" spell. [D'Angelo 04/22/99] - - * - * - Q - * - * - - - - * - * - R - * - * - - - - * - * - S - * - * - - Skittering Skirge: + A creature spell is any "Summon" or "Artifact Creature" spell. [D'Angelo 04/22/99] Soul Sculptor: + A creature spell is any "Summon" or "Artifact Creature" spell. [D'Angelo 04/22/99] Steel Golem: + A creature spell is any "Summon" or "Artifact Creature" spell. [D'Angelo 04/22/99] Straw Golem: + A creature spell is any "Summon" or "Artifact Creature" spell. [D'Angelo 04/22/99] - - * - * - T - * - * - - - - * - * - U - * - * - - - - * - * - V - * - * - - - - * - * - W - * - * - - The Wretched: + If it blocks and regenerates, it is removed from combat (see Rule C.1.6) so it is not blocking anything at the end of combat. [D'Angelo 04/25/99] - - * - * - X - * - * - - - - * - * - Y - * - * - - - - * - * - Z - * - * - - Acknowledgments and Disclaimers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ While this work is not officially issued by Wizards of the Coast, it is the official collected rulings from official sanctioned representatives of and publications by Wizards of the Coast. This summary is collected from rulings made by officials and network representatives of Wizards of the Coast, along with a number of unofficial rulings also collected from the net. Whenever a source for a ruling is known, the name of that person is listed with the ruling. "WotC Rules Team" marks official rulings from the rules team. "Mirage, Page " marks rules from the Mirage rulebook. "Fifth Edition, Page " marks rules from the Fifth Edition rulebook. "Encyclopedia, Page " marks errata from the Magic Official Encyclopedia. "bethmo" is Beth Moursund, the Rules Manager at Wizards of the Coast. 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