============================================================================== Card Rulings Summary (CHANGES ONLY) Updated 08/20/98 ============================================================================== Rulings are collected from many sources. See credits and disclaimer at the end of the file for details. These rulings are updated monthly. The most recent version is available on the web (WWW) as either of the following: http://www.activesw.com/~sdangelo/rulings.html ftp://ftp.activesw.com/pub/sdangelo/magic/rule-cards.txt The above files are also available via FTP to "ftp.activesw.com" under "pub/sdangelo/magic" as "rule-cards.txt". If you have neither WWW nor FTP access, send e-mail to "dangelo@netcom.com" requesting a copy of the current Rulings Summaries. A '+' is used to mark changes since the last released version on 07/20/98. Thanx, Stephen. ---- Stephen D'Angelo | Official Magic: The Gathering Rules Summary dangelo@netcom.com | Network Representative for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. ============================================================================== Printing Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Unglued: + The Unglued expansion set was printed with silver borders on the face of all cards which are not basic lands. The basic land cards have black borders. Cards can be identified by the expansion symbol on the right hand side of the middle section. The expansion symbol is a cracked egg. The set consists of 94 unique cards. It was released in early August 1998. + All silver borderd cards in this set are banned from DCI tournaments unless explicitly allowed by the format. + Was printed in 10 card booster packs (1 rare, 2 uncommon, 6 common, 1 land). Portal Second Age: + The Portal Second Age set is the second set for the Portal card game. It includes some cards reprinted from the main Portal set, but many new cards as well. + Portal Second Age was printed with black borders on the face of the cards. Cards can be identified by the expansion symbol on the right hand size of the middle section. The expansion symbol is a circle with radial lines on it that is supposed to remind you of a tunnel or possibly a door. The set consists of 165 unique cards. It was released in early June 1998. + Was printed in 15 card booster packs (1 rare, 3 uncommon, 11 common), and in 5 pre-built starter decks with 40 cards in them. Card Rulings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - * - * - A - * - * - - Ankh of Mishra: + It deals damage to a land's controller at the time the triggered ability is played. If the land leaves play (due to another triggered ability or a mana source ability) before the ability is played, the land has no controller and so this card does not deal any damage. [WotC Rules Team 08/01/98] - - * - * - B - * - * - - - - * - * - C - * - * - - Cataclysm: + If you control a permanent with more than one type, you can choose that same permanent for more than one of the choices if you want to. [Barclay 06/10/98] This makes it possible to select a Brass Man as both your artifact and creature, and then select a land and thereby keep only two cards. You probably won't want to do this often, but it is an option. [D'Angelo 08/19/98] + If you control a permanent with more than one type, you can choose that permanent to be the representative of either type. This makes it possible to have more than one creature (or other permanent type) in play. For example, if you select a Scryb Sprite for your creature and a Brass Man for your artifact, you get to keep both of these creatures. [D'Angelo 07/23/98] + The permanents to save are chosen on resolution. You do not choose them when announcing the spell. [WotC Rules Team 08/01/98] See Rule G.35.4. Coat of Arms: + If you have a creature with more than one creature type, count all creatures which have either creature type. [D'Angelo 08/04/98] + If you have a creature with more than one creature type, and another creature matches more than one creature type, you only count that creature once. You do not double count it because it has a double match. [Barclay 06/10/98] + If a creature in play has more than one creature type, and one of those types matches the creature you are calculating for, then count this creature. Only one type needs to match in order to get counted. [Barclay 06/10/98] Cyclone: + The ability is a phase ability (see Rule A.5), not a phase cost (see Rule A.6). [D'Angelo 07/21/98] + You are given the choice to pay or not pay during the resolution. [D'Angelo 07/21/98] - - * - * - D - * - * - - - - * - * - E - * - * - - Echo Chamber: + The token comes into play as a generic creature with no characteristics. It then immediately gains its new characteristics. This means it does not trigger any "comes into play" abilities (such as Nekrataal letting you bury a creature) and does not benefit from "enters play" abilities (such as Spike Colony coming into play with +1/+1 counters). [WotC Rules Team 08/01/98] Empyrial Armor: + The value of X is recalculated constantly, so this card's bonus varies as the number of cards in your hand varies. [D'Angelo 08/04/98] Ensnaring Bridge: + It only checks the cards in your hand when declaring attackers. Once they are declared, changes to your hand size or to the power of the creatures will not remove creatures from the attack. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 30] + All creatures in play (including yours) are subject to the restriction based on the number of cards in your hand. [D'Angelo 07/22/98] Eye of Singularity: + Text(VI+errata): When ~this~ comes into play, bury all permanents with the same name except basic lands. Whenever any permanent comes into play, bury each other permanent with the same name as that permanent other than basic lands. [WotC Rules Team 08/01/98] + The errata moves the check to see if the card is a basic land until the resolution, which allows for an effect such as Blood Moon's to change the card's name before resolution. [WotC Rules Team 08/01/98] - - * - * - F - * - * - - Fork: + Note - Also see Copy Cards, Rule E.4. - - * - * - G - * - * - - - - * - * - H - * - * - - Helm of Awakening: + Can never affect the colored (non-generic) part of a casting cost. [D'Angelo 07/29/98] - - * - * - I - * - * - - Interdict: + Cannot be used to counter a side-effect action, such as paying mana to not get damaged by Nafs Asp. [D'Angelo 08/11/98] - - * - * - J - * - * - - - - * - * - K - * - * - - - - * - * - L - * - * - - Lancers en-Kor: + Cards which trigger on damage being "dealt", such as Spirit Link do not trigger when damage is redirected. They trigger only when the damage is finally dealt to something at the end of the damage prevention step (see Rule T.10.1). [D'Angelo 07/29/98] - - * - * - M - * - * - - Maddening Imp: + It does affect creatures with summoning sickness. [D'Angelo 07/30/98] So put your creatures into play after your attack. + If the creature cannot attack because of some restriction, such as Pacifism, or because it is tapped, it is destroyed at the end of the turn. [D'Angelo 07/30/98] + The effect only requires the creature to attack this turn. It is not a permanent effect. [D'Angelo 07/30/98] + If the Imp leaves play before the end of the turn, the creature still dies. [D'Angelo 07/30/98] + Note - Also see Must Attack or Block, Rule C.10. Mana Breach: + The ability itself is played and controlled by the player who played the spell. The controller of Mana Breach does not matter. See Rule A.8.11. [D'Angelo 07/21/98] Mogg Maniac: + If it blocks a trample creature, it is only dealt its toughness in damage, which means it only gets to deal 1 damage to the opponent. [D'Angelo 07/28/98] See Rule A.25.Ruling.2. - - * - * - N - * - * - - Nafs Asp: + If it damages a player twice, they get to pay or take damage twice during their next upkeep. [D'Angelo 08/11/98] - - * - * - O - * - * - - - - * - * - P - * - * - - Personal Incarnation: + If the Incarnation has Creature Bond on it when it dies, the Creature Bond and the Incarnation's abilities both trigger. They resolve in the same series (see Rule T.9) with the order depending on who controls which. If the same player controls both, they can choose which order they resolve. If different players control them, then the current player's resolves first, then the other player's. [D'Angelo 07/23/98] Phyrexian Grimoire: + The ability cannot be played if there are no cards in your graveyard to target. [D'Angelo 07/21/98] - - * - * - Q - * - * - - - - * - * - R - * - * - - - - * - * - S - * - * - - Serrated Arrows: + The counter is removed as part of the cost of using the ability and is not returned if the ability fizzles. [D'Angelo 08/11/98] - - * - * - T - * - * - - Tombstone Stairwell: + The "bury at end of turn" is an effect on the token creatures, so if you manage to get the tokens into play after the Tombstone Stairwell leaves play, the tokens are still buried at end of turn. [bethmo 01/17/98] Since this is an effect and not an ability, Humility will not remove this effect. [WotC Rules Team 08/01/98] + The "unaffected by summoning sickness" ability is a base ability of the tokens. This ability can be removed by Humility. [WotC Rules Team 08/01/98] Transmogrifying Licid: + The enchanted creature gains artifact as part of its nature. It does not stop being a creature or whatever else it is. [D'Angelo 07/28/98] - - * - * - U - * - * - - - - * - * - V - * - * - - - - * - * - W - * - * - - - - * - * - 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. 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