============================================================================== Card Rulings Summary (CHANGES ONLY) Updated 12/16/98 ============================================================================== Rulings are collected from many sources. See credits and disclaimer at the end of the file for details. Complete text is included for cards from Tempest, Stronghold, Exodus, and Urza's Saga. Text (and entries in general) may or may not be available for other 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.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 11/18/98. Thanx, Stephen. ---- Stephen D'Angelo | Official Magic: The Gathering Rules Summary dangelo@netcom.com | Network Representative for Wizards of the Coast, Inc. ============================================================================== Printing Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No changes to this section. Card Rulings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - * - * - A - * - * - - Armored Pegasus: + Note - The Anthologies version of the card has a casting cost of {2}{W} instead of {1}{W}. This is an error. - - * - * - B - * - * - - Benevolent Unicorn: + Works as a continuous replacement ability (see Rule A.7.5) at the start of damage prevention. [bethmo 12/08/98] This is true even though it is not worded like a replacement ability. Bosium Strip: + The part of the effect which removes the spell card from the game is a replacement ability which happens when the spell would go to the graveyard or anywhere else. [D'Angelo 11/24/98] + Because the card is removed from the game as replacement ability, a spell like Memory Lapse or an effect like Buyback which tries to put the card somewhere else will have its effect replaced. Such things cannot prevent the card from being removed from the game. [D'Angelo 11/24/98] - - * - * - C - * - * - - Carnivorous Plant: + Note - The Anthologies version of the card has a Legends expansion symbol when it should have one from The Dark. Chains of Mephistopheles: + Each player is exempted from one draw during their draw phase. You are not exempted during your opponent's draw phase. [D'Angelo 11/24/98] This is a REVERSAL. Chimeric Staff: + It cannot attack until it starts a turn in play under your control. [D'Angelo 11/25/98] See Rule G.39. Coat of Arms: + Animated lands and artifacts have no creature type (unless their text says they Count As a given creature type), so they are unaffected by this card. [D'Angelo 10/30/98] One exception to this is that animated Legendary lands are of creature type Legend. [DeLaney 12/12/98] Consuming Ferocity: + It counts any +1/+0 counters on this card. You should ignore the word "these" on the card. [WotC Rules Team 03/19/98] - - * - * - D - * - * - - Diabolic Servitude: + You choose the target creature card when this card's "comes into play" ability (see Rule E.3) is played. If the targeted creature card is not in the graveyard when the ability resolves, it brings nothing into play and sits in play with no further effects in the future. If there is no creature card to target, then you skip playing the ability. [D'Angelo 10/08/98] Dirtcowl Wurm: + A spell or ability that tells a player to "put a land into play" does not count as playing a land. [D'Angelo 12/16/98] - - * - * - E - * - * - - - - * - * - F - * - * - - Forbidden Crypt: + The ability is a continuous replacement ability (see Rule A.7.5). [bethmo 11/28/98] - - * - * - G - * - * - - - - * - * - H - * - * - - Hesitation: + Playing a land is not a "spell", so playing a land will not trigger this card. [D'Angelo 12/02/98] Hidden Spider: + It only changes if the creature has Flying innately, not if the creature gets flying due to a continuous effect of a permenent (even if that permanent is itself, as with Winged Sliver). [DeLaney 12/14/98] - - * - * - I - * - * - - - - * - * - J - * - * - - - - * - * - K - * - * - - - - * - * - L - * - * - - - - * - * - M - * - * - - Mangara's Tome: + If you lose control of this card, the cards removed stay out of the game and face down. [bethmo 11/24/98] Mask of the Mimic: + If a copy card, such as Clone, goes to the graveyard under this effect, you get to look for another copy of the card it was copying (not the Clone card). This is because a copy card actually takes on the base name and characteristics of what it copies. [D'Angelo 11/25/98] Mirri, Cat Warrior: + Note - The Anthologies version of the card has a toughness of 2 when it should be 3. This is an error. It also has a silver rarity symbol when it should be gold. Mogg Raider: + Note - The Anthologies version of the card has a casting cost of {R}{R} instead of {R}. This is an error. - - * - * - N - * - * - - - - * - * - O - * - * - - Oubliette: + The card in the Oubliette acts as if it were phased out (see Rule G.30), with the exception that it will not come back into play at the beginning of untap like other phased out cards will (and cannot be affected by things like Time and Tide which affect phased out cards). The rulings as to what happens when the creature leaves or re-enters play, apply, however. [D'Angelo 10/15/96] [D'Angelo 11/25/98] This is effectively errata but no actual rewording has been issued. [bethmo 10/23/98] - - * - * - P - * - * - - Power Artifact: + Text(AQ+errata): Each ability of enchanted artifact that includes a generic mana cost of at least {1} costs {2} less to play. If this reduces the generic mana cost of that ability to less than {1}, its generic mana cost is {1}. [Oracle 07/01/98] [Oracle Update 11/11/98] Preferred Selection: + Text(MI+errata): At the beginning of your draw phase, look at the top two cards of your library, and choose one. Then choose one - Put that card on the bottom of your library; or sacrifice ~this~, pay {2}{G}{G}, and draw that card. [Oracle 07/01/98] [Oracle Update 11/11/98] Psychic Vortex: + You cannot use draw replacement abilities (see Rule A.7) on the draws because you cannot modify costs and the draws are done as a phase cost. [Aahz 06/16/97] You can use continuous replacement abilities (see Rule A.7.5), however. [D'Angelo 11/25/98] Purgatory: + If an opponent takes control of this card and plays the upkeep ability, the creatures will come into play under their control even if you removed them. [Oracle Update 11/11/98] And even if you got control of this card between them playing the ability and resolving it. [D'Angelo 11/25/98] - - * - * - Q - * - * - - Quarum Trench Gnomes: + The ability is a continuous replacement ability (see Rule A.7.5). [D'Angelo 11/24/98] - - * - * - R - * - * - - Ring of Ma'ruf: + Does not allow you to look at face-down cards which are in the removed from game zone. [bethmo 11/24/98] You can get them with the Ring, but you can't look at them. - - * - * - S - * - * - - Samite Healer: + Note - The Anthologies version of the card has a casting cost of {2}{W} instead of {1}{W}. This is an error. Shahrazad: + Events in a Shahrazad sub-game do not trigger abilities in the main game. And continuous effects in the main game do not carry over into the sub-game. [bethmo 12/11/98] - - * - * - T - * - * - - Tainted AEther: + If the creature changes controllers, its new controller has to sacrifice something. For example, Gilded Drake. [bethmo 11/24/98] + The triggered ability is controlled by the controller of this card. [bethmo 11/24/98] Tawnos's Coffin: + The card in the Coffin acts as if it were phased out (see Rule G.30), with the exception that it will not come back into play at the beginning of untap like other phased out cards will (and cannot be affected by things like Time and Tide which affect phased out cards). The rulings as to what happens when the creature leaves or re-enters play, apply, however. [D'Angelo 10/15/96] [D'Angelo 11/25/98] This is effectively errata but no actual rewording has been issued. [bethmo 10/23/98] Transmogrifying Licid: + The enchanted creature becomes an artifact creature. It loses all other types it may have had. [D'Angelo 11/19/98] + The fact that it changes the thing it enchants to a creature means that if it was a creature only due to an effect, that when that effect wears off, the Transmogrifying Licid will continue to make it be a creature anyway. [bethmo 11/21/98] If the creature has no defined base value (because the effect giving it a base value wore off), the base value is 0/0, then this card gives it +1/+1. [bethmo 11/24/98] + Does not change the color of the creature it enchants. [D'Angelo 11/24/98] Triskelion: + May use +1/+1 counters that were created with this card or with other effects. You should ignore the word "these" on the card. [WotC Rules Team 03/19/98] - - * - * - U - * - * - - Umbilicus: + If you don't have a permanent to choose, you can still choose to not pay the life and then just do nothing since there is no permanent to choose. [bethmo 11/24/98] - - * - * - V - * - * - - Venomous Fangs: + If the damaged creature takes both lethal damage and is destroyed by thie effect, you have to regenerate the creature only once to keep it alive. This is due to the fact that the destroy by this effect will happen before you check for lethal damage, and regenerating from the destroy will remove the damage. [D'Angelo 11/24/98] Volrath's Curse: + If the creature this card is on is sacrificed to this card, this card is buried before the ability to unsummon it can be used. [D'Angelo 12/07/98] - - * - * - W - * - * - - Warrior's Honor: + Note - The Anthologies version of the card has a casting cost of {1}{W} instead of {2}{W}. This is an error. Waylay: + The three tokens do have summoning sickness. This means they cannot attack unless you have an effect that allows them to ignore summoning sickness. [D'Angelo 11/20/98] - - * - * - 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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