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Eradicate
Color Black
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=2BB
Expansion UD(U)
Text(UD+errata):Remove target nonblack creature from the game. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that creature and remove them from the game. That player then shuffles his or her library. [Oracle 2000/02/01]
Does not remove other cards of the same name from play. Just from the graveyard, hand, and library. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]
If you manage to turn a basic land (such as a Forest) into a creature, you can indeed use this effect on that basic land type. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]
You do not have to find any of the cards in the player's library if you do not want to. See Rule Z.6.9. [D'Angelo 2001/07/14]
Use the name of the card as it leaves play. [Barclay 2002/10/07]
If a copy card, such as Clone, is targeted by this effect, you get to look for another copy of the card it is copying (not the Clone card). This is because a copy card actually takes on the name and initial characteristics of what it copies. [D'Angelo 2002/10/07]
A face down creature has no name (see Rule E.5.4), so you search for cards that also have no name. Since all cards in the graveyard, hand, and library have names, this is an unmeetable condition and the spell won't do anything other than remove the targeted creature from the game. [D'Angelo 2002/10/15]
Note -Cycle with Quash, Scour, Sowing Salt, and Splinter.

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Erase
Color White
Type Instant
Cost Cost=W
Expansion UL(C)
Text(UL):Remove target enchantment from the game.
The card does not go to the graveyard first. [Urza's Legacy FAQ 1999/02/03]

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Erg Raiders
Color Black
Type Creature - Raider
Cost Cost=1B
Expansion AN(C5)/R45(C)
Text(5th+errata):2/3. ; At the end of your turn, if ~this~ didn't attack this turn, ~this~ deals 2 damage to you unless it came under your control this turn. [Oracle 2000/02/01]
If unable to attack because it is tapped or something, it still deals 2 damage to the controller of this card. [bethmo 1994/06/01]
Note -The Arabian Nights version of this card has two versions, one with a small dark circle behind the "1" in the mana cost (rarity C3) and one with a normal mana circle behind the cost (rarity C2).

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Erhnam Djinn
Color Green
Type Creature - Djinn
Cost Cost=3G
Expansion AN(U2)/CH(U3)/AT(F1)/BD(F1)/JU(R)
Text(JU):4/5. ; At the beginning of your upkeep, target non-Wall creature an opponent controls gains forestwalk until your next upkeep.
If there are no creatures your opponent controls to target at the beginning of your upkeep, ignore this ability. [D'Angelo 2000/02/25]
If you have more than one Djinn, you can have all of them target the same creature with their ability. [D'Angelo 1996/12/10]
In multiplayer games you can choose a different player's creature each time it is used. [Duelist Magazine #4, Page 64] You are forced to pick a creature that some opponent controls if there is at least one creature in play that is a legal target. [Aahz 1996/06/13]
Extended tournaments (see Rule D.15) banned this card from 1999/10/01 until 2002/07/01.
Note -Also see Landwalk, Rule A.27.

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Erithizon
Color Green
Type Creature - Beast
Cost Cost=2GG
Expansion MM(R)
Text(MM):4/4. ; Whenever ~this~ attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature of defending player's choice.
Erithizon's controller controls the triggered ability, but their opponent chooses the target. [DeLaney 2002/04/08]
This interacts in an odd way with Standard Bearer (and other Flagbearer cards). The result is that the Flagbearer ability does not apply to Erithizon's target. This is because the Flagbearer ability only works if the target is chosen by the same player (which must be an opponent) that controls the ability. With Erithizon, these are different players. [DeLaney 2002/04/08]

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Eron the Relentless
Color Red
Type Creature - Legend
Cost Cost=3RR
Expansion HL(U3)
Text(HL+errata):5/2, Haste. ; {R}{R}{R}: Regenerate ~this~. [Oracle 1999/07/23]
Note -Also see Haste, Rule A.22.
Note -Also see Legendary Permanents, Rule K.17.

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Erosion
Color Blue
Type Enchant Land
Cost Cost=UUU
Expansion DK(C3)/4(C)
Text(4th+errata):At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted land's controller, destroy enchanted land unless that player pays {1} or 1 life. [Oracle 1999/07/23]
Extended tournaments (see Rule D.15) have banned this card since 1999/10/01.

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Errand of Duty
Color White
Type Instant
Cost Cost=1W
Expansion AL(C1)
Text(AL+errata):Put a 1/1 white Knight creature token with banding into play. [Oracle 1999/07/23]
Note -Also see Banding, Rule A.8.
Note -Also see Token Creatures, Rule K.25.

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Errant Minion
Color Blue
Type Enchant Creature
Cost Cost=2U
Expansion IA(C)
Text(IA+errata):At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay {1} or {2}. ~this~ deals damage to that player equal to 2 minus the amount of mana paid this way. [Oracle 2000/02/01]

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Errantry
Color Red
Type Enchant Creature
Cost Cost=1R
Expansion IA(C)/5(C)
Text(5th+errata):Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and can only attack alone. [Oracle 2000/02/01]

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Erratic Explosion
Color Red
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=2R
Expansion ON(C)
Text(ON):Choose target creature or player. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. ~this~ deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to that creature or player. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
If all your cards are lands, you take no damage. [Onslaught FAQ 2002/09/24]
Note -Also see Converted Mana Cost, Rule K.8.

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Erratic Portal
Color Artifact
Type Artifact
Cost Cost=4
Expansion EX(R)
Text(EX+errata):{1},{Tap}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.

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Ersatz Gnomes
Color Artifact
Type Artifact Creature - Gnome
Cost Cost=3
Expansion MI(U)
Text(MI+errata):1/1. ; {Tap}: Target spell is colorless. ; {Tap}: Target permanent becomes colorless until end of turn. [Oracle 1999/07/01]
If used on a spell which becomes a permanent when cast, the permanent enters play colorless and remains colorless. Remember that the permanent is not an artifact just because it is colorless. [Duelist Magazine #16, Page 28]
Note -Before errata, this card had no creature type. [Oracle 1999/07/01]

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Ertai's Familiar
Color Blue
Type Creature - Illusion
Cost Cost=1U
Expansion WL(R)
Text(WL+errata):2/2, Phasing. ; When ~this~ leaves play, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard. ; {U}: Until your next upkeep, ~this~ can't phase out. [Oracle 2000/10/24]
Note -Also see Phasing, Rule A.30.

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Ertai's Meddling
Color Blue
Type Instant
Cost Cost=XU
Expansion TE(R)
Text(TE+errata):X can't be 0. ; The next time target spell would resolve, instead its controller removes it from the game, then puts X delay counters on it. ; As long as the card is removed from the game, remove a delay counter from it at the beginning of that player's upkeep. If the card has no delay counters on it, he or she puts it onto the stack as a copy of the original spell. [Oracle 2002/03/01]
Note that a delayed Counterspell will be countered when it resolves since the Counterspell will no longer find that its target is on the stack, which is a requirement for countering a spell. [D'Angelo 1997/10/29]
If a spell is targeted by more than one Ertai's Meddling, when the spell tries to resolve the first time, only one of the Ertai's Meddlings will be applied to it (by the choice of the caster of the spell being affected). The other Meddlings will fail since the spell will no longer be on the stack. [D'Angelo 2000/02/15]
A targeted spell which is delayed will still succeed even if its target has phased out and back in again. [bethmo 1997/11/19]
Once it is put back on the stack, it is a "new" spell again and can be countered or even targeted by another Ertai's Meddling. [D'Angelo 1999/08/18]
This card interacts oddly with a Flashback spell. Regardless of order of resolution of the replacements, the spell ends up removed from the game and with counters on it. When it finally resolves, the Flashback effect is ignored (it got used up the previous time) and the card goes to the graveyard as normal. [Jordan 2001/09/30]
If a copy of a spell (one that has no card representing it, such as from Mirari) is affected by Ertai's Meddling, the spell ceases to exist when removed from the game. It will not gain counters and will not be put back on the stack. [DeLaney 2002/02/09]
If Ertai's Meddling is used to copy a spell being played face down due to Morph ability, the spell will create a face up, 2/2, colorless, nameless creature with no text. This may be a little counter-intuitive, because you might expect the card to enter play face down like it would have when originally played, but Ertai's Meddling copies only the original spell and not the entire card the spell represented. [Jordan 2003/04/21]
Note -Also see X Costs, Rule K.28.
Note -Before errata, this card was of type Interrupt. It is now an Instant.

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Ertai's Trickery
Color Blue
Type Instant
Cost Cost=U
Expansion PS(U)
Text(PS):Counter target spell if a kicker cost was paid for it.
It can target a spell which does not have a kicker cost or one which does but the kicker was not paid. In these cases, the spell does nothing. [Planeshift FAQ 2001/01/26]

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Ertai, the Corrupted
Color Multi
Type Creature - Wizard Legend
Cost Cost=2WUB
Expansion PS(R)
Text(PS):3/4. ; {U},{Tap},Sacrifice a creature or enchantment: Counter target spell.
This card can be in play at the same time as Ertai, Wizard Adept. The cards have different names. [Planeshift FAQ 2001/01/26]
Note -Also see Legendary Permanents, Rule K.17.
Note -The foil version of the card is available with the normal art and a version is also available with alternate art. There is a star next to the collector's number on the alternate version.

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Ertai, Wizard Adept
Color Blue
Type Creature - Wizard Legend
Cost Cost=2U
Expansion EX(R)
Text(EX+errata):1/1. ; {2}{U}{U},{Tap}: Counter target spell. [Oracle 1999/05/01]
Note -Also see Legendary Permanents, Rule K.17.

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