Names starting with 'Ga'


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Gabriel Angelfire
Color Multi
Type Creature - Legend
Cost Cost=3WWGG
Expansion LG(R)/CH(U1)
Text(CH+errata):4/4. ; At the beginning of your upkeep, choose flying, first strike, trample, or rampage 3. ~this~ gains that ability until your next upkeep. [Oracle 2002/03/01]
It wears off at the very beginning of your upkeep, before checking for triggered abilities. [D'Angelo 2000/03/03]
Extended tournaments (see Rule D.15) have banned this card since 1999/10/01.
Note -Also see First Strike, Rule A.18.
Note -Also see Legendary Permanents, Rule K.17.
Note -Also see Rampage, Rule A.33.
Note -Also see Trample, Rule A.37.

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Gaea's Avenger
Color Green
Type Creature - Gaea's-Avenger
Cost Cost=1GG
Expansion AQ(U1)
Text(AQ+errata):1+*/1+*. ; ~this~'s power and toughness are each equal to 1 plus the number of artifacts your opponents control. [Oracle 2001/08/24]
In multi-player games it counts artifacts of all opponents. [D'Angelo 2000/02/25]
Extended tournaments (see Rule D.15) have always banned this card.

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Gaea's Balance
Color Green
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=3G
Expansion AP(U)
Text(AP):As an additional cost to play ~this~, sacrifice five lands. ; Search your library for a land card of each basic land type and put them into play. Then shuffle your library.
You are not forced to find a basic land of each type, so you can choose to pull out fewer lands if you want. [Apocalypse FAQ 2001/05/24]
You do not have to find the basic land cards if you do not want to, even if you have them in your library. See Rule Z.6.9. [D'Angelo 2001/07/14]

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Gaea's Blessing
Color Green
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=1G
Expansion WL(U)
Text(WL+errata):Target player shuffles up to three target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library. ; Draw a card. ; When ~this~ is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library. [Oracle 1999/07/01]
It targets the player and each of the cards. Thus, it is only a "spell with one target" if you choose to target zero cards. [DeLaney 1997/09/08]
If Gaea's Blessing is moved into the graveyard by an effect, it is dealt with as a triggered ability. This means you wait for the next appropriate time before shuffling your graveyard into your library. For Millstone, it means you put both cards in at once, so it does not matter whether the Gaea's Blessing was the first or second card. [bethmo 1997/11/09]
Does not trigger the "if moved to the graveyard" ability if this card is discarded from your hand. [D'Angelo 1997/11/28]
It does trigger on Intuition. [D'Angelo 1997/12/01] Or anything else that puts cards into your graveyard directly from your library.
When played as a spell, you cannot choose this card as one of the targets. This is because you choose the targets when announcing this spell, and this spell does not go to the graveyard until after it resolves. [D'Angelo 1998/06/09]

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Gaea's Bounty
Color Green
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=2G
Expansion US(C)
Text(US+errata):Search your library for up to two forest cards, reveal those cards, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library. [Oracle 1999/05/01]
You do not have to find the forest cards if you do not want to. See Rule Z.6.9. [D'Angelo 2001/07/14]

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Gaea's Cradle
Color Land
Type Legendary Land
Cost Cost=None
Expansion US(R)
Text(US):{Tap}: Add {G} to your mana pool for each creature you control.
Is considered to have an ability that generates green mana, even if you control no creatures. [WotC Rules Team 1999/03/18]
Urza Block Constructed tournaments (see Rule D.18.6) have banned this card since 1999/07/01.
Note -Also see Legendary Permanents, Rule K.17.

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Gaea's Embrace
Color Green
Type Enchant Creature
Cost Cost=2GG
Expansion US(U)
Text(US+errata):Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has trample. ; {G}: Regenerate enchanted creature. [Oracle 1999/05/01]
Note -Also see Trample, Rule A.37.

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Gaea's Herald
Color Green
Type Creature - Elf
Cost Cost=1G
Expansion PS(R)
Text(PS):1/1. ; Creature spells can't be countered by spells or abilities.
The ability applies to your opponent's spells as well as your own. [Planeshift 2001/01/26]

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Gaea's Liege
Color Green
Type Creature - Gaea's-Liege
Cost Cost=3GGG
Expansion ABUR4(R)
Text(4th+errata):*/*. ; As long as ~this~ isn't attacking, its power and toughness are each equal to the number of forests you control. As long as ~this~ is attacking, its power and toughness are each equal to the number of forests defending player controls. ; {Tap}: Target land becomes a forest until ~this~ leaves play. [Oracle 1999/09/03]
The power/toughness are continuously being calculated and will change whenever your number of forests change. It also changes whenever this card starts and ends an attack. For example, if you have 5 Forests and your opponent has 10 Forests, the Liege is 5/5 normally, and 10/10 when attacking. If it takes 7 damage during an attack, then once the attack is over, it reverts to being 5/5 with 7 damage and will be killed. [bethmo 1994/04/01]
When being declared as an attacker, use the "not attacking" power and toughness. It only changes after declaration is complete. [DeLaney 2000/03/13]
A changed land is considered to be the new land type in all ways. This is not just a change of name. It changes the color of mana produced too. [Mirage, Page 58] See Rule K.16.3.
Will not add or remove Snow-Covered nature from a land. [Duelist Magazine #6, Page 132] See Rule K.21.3.
Extended tournaments (see Rule D.15) have banned this card since 1999/10/01.
Note -It is of creature type "Gaea's-Liege" (one word) instead of being of type "Gaea's Liege" (two words). [Oracle 2001/08/24]

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Gaea's Might
Color Green
Type Instant
Cost Cost=G
Expansion PS(C)
Text(PS):Target creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each basic land type among lands you control.

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Gaea's Skyfolk
Color Multi
Type Creature - Elf Merfolk
Cost Cost=GU
Expansion AP(C)
Text(AP):2/2, Flying.

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Gaea's Touch
Color Green
Type Enchantment
Cost Cost=GG
Expansion DK(C3)
Text(DK+errata):You may play an additional land during your turn if that land is a basic forest. ; Sacrifice ~this~: Add {G}{G} to your mana pool. [Oracle 1999/09/03]
You play the land as normal, but get to ignore the "one per turn" limit for a basic forest. [D'Angelo 1999/09/20]
You have to say when you put the land out that it is the one you get because of Gaea's Touch. [Duelist Magazine #6, Page 131] Thus, you cannot put out a Forest, play Gaea's Touch, then play another land claiming that the first one was under Gaea's Touch.
Can get a Snow-Covered Forest. [Duelist Magazine #6, Page 132]
Extended tournaments (see Rule D.15) have banned this card since 1999/10/01.

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Gainsay
Color Blue
Type Instant
Cost Cost=1U
Expansion PS(U)
Text(PS):Counter target blue spell.

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Galina's Knight
Color Multi
Type Creature - Merfolk Knight
Cost Cost=WU
Expansion IN(C)
Text(IN):2/2, Protection from Red.
Note -Also see Protection, Rule A.31.

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Gallantry
Color White
Type Instant
Cost Cost=1W
Expansion TE(U)/OD(U)
Text(TE/OD):Target blocking creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn. ; Draw a card.

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Gallowbraid
Color Black
Type Creature - Legend
Cost Cost=3BB
Expansion WL(R)
Text(WL+errata):5/5, Trample. ; Cumulative upkeep - Pay 1 life. [Oracle 2000/02/01]
Note -Also see Cumulative Upkeep, Rule A.11.
Note -Also see Legendary Permanents, Rule K.17.
Note -Also see Trample, Rule A.37.

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Gamble
Color Red
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=R
Expansion US(R)
Text(US+errata):Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then discard a card at random from your hand. Then shuffle your library. [Oracle 1999/05/01]
You might end up discarding the card you searched for. [DeLaney 1998/10/05]

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Gamekeeper
Color Green
Type Creature - Elf
Cost Cost=3G
Expansion UD(U)
Text(UD+errata):2/2. ; When ~this~ is put into a graveyard from play, you may remove ~this~ from the game. If you do, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into play and put the other cards revealed this way into your graveyard. [Oracle 1999/07/21]
Removing this card from the game is optional. If you forget to do so, you cannot go back later and do so, even if that is what you normally do. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]
If you have no creature cards in your library, all the cards from your library end up in your graveyard and you do not get to put a creature into play. [DeLaney 1999/06/08]

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Game of Chaos
Color Red
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=RRR
Expansion IA(R)/5(R)
Text(5th+errata):Flip a coin. If you win the flip, you gain 1 life and target opponent loses 1 life. If you lose the flip, you lose 1 life and that opponent gains 1 life. The winner of each flip decides whether to flip again. Double the life stakes with each flip. [Oracle 2002/03/01]
To "double the stakes" means to double the amount of life lost or gained. [D'Angelo 1999/01/18]

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Game Preserve
Color Green
Type Enchantment
Cost Cost=2G
Expansion MM(R)
Text(MM):At the beginning of your upkeep, each player reveals the top card of his or her library. If all cards revealed this way are creature cards, put those cards into play under their owners' control. (Otherwise, put them back face-down on top of their owners' libraries.)

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Gang of Elk
Color Green
Type Creature - Beast
Cost Cost=5G
Expansion UL(U)/7(U)
Text(7th):5/4. ; Whenever ~this~ becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it.
Gets the bonus once for each blocker. [Urza's Legacy FAQ 1999/02/03]

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Gangrenous Goliath
Color Black
Type Creature - Zombie Giant
Cost Cost=3BB
Expansion ON(R)
Text(ON):4/4. ; Tap three untapped Clerics you control: Return ~this~ from your graveyard to your hand.
The ability can only be played while this card is in your graveyard. [Onslaught FAQ 2002/09/24]

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Gangrenous Zombies
Color Black
Type Creature - Zombie
Cost Cost=1BB
Expansion IA(C)
Text(IA+errata):2/2. ; {Tap},Sacrifice ~this~: ~this~ deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. If you control a snow-covered swamp, ~this~ deals 2 damage to each creature and each player instead. [Oracle 2000/02/01]
Whether it does 1 or 2 damage is checked on resolution. [D'Angelo 2000/03/09]

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Gargantuan Gorilla
Color Green
Type Creature - Ape
Cost Cost=4GGG
Expansion AL(R2)
Text(AL+errata):7/7. ; At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice ~this~ unless you sacrifice a forest. If you sacrifice ~this~ this way, it deals 7 damage to you. If you sacrifice a snow-covered forest this way, ~this~ gains trample until end of turn. ; {Tap}: ~this~ deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to ~this~. [Oracle 1999/07/23]
It can target itself with its ability. [D'Angelo 1999/08/01]
Note -Also see Trample, Rule A.37.
Note -Before errata, it was of creature type Gorilla. [Oracle 1999/07/23]

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Gaseous Form
Color Blue
Type Enchant Creature
Cost Cost=2U
Expansion 456(C)/LG(C1)/TE(C)/BD(F1)
Text(6th+errata):Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by enchanted creature. [Oracle 1999/05/01]
Note -Also see Fog Effects, Rule E.6.

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Gate to Phyrexia
Color Black
Type Enchantment
Cost Cost=BB
Expansion AQ(U3)
Text(AQ+errata):Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target artifact. Play this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn. [Oracle 2001/08/24]
Extended tournaments (see Rule D.15) have always banned this card.

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Gauntlet of Might
Color Artifact
Type Artifact
Cost Cost=4
Expansion ABU(R)
Text(ABU+errata):Red creatures get +1/+1. ; Whenever a mountain is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {R} to his or her mana pool. [Oracle 2001/08/24]
Multi-lands which have Mountain as one of their types produce an extra red mana when tapped for either color. [bethmo 1994/04/01]
This effect is applied after any land change effects (regardless of which enters play first), so Mountains do not produce two mana when Conversion is in play. See Rule K.16.4. [D'Angelo 1994/10/01]
Type 1 tournaments (see Rule D.13) restricted this card from 1994/01/25 to 1994/05/01.
Extended tournaments (see Rule D.15) have always banned this card.
Note -It is of type "Artifact" and not "Continuous Artifact". [Encyclopedia, Page 57]

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Gauntlets of Chaos
Color Artifact
Type Artifact
Cost Cost=5 LG(
Expansion LG(R)/CH(U1)/5(R)
Text(5th+errata):{5},Sacrifice ~this~: Exchange control of target artifact, creature, or land an opponent controls and a permanent you control if they share one of those types. Destroy all enchantments on those permanents. (This effect doesn't end at end of turn.) [Oracle 2002/03/01]
Targets only one card. [D'Angelo 2000/03/03]
You swap control of the permanents during resolution. If either of them is not still in play, then the exchange does not take place. [D'Angelo 2000/03/03] But the enchantments on their permanent are still destroyed. [D'Angelo 2000/03/03]
If the targeted permanent is not a legal target on resolution the ability is countered. [D'Angelo 2000/03/03]
You choose a permanent you control on resolution. [D'Angelo 2000/04/04]

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Gaze of Pain
Color Black
Type Sorcery
Cost Cost=1B
Expansion IA(C)
Text(IA+errata):Until end of turn, whenever a creature you control attacks and isn't blocked, you may choose to have it deal damage equal to its power to a target creature. If you do, it deals no combat damage this turn. [Oracle 2000/02/01]

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