Starfighter Pilot
Common · Creature — Human Pilot · At the table
Station with Starfighter Pilot to surveil while building the Frigate. Keep enough untapped creatures to survive the return attack.
Mechanics
The set’s mechanics with worked examples, then every word on the cards.
Station
Tap another untapped creature to add charge counters equal to its power. Activate only during your main phase with an empty stack.
How it works
- A creature that just entered can station. Each activation taps one creature; activate again with another creature if needed.
- Use its power on resolution, or its last battlefield power if it left. Removing the tapped contributor does not erase the contribution.
On the card
Watch out
- Station taps creatures, not arbitrary permanents. A power reduction before resolution can reduce the counters.
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Spacecraft and Planets
Station thresholds add abilities while enough charge counters remain. Spacecraft become creatures only at a threshold that gives them power and toughness.
How it works
- Lower thresholds remain active after you reach a higher one. Planets do not become creatures just by being stationed.
- A Spacecraft that you controlled since the turn began can attack when it becomes a creature. A newly entered one normally cannot.
On the card
Lumen-Class Frigate
Rare · Artifact — Spacecraft · At the table
At twelve counters, Lumen-Class Frigate has flying and lifelink and still gives your other creatures +1/+1. Creature-only recursion cannot return its card.
Watch out
- A Spacecraft is not a creature card in your hand or graveyard just because a power/toughness box is printed on it.
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Warp
Cast from your hand for the warp cost. If the permanent survives until the next end step, exile it; its owner may cast that exiled card on a later turn.
How it works
- Normal casting timing applies. Warping does not grant haste.
- If the spell is countered, or the permanent dies before warp exiles it, warp grants no future casting permission.
On the card
Starbreach Whale
Common · Creature — Whale · At the table
A warped Starbreach Whale surveils and can immediately help station. It normally cannot attack and will be gone before the opponent’s next combat.
Watch out
- You cannot recast the warped card during the same turn it was exiled.
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Void
Void abilities check whether a nonland permanent left either battlefield this turn or any spell was cast for its warp cost.
How it works
- A countered warped spell still satisfies void. A land leaving normally does not.
- For an end-step ability with an intervening if, qualify before the end step starts and again as it resolves.
On the card
Tragic Trajectory
Uncommon · Sorcery · At the table
Sacrifice a Lander before casting Tragic Trajectory for its larger reduction, or cast a warped spell first. Its casting already qualifies even if an opponent counters it.
Kavaron SkywardenWatch out
- Do not rely on an otherwise unqualified warp-exile trigger to create an end-step trigger after the end step has already begun.
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Lander
A Lander is an artifact token. Pay two mana, tap and sacrifice it to find a basic land and put it onto the battlefield tapped.
How it works
- Its artifact entry and departure can support different payoffs.
- The land enters after the ability resolves, enabling landfall even during an opponent’s turn.
On the card
Galactic Wayfarer
Common · Creature — Human Scout · At the table
Wayfarer supplies a creature now and a later mana increase. Budget the two-mana activation rather than counting the token as a land already in play.
Embrace OblivionWatch out
- Sacrificing a Lander to Embrace Oblivion does not also activate its own land-search ability.
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Landfall
12 in Cards →These abilities trigger when a land enters under your control, including lands found by a Lander.
How it works
- A normal land play and a Lander activation can provide two separate land entries in one turn.
- Order land entries after the payoff when you can afford to.
On the card
Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
Uncommon · Legendary Creature — Kavu Pilot · At the table
With Tannuk present, a land play followed by a Lander activation deals damage twice and draws a card on the second resolution.
Watch out
- Creating a Lander is not itself landfall; the token is an artifact.
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Glossary
Every word on the cards and in the deck plans, defined once. Find a term, read its wording, then see it on a card.
50 terms · A–ZComprehensive Rules effective Sep 25 · checked Oct 29
Symbols
+1/+1 and −1/−1 counters
CounterA +1/+1 counter adds one power and one toughness; a −1/−1 counter subtracts one of each. These counters stay until removed or the object changes zones.
Watch out: If a permanent has both kinds, matching pairs are removed as a state-based action. A temporary +1/+1 effect is not a counter.
Archenemy's Charm
Atmospheric Greenhouse
Bioengineered FutureA
Affinity
Keyword abilityReduce the generic part of this spell’s cost by one for each permanent of the specified kind you control.
Watch out: It does not reduce the colored mana symbols. Check exactly what the card has affinity for.
Sami, Wildcat Captain
Thrumming HivepoolC
Charge, quest, and time counters
CounterThese named counters track whatever the card’s abilities say. Their names alone do not give a universal bonus or penalty.
Watch out: For example, vanishing uses time counters as a countdown. Read the particular card before deciding what adding another counter will do.
Adagia, Windswept Bastion
Blast ZoneConvoke
Keyword abilityWhile paying for this spell, each untapped creature you tap can cover one generic mana, or one mana of that creature’s color.
Watch out: You may tap a creature you just played. A colorless creature can cover only generic mana.
Vote OutCounter a spell or ability
Keyword actionTo counter a spell or ability is to remove it from the stack without its effects resolving. A countered spell normally goes to its owner’s graveyard.
Watch out: This use of “counter” is different from placing a marker such as a +1/+1 counter on a card.
Annul
Divert Disaster
Frenzied BalothCurve
StrategyEnough useful low-cost plays to act before your expensive threats.
D
Deathtouch
Keyword abilityAny positive amount of damage this source deals to a creature is enough to make that damage lethal.
Watch out: It works with a fight or other noncombat damage. Indestructible still prevents destruction.
Alpharael, Dreaming Acolyte
Blooming Stinger
Entropic BattlecruiserDefender
Keyword abilityThis creature cannot attack.
Watch out: It can still block and use its abilities unless something else prevents that.
Mechan Shieldmate
Monoist SentryDestroy
Keyword actionMove a permanent from the battlefield to its owner’s graveyard because an effect or lethal damage destroys it.
Watch out: Indestructible stops destruction. Sacrificing, exiling, and reducing toughness to 0 are different ways for a creature to leave.
Biosynthic Burst
CryoshatterDevour
Keyword abilityAs this permanent enters, you may sacrifice creatures; it enters with the stated number of +1/+1 counters for each one. A devour variant may restrict which permanents can be sacrificed.
Famished WorldsireDiscard
Keyword actionMove a card from your hand to your graveyard.
Watch out: Discarding is not casting. It does not pay the card’s mana cost or produce its normal spell effect.
Alpharael, StonechosenDouble
Card mechanicDoubling counters adds as many of that kind as are already there. Doubling power gives a modifier based on the creature’s power when the effect resolves; it does not necessarily change base power or add counters.
Mightform HarmonizerDouble strike
Keyword abilityThis creature deals combat damage in the first-strike damage step and again in the normal damage step if it is still in combat.
Watch out: If its blocker dies in the first step, a blocked attacker does not hit the player in the second step unless an ability such as trample allows it.
Dual-Sun Adepts
Dual-Sun Technique
Needle SpiresE
Enchant
Keyword abilityAn Aura’s enchant line tells you what it may be attached to.
Watch out: An Aura cast as a spell targets what it will enchant. If it later becomes illegally attached, it normally goes to the graveyard.
Chorale of the Void
Hardlight ContainmentEquip
Keyword abilityPay the equip cost to attach this Equipment to a target creature you control. Normally, activate equip only in your main phase when the stack is empty.
Watch out: The Equipment usually stays on the battlefield when the creature leaves. Moving it to another creature normally costs another equip activation.
Atomic Microsizer
Auxiliary Boosters
HylderbladeExalted
Keyword abilityWhen a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 for the turn for each exalted trigger.
Cathedral of WarExile
Keyword actionMove the object to the exile zone. It is separate from the graveyard.
Watch out: A card in exile cannot normally be played. You need a rule or effect giving permission, such as a resolved Adventure.
All-Fates Stalker
Anticausal VestigeF
Fight
Keyword actionThe two creatures each deal damage equal to their power to the other at the same time.
Watch out: This is not combat. First strike and double strike do not add damage steps; deathtouch and lifelink still affect damage.
Meltstrider's ResolveFirst strike
Keyword abilityThis creature deals combat damage in an earlier step, before creatures without first strike or double strike.
Watch out: A creature killed in that early damage step usually cannot deal its normal combat damage.
Molecular Modifier
Rig for War
Squire's LightbladeFlash
Keyword abilityYou may cast this spell when you could cast an instant, including during another player’s turn when you have priority.
Watch out: Flash changes when you may cast it. It does not let you cast from a different zone or avoid its costs.
Dubious Delicacy
Illvoi Galeblade
Illvoi Light JammerFlying
Keyword abilityAn attacking creature with flying can be blocked only by creatures with flying or reach.
Watch out: A flying creature can block a creature without flying.
Astelli ReclaimerFood
TokenA standard Food token is an artifact with an ability costing two mana, tapping it, and sacrificing it to gain 3 life.
Watch out: Food is also an artifact type. Turning a card into a Food follows that effect’s text; the type alone does not grant an ability.
Ragost, Deft GastronautH
Haste
Keyword abilityThis creature may attack and use abilities with the tap or untap symbol even if you have not controlled it since your turn began.
Watch out: It still needs to be untapped to attack or pay a tap cost.
Devastating Onslaught
Full BoreHeal
Keyword actionRemove all damage marked on the indicated creature. Healing does not remove counters or return a creature that has already died.
SwarmyardHexproof
Keyword abilityA permanent with hexproof cannot be targeted by spells or abilities its controller’s opponents control.
Watch out: Its controller may target it. Effects that do not target can still affect it.
Lotus Field
Lumbering FallsI
Indestructible
Keyword abilityThis permanent cannot be destroyed by lethal damage or an effect that says “destroy.”
Watch out: It can still be exiled or sacrificed. A creature with toughness 0 or less still goes to the graveyard.
Cascading Cataracts
Dark EnduranceK
Kicker
Keyword abilityAs you cast the spell, you may pay its extra kicker cost. The card tells you what changes if you do.
Watch out: You decide and pay while casting. You do not get to add kicker after the spell has resolved.
Consult the Star ChartsL
Lander
Card mechanicA Lander is an artifact token. Pay two mana, tap and sacrifice it to find a basic land and put it onto the battlefield tapped.
Beamsaw Prospector
Biomechan EngineerLandfall
Ability wordThis label groups abilities that reward a land entering under your control. The rest of each card tells you its effect.
Watch out: A land entering from a spell can trigger landfall too. The label itself adds no rules; read the actual ability.
Eumidian Terrabotanist
Eusocial Engineering
Genemorph ImagoLandfall
Card mechanicThese abilities trigger when a land enters under your control, including lands found by a Lander.
Lifelink
Keyword abilityWhen this source deals damage, its controller gains that much life at the same time.
Watch out: This also works for noncombat damage. It uses the damage actually dealt, not simply the creature’s printed power.
Comet Crawler
Dawnstrike VanguardLoyalty counters
CounterA planeswalker’s loyalty is the number of loyalty counters on it. Its loyalty costs add or remove counters, and damage removes that much loyalty.
Watch out: A planeswalker with 0 loyalty goes to the graveyard. Adding more counters does not let you activate it a second time in the same turn.
Tezzeret, Cruel CaptainM
Menace
Keyword abilityThis attacking creature cannot be blocked by just one creature; at least two blockers are needed.
Watch out: It can still go unblocked. Losing one blocker after blocks are declared does not undo the original block.
Insatiable Skittermaw
Kav Landseeker
Rust HarvesterMill
Keyword actionPut the stated number of cards from the top of the named player’s library into that player’s graveyard.
Watch out: Milling is not drawing. An empty library makes you lose when you must draw from it, not merely when its last card is milled.
Fell Gravship
Icetill Explorer
Seedship BroodtenderModular
Keyword abilityThis permanent enters with the stated number of +1/+1 counters. When it goes from the battlefield to a graveyard, you may put a +1/+1 counter on a target artifact creature for each +1/+1 counter it had.
Power DepotR
Reach
Keyword abilityThis creature may block creatures with flying.
Watch out: Reach does not give it flying or make its own attacks harder to block.
Edge RoverRegenerate
Keyword actionCreate a shield for the next time this permanent would be destroyed this turn: instead tap it, remove its marked damage and remove it from combat. This cannot prevent sacrifice or death from zero toughness.
S
Sacrifice
Keyword actionMove a permanent you control from the battlefield to its owner’s graveyard.
Watch out: Sacrifice is not destruction: indestructible does not stop it. You cannot sacrifice a teammate’s permanent unless an effect specifically permits it.
All-Fates ScrollSignal
Strategy · DraftRepeated useful late cards may suggest an open color; one card is weak evidence.
Spacecraft and Planets
Card mechanicStation thresholds add abilities while enough charge counters remain. Spacecraft become creatures only at a threshold that gives them power and toughness.
Beyond the QuietStation
Card mechanicTap another untapped creature to add charge counters equal to its power. Activate only during your main phase with an empty stack.
Dawnsire, Sunstar DreadnoughtStun counters
CounterIf a permanent with a stun counter would untap, remove one stun counter instead and leave it tapped.
Watch out: The counter does not tap an untapped permanent by itself. Several stun counters can stop several separate untaps.
Cryogen Relic
MechanozoaSupport
StrategyThe actual cards and mana that let a payoff work.
Surveil
Keyword actionLook at the stated number of cards from the top of your library. Put any number into your graveyard and the rest back on top in your chosen order.
Watch out: Surveil does not draw a card. Unlike scry, unwanted cards go to the graveyard instead of the bottom.
Cerebral Download
Hymn of the Faller
Lost in SpaceT
Tap and untap
Keyword actionTap means turn a permanent sideways; untap means return it upright. A tap symbol in a cost means you must tap that permanent to pay.
Watch out: Being tapped by another effect does not activate an ability or produce mana. Creatures normally cannot pay their own tap-symbol costs until you have controlled them since your turn began.
Ancient TombTrample
Keyword abilityAn attacking creature can assign excess combat damage to what it is attacking after assigning lethal damage to every blocker.
Watch out: It does not automatically send all damage past a small blocker. Trample on a blocking creature does not send damage to the attacking player.
Drix FatemakerV
Vigilance
Keyword abilityAttacking does not tap this creature.
Watch out: It must still be untapped to be declared as an attacker. Vigilance does not remove summoning sickness.
Brightspear Zealot
Celestial Colonnade
Diplomatic RelationsVoid
Card mechanicVoid abilities check whether a nonland permanent left either battlefield this turn or any spell was cast for its warp cost.
Decode TransmissionsW
Ward
Keyword abilityWhen an opponent’s spell or ability targets this permanent, ward triggers. That spell or ability is countered unless the opponent pays the ward cost.
Watch out: Ward is not hexproof: the opponent can target it and choose whether to pay. An effect that does not target does not trigger ward.
Warp
Card mechanicCast from your hand for the warp cost. If the permanent survives until the next end step, exile it; its owner may cast that exiled card on a later turn.