Paladin's Arms
Common · Artifact — Equipment · At the table
Paladin’s Arms supplies one artifact and one Hero, not two artifacts. Re-equipping later keeps the same token and does not create another.
Mechanics
The set’s mechanics with worked examples, then every word on the cards.
Job select
When this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach the Equipment to it.
How it works
- The Hero is not an artifact. Entry triggers see a 1/1 creature before it becomes equipped.
- Removing the Equipment after job select triggers still leaves the Hero; the Equipment cannot attach from its new zone.
On the card
Watch out
- Moving the Equipment to another creature does not repeat job select.
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Tiered
Choose exactly one mode as you cast the spell and add that mode’s extra cost to its mana cost.
How it works
- Extra payments change the mana spent, not the spell’s mana value.
- Apply cost increases and reductions to the total cost after choosing the mode.
On the card
Thunder Magic
Common · Instant · At the table
Thunder Magic’s middle mode normally costs four mana total. It can trigger Shantotto’s draw despite mana value one; enough cost reduction can prevent that draw.
Shantotto, Tactician MagicianWatch out
- Shantotto checks actual mana spent on the triggering noncreature spell, not mana value or the amount spent to cast Shantotto.
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Saga creatures
A Saga creature gets a lore counter as it enters and another at the start of your first main phase. Its chapters trigger as the relevant numbers are reached.
How it works
- The final chapter normally arrives before combat. Sacrifice the Saga after the last chapter ability has left the stack, if the normal conditions still apply.
- A Saga with no chapter abilities does not get the usual automatic lore counters or sacrifice itself for completing chapters.
On the card
Summon: Choco/Mog
Common · Enchantment Creature — Saga Bird Moogle · At the table
Plan around the summon’s last chapter before it leaves. Removing a lore counter changes future chapters; it does not immediately trigger an earlier chapter.
Watch out
- A Saga creature is a creature spell. It does not trigger rewards that require casting a noncreature spell.
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Transforming double-faced cards
Normally cast the front face and transform only when a printed instruction allows it. Transforming in place keeps the same permanent.
How it works
- Counters, effects and still-legal attachments remain when a permanent transforms in place. Its back face uses the front face’s mana value.
- An instruction to exile and return transformed creates a new permanent instead. Crystal Fragments returns as a new Summon: Alexander with its first lore counter and normally cannot attack that turn.
On the card
Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin
Rare · Legendary Creature — Human Knight // Legendary Creature — Human Knight · At the table
Cecil can be cast with black mana even though his back is white. In-place transformation does not cause entry abilities again; Crystal Fragments’ exile-and-return does.
Crystal Fragments // Summon: AlexanderWatch out
- Cecil dies from lethal combat damage before his damage trigger can transform him. Transforming is not a rescue from lethal damage.
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Town Adventures
5 in Cards →Cast the Adventure spell for its own cost, then exile the card as it resolves. Later play its land from exile using one of your normal land plays.
How it works
- You may play the land from your hand without taking its Adventure first.
- Away from the stack, a Town Adventure card has its land characteristics, not its Adventure spell’s characteristics.
On the card
Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
Rare · Land — Town // Sorcery — Adventure · At the table
Land retrieval can find Jidoor in the graveyard; sorcery retrieval cannot find Overture there. Evaluate each Adventure’s own colored cost.
Watch out
- The Adventure does not give an extra land play. A countered Adventure goes to the graveyard and gives no later play-from-exile permission.
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Landfall
10 in Cards →These abilities trigger whenever a land enters under your control, whether played normally or put there by a spell.
How it works
- A returned land can be replayed if you still have a land play available.
- Count the mana and tempo lost when a spell asks you to return a land as a cost.
On the card
Chocobo Kick
Common · Sorcery · At the table
Returning a land for Chocobo Kick can set up another landfall later. Do not trade away the mana needed for your next creature merely to chase an extra trigger.
Rydia, Summoner of MistWatch out
- Chocobo Kick’s returned-land kicker stays paid if a target becomes illegal. Either illegal creature target prevents its damage; only both illegal targets stop the whole spell resolving.
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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.
137 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.
Aerith Gainsborough
Astrologian's Planisphere
Blazing Bomb10,000 Needles
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Jumbo CactuarA
Ability
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Battle MenuAbraxas
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Summoner's GrimoireAdventure
Card mechanicYou may cast the Adventure half instead of the permanent half. If the Adventure resolves, exile the card; you may later play its permanent half from there, paying the normal cost and following its timing.
Watch out: If the Adventure is countered or all its targets become illegal, it does not resolve and normally goes to the graveyard. You can also cast the permanent half directly.
Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage SiegeAffinity
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.
Bartz and Boko
Travel the Overworld
Valkyrie Aerial UnitAngelo Cannon
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Rinoa HeartillyAttack
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
B
Bad Breath
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
MalboroBlessing of Light
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the MothercrystalBlizzaga
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Ice MagicBlizzara
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Blizzard
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Blow Up
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Blue Magic
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Quistis TrepeBoast
Keyword abilityActivate this ability only if this creature attacked this turn, and only once each turn. It need not have dealt combat damage.
Varragoth, Bloodsky SireBurning Chains
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent RivalC
Chaosbringer
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Dark Knight's GreatswordCharge, 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.
Excalibur IIChef's Knife
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
TonberryCommander ninjutsu
Keyword abilityPay the ability’s cost and return an unblocked attacker to put this card from your hand or command zone onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. This is an ability, not casting a spell.
Yuriko, the Tiger's ShadowCounter 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.
Absolute Virtue
Counterspell
Cryptic CommandCrew
Keyword abilityTap other untapped creatures you control with enough total power to turn this Vehicle into an artifact creature until the turn ends.
Watch out: The crew creatures do not become the Vehicle’s attackers. A newly played Vehicle still needs haste to attack that turn.
Adventurer's Airship
Balamb Garden, SeeD Academy // Balamb Garden, Airborne
Cargo ShipCura
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Restoration MagicCuraga
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Cure
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Curve
StrategyEnough useful low-cost plays to act before your expensive threats.
Cycling
Keyword abilityFrom your hand, pay the cycling cost and discard this card to draw a card.
Watch out: Cycling is an activated ability, not casting the card. Typecycling searches for a specified kind of card instead.
Airship Crash
Balamb T-Rexaur
Capital CityD
Darkness
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Dash
Keyword abilityCast this creature for its dash cost to give it haste. Return it to its owner’s hand at the next end step if it remains on the battlefield.
Ragavan, Nimble PilfererDeath Gigas
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Vincent's Limit BreakDeathtouch
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.
Ahriman
Atraxa, Grand Unifier
Black Waltz No. 3Defender
Keyword abilityThis creature cannot attack.
Watch out: It can still block and use its abilities unless something else prevents that.
Demon Wall
Wall of OmensDestroy
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.
Coliseum BehemothDiana
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Discard
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.
Double
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.
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
Lightning, Army of One
Sazh KatzroyDouble Overdrive
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Sidequest: Play Blitzball // World Champion, Celestial WeaponDouble 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.
Akroma's Will
Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder
Genji GloveDragonfire Dive
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of LightE
Echo of the Lost
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of EldEminence
Ability wordThis label marks a card’s printed ability that may function from the command zone as well as the battlefield. Read the exact zone and trigger requirements.
Inalla, Archmage RitualistEnchant
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.
Sleep Magic
Stuck in Summoner's SanctumEquip
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.
Aettir and Priwen
Bard's BowExile
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.
Ancient Adamantoise
Ardyn, the Usurper
Auron's InspirationF
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.
Clash of the Eikons
Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of InfernoFinal Heaven
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Tifa's Limit BreakFinality counters
CounterIf a permanent with a finality counter would go from the battlefield to a graveyard, exile it instead.
Watch out: It does not die when this replacement sends it to exile, so ordinary “dies” abilities do not trigger.
Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin
Noctis, Prince of Lucis
Relentless X-ATM092Fira
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Fire MagicFiraga
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Fire
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Fire Cross
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Seifer AlmasyFirst 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.
Coral Sword
Danitha Capashen, ParagonFlare Star
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Flash
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.
Ambrosia Whiteheart
Instant RamenFlashback
Keyword abilityYou may cast this instant or sorcery from your graveyard by paying its flashback cost.
Watch out: Follow its normal timing. A spell cast with flashback is exiled when it leaves the stack, even if it is countered.
Call the Mountain Chocobo
Dreams of LagunaFlying
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.
Food
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.
Ignis Scientia
Sidequest: Catch a Fish // Cooking CampsiteFood
Card mechanicA Food token is an artifact with “{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.” Creating Food alone does not gain life.
Forestcycling
Card mechanicPay the cycling cost and discard this card to search your library for a Forest card, reveal it, put it in your hand, then shuffle.
G
Gae Bolg
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Dragoon's LanceGalian Beast
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
GOOOOAAAALLL!
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
BlitzballH
Hagneia
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Sage's NoulithsHaste
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.
Captain Lannery Storm
Firion, Wild Rose WarriorHellmasker
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Hexproof
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.
Magic DamperHideaway
Card mechanicWhen this permanent enters, look at the stated number of library cards, exile one face down and put the others on the bottom randomly. Its separate ability says when you can play that card; hideaway alone grants no casting permission.
Clive's HideawayI
Immune
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Diamond WeaponIndestructible
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.
Moogles' ValorIslandcycling
Card mechanicPay the cycling cost and discard this card to search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it in your hand, then shuffle.
Ice FlanItem
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
J
Job select
Card mechanicWhen this Equipment enters, create a 1/1 colorless Hero creature token, then attach the Equipment to it.
Black Mage's RodJump
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Freya Crescent
Kain, Traitorous DragoonK
Keyword counters
CounterA keyword counter grants its named ability, such as trample, to the object it is on.
Watch out: A trample counter is not a +1/+1 counter. The named ability and the creature’s size are separate.
Summon: Knights of RoundKicker
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.
Vayne's TreacheryL
Landfall
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.
Choco, Seeker of Paradise
Chocobo RacetrackLandfall
Card mechanicThese abilities trigger whenever a land enters under your control, whether played normally or put there by a spell.
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.
Adelbert SteinerM
Machina
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Machinist's ArsenalMagic
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Meld
Keyword actionA specified matching pair of cards can be exiled and returned combined as one meld permanent. Follow the named cards and printed activation or trigger; unrelated double-faced cards cannot meld.
Vanille, Cheerful l'CieMenace
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.
Item ShopkeepMeteor Strikes
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Mill
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.
Eden, Seat of the Sanctum
Hope EstheimMurasame
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Samurai's KatanaMutsunokami
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Ninja's BladesMy First Friend
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
O
Overload
Card mechanicPay the overload alternative cost to replace the word target with each in the spell’s text. An overloaded spell does not target, so it can affect creatures with hexproof if its other conditions permit.
Mizzix's MasteryP
Particle Beam
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Cloud of DarknessPartner
Card mechanicIn Commander, this ability can let you use two commanders with partner. It does not give you a second commander or an extra card in an ordinary draft game.
Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker
Kraum, Ludevic's OpusPlainscycling
Card mechanicPay the cycling cost and discard this card to search your library for a Plains card, reveal it, put it in your hand, then shuffle.
Cloudbound MoogleProliferate
Keyword actionChoose any number of permanents or players that already have counters. Give each chosen one another counter of every kind it already has.
Watch out: You cannot add the first counter of a kind this way. If a chosen permanent has a harmful counter, that kind increases too.
Yawgmoth, Thran PhysicianProtect
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Protection
Card mechanicProtection from a quality prevents damage from sources of that quality and stops their targeting, blocking, enchanting and equipping. It does not stop untargeted destruction or sacrifice effects.
Prowess
Keyword abilityWhenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until the turn ends.
Watch out: Lands are not spells. The prowess trigger can resolve even if the spell that triggered it is countered.
Queen BrahneR
Rat Tail
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Undercity Dire RatReach
Keyword abilityThis creature may block creatures with flying.
Watch out: Reach does not give it flying or make its own attacks harder to block.
Balthier and Fran
Barret WallaceRevolt
Ability wordThis label marks abilities that check whether a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn. Read when the particular ability checks.
Fatal PushRough Divide
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Squall, SeeD MercenaryS
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.
Saga & lore counters
Card mechanicA Saga normally enters with a lore counter and gains another as your first main phase begins. Reaching chapter numbers triggers those chapter abilities.
Watch out: The new lore counter is not added during upkeep. When its final chapter ability is no longer on the stack, you normally sacrifice the Saga.
Saga creatures
Card mechanicA Saga creature gets a lore counter as it enters and another at the start of your first main phase. Its chapters trigger as the relevant numbers are reached.
Scry
Keyword actionLook at the stated number of cards from the top of your library. Put any number on the bottom and the rest back on top, choosing their order.
Watch out: Scry does not draw a card. Cards you move to the bottom do not go to the graveyard.
Matoya, Archon Elder
Thrasios, Triton HeroSelfie Shot
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Prompto ArgentumSignal
Strategy · DraftRepeated useful late cards may suggest an open color; one card is weak evidence.
Somersault
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Spectacle
Card mechanicIf an opponent lost life this turn, you may cast the spell for its spectacle cost instead of its mana cost. Normal timing and additional costs still apply.
Light Up the StageStagger
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Starfall
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of HellStarscourge
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Stun 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.
Aerith Rescue Mission
Omega, Heartless EvolutionSummon
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Super Nova
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged AngelSupport
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.
Garland, Knight of Cornelia // Chaos, the EndlessSwampcycling
Card mechanicPay the cycling cost and discard this card to search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it in your hand, then shuffle.
T
Take 59 Flights of Stairs
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Take the Elevator
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
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.
A Realm Reborn
Adeline, Resplendent CatharThe Allagan Eye
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
G'raha TiaThundaga
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Thundara
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Thunder
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Tiered
Card mechanicChoose exactly one mode as you cast the spell and add that mode’s extra cost to its mana cost.
Time Compression
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Ultimecia, Time Sorceress // Ultimecia, OmnipotentTown Adventures
Card mechanicCast the Adventure spell for its own cost, then exile the card as it resolves. Later play its land from exile using one of your normal land plays.
Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor RaidTrample
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.
Blitzball Shot
CactuarTrance
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Terra, Magical Adept // Esper TerraTransforming double-faced cards
Card mechanicNormally cast the front face and transform only when a printed instruction allows it. Transforming in place keeps the same permanent.
Treasure
TokenA standard Treasure token is an artifact you can tap and sacrifice to add one mana of any color.
Watch out: A Treasure is not a land. Using it spends the token; it does not remain for another turn.
Ancient Copper DragonTriple
Keyword actionTripling power or toughness adds a modifier equal to twice its current value when the effect resolves. Later changes are not tripled automatically.
Two-Headed Coin
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.
Edgar, King of FigaroTypecycling & landcycling
Keyword abilityFrom your hand, pay the listed cost and discard the card. Search your library for the named kind of card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Watch out: Basic landcycling finds a basic land. Mountaincycling finds a Mountain card; Halflingcycling finds a Halfling card. This does not put the found card onto the battlefield.
Hill GigasV
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.
W
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.
Raubahn, Bull of Ala MhigoWave Cannon
Card mechanicA flavor label with no independent rules meaning. Follow the ability text printed after this label; a different label does not change how that text works.