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General Jarkeld

General Jarkeld

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

General Jarkeld fits a white deck built around Humans or Soldiers. Its deck may only use white cards, plus colorless ones.

  • Mana cost3 genericwhite
  • White ()
  • Power / toughness1 / 2
  • RarityRare

tap: Choose two target blocked attacking creatures. If each of those creatures could be blocked by all creatures that the other is blocked by, each creature that's blocking exactly one of those attacking creatures stops blocking it and is blocking the other attacking creature. Activate only during the declare blockers step.

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Rulings for General Jarkeld

explain how General Jarkeld works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 4 Oct 2004

Does not undo any abilities which triggered due to the declaration of blockers. A creature which is switched away still has any triggered abilities resolve on it.

Wizards of the Coast 4 Oct 2004

The new blocker does not trigger any abilities which trigger on creatures becoming blockers, because the creatures were already blockers and the simple change of who is blocking does not trigger such abilities.

2 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

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Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryWPlayers write colors as letters: W for white.