Showcase: Bloomburrow

Wizards of the Coast 19 Jan 2018

If you activate Huatli's first ability while you control no creatures, she'll get one loyalty counter from the ability's activation cost and no others as it resolves.

Wizards of the Coast 19 Jan 2018

The number of creatures you control is counted only as Huatli's first or second ability resolves. Once her second ability resolves, the bonus won't change, even if the number of creatures you control changes later in the turn.

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

If the entering creature’s power changes to 3 or less after it has entered the battlefield, you’ll still draw a card.

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

The entering creature must have power 4 or greater as it enters the battlefield, or Kiora’s first ability won’t trigger. Static abilities that raise or lower a creature’s power are taken into account, as well as any +1/+1 counters the creature enters with. However, you can’t have a creature with power 3 or less enter the battlefield, raise its power with a spell, an activated ability, or a triggered ability, and have Kiora’s ability trigger.

Wizards of the Coast 13 Jul 2016

While controlling another player, you can see all cards in the game that player can see. This includes cards in that player’s hand, face-down cards that player controls, and any cards in that player’s library the player may look at.

Wizards of the Coast 13 Jul 2016

Controlling a player doesn’t allow you to look at that player’s sideboard. If an effect instructs that player to choose a card from outside the game, you can’t have that player choose any card.

Wizards of the Coast 15 Jun 2010

In a Two-Headed Giant game, Sorin’s second ability causes the targeted opponent’s team’s life total to become 10. Only the targeted player is actually considered to have actually gained or lost life.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

You could gain control of yourself using Sorin’s third ability, but unless you do so to overwrite someone else’s player-controlling effect, this doesn’t do anything.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

While controlling another player, you also continue to make your own choices and decisions.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

You can’t make the affected player concede. That player may choose to concede at any time, even while you’re controlling their turn.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

If the targeted permanent or player is an illegal target by the time Sorin’s first ability resolves, the entire ability doesn’t resolve. You won’t gain life.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

While controlling another player, you make all choices and decisions that player is allowed to make or is told to make during that turn. For example: -- You choose which lands the other player plays. -- You choose which spells the other player casts, and make all decisions as those spells are cast and as they resolve. For example, you choose the value of X for that player's Earthquake, the target for that player's Lightning Bolt, what mana that player spends to cast Day of Judgment, and what card that player gets with Diabolic Tutor. -- You choose which activated abilities the other player activates, and make all decisions as those abilities are activated and as they resolve. For example, you can have your opponent sacrifice their creatures to their Vampire Aristocrat or have your opponent's Caller of Gales give one of your creatures flying. -- You make all decisions for the other player's triggered abilities, including what they target and any decisions made when they resolve. -- You choose which creatures controlled by the other player attack, who or what they attack, and how they assign their combat damage. -- You make any choices and decisions that player would make for any other reason. For example, you could cast Fact or Fiction, choose that player to divide the revealed cards into piles, and thus divide those cards into piles yourself.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

You can’t make any illegal decisions or illegal choices — you can’t do anything that player couldn’t do. You can’t make choices or decisions for that player that aren’t called for by the game rules or by any cards, permanents, spells, abilities, and so on. If an effect causes another player to make decisions that the affected player would normally make (such as Master Warcraft does), that effect takes precedence. (In other words, if the affected player wouldn’t make a decision, you wouldn’t make that decision on their behalf.) You also can’t make any choices or decisions for the player that would be called for by the tournament rules (such as whether to take an intentional draw or whether to call a judge).

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

If the player affected by Sorin’s third ability skips their next turn, the ability will wait. You’ll control the next turn the affected player actually takes.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

For a player’s life total to become 10, what actually happens is that the player gains or loses the appropriate amount of life. For example, if the targeted opponent’s life total is 4 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to gain 6 life; alternately, if the targeted player’s life total is 17 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to lose 7 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

Sorin’s third ability allows you to control another player. This effect applies to the next turn that the affected player actually takes.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

You only control the player. You don’t control any of the other player’s permanents, spells, or abilities.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

Multiple player-controlling effects that affect the same player overwrite each other. The last one to be created is the one that works.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

You can use only the affected player’s resources (cards, mana, and so on) to pay costs for that player; you can’t use your own. Similarly, you can use the affected player’s resources only to pay that player’s costs; you can’t spend them on your costs.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Oct 2009

The player who is being controlled is still the active player.

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

In a Two-Headed Giant game, Tezzeret's first loyalty ability causes the opposing team to lose twice X life and you gain X life.

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

Affinity doesn't change the spell's mana value. It changes only how much mana you pay to cast the spell.

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

Tezzeret himself doesn't have affinity for artifacts.

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

If a spell has multiple instances of affinity, each applies.

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

Affinity for artifacts means "This spell costs {1} less for each artifact you control."

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

Affinity can reduce only generic mana in a spell's cost. It can't reduce color requirements.

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

The cost reduction is set before you pay any of the spell's costs. Specifically, you could lock in a discount for an artifact you control and then sacrifice that artifact to activate a mana ability.

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

If there are any additional costs or cost increases that would apply to a spell with affinity, apply those before applying any cost reductions.

Wizards of the Coast 5 Oct 2018

If a permanent has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.

Wizards of the Coast 5 Oct 2018

Tokens that aren't a copy of something else don't have a mana cost. Anything without a mana cost normally has a mana value of 0.

Wizards of the Coast 5 Oct 2018

You choose whether to sacrifice a permanent (and which one to sacrifice) while Vraska's first ability is resolving. No player may take actions between the time you choose which permanent to sacrifice and the time you do so.