A keyword ability found on creatures. Creatures with first strike deal all of their combat damage before creatures without first strike or double strike. When you reach the combat damage step, check to see if any attacking or blocking creatures have first strike or double strike. If so, an ...
Symbols like or are encoded into a "cost" in the text of cards using curly braces, so that {W}{W}, {T} becomes , . The search box on each Gatherer page also will allow you to see cards, matched by name, as you type. You can enable or disable this feature based on your ...
Keywords:At the top of Bone Dragon’s text box, we find it has theMTG Keyword‘flying’, which gives it a special rule (it can only be blocked by other flying critters). There are many keywords, but you’ll only need to learn a few of the most common to get started. Rules text:...
Ravenous is a new keyword ability found on some cards with an {X} in their mana cost. "Ravenous" means "This permanent enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it" and "When this permanent enters the battlefield, if X is 5 or greater, draw a card." Zoanthrope {X}{U}{R...
This keyword uses the official text version of mana costs set forth in the Comprehensive Rules. For example, {G} represents a green mana. Shorthand is allowed for symbols that aren’t split: G is the same as {G} However, you must always wrap complex/split symbols like {2/G} in braces...
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2008/8/1 Glamerdye affects each instance of the chosen word in the text box of the spell or permanent, as long as it's being used as a color word. Glamerdye won't change such words in card names, such as White Knight. It also won't change mana symbols. 2008/8/1 Glamerdye ca...
produce a prettier, Gatherer-inspired text spoiler with heavier-weight transformations applied to the text, such as capitalization. The -f option encodes mana symbols in the format used by the mtgsalvation forum; this is useful if you want to cut and paste your spoiler into a post to share ...
Furthermore, “discard” is a specific keyword action. Cards that care about discarding, like Waste Not, only work with effects that explicitly discard a card from somebody's hand. On the other hand, though, in the sense of disrupting your opponent's hand, they are pretty similar: The dis...
If he was mythic, this would be a much easier guess. As a rare it’s more difficult to figure out. With so many mythics looking like they will have a real presence in Standard, this set could end up with a lot of pricey red rarity symbols. If we get a set where five or more ...