No,transmute is an activated ability. You're not casting anything, though you can interact with the ability viastifle counterspells. Of course, casting a spell that has transmute certainly counts as casting a spell, though transmute is completely irrelevant in that case. ...
Bargain isn’t a triggered ability, it's an additional cost you can pay to cast a spell. It's possible that paying the bargain cost can create a trigger (Agatha's Champion), but it's not a trigger itself. Is Bargain an Activated Ability? No, bargain isn’t an activated ability. ...
The Forage mechanic inMTGhas you either exile three cards from your graveyard or sacrifice a Food token to activate an ability and/or gain value from your actions. Sometimes, there’s an additional mana cost attached to the Forage mechanic. Forage definition: To Forage, exile three cards from...
Peacemaking can be presented by prohibiting attacking/blocking, locking down activated abilities, and converting hostility to peace. Examples: Pacifism, Recumbent Bliss, Arrest, Condemn, Swords to Plowshares, Peacekeeper. Combat superiority: Ultimately, White wants to create peace. It has no interest ...
Finally, some postprocessing is done to put the lines of a card's ability text into a standardized, canonical form. Lines with multiple keywords are split, and then we put all of the simple keywords first, followed by things like static or activated abilities. A few things always go first...
(the only thing that I don’t like about this card is its current $9 price tag). The toughness is higher than 3, the converted mana cost is above 4, and it has both a free incremental effect and an activated ability. While we don’t know yet how much Improvise will reduce costs,...
The first key pillar of strength in this list is your access to dual commanders. The partner ability has already proven to be highly effective in strategies like Tymna and Thrasios, and the synergy between Frodo and Sam is much more specific. Frodo’s role here is to leverage consistent li...
Sarkhan, Wanderer to Shiv: rebalanced (second ability now +1 instead of +0) Subversive Acolyte: rebalanced (costs instead of , 2/2 stats replaced with 2/3 stats, activated ability grants 1 less toughness) September 24, 2021 Standard Omnath, Locus of Creation: banned September 13, 2021 Co...