FAQs

Yes, they will get the benefit as well, if your Abundance affects their sites!

Mana is added to a player’s mana pool during their Start Phase, or when a site enters the realm under their control. So, any sites already in play won’t get the extra mana until the start of your next turn. But, if you play Abundance and then play a site into Abundance’s area of effect, the newly played site will generate extra mana immediately. Also, if you start your turn with a site in Abundance, and then during your Main Phase the site is no longer in Abundance (e.g. Cloud City moving away, Scorched Earth, etc.), you don’t lose the mana that you gained during your Start Phase.

3 mana, because 1 (a site entering the realm under your control) + 1 (Abundance) + 1 (Genesis effect) = 3.

If you searched your spellbook, shuffle it. If you end up summoning the extra Illusionist from your hand or cemetery, you may still have searched your spellbook if you wanted.

When it enters the realm, and at the start of its controller’s turn.

When it enters the realm, and at the start of its controller’s turn.

Yes, since you're still casting it (and not summoning it directly).

No. There's no way back from being banished, which overrides the part of resolution that would place the card in the cemetery.

Yes.

No, any of your spellcasters can cast the copied spell.

If you cannot cast any of those three spells, they remain banished and nothing else happens. You did not cast a spell. (If you can cast one of the three, you must.)

No, because the Archimago’s ability is an activated ability, which you can only use during your Main Phase when nothing is on the Storyline.

Treat it as: If Askelon Phoenix would take fire damage, it gains +1 power this turn instead.

“Fire damage” is any damage from a fire source, such as a fire minion (including strikes), a fire site, or a fire spell.

Morgana le Fay casting Lightning Bolt is not fire damage, since Lightning Bolt is an air spell. Apprentice Wizard casting Firebolts is fire damage because Firebolts is a fire spell (and in fact would be 3 separate instances of fire damage). Anyone casting Grapple Shot that sends a minion into the Phoenix will look at the minion making the strike; if it’s a fire minion, it’s fire damage.

If the Phoenix attacks and there are multiple defenders, each defending fire minion that strikes it counts as a separate source of fire damage.

If you cast the spell, the mana cost is X. For example, if you cast it for 2 mana, then Immortal Throne would see it as a 2 cost spell. But, if you aren't casting the spell and it's simply in your hand, spellbook, etc., then X is 0 until you actually cast it.

Yes, since Atlantean Fate only affects the site once it’s already in play, and Rift Valley modifies how it’s played in the first place.

Yes. It’s still affected by the aura, but that effect doesn’t do anything to Ordinary sites, other than the Genesis ability.

Anything that occupies exactly 1 location.

No.

The body of water (if any) that your Avatar currently occupies. If the Avatar isn’t in any body of water, the ability won’t function. (They're a fish out of water!)

Yes.

Treat that ability as: When an enemy unit moves onto the ground above them, they unburrow and fight.

Yes. You can and you must.

No.

Yes (but remember the spellcaster must be in the same region as all the targets).

No. Your spellcaster must target both minions (which are in different regions), but that's impossible since you pick a single location the spellcaster occupies for casting a spell. You can only target minions in the region where the spell is being cast. See "Casting Spells" for more details.

No. But the ball can hit other units at that location after changing direction, bouncing back and forth.

Yes.

No. An interception does not cause an "attack," and instead is merely a fight between the unit that used "Move and Attack" and the unit that intercepted.

Yes. An attack was made, and then a minion was killed. As long as your attacking unit used the Move and Attack ability and then got kill credit, this ability is satisfied.

Yes. An attack was made, and then a minion was killed. As long as your attacking unit used the Move and Attack ability and then got kill credit, this ability triggers.

Only the minions you're directly carrying count against your limit. Have fun at the carnival!

Bedrock wins, and is not modified in any way.

Yes. You can see the spell’s colored frame matches those elements, so Castle Servants is an Air spell, Common Cottagers is an Earth spell, Blacksmith Family is a Fire spell, and Fisherman’s Family is a Water Spell.

It will use the word “target.”

No. Something like Lightning Bolt (“Deal 3 damage to a random unit at target location”) must target Blasted Oak’s location, but then the random result is still determined randomly

When you target, you must follow Blasted Oak’s restrictions, but you can still choose random outcomes of your choice if you have Kythera Mechanism.

No, and therefore Blasted Oak doesn’t influence where minions may be summoned.

You must target all the units you can that share Blasted Oak’s site, spending as much mana as needed to do so. Once you’ve targeted all those units, you could additionally target other units, if you had sufficient mana. For reference, Chain Lightning reads: Deal 2 damage to target unit nearby. Any number of times, you may spend 2 mana to additionally target a new unit nearby the previous one.

If the Blazing unit moves and attacks, the proper sequence is to resolve the move, then deal 2 damage at each departed location simultaneously, then resolve the attack.

Blaze will still only do 2 damage, since a unit is either along the trail, or not. Each time the Blazing unit stops, it creates a separate trail of fire.

No. Though it clearly departed its location, it never "stops," which is what causes the flame to cause damage. To "stop," a unit needs to move first. (Note that if the Blazing unit somehow died while moving, then Blaze would in fact deal damage when the unit died.)

Yes. The source of the damage is the Blaze spell, not the unit.

No, since the Megamoeba still occupies the sites and thus never departed.

Yes, this is forced movement, not taking a step themselves.

Yes, this is a misprint. These are not legal for tournament play.

Yes, this is a misprint. These are not legal for tournament play.

Non-active player chooses a minion. Active player chooses a minion. Both minions enter the realm simultaneously. Then, the non-active player resolves any triggered abilities (like genesis), and finally the active player resolves their triggered abilities.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes! As soon as your unit is on the surface, you resolve the treasure effect.

Yes, by a long shot! In fact, Captain Baldassare's trigger happens as soon as the attack is resolving, even before strikes are made. The trigger for Captain's ability and the Captain dying aren't in the same window of time. The ability triggers first.

Yes. You can see the spell’s colored frame matches those elements, so Castle Servants is an Air spell, Common Cottagers is an Earth spell, Blacksmith Family is a Fire spell, and Fisherman’s Family is a Water Spell.

In this case, “your location” means "a location that your avatar occupies."

Cerberus can't choose to move to a location that is farther from your avatar than its current location. (Count distance using steps that Cerberus would take using its own modes of movement, e.g. Airborne if it gained it somehow.)

No. The first sentence is an additional restriction on summoning.

Whenever your avatar enters a new location, Cerberus in Chains teleports to that location.

Yes.

All targets take the damage simultaneously.

No, that’s not what “new” means. You can only choose new targets that haven’t already been targeted by the spell.

No. Being nearby the previous target is an additional targeting restriction, not a loosening of the targeting rules, so all targets must be in the same region as the caster.

Yes. It teleports to the surface of the site (or void) where it lands.

It deals no damage (even to itself). Since it's now in the void, it is banished (unless it has Voidwalk).

It lands on only a single site, which is the one that it most fully overlaps.

Feel free to use a stand-in.

Yes.

This card as-written represents part of our design philosophy for Sorcery. Apply the birthday candle rule, which is that you must blow the card off your hand in a single breath; if you do not, then the effect fails. If the card falls prior to starting to blow, replace it on your hand. Once you start blowing, if the card falls due to anything other than blowing (e.g. hand movement), the effect fails. Call a judge before resolving this card if you're worried, but please be cool and apply the golden rule!

The teleportation effect doesn’t happen and it deals no damage.

No. If an oversized minion is now occupying the void, it will be banished. (Megamoeba will still move with Cloud City.)

No.

Yes. You can see the spell’s colored frame matches those elements, so Castle Servants is an Air spell, Common Cottagers is an Earth spell, Blacksmith Family is a Fire spell, and Fisherman’s Family is a Water Spell.

No, all affected locations must be in the same region as the caster. By default, the damage grid is restricted to the caster’s region. If the caster occupies multiple regions (e.g. a oversized unit), pick a single region where you’re casting the spell.

Yes, because it's the same region as the spell effect, even though it's separated by void.

Yes, but it might only feed the worm.

If you control a player, you see all their cards and make all decisions for them. You still must make legal choices for them. For example, you still cannot force their minion to move into the void (without Voidwalk) or attack themselves.

The effects can overlap. They do not add additional turns of control beyond what's specified by card text. For example, Turn 1: Player A plays Courtesan 1. Turn 2: Player B is controlled by Player A due to Courtesan 1's effect, and plays Courtesan 2. Turn 3: Player A is controlled by Player B due to Courtesan 1's effect and Courtesan 2's effect. Turn 4: Player B is controlled by Player A due to Courtesan 2's effect.

The normal version is correct. You still need 2 fire affinity to cast this minion.

If a turn is skipped then there's no actual turn, which means that part of Courtesan Thaïs's effect would wait for that player's next actual turn.

No. Stop it.

There is a giant meteor landing in the realm! It damages both above and below - surface, underwater, and underground!

Yes, because it's the same region as the spell effect, even though it's separated by void.

No, per normal attack restrictions (which the Crave Golem respects).

Yes, except that it may attack other allied minions if they happen to be the chosen target. It still cannot attack Airborne or Stealth units unless it gains a special ability that allows it to do so.

First, identify all the minions that Crave Golem can attack within its range of motion.

If there are one or more such minions:

• Randomly pick one, then move (if needed), and attack it. This counts as a normal attack and may be defended.
  • For example, if there's one adjacent minion with Airborne and another without Airborne, it will attack the non-Airborne minion 100% of the time (unless Crave Golem somehow gained Airborne).

If there are no such minions:

• Imagine the Crave Golem had unlimited movement. Are there any minions it could attack now?
  • If not, it doesn't move and the ability is over. It cannot be intercepted.
  • If so, take one step toward the minion that requires the fewest Crave Golem steps to reach. (Crave Golem's controller's choice if tied.) This movement cannot be intercepted.

No.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes! When you sacrifice something, it dies, and thus triggers deathrite.

No. This effect simply provides additional locations where you may summon your earth minions.

Yes.

Yes. Only the casting cost is reduced to 0.

Yes! As long as you control the spellcaster, the game sees it as a spell "you" cast, meaning the player.

Normally no, because Deathrite only triggers when the minion dies, and the Deathspeaker's ability banishes the minion.

But, if you somehow kill the minion at the same time it enters the realm (e.g. Bottomless Pit), then Deathrite would trigger. The token dies because of Bottomless Pit (interrupting the Deathspeaker's ability), Deathrite resolves, then the token copy is banished like all tokens when it dies.

The intent is that the Deathspeaker can speak to the dead, invoke their abilities, and then release them into the afterlife (whatever that may be). In the end, the minion will be banished, and technically you can treat this as: You may banish one dead minion each turn to cast a token copy of it, and for 0 if you’re on Death’s Door. Whenever you summon a minion this way, banish it.

See "Splitting Events on the Storyline" and the example with Tawny plus a site's genesis. The Deathspeaker's ability is analogous, since the token minion will appear, and before the rest of the Deathspeaker's ability can resolve, it will get split on the Storyline and the token minion's genesis ability will resolve (along with any other triggered abilities).

Yes, because events on the storyline are split up when a card enters the realm. See the "Splitting Events on the Storyline" codex entry for more details.

Yes. You control it when it enters the realm, and then it gets banished.

No, because you don’t have any mana available on your opponent’s turn.

It's not possible to declare an attack against a minion here. If you attack an avatar here and a minion defends, the minion becomes a legal target, per the Defend rules.

No. Dome of Osiros only prevents "attacks" from the Move and Attack basic ability, or other card text that uses the word "attack" (e.g. Crave Golem).

Your avatar can't be disabled per their characteristics. Thus, they won't be able to go to sleep, and therefore won't be able to wake up. If you cast this on your Avatar, it will have no effect.

Yes. See "Example - Flood vs. Drought" in the codex.

See "Example - Flood vs. Drought" in the codex.

No. Treat it as: Whenever an enemy enters a nearby site, that site deals 1 damage to that enemy.

Yes. In the kill credit calculation, this ability wouldn't apply at priority 1, since the site is dealing the damage, not the Druid. But, it's still the Druid's triggered ability, and therefore would grant credit at priority 3. See the "kill credit" codex entry for more details.

Yes. It's the Druid's triggered ability, not an ability of the site. The Druid's triggered ability causes the site to deal the damage.

No. The units don't gain Burrowing until they're at nearby sites, and you must choose the summoning location when you cast the spell. When you cast the minion spell, it doesn't have burrowing yet, and thus you cannot pick an underground location.

Anything that occupies exactly 1 location.

No.

No. You can rearrange sites with other sites as you wish, but the void squares must remain the same.

No.

In this rare case, Edge of the World would destroy itself.

The effect does not resolve. Examples:
If you try to move Cloud City to the only void square adjacent to Edge of the World, Cloud City won’t move.
If you try to play a site from your hand, it won’t work and your site will remain in your hand.
If you use Earthquake to rearrange sites in a way that Edge of the World isn’t adjacent to void, the entire rearrangement fails (and then you still try to burrow.)
If you have two Magellan Globes in play at the same location and they’re the only thing keeping Edge of the World adjacent to void and they are Dispelled, one is destroyed and other isn’t.

Yes, indeed. Enchantress is a very versatile Avatar, and one that twists the rules to create very interesting games. Be sure to check these FAQs as well as the auras you're looking to animate. Since many auras occupy a 2x2 area in the realm, you may want to learn about oversized units as well.

Whenever you cast a spell, before that spell resolves, but after targets are specified. See the "storyline" entry for more details.

Yes, as long as you can target them (i.e. they are in the same region as the Enchantress). Your opponent still controls the aura minion.

Yes! As long as you control the spellcaster, the game sees it as a spell "you" cast, meaning the player.

No.

Since Magellan Globe is an ongoing effect that connects the top and bottom edges, the oversized unit can occupy 2 locations on the top row and 2 locations on the bottom row. Ensure that game state is clear, using notes as needed.

This ability only allows movement across the borders, not ongoing occupation. Units cannot balance on the edge of the realm and an oversized unit that finds its way there falls to one side or the other. Its controller places it in the closest legal position, controller's choice if tied.

Units cannot balance on the edge of the realm and an oversized unit that finds its way there falls to one side or the other. Its controller places it in the closest legal position, controller's choice if tied.

Add a counter at the end of each of your turns, and dispel it when there are 3 counters.

Yes, since it doesn't say "atop." Note that it doesn't affect minions in the void, since the void isn't a site.

Please see the golden rule! The point is to actually, literally rip the card up, so it will never be playable again. It is banished after you rip it.

See the rules for that specific tournament, but by default the card is playable. Tournament organizers have latitude to set rules for their events, but one reasonable approach is that you use a deck missing one card for the rest of the tournament (and it's legal to do so).

They get a card of the controller's choice from the controller’s collection (so they get to pick). Hopefully you can still be friends! (They must give you a moment to concede before they rip it.)

The card limits exist only when the game starts; once the game begins, various effects can change your deck composition. So, yes, you are free to get an extra copy of a Unique card via Erik's Curiosa, as long as the card is actually in your collection.

No. This effect simply provides additional locations where you may summon your minions.

It is no longer carried by the Assassin, and is uncontrolled in the target’s location. Any unit may pick it up normally (including the Assassin, if it happens to be in that location).

Yes. It’s an activated special ability, so Stealth is lost per the normal Stealth rules.

No. You cannot choose to summon a minion underground, underwater, or in the void unless it has the appropriate ability.

No. This effect simply provides additional locations where you may summon this minion.

No. Because the Water site is not targeted, and because the card text uses “site” instead of “location,” the site does not need to be in the same region as the caster.

No. To cast a spell, you must specify all targets.

No. Normally the answer is yes, but the card text “above or below” means that normal targeting restrictions are ignored, and the caster can be in any region (surface, underground, underwater, or in the void). As long as there is an adjacent Water site to the caster and a minion occupying that water site, it will get pulled to the caster’s location.

Resolve the first bolt (including any deathrite or other "kills" abilities), then resolve the next one, then resolve the 3rd one. Each bolt must go in the same direction.

Yes. You can see the spell’s colored frame matches those elements, so Castle Servants is an Air spell, Common Cottagers is an Earth spell, Blacksmith Family is a Fire spell, and Fisherman’s Family is a Water Spell.

Yes. You pick the leftmost or rightmost column, and that is where the Flame Wave starts.

No.

Yes.

Yes. For example, Critical Strike will splash double damage.

Yes. Have fun dual wielding!

No. It’s damage done by the sword artifact.

Yes. For example, that includes Grapple Shot or other strikes, not just attacks from the Move and Attack basic ability.

No. If there's no "struck unit," then it has no location. Also, there are no “other enemies” when there’s no enemy initially. See "enemy" in the codex.

Yes. An attack was made, and then a minion was killed. As long as your attacking unit used the Move and Attack ability and then got kill credit, this ability triggers.

No. The squares merely need to be a Knight’s move apart. Teleportation ignores normal movement restrictions.

See "Example - Flood vs. Drought" in the codex.

Yes. See "Example - Flood vs. Drought" in the codex.

No. Floodplain is an activated ability, which can only be activated during your Main Phase.

Yes, it can be struck, and any strike damage to your Free City will cause your avatar to lose the same amount of life.

Normally, only units can strike, but card text allows the Free City site to strike as if it were a unit with 3 power.

It’s striking as if it were a unit, but it’s still a site. Therefore, it won’t die due to damage. It can still be destroyed by a specific destruction effect (e.g. Sinkhole), but it won't die due to taking damage.

Free City’s ability is a passive ability that gives it the option to attack and defend “normally” once per turn, as if it were a 3 power unit (while actually remaining a site). Therefore, it can only attack on your turn, and defend (presumably on your opponent’s turn) when a unit or Free City itself is attacked by an enemy unit occupying Free City. If Free City would somehow have the chance to both attack AND defend on your turn, it can only do one.

The key word is “here.” Clearly burrowed units are “here.” Airborne and Stealthed units are also “here.” But, to attack Airborne or Stealth, a unit needs some special ability (e.g. Airborne, Ranged, etc.) Since Free City doesn’t have those abilities, it can’t actually target Airborne or Stealthed units with an attack.

Since the ability to attack is granted by a card effect and not a basic ability, no tapping is needed, but it’s still an attack. Therefore, players may declare defenders for the attack normally.

Yes, because only minions are subject to summoning sickness.

No, since the attack is not happening on Free City.

Yes.

No. You only place a rubble if you play an Earth site using the first ability.

The rubble must be placed adjacent to your Geomancer. If there's no void adjacent to your Geomancer, then no rubble is placed.

Yes. Mirror Realm works because it applies as it enters the realm. Valley of Delight works because the Genesis effect of the site interrupts the resolution of the Geomancer's ability; when the second part of Geomancer's ability actually resolves and looks at the site, the site is indeed an earth site. See "Splitting Events on the Storyline" for more details on Valley of Delight interaction, analogous to the Tawny example and splitting the Druid's ability.

Yes.

Yes. (And as usual for an explicit summon effect, you don’t need threshold and you don’t pay mana.)

Yes. This isn't an attack (which has targeting restrictions), but actually a fight (which simply specifies who fights based on card text).

The controller of the Shark specifies a path for the Shark that is the fewest possible steps to the other unit. If there are multiple equally short paths, the controller chooses.

Yes.

Yes.

No, since the unit is not entering or moving between different sites.

See the storyline codex entry for details.

Yes, as long as the path specified is the fewest steps possible to the target.

The movement and fight still occur. The specific resolution is: Unit enters the water site, Shark's ability triggers. You specify the movement steps to reach the target, and they all go on the Storyline. Shark starts moving. It enters the Silence aura, but the effects of the ability are still on the Storyline and aren't removed, so they continue resolving normally.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes. It's first summoned (enters the realm), then ongoing effects are applied (e.g. Crusade).

Yes. First, Megamoeba enters, then it grows in power immediately after entering.

No. "Dragged" is equivalent to "Pull," and "Pull" requires each location entered to be closer to the destination. Making any detours wouldn't be getting closer to the Avatar, so the unit cannot take that path.

The Beta text is correct.

See the storyline codex entry for details.

No, since it would be shooting a projectile, and disabled units can't do that.

When the Grapple Shot projectile hits the unit, the game adds specific movement steps for the ally to the Storyline: Move A (surface) -> B (surface), Move B (surface) -> C (surface). Then, we start resolving those steps. If Mariner's Curse is on site B, once the unit being dragged reaches site B, it will be submerged, and live. Then the game tries to resolve Move B (surface) -> C (surface), which fails, since the unit isn't on the surface of site B anymore. Thus, there's no strike from Grapple Shot since it didn't reach the hit unit's location.

No. "Dragged" is equivalent to "Pull," and "Pull" requires each location entered to be closer to the destination. Making any detours wouldn't be getting closer to the Avatar, so the unit cannot take that path.

These are both passive effects, so whichever was played last takes precedence.

All sites (including rubble) are flooded for the rest of the game, even sites that enter the realm later.

The non-foil beta text is correct. You may use a foil beta Great Wall in tournament play (or the alpha version), but it must be played with the non-foil beta text; ensure your opponent knows the proper text when it's played.

The Great Wall will stop most kinds of movement on the surface, with a few notable exceptions. Teleportation doesn't cross borders, and if a unit "moves as if adjacent" (e.g. Waypoint Portal), that also doesn't cross borders. Finally airborne units can fly over the wall as they are not moving "on the ground."

The beta text is correct.

When Reaper kills a minion, the minion is banished instead of dying. In addition, any copies of that minion in play (regardless of who controls them) are also banished. Finally, you search the owner's library of the minion that was killed (and only that player).

When the artifact is animated, it becomes a minion, and thus cannot be carried. The controller of Grösse Poltergeist gets control.

Grösse Poltergeist says you gain control, but the game rules say that anyone carrying the artifact gains control. Grösse Poltergiest takes precedence due to the golden rule, and the controller of Grösse Poltergeist gets control.

No. Targeting (by default) requires the source and the target to be in the same region.

Yes. When an effect has a unit “take steps,” it uses its enhanced move abilities granted by keywords such Voidwalk, Burrowing, Submerge, and Airborne.

No and no. This isn’t the Move and Attack basic ability, which is what requires tapping and can be intercepted.

Yes. When pulling or pushing an oversized unit, choose a single location the oversized unit occupies (and meets the requirement of the effect), and push/pull from there. So, you could choose Site 2: Oversized minion is pulled South, and ends up at 4-5-7-8. OR, choose Site 4: Oversized minion is pulled East, and ends up at 2-3-5-6. OR, choose Site 5: Oversized minion isn’t pulled at all.

Yes. It doesn’t use the word “may.”

The teleport effect fails, and it remains where it was.

Treat the text as "Shoot a piercing projectile. Deal 2 damage to each hit unit."

If you searched your spellbook, shuffle it. If you end up summoning a beast from your hand, you may still have searched your spellbook if you wanted.

Yes, as the minion has already tapped, the rest of the Move and Attack will resolve. Once a charge has been sounded in the heat of battle, there’s no stopping it!

Treat the text as: Shoot a piercing projectile. Deal 3, then 2, then 1 damage to up to one hit unit at each of the first three locations along its path.

2 damage at the 2nd location. Ice Lance's damage decreases based on locations the projectile enters, not based on how many things it hits or doesn't hit.

The genesis effect triggers, but you don’t have any mana available on your opponent’s turn, so no.

No. Treat card text as: "Target enemy minion gains Stealth and taps. You control it until it no longer has Stealth."

Not unless you have a burrowed spellcaster or a spellcaster in the void. Since the effect uses the word "target," the spellcaster must be in the same region as the target. (There are four regions: surface, underground, underwater, void.)

Yes. It becomes a minion with the Monster type, and no longer a site.

No.

Assuming it was in play prior to the turn it awakened, it is not summoning sick (since it was already under your control prior to this turn).

Yes. It is an activated ability with no cost and a requirement of 8 water threshold. Like all activated abilities, you can only activate it during your Main Phase when nothing else is happening, but you are not required to activate it.

Yes. The flooded rubble does not provide any affinity to you (since you don’t control it), but the Island Leviathan itself does provide affinity, since that’s aligned with the golden rule. Obviously if the Monster dies, then you lose that affinity.

No. This effect simply provides additional locations where you may summon your fire minions.

After both units have taken their step they will fight from their new locations. If either doesn't move, they haven't passed each other and therefore no joust takes place.

Just one; you must choose unit A, B, or C to be defended.

No, since A is already being attacked, they cannot take the Defend reaction.

The damage is split as the attacker chooses.

Cards that have different element symbols count as a spell of each of those affinities. So Arthur and Guinevere are each an Air spell, an Earth spell, a Fire spell, and a Water spell, all at the same time. But you are still casting them together as a single spell. So, assuming Arthur is your spellcaster’s first spell of the turn, the Stone will offer a discount of 1 mana for Arthur, making him cost 3 mana.

This also means that when Arthur is played he uses up the Stone for that spellcaster's turn because he’s simultaneously the first Air, Earth, Fire, and Water spell played this turn. So the Spellcaster cannot continue to use the stone that turn.

All Mortals, anywhere in the realm.

The King’s controller, since Deathrite triggers while the units are technically still in the realm.

See "Example - Two Kings of the Realm" in the codex.

The player with the King gets the benefit, since they control the Mortal as soon as it’s in play.

Yes. Kingdom of Agartha affects minions everywhere.

Whenever you have three earth affinity! It is not optional; it's a passive ability that's always on while you have the necessary affinity.

You don't get to look at your opponent's hand, but you do get to choose which of their cards they discard (e.g. site or spell).

The most recently played one. See "ongoing effects" for more details.

No. Competing passive abilities are tracked based on when the card entered play.

Mountain Giants with Land Deeds are quite serious about the law! Though the Land Deed itself only occupies a single location, it grants an ability to its bearer. Therefore, all sites occupied by the unit carrying the Land Deed are yours!

No. Sites produce mana at the start of your turn and when they enter the realm. Since the site with Land Deed was already in the realm, it doesn’t produce mana merely because you took control of it.

You control the Rubble and your avatar will lose life if the Rubble takes damage, but the Rubble still doesn’t provide mana. i.e. you own a hunk of worthless rock!

Sorry for the confusion, but no, this is not actually an attack! You only get an "attack" from the Move and Attack basic ability, or card text that specifically uses the word attack (e.g. Crave Golem). This card text uses the word "strike," which means the unit simply deals damage equal to its power (and there's no chance for the opponent to Defend, and you can strike Stealthed or Airborne units, etc.)

Yes, but only if the spellcaster is in the void (since Lightning Bolt targets, the spellcaster must be in the same region).

The beta text is correct.

The spell costs 2. See "Cost" for more details.

Only where the spellcaster is, not the summoning location.

Yes. Maddening Bells’s ability only cares about the Spellcaster’s position.

Yes, all the steps are simultaneously resolved (which might then provoke a variety of triggers).

Yes.

No. Floodplain is an activated ability, which can only be activated during your Main Phase.

Yes. When pulling or pushing an oversized unit, choose a single location the oversized unit occupies (and meets the requirement of the effect), and push/pull from there. So, assuming Sites 2 and 4 are water sites as well, you could choose Site 2: Oversized minion is pulled South, and ends up at 4-5-7-8. OR, choose Site 4: Oversized minion is pulled East, and ends up at 2-3-5-6. OR, choose Site 5: Oversized minion isn’t pulled at all.

Yes. Ensure that the game state is clear, so all players know which sites the aura occupies, using notes as needed.

Since Magellan Globe is an ongoing effect that connects the top and bottom edges, the oversized unit can occupy 2 locations on the top row and 2 locations on the bottom row. Ensure that game state is clear, using notes as needed.

Units cannot balance on the edge of the realm and an oversized unit that finds its way there falls to one side or the other. Its controller places it in the closest legal position, controller's choice if tied.

The grid can span edges of the realm as needed, since they are connected.

Yes.

Yes, as long as they don't change regions. There are exactly four regions in Sorcery: Surface, Void, Underwater, Underground.

Yes.

Yes.

I think you mean edge cases! Let us know if you think of any more we should add. In general, apply the golden rule and have fun!

Yes. Treat "loses all non-basic abilities" as "silenced." See the silenced codex entry for more details.

If an animated Mariner’s Curse moves and enters a water site, it will submerge itself (if possible) and die (assuming it doesn’t have Submerge). If it hasn’t died, it will then return itself to its owner’s hand. It will not have a chance to attack before its effect resolves, because the move happens before the attack.

When the Grapple Shot projectile hits the unit, the game adds specific movement steps for the ally to the Storyline: Move A (surface) -> B (surface), Move B (surface) -> C (surface). Then, we start resolving those steps. If Mariner's Curse is on site B, once the unit being dragged reaches site B, it will be submerged, and live. Then the game tries to resolve Move B (surface) -> C (surface), which fails, since the unit isn't on the surface of site B anymore. Thus, there's no strike from Grapple Shot since it didn't reach the hit unit's location.

No. It was already there, and remained there (though it may have entered different sites due to its move).

Yes.

Yes. But enemies that already lost Stealth won't regain it.

Yes, the target is still valid, but Megamoeba now has +1 power from the extra location it occupies thanks to Dodge Roll.

Megamoeba moves with the site. Megamoeba is mostly treated a normal size unit for movement effects.

Yes. First, Megamoeba enters, then it grows in power immediately after entering.

The Megamoeba moves 2 steps by extending a pseudopod twice (possibly from two different starting locations), and gains 2 power. Then, it strikes all enemies in the starting and destination locations of the pseudopods that took the steps.

Yes. A single pseudopod enters the teleportation destination, and the Megamoeba can become a single oversized unit that spans non-adjacent squares. The Megamoeba is weird.

As soon as it enters the Silence aura, it loses its abilities. Therefore, it stops occupying all the locations it ever occupied and shrinks to a single location within the Silence aura. While in the Silence aura, it also doesn’t get +1 power for each location.

Yes. Megamoeba is weird.

Choose a specific location it occupies and pull / push a single pseudopod from there.

Yes.

Yes! If Megamoeba uses Move and Attack, then doesn't attack, any enemy that shares a location with them may tap to intercept.

It can occupy both the surface location and the subsurface location on a site, and each occupied location will grant +1 power, per card text. 40 power Megamoeba, here we come!

If any part of unit occupies an inhospitable location, it dies. So, the Megamoeba would die in this case.

It occupied all the locations it was carried through.

This is a passive ability, usable any time on your turn, including during your start phase before you draw a card. But, you may still only cast spells when they are normally permitted to be cast (i.e. during your Main Phase when nothing else is on the storyline other than this ability). Technically, if a Crave Golem were attacking during your Start Phase, Merlin could cast a Dodge Roll then!

Yes. "Border" means adjacent squares, not including diagonals.

No, because Miracle Workers only return minions from the cemetery, and deathrites resolve while the minions are still in the realm. The Miracle Workers could return other minions that died earlier that turn and were in the cemetery.

When using the Pathfinder's ability, you reveal the site, then play it in an adjacent Rubble or void (then Pathfinder moves there). Mirage's ability cannot be combined with Pathfinder.

By the time Mirror Realm enters the realm, it's already a copy. Thus, it can copy a nearby site, and then promptly loses all abilities of that copied site (but still is the copy, without abilities). See "Apply Ongoing Effects In Order" in the codex for nitty-gritty details.

Mirror Realm remains a copy, but any abilities that were printed on the original site are now ignored.

Yes, it’s as if you had the exact same card.

Yes.

Monastery Gargoyle should stay under your control. You can treat Monastery Gargoyle's text as "... choose whether Monastery Gargoyle has Airborne or is a Monument."

Anywhere you normally would, but make sure they don't get mixed up with your own. When Morgana leaves the realm, any remaining spells go to the cemetery.

“Here” references Mother Nature’s exact location.

A card's size is generally set when it enters the realm, and is considered one of its characteristics, not an ability. It will not resize.

Since Magellan Globe is an ongoing effect that connects the top and bottom edges, the oversized unit can occupy 2 locations on the top row and 2 locations on the bottom row. Ensure that game state is clear, using notes as needed.

This ability only allows movement across the borders, not ongoing occupation. Units cannot balance on the edge of the realm and an oversized unit that finds its way there falls to one side or the other. Its controller places it in the closest legal position, controller's choice if tied.

Units cannot balance on the edge of the realm and an oversized unit that finds its way there falls to one side or the other. Its controller places it in the closest legal position, controller's choice if tied.

Yes. Though summoning is included in “entering,” it is not moving on the ground. So you can summon all you want, since summoning isn’t moving.

Technically, my adjacent minion (without Airborne or Voidwalk) could tap to declare a defense, but it wouldn’t move to the Mountain Pass, since your attacker is already there. So, my minion would just end up tapped where it started, without actually redirecting the attack. It would almost certainly be better to not declare the defense.

Entering on the ground only covers movement from the surface of an adjacent site to the surface of the Mountain Pass, excluding Airborne and teleportation.

Yes, since moving on the ground requires the unit to start from the surface of a site. Since the void isn’t a site, moving from the void to Mountain Pass isn’t considered moving on the ground.

No, you simply target the site, and then the proper action is applied. If a water site is the target, minions there are surfaced. If a land site is the target, minions there are unburrowed.

The normal version is correct. The text should be "Spellcaster here." The alternate art version is not legal for tournament play.

Yes, all of those effects are movement. With Chaos Twister, don't even attempt to blow the card if the target is an ally nearby Old Salt Anchorman.

No, your opponent can still rearrange sites, because that doesn't count as moving the units, just the sites.

When it enters the realm, and at the start of its controller’s turn.

Yes.

No. Normally the answer is yes, but the card text “above or below” means that normal targeting restrictions are ignored, and the Harpooneers can be in any region (surface, underground, underwater, or in the void). As long as there is an adjacent Water site to the Harpooneers and a minion occupying that water site, it will get pulled to the Harpooneers' location.

No. Because the Water site is not targeted, and because the card text uses “site” instead of “location,” the site does not need to be in the same region as the Harpooneers.

Yes!

Round up the life loss. For example, if you had 3 life, you'd lose 2, ending up at 1.

The beta text is correct.

You must play your first site turn 1 under the Pathfinder per the game rules.

Yes, sites immediately generate mana when they come into play.

When using the Pathfinder's ability, you reveal the site, then play it in an adjacent Rubble or void (then Pathfinder moves there). Mirage's ability cannot be combined with Pathfinder.

Since it's not the first turn of the game, you aren't forced to play under yourself. The Pathfinder offers an alternate way to play sites, and thus you could play it adjacent if you wanted.

When using the Pathfinder's ability, you reveal the site, then play it in an adjacent Rubble or void (then Pathfinder moves there). With Rift Valley, you could use its ability to make a void adjacent to Pathfinder, then play it there (and Pathfinder would then move there).

Yes, you may use the ability. Assuming a normal site (and not Rift Valley) is on top of your atlas, you'll reveal it, do nothing, and then put it back on top of your atlas.

Yes. Summoning sick units can’t be tapped to pay costs.

Only the minions you're directly carrying count against your limit. Have fun at the carnival!

Yes.

Cards that have different element symbols count as a spell of each of those affinities. So Arthur and Guinevere are each an Air spell, an Earth spell, a Fire spell, and a Water spell, all at the same time. But you are still casting them together as a single spell. So, assuming Arthur is your spellcaster’s first spell of the turn, the Stone will offer a discount of 1 mana for Arthur, making him cost 3 mana.

This also means that when Arthur is played he uses up the Stone for that spellcaster's turn because he’s simultaneously the first Air, Earth, Fire, and Water spell played this turn. So the Spellcaster cannot continue to use the stone that turn.

You can summon each of them to whatever locations will cause maximum annoyance.

This ability only allows movement across the borders, not ongoing occupation. Units cannot balance on the edge of the realm and an oversized unit that finds its way there falls to one side or the other. Its controller places it in the closest legal position, controller's choice if tied.

No. It is permanently a Frog token, and occupies a single location.

The controller of the transformation effect chooses which location the Frog token occupies.

Yes, sites immediately generate mana when they come into play.

No, only other minions. Treat it as: At the start of your turn, Purge Juggernaut taps and moves to an adjacent location. Kills all other minions there.

Yes. The genesis ability creates an effect that lasts until the start of your next turn.

Cards that have different element symbols count as a spell of each of those affinities. So Arthur and Guinevere are each an Air spell, an Earth spell, a Fire spell, and a Water spell, all at the same time. But you are still casting them together as a single spell. So, assuming Arthur is your spellcaster’s first spell of the turn, the Stone will offer a discount of 1 mana for Arthur, making him cost 3 mana.

This also means that when Arthur is played he uses up the Stone for that spellcaster's turn because he’s simultaneously the first Air, Earth, Fire, and Water spell played this turn. So the Spellcaster cannot continue to use the stone that turn.

After randomly determining the dead minion, you may summon it anywhere.

You can conjure it anywhere.

Treat it as: Bearer strikes first and has “Tap -> Throw Rhongomyniad as a piercing projectile. Deal 3 damage to each unit hit.”

After the throw, Rhongomyniad is in the final location along its path, and is not carried by any unit.

If multiple units in the same fight have an ability that allows them to strike first, they strike at the same time. Then any surviving units without that ability make their strikes.

Try this riddle: Which spell will I draw? Fooled you! Neither of them! (Yes, you can draw a site.)

No. That’s not what “pull apart” means.

Choose a row or column with two adjacent sites and at least one void. Then, “pull apart” the two adjacent sites as follows: one site stays in its current square, and the other site (along with all other contiguous sites in its row or column) shifts one square. Put Rift Valley in the void that was just created. The shifting of sites and the arrival of Rift Valley happen simultaneously.

Yes, since Atlantean Fate only affects the site once it’s already in play, and Rift Valley modifies how it’s played in the first place.

Rift Valley enters the realm using its ability, and only loses its ability once it's in the realm (which by then, it doesn't really matter).

Yes.

No.

When using the Pathfinder's ability, you reveal the site, then play it in an adjacent Rubble or void (then Pathfinder moves there). With Rift Valley, you could use its ability to make a void adjacent to Pathfinder, then play it there (and Pathfinder would then move there).

Yes.

Since it's not the first turn of the game, you aren't forced to play under yourself. Rift Valley offers an alternate way to play a site, and thus you could pull apart a row and play it there if you wanted.

No, because minions in the void aren’t “aboveground.”

When pulling or pushing a oversized unit, choose a single location the oversized unit occupies (and meets the requirement of the effect - e.g. adjacent), and push/pull from there.

Yes! Those bells are so loud (and still nearby the caster).

Yes. Pick surface or underground when you cast the spell (or underwater if it's flooded).

No. This effect simply provides additional locations where you may summon this minion.

The Rolling Boulder continues until it would repeat a step (i.e. back to where it started), and then stops instead of repeating a step. It doesn't do 8 damage on the starting location, since a location is either along its path or not.

Yes. It's dangerous to play with boulders.

It travels in a chosen cardinal direction, staying within the same region.

Nothing (it turns into more Rubble, and thus doesn't change).

When it enters the realm, and at the start of its controller’s turn.

This ability only allows movement across the borders, not ongoing occupation. Units cannot balance on the edge of the realm and an oversized unit that finds its way there falls to one side or the other. Its controller places it in the closest legal position, controller's choice if tied.

Yes.

Yes. (Remember Avatars cannot be destroyed.)

Yes. “Any number” includes zero.

No, since the Scourge Zombies must be in the cemetery for their ability to trigger when the mortal dies.

Yes. After units are killed, there is time for effects to resolve (e.g. Deathrite) before minions are placed in cemeteries. This effect resolves in the same window of time as deathrites.

Yes. An attack was made, and then a minion was killed. As long as your attacking unit used the Move and Attack ability and then got kill credit, this ability is satisfied.

Yes!

Damage from the keyword ability Lethal. So 7 damage from a Major Explosion won't kill a Hydra, nor will a strike from a Wraetannis Titan. The damage must be Lethal, in which case a single point of Lethal damage will kill the Hydra.

Selfsame Simulacrum becomes an aura (not a minion), since that’s the actual text on the animated aura. As soon as Selfsame Simulacrum is an aura, it expands to its proper size based on card text (and default aura rules), and must continue to occupy the location that was specified during casting.

No. When you cast a minion spell, you specify where the minion will enter the realm at time of casting. When the minion actually enters the realm (i.e. it’s summoned), that’s when Selfsame Simulacrum’s copy ability applies. Without Submerge / Burrowing / Voidwalk when it’s cast, Selfsame Simulacrum can’t use those abilities to change where it’s summoned.

Yes.

Selfsame Simulacrum remains a copy, but any abilities that were printed on the original copy are now ignored.

0, because each source of damage is reduced by 1!

Yes. Summoning sick units can’t be tapped to pay costs.

Yes. Treat "loses all non-basic abilities" as "silenced." See the silenced codex entry for more details.

A card's size is generally set when it enters the realm, and is considered one of its characteristics, not an ability. It will not resize.

It still silences other minions but it also silences itself.

No, Morien cuts them down immediately, like the total badass he is.

How dare you!? Sir Tom Thumb is no mere trinket. He's a fully autonomous being and acknowledges no other controller!

Yes. Treat "loses all non-basic abilities" as "silenced." See the silenced codex entry for more details.

Treat it as: Once during their Move and Attack ability when Skirmishers of Mu enter a location, they may perform a ranged strike.

Yes, assuming she isn't killed.

See "Example - Two Smokestacks of Gnaak" in the codex!

By the time Mirror Realm enters the realm, it's already a copy. Thus, it can copy a nearby site, and then promptly loses all abilities of that copied site (but still is the copy, without abilities). See "Apply Ongoing Effects In Order" in the codex for nitty-gritty details.

Rift Valley enters the realm using its ability, and only loses its ability once it's in the realm (which by then, it doesn't really matter).

Yes! The projectile's path determines which locations are affected by the rest of the snowball, gathering up everything along the way, just as you'd expect giant snowball physics would work after watching all those Saturday morning cartoons.

Yes! As long as you control the spellcaster, the game sees it as a spell "you" cast, meaning the player.

Yes.

Yes, because it's dealing the damage directly via it's ability. (Damage from a lightning bolt cast by the Sparkmage would not be lethal.)

Yes. The Sparkmage ability considers printed threshold on the spell.

You choose where the spear teleports, which will be a single location the minion occupies.

Sorry for the confusion, but no, this is not actually an attack! You only get an "attack" from the Move and Attack basic ability, or card text that specifically uses the word attack (e.g. Crave Golem). This card text uses the word "strike," which means the unit simply deals damage equal to its power (and there's no chance for the opponent to Defend, and you can strike Stealthed or Airborne units, etc.)

Yes, because of the golden rule. Be cool!

Both take 1 damage each, which results in their simultaneous death. That triggers Squirming Mass's ability, which means its gains +1 power, but it's already dying, and merely gaining power isn't enough to save it. (Something specifically that saves a unit from death would be necessary, like Gilded Aegis.) In this example, both minions are placed in the cemetery.

Treat it as: Whenever another nearby minion dies, Squirming Mass permanently gains its power.

The current power of the minion that dies.

No. The effect only allows you to break the restriction of choosing one of your own sites, but not the rule about summoning atop the site.

No. This effect simply provides additional locations where you may summon your minions.

Yes! As soon as your unit is on the surface, you resolve the treasure effect.

Yes! As long as you control the spellcaster, the game sees it as a spell "you" cast, meaning the player.

Yes, he's very tired and in need of a rest.

Yes. The site doesn't provide mana normally, but if it's modified in some way (e.g. Abundance), then it can provide additional mana. 0 + 1 = 1.

Yes. The site doesn't provide affinity normally, but if it's modified in some way (e.g. Flood), then it will.

No, because Miracle Workers only return minions from the cemetery, and deathrites resolve while the minions are still in the realm. The Miracle Workers could return other minions that died earlier that turn and were in the cemetery.

Since the destruction is simultaneous (e.g. Roots of Ygdrassil), all Deathrites will resolve before cards are moved to the cemetery.

No other units at the location.

Playing a site, which costs 0, or casting a spell.

Cost in this case means "printed cost."

Yes. Use the text for the normal version. The foil version is not legal for tournament play.

The beta text is correct.

No. They would need to enter the underground location to flood it, and they cannot enter underground locations without burrowing.

The intent is that a 1 power minion with 1 damage + the Trinket would survive the turn. Treat it as: Bearer has +1 power. If in the realm, return this to its owner’s hand during Step 3 of your End Phase.

The beta text is correct.

Yes. Treat it as: "Bearer has Ranged and can see stealthed enemies." That means they can target them with spells, shoot them with projectiles, attack or intercept them and even defend against their attacks.

0, because all three Foot Soldiers did damage at the same time, tied for first, and thus all are prevented!

You can cast it, and your opponent will go to 0 life, being put at Death’s Door and becoming immune to damage for the rest of the turn. You will still remain at 0 life since you can’t gain life once you’re at death’s door.

If you cast the spell, the mana cost is X. For example, if you cast it for 2 mana, then Immortal Throne would see it as a 2 cost spell. But, if you aren't casting the spell and it's simply in your hand, spellbook, etc., then X is 0 until you actually cast it.

The normal version is correct. You only need 2 air affinity to cast this minion.

Yes!

Yes.

No, because it’s a “normal step,” which doesn’t allow changing regions.

When pulling or pushing a oversized unit, choose a single location the oversized unit occupies (and meets the requirement of the effect - e.g. adjacent), and push/pull from there.

No. Unland Eel can only drag a minion that shares its location.

Yes. Treat it as: Airborne minions atop Updraft Ridge move freely away.

Yes. They only get the benefit if they are the true vanguard, with a single minion being the farthest forward.

The row of squares closest to you is 1, then the next row is 2, then 3, then 4. The higher the number, the farther forward it is.

Yes, as long as the effect says “target”. You’ll need to bring in a specialized exterminator to flush out these hidey-holes.

No, because a unit doesn't enter the site if the unit was already present in the square when the site was played.

An avatar stops when there is no additional movement for that unit on the Storyline. A unit must first move to then stop.

Once per game total. They took time to loot the vaults! (If two avatars somehow stop on the vaults simultaneously, they will both be tied for first, and will both loot the vaults.)

If a turn is skipped then there's no actual turn, which means that part of Courtesan Thaïs's effect would wait for that player's next actual turn.

Anywhere! The realm, your hand, and cemetery, and even while in the middle of your spellbook.

Not by default. Avatars don’t have the printed ability “Spellcaster,” so Vivien must gain the Spellcaster ability another way, e.g. a minion with the printed Spellcaster ability.

No. Treat it as: Vivien has the other printed abilities of all Avatars and Spellcasters in the realm, wherever she is.

She summons Bruin and then flips. As a flipped card with nothing on the back, she has no game text and will effectively do nothing for the rest of the game. She is no longer a minion, has no card type or abilities, etc. The flipped card can exist in the void, and technically she could turn off Pristine Paradise, and would be destroyed by Roots of Yggdrasil.

No. (They are not atop the site.)

An animated Wall of Air can’t move (unless it gains power), since it has a Wall of Air in its middle! If it gains power (or teleports) and manages to move, the Wall of Air applies between the two squares it occupies.

No. "Border" means adjacent squares, not including diagonals.

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Moving through in any way, whether willingly or by force. For example, a unit moved by Grapple Shot or Pudge Butcher would take damage from the Wall of Fire. Note that a teleported unit doesn’t pass through borders, and thus wouldn't be affected.

Yes. (They are atop the site.)

No. "Border" means adjacent squares, not including diagonals.

It can move, but units are not passing through the Wall of Flame due to its own movement. After moving, its effect will apply between the two squares it occupies.

No. (They are not atop the site.)

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An animated Wall of Ice can’t move normally, since it has a Wall of Ice in its middle! If it gains Airborne (or teleports, etc.) and manages to move, the Wall of Ice applies between the two squares it occupies.

This effect applies a doubling throughout the turn. If the unit gains or loses power, apply any additions or subtractions first, then double.

The newly flooded site becomes flooded at the same moment the previously flooded site stops being flooded. If you choose the same site, there is no moment when the site isn't flood.

Yes! Imagine a big wave washing over the Bedrock, knocking everyone over, and then the water dissipates due to Bedrock.

The body of water (if any) that your Avatar currently occupies. If the Avatar isn’t in any body of water, the ability won’t function. (They're a fish out of water!)

Yes, as long as it's nearby your body of water.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

No, because you don't have any path if you don't move. A path involves 1 or more steps, and each step has a starting and ending location that's different (if your step is from a location to the same location, you didn't actually move anywhere.)

Once it leaves play, a Wildfire forgets all the places it visited. If you have multiple Wildfires in play, track them each separately.

Attack triggers are still satisfied (e.g. Captain Baldassare), but the attack otherwise ends (assuming there aren't any units left to fight). The attacker will not strike, and the target of the attack will not revert to the original target (if any).

Yes. To actually evade the attack, they must teleport to a location that the attacker doesn’t occupy.

Yes, all the steps are simultaneously resolved (which might then provoke a variety of triggers).

No. Since this is forced movement (and not normal unit movement), “one step” means a single adjacent location. (And “adjacent location” means an adjacent square in the same region.)

Since all of the movement is simultaneous the artifact always shares a location with the unit, so it was never dropped and continues to be carried.

Attack triggers are still satisfied (e.g. Captain Baldassare), but the attack otherwise ends, assuming there aren't any units left to fight. The attacker will not strike.

Only the minions you're directly carrying count against your limit. Have fun at the carnival!