Acorn Catapult

Artifact, 4 (4)

{1}, {T}: Acorn Catapult deals 1 damage to target creature or player. That creature's controller or that player puts a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token onto the battlefield.

The Kalonian word for "ammunition" is the same as the word for "bait."

Illus. Jesper Ejsing

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 9/22/2011: If the creature or player is an illegal target when the ability tries to resolve, it will be countered and none of its effects will happen. No Squirrel will be created.
• 9/22/2011: If the ability resolves, but the damage is prevented or redirected, the targeted player or the controller of the targeted creature puts the Squirrel token onto the battlefield, regardless of how much damage was dealt or what the damage was ultimately dealt to.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Acorn Harvest

Sorcery, 3G (4)

Put two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens onto the battlefield.

Flashback—{1}{G}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Illus. Edward P. Beard, Jr.

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Advent of the Wurm

Instant, 1WGG (4)

Put a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample onto the battlefield.

The consciousness of Mat'Selesnya does not always spread in peaceful ways.

Illus. Lucas Graciano

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)

Æther Mutation

Sorcery, 3UG (5)

Return target creature to its owner's hand. Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that creature's converted mana cost.

Illus. Ron Spencer

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/4/2004: You only put the tokens onto the battlefield if the target creature is still a legal target on resolution.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Afterlife

Instant, 2W (3)

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller puts a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

Illus. Brian Snoddy

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Ajani Goldmane

Planeswalker — Ajani (Loyalty: 4), 2WW (4)

+1: You gain 2 life.

-1: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. Those creatures gain vigilance until end of turn.

-6: Put a white Avatar creature token onto the battlefield. It has "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to your life total."

Illus. Aleksi Briclot

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/1/2007: The vigilance granted to a creature by the second ability remains until the end of the turn even if the +1/+1 counter is removed.
• 10/1/2007: The power and toughness of the Avatar created by the third ability will change as your life total changes.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Ajani, Caller of the Pride

Planeswalker — Ajani (Loyalty: 4), 1WW (3)

+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature.

-3: Target creature gains flying and double strike until end of turn.

-8: Put X 2/2 white Cat creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is your life total.

Illus. D. Alexander Gregory

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 7/1/2012: You can activate the first ability without a target. You'll still put one loyalty counter on Ajani when you activate the ability.
• 7/1/2012: The number of Cat tokens you put onto the battlefield is equal to your life total when the third ability resolves.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Alive (Alive/Well)

Sorcery, 3G (4)

Put a 3/3 green Centaur creature token onto the battlefield.

Fuse (You may cast one or both halves of this card from your hand.)

Illus. Nils Hamm

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 4/15/2013: If you’re casting a split card with fuse from any zone other than your hand, you can’t cast both halves. You’ll only be able to cast one half or the other.
• 4/15/2013: To cast a fused split spell, pay both of its mana costs. While the spell is on the stack, its converted mana cost is the total amount of mana in both costs.
• 4/15/2013: You can choose the same object as the target of each half of a fused split spell, if appropriate.
• 4/15/2013: When resolving a fused split spell with multiple targets, treat it as you would any spell with multiple targets. If all targets are illegal when the spell tries to resolve, the spell is countered and none of its effects happen. If at least one target is still legal at that time, the spell resolves, but an illegal target can’t perform any actions or have any actions performed on it.
• 4/15/2013: When a fused split spell resolves, follow the instructions of the left half first, then the instructions on the right half.
• 4/15/2013: In every zone except the stack, split cards have two sets of characteristics and two converted mana costs. If anything needs information about a split card not on the stack, it will get two values.
• 4/15/2013: On the stack, a split spell that hasn’t been fused has only that half’s characteristics and converted mana cost. The other half is treated as though it didn’t exist.
• 4/15/2013: Some split cards with fuse have two monocolor halves of different colors. If such a card is cast as a fused split spell, the resulting spell is multicolored. If only one half is cast, the spell is the color of that half. While not on the stack, such a card is multicolored.
• 4/15/2013: Some split cards with fuse have two halves that are both multicolored. That card is multicolored no matter which half is cast, or if both halves are cast. It’s also multicolored while not on the stack.
• 4/15/2013: If a player names a card, the player may name either half of a split card, but not both. A split card has the chosen name if one of its two names matches the chosen name.
• 4/15/2013: If you cast a split card with fuse from your hand without paying its mana cost, you can choose to use its fuse ability and cast both halves without paying their mana costs.
• 4/15/2013: If you cast Alive/Well as a fused split spell, the Centaur creature token will count toward the amount of life you gain.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)

Alliance of Arms

Sorcery, W (1)

Join forces — Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of mana. Each player puts X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is the total amount of mana paid this way.

Illus. Johann Bodin

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Ambassador Oak

Creature — Treefolk Warrior 3/3, 3G (4)

When Ambassador Oak enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token onto the battlefield.

Treefolk and elves share a common interest in the forests, but really the elves just feel at home with the view from above.

Illus. Steve Prescott

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Angelic Favor

Instant, 3W (4)

If you control a Plains, you may tap an untapped creature you control rather than pay Angelic Favor's mana cost.

Cast Angelic Favor only during combat.

Put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Illus. Paolo Parente

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Commander

Ant Queen

Creature — Insect 5/5, 3GG (5)

{1}{G}: Put a 1/1 green Insect creature token onto the battlefield.

"Kill the queen first, or we'll be fighting her drones forever. It is not in a queen's nature to have enough servants."
—Borzard, exterminator captain

Illus. Trevor Claxton

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Arboria

World Enchantment, 2GG (4)

Creatures can't attack a player unless that player cast a spell or put a nontoken permanent onto the battlefield during his or her last turn.

Illus. Daniel Gelon

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/4/2004: This effect modifies the announcement of an attack, so it only works if it is on the battlefield at that time.
• 10/1/2008: This has the supertype world. This supertype is similar to legendary. The difference is that when a world permanent enters the battlefield, any world permanents that were already on the battlefield are put into their owners' graveyards. This is a state-based action called the "world rule." The new world permanent stays on the battlefield. If two world permanents enter the battlefield at the same time, they're both put into their owners' graveyards.
• 10/1/2009: Arboria doesn't stop creatures from attacking planeswalkers, regardless of what their controllers did or didn't do during their last turns.
• 10/1/2009: Arboria's effect cares whether a player put a nontoken permanent onto the battlefield. It's unusual for an ability to care who did the putting (as opposed to whose control the permanent entered the battlefield under), and requires careful reading of spells and abilities to see which player is instructed to put something onto the battlefield. For example, Exhume causes each player to return a creature card from his or her graveyard to the battlefield. If Exhume's controller has no creature cards in his or her graveyard, but another player does, only that other player puts a permanent onto the battlefield. It doesn't matter who controls the effect.
• 10/1/2009: Arboria's effect cares about the actions taken by players, not their results. If a player cast a spell during his or her last turn but that spell was countered, that player may still be attacked. The same is true if a player put a nontoken permanent onto the battlefield during his or her last turn, even if it's no longer on the battlefield by the time that player is attacked.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Archdemon of Unx

Creature — Demon 6/6, 5BB (7)

Flying, trample

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a non-Zombie creature, then put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield.

The necropolis at Unx was once a living city, its streets untrodden by death.

Illus. Dave Allsop

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/1/2008: If Archdemon of Unx is the only non-Zombie creature you control when the triggered ability resolves, you'll have to sacrifice it. You'll still get a Zombie token.
• 10/1/2008: If you somehow control no non-Zombie creatures when the triggered ability resolves, you won't have to sacrifice anything. You'll still get a Zombie token.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Armada Wurm

Creature — Wurm 5/5, 2WWGG (6)

Trample

When Armada Wurm enters the battlefield, put a 5/5 green Wurm creature token with trample onto the battlefield.

No one in the Conclave acts alone.

Illus. Volkan Baga

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Army of the Damned

Sorcery, 5BBB (8)

Put thirteen 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens onto the battlefield tapped.

Flashback {7}{B}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sometimes death comes knocking. Sometimes it tears down the walls.

Illus. Ryan Pancoast

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Artifact Mutation

Instant, RG (2)

Destroy target artifact. It can't be regenerated. Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that artifact's converted mana cost.

"From shards and splinters I call forth my living horde."
—Molimo, maro-sorcerer

Illus. Greg Staples

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/4/2004: This spell is countered and you get no Saprolings if the artifact is an illegal target on resolution.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander

Assemble the Legion

Enchantment, 3WR (5)

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a muster counter on Assemble the Legion. Then put a 1/1 red and white Soldier creature token with haste onto the battlefield for each muster counter on Assemble the Legion.

Illus. Eric Deschamps

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 1/24/2013: If Assemble the Legion isn’t on the battlefield when its ability resolves, use the number of muster counters it had when it was last on the battlefield to determine how many Soldier tokens to put onto the battlefield.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Attended Knight

Creature — Human Knight 2/2, 2W (3)

First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

When Attended Knight enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.

Illus. Seb McKinnon

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Extended (Type 1.X)
• Legal in Standard (Type 2)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander
• Legal in Modern

Aura Mutation

Instant, WG (2)

Destroy target enchantment. Put X 1/1 green Saproling creature tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that enchantment's converted mana cost.

"Life can be found in all things, even things unnatural."
—Multani, maro-sorcerer

Illus. Pete Venters

Gatherer Card Rulings?, Legality?

• 10/4/2004: This spell is countered and you get no Saprolings if the enchantment is an illegal target on resolution.

• Legal in Vintage (Type 1)
• Legal in Legacy (Type 1.5)
• Legal in Classic (MTGO)
• Legal in Commander