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Stronghold

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1. Bottomless Pit

• The ability is controlled by the player who controls Bottomless Pit. This means that Bottomless Pit can trigger Guerrilla Tactics and other abilities which trigger off an opponent forcing you to discard. [WotC Rules Team 1998/05/01]

2. Brush with Death

• Note - Also see Buyback, Rule 502.16.

3. Cannibalize

• You choose the two target creatures during announcement, and you choose which gets the counters and which is to get removed from the game during announcement as well. [D'Angelo 1999/06/20]
• A creature will not be affected if it changes controllers before this spell resolves. This is because being controlled by the chosen player is a targeting restriction. [WotC Rules Team 1998/03/31]
• If one of the targets is not valid on resolution, it still affects the other target normally. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 30]

4. Corrupting Licid

• Note - Also see Aura, Rule G1.30.
• Note - Also see Fear, Rule 502.25.
• Note - Also see Licids, Rule 702.

5. Crovax the Cursed

• Can sacrifice itself to its upkeep triggered ability. [Barclay 1998/02/27]
• You can only sacrifice one card to it each turn. [D'Angelo 1998/10/12]
• If you choose not to sacrifice a creature and he has no +1/+1 counters, then nothing bad happens. [DeLaney 1999/01/13] Note that some other effect must be keeping him alive if he has no counters.
• Note - Also see Legendary, Rule G12.9.
• Note - This card was of creature type "Legend" until Oracle 2004/10/01.

6. Dauthi Trapper

• Note - Also see Shadow, Rule 502.8.
• Note - This card was creature type "Minion" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Dauthi Minion".

7. Death Stroke

8. Dungeon Shade

• Note - This card was creature type "Spirit" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Shade Spirit".

9. Foul Imp

• You can play this if you have less than 2 life, since the life is lost as an effect and not a payment. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 30]
• Note - Also see Comes Into Play Abilities, Rule 410.10a.

10. Grave Pact

• Each of your opponents sacrifices a creature for each creature you control that goes to a graveyard. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 30]

11. Lab Rats

• Note - Also see Buyback, Rule 502.16.
• Note - Also see Token Creatures, Rule 216.

12. Megrim

13. Mind Peel

• Note - Also see Buyback, Rule 502.16.

14. Mindwarper

15. Morgue Thrull

16. Mortuary

• This is not an optional ability. [Barclay 1998/02/27]
• If multiple creatures die at once, you resolve the triggers in the order you choose, so the creatures end up on your library in the order you choose. [Barclay 1998/02/27]

17. Rabid Rats

18. Revenant

19. Serpent Warrior

• You can play this if you have less than 3 life, since the life is lost as an effect and not a payment. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 30]
• Note - Also see Comes Into Play Abilities, Rule 410.10a.
• Note - The Portal version had no creature type.
• Note - This card was of creature type "Soldier" and not "Snake Warrior" until Ninth Edition and Oracle 2005/08/01.

20. Skeleton Scavengers

21. Stronghold Assassin

• Note - This card was creature type "Assassin" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Zombie Assassin".

22. Stronghold Taskmaster

• Note - This card was creature type "Minion" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Giant Minion".

23. Torment

• Note - Also see Aura, Rule G1.30.
• Note - This card was of type "Enchant Creature" until Oracle 2005/08/01.

24. Tortured Existence

• You cannot return the same card you are discarding. This is because you pick the target before paying the costs. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]

25. Wall of Souls

• Redirected damage is still combat damage, so it will trigger on combat damage that is redirected to it. [D'Angelo 1999/06/17]
• Note - Also see Defender, Rule 502.41.
• Note - Also see Walls, Rule G23.1.

26. Cloud Spirit

• If it loses Flying, it will be unable to block any creatures. [D'Angelo 1998/10/06]
• Note - The Portal version had no creature type.

27. Contempt

• If the creature dies before the end of combat, neither will return to your hand, because Contempt will be put into the graveyard when the creature dies. [Barclay 1998/02/27]
• If Contempt is moved to another creature after the creature attacks, Contempt will still return to your hand at end of combat whether or not the creature dies. [D'Angelo 1998/03/23]
• Note - Also see Aura, Rule G1.30.
• Note - This card was of type "Enchant Creature" until Oracle 2005/08/01.

28. Dream Halls

• The effect applies to all players, not just the controller of this card. [D'Angelo 2006/05/23]
• Only pays the mana cost (the mana in the upper right hand corner of the card). It will not pay additional costs from the card text (such as Buyback) or from other effects (such as Gloom or Chill). It does not prevent you from paying those additional costs if you want or need to. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 30]
• Discarding a Guerrilla Tactics to pay for a red spell through your opponent's Dream Halls will not trigger the Guerrilla Tactics second ability, because you are discarding as a cost, not an effect. [D'Angelo 1998/05/21]
• You cannot target the discarded card with the spell you are casting. [D'Angelo 1998/05/28]
• Vintage tournaments (see Rule 801) restricted this card from 1999/10/01 until 2008/09/20.
• Legacy tournaments (see Rule 802) have banned this card since 1999/10/01.
• Extended tournaments (See Rule 803) have banned this card since 1999/10/01.
• Standard (Type 2) tournaments (see Rule 804) have banned this card since 1999/04/01.

29. Dream Prowler

30. Evacuation

31. Gliding Licid

• Note - Also see Aura, Rule G1.30.
• Note - Also see Licids, Rule 702.

32. Hammerhead Shark

33. Hesitation

• Playing a land is not a "spell", so playing a land will not trigger this card. [D'Angelo 1998/12/02]

34. Intruder Alarm

• If multiple creatures come into play at one time, this ability triggers once for each creature. This doesn't matter much, but it can in some cases. [bethmo 1998/03/05]
• Note - Also see Comes Into Play Abilities, Rule 410.10a.

35. Leap

36. Mana Leak

• Note - This card was of type Interrupt. It is now an Instant. [Oracle 1999/05/01]

37. Mask of the Mimic

• You target a card in play which is a "Creature" or "Artifact Creature" card, even if that card is not currently a creature due to some effect. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01] Older cards of type Summon can also be targeted.
• You can choose the sacrificed creature as the target, but if you do so the effect will fizzle on resolution and you will not get to look for a creature. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 31]
• You look for a card of the same name, the current type of the card does not matter. [WotC Rules Team 1998/03/18]
• If a copy card, such as Clone, is targeted by this effect, you get to look for another copy of the card it is copying (not the Clone card). This is because a copy card actually takes on the name and initial characteristics of what it copies. [WotC Rules Team 1999/03/18]
• You do not have to find a card if you do not want to. See Rule G19.4. [D'Angelo 2001/07/14]

38. Mind Games

• Note - Also see Buyback, Rule 502.16.

39. Ransack

40. Rebound

• You must pick a new legal target for the spell. [WotC Rules Team 1998/03/01] So if a spell targets "an opponent", you cannot make it target the caster.
• You cannot use this on a spell unless the target spell uses the word "target" in its text. If the word "target" is not there, then the spell does not target a player at all. It just affects a player without targeting them. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]
• Note - This card was of type Interrupt. It is now of type Instant. [Oracle 1999/05/01]

41. Reins of Power

• It is perfectly legal for either or both players to have zero creatures. They give control of all their zero creatures as instructed. [Barclay 1998/02/27]
• If any of the creatures phase out, the control effect ends for those creatures, and the creatures will phase back during your next untap but under their original controller's control. [D'Angelo 1998/06/01]
• Note - Also see Haste, Rule 502.5.

42. Sift

43. Silver Wyvern

• You must pick a legal target when redirecting the spell or ability. [WotC Rules Team 1998/03/01]

44. Spindrift Drake

45. Thalakos Deceiver

• Note - Also see Shadow, Rule 502.8.
• Note - This card was creature type "Wizard" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Thalakos Wizard".

46. Tidal Surge

47. Tidal Warrior

• Note - This card was creature type "Merfolk" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Merfolk Warrior".

48. Volrath's Shapeshifter

• This card is no longer a copy card (see Rule 503). It now simply sets its own characteristics based on a characteristic setting ability (which is a special kind of continuous effect). [D'Angelo 2003/09/08]
• If the top card in your graveyard isn't a creature card (meaning a "Creature" or "Artifact Creature"), then it's just a 0/1 blue creature. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01] Older cards of type Summon are also Creature cards.
• If the top card in your graveyard is a creature card, this card uses the listed characteristics, including color and artifact nature. But, this card keeps the granted ability in addition to those from the card being copied. [Barclay 1998/02/27]
• If the top card in the graveyard has any asterisks (*) in the power/toughness, then those values are considered to be zero unless the card also has a characteristic setting ability that sets the value for these asterisks, in which case the Shapeshifter also gets that ability and sets the values. For example, a Nightmare or Keldon Warlord will have their power/toughness set as appropriate. [DeLaney 1998/07/17] But a Clone, Vesuvan Doppelganger, or Shapeshifter results in a 0 value for the *. [D'Angelo 1999/01/26]
• If the top card in the graveyard has any other undefined characteristics, then those characteristics are not acquired and the shapeshifter uses the characteristic from its own card. [Barclay 1998/02/27]
• If the top card in your graveyard is a creature at the time this card comes into play, it comes into play with the appropriate characteristics of that card and will trigger any of its own (or others) comes into play abilities as appropriate. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01] It will not apply any "as comes into play" text on the creature card, however. [D'Angelo 2001/08/31]
• When it changes forms, you do not play any "comes into play" abilities of the cards it copies. [D'Angelo 1998/06/05]
• A copy (such as a Clone) of a Volrath's Shapeshifter will have the shapeshifting ability. [D'Angelo 2003/07/01]
• Note - Also see Copying Objects, Rule 503.

49. Walking Dream

50. Wall of Tears

• Only creatures which live through the combat are returned to their owner's hand. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 31]
• Note - Also see Defender, Rule 502.41.
• Note - Also see Walls, Rule G23.1.

51. Awakening

• This includes all creatures and lands controlled by all players. [D'Angelo 2009/02/07]
• It is possible to tap your lands for mana before this effect untaps them, and get a bunch of mana for use during your upkeep. [Barclay 1998/02/27]

52. Burgeoning

• Playing a land will trigger it, but putting a land into play as part of an effect will not. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 30]

53. Carnassid

• Note - Also see Trample, Rule 502.9.

54. Constant Mists

• Note - Also see Buyback, Rule 502.16.

55. Crossbow Ambush

• Note - Also see Reach, Rule 502.70.

56. Elven Rite

57. Endangered Armodon

• Note - Also see state-based triggered abilities, Rule 410.11.

58. Hermit Druid

• You can put the cards from your library into your graveyard in any order. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 31]
• Legacy tournaments (see Rule 801) have banned this card since 2004/09/20.
• Extended tournaments (see Rule 803) have banned this card since 2004/01/01.
• Note - This card was creature type "Druid" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Human Druid".

59. Lowland Basilisk

• If it damages a creature outside of combat, its effect will destroy the creature at the end of the next combat. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 31]
• If a creature leaves play (including phasing out) before the end of combat, then the Lowland Basilisk effect on it will end. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 31]

60. Mulch

61. Overgrowth

• This is a triggered mana ability. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]
• Note - Also see Aura, Rule G1.30.
• Note - This card was of type "Enchant Land" until Ninth Edition and Oracle 2005/08/01.

62. Primal Rage

• Note - Also see Trample, Rule 502.9.

63. Provoke

• You can target an untapped creature. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 31]

64. Skyshroud Archer

• Note - This card was creature type "Elf" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Elf Archer".

65. Skyshroud Troopers

• Note - This card was creature type "Elf" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Elf Druid Warrior".

66. Spike Breeder

• It dies as a state based effect just after you remove the last counter when announcing its ability to remove a counter and right before any other spells or abilities can be used. There is no way to sacrifice it or do anything else with it before it dies. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]
• Note - Also see Token Creatures, Rule 216.

67. Spike Colony

• It dies as a state based effect just after you remove the last counter when announcing its ability to remove a counter and right before any other spells or abilities can be used. There is no way to sacrifice it or do anything else with it before it dies. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]

68. Spike Feeder

• It dies as a state based effect just after you remove the last counter when announcing its ability to remove a counter and right before any other spells or abilities can be used. There is no way to sacrifice it or do anything else with it before it dies. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]

69. Spike Soldier

• It dies as a state based effect just after you remove the last counter when announcing its ability to remove a counter and right before any other spells or abilities can be used. There is no way to sacrifice it or do anything else with it before it dies. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]
• Note - This card was creature type "Spike" until Oracle 2008/01/01, when it became "Spike Soldier".

70. Spike Worker

• It dies as a state based effect just after you remove the last counter when announcing its ability to remove a counter and right before any other spells or abilities can be used. There is no way to sacrifice it or do anything else with it before it dies. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]

71. Spined Wurm

• Note - The Portal version had no creature type.

72. Tempting Licid

• Note - Also see Aura, Rule G1.30.
• Note - Also see Licids, Rule 702.

73. Verdant Touch

• The land is still a land and retains all its abilities, plus any other characteristics. [Barclay 1998/02/27]
• Note - Also see Buyback, Rule 502.16.

74. Volrath's Gardens

75. Wall of Blossoms

• Note - Also see Comes Into Play Abilities, Rule 410.10a.
• Note - Also see Defender, Rule 502.41.
• Note - Also see Walls, Rule G23.1.
• Note - This card was creature type "Wall" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Plant Wall".

76. Amok

77. Convulsing Licid

• Note - Also see Aura, Rule G1.30.
• Note - Also see Licids, Rule 702.

78. Craven Giant

• Note - The Portal version had no creature type.

79. Duct Crawler

80. Fanning the Flames

• Note - Also see Buyback, Rule 502.16.
• Note - Also see X Costs, Rule G24.1.

81. Flame Wave

82. Fling

83. Flowstone Blade

• Note - Also see Aura, Rule G1.30.
• Note - This card was of type "Enchant Creature" until Oracle 2005/08/01.

84. Flowstone Hellion

• It will be destroyed as soon as one of its abilities resolves that puts its toughness at zero (or less than the current amount of damage on it). This destruction is a state-based effect, so there is no way to use its ability any more to increase its power and there is no way to use Fling before it is put into the graveyard. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]
• Note - Also see Haste, Rule 502.5.
• Note - This card was creature type "Beast" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Hellion Beast".

85. Flowstone Mauler

• Note - Also see Trample, Rule 502.9.

86. Flowstone Shambler

87. Furnace Spirit

• Note - Also see Haste, Rule 502.5.

88. Heat of Battle

89. Invasion Plans

• When this card is in play, creatures that require paying a cost to block cannot block. This is because blocking costs must be paid when the block is declared, but this card causes the attacking player to declare blockers and that player cannot pay the costs. [WotC Rules Team 1998/07/01]

90. Mob Justice

• Creatures are counted on resolution. [Barclay 1998/02/27]

91. Mogg Bombers

• The Mogg Bombers do trigger on any creatures that come into play at the same time they do. See Rule 410.10a. [D'Angelo 1999/10/18]
• The "if you do" only happens if you successfully sacrifice this card. So it still has to be in play when the trigger resolves in order to deal damage. [D'Angelo 2001/08/31]
• If multiple creatures comes into play as the result of a single spell or ability, such as Snake Basket, then it will trigger multiple times, but due to the errata, only the first resolution will do 3 damage. The other triggers will do nothing. [D'Angelo 1999/03/19]
• Note - Also see Comes Into Play Abilities, Rule 410.10a.

92. Mogg Flunkies

• A group of more than one Mogg Flunkies can attack together. [Barclay 1998/02/27]

93. Mogg Infestation

• Note - Also see Token Creatures, Rule 216.

94. Mogg Maniac

• If it blocks a trample creature, it only gets dealt damage equal to what is assigned to it. This means it will likely only get to deal 1 damage to the opponent. [D'Angelo 1998/10/08] See Rule 502.9.

95. Ruination

96. Seething Anger

• Note - Also see Buyback, Rule 502.16.

97. Shard Phoenix

98. Shock

99. Spitting Hydra

• It will die as soon as you remove enough counters for its toughness to be less than or equal to the damage on it. So if a Spitting Hydra has 2 damage on it, you can only spend it down to two +1/+1 counters before it will die. You cannot spend the remaining counters before it dies. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 31]

100. Wall of Razors

• Note - Also see Defender, Rule 502.41.
• Note - Also see First Strike, Rule 502.2.
• Note - Also see Walls, Rule G23.1.

101. Bandage

102. Calming Licid

• Note - Also see Aura, Rule G1.30.
• Note - Also see Licids, Rule 702.

103. Change of Heart

• Will not remove an already attacking creature from the combat. It must be used before attackers are declared or it won't have any noticeable effect on the game. [Barclay 1998/03/06]
• Note - Also see Buyback, Rule 502.16.

104. Contemplation

• You do not gain life from the casting of Contemplation itself. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 30]

105. Conviction

• Note - Also see Aura, Rule G1.30.
• Note - This card was of type "Enchant Creature" until Oracle 2005/08/01.

106. Hidden Retreat

• Can be used on instant or sorcery spells on the stack, but not on abilities. [bethmo 1999/06/13]
• Can be used on damage to a creature or player. [D'Angelo 1998/11/10]

107. Honor Guard

• Note - This card was of creature type "Soldier" and not "Human Soldier" until Ninth Edition and Oracle 2005/08/01.

108. Lancers en-Kor

• When you redirect damage it is still combat damage. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]
• You can use this ability as much as you want prior to damage being dealt. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]
• It is possible to redirect more damage to a creature than that creature's toughness. [D'Angelo 1998/03/23]
• It can redirect damage to itself. [D'Angelo 1998/03/17]
• The ability of this card does not do anything to stop Trample damage from being assigned to the defending player (see Rule 502.9). [D'Angelo 1998/10/08]
• Note - Also see Trample, Rule 502.9.
• Note - This card was creature type "Soldier" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Kor Soldier".

109. Nomads en-Kor

• See Lancers en-Kor for rulings.
• Note - This card was creature type "Soldier" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Kor Nomad Soldier".

110. Pursuit of Knowledge

• You can skip your normal draw during your draw step or any number of draws from spells or abilities. For example, Sylvan Library or Brainstorm. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 31]

111. Rolling Stones

• Note - Also see Defender, Rule 502.41.

112. Sacred Ground

• A land creature dying due to fatal damage is not being destroyed by a spell or ability. It is being destroyed by a game rule, so this card will not trigger. [WotC Rules Team 1998/03/31]
• A legendary land being put into the graveyard as a duplicate legend will not be brought back since it is being buried by a game rule. [WotC Rules Team 1998/03/31]

113. Samite Blessing

• Note - Also see Aura, Rule G1.30.
• Note - This card was of type "Enchant Creature" until Oracle 2005/08/01.

114. Scapegoat

• You can choose the sacrificed creature as the target, but if you do so the effect will fizzle on resolution (with respect to that target) and you will not get to return the creature to its owner's hand. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 31]

115. Shaman en-Kor

• See Lancers en-Kor for rulings.
• Note - This card was creature type "Cleric" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Kor Shaman Cleric".

116. Skyshroud Falcon

• No it is not a Falcon creature type. It is a Bird. [D'Angelo 1998/03/09]
• Note - Also see Vigilance, Rule 502.14.

117. Smite

118. Soltari Champion

• Note - Also see Shadow, Rule 502.8.
• Note - This card was creature type "Soldier" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Soltari Soldier".

119. Spirit en-Kor

• See Lancers en-Kor for rulings.
• Note - This card was creature type "Spirit" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Kor Spirit".

120. Temper

• You can make X be larger than the amount of damage, but you only get one counter for each actual point of damage prevented. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 31]
• The +1/+1 counters do show up at the same time as any unprevented damage, which means they are there before you check for lethal damage. [D'Angelo 1999/02/11]
• Note - Also see X Costs, Rule G24.1.

121. Venerable Monk

• Note - Also see Comes Into Play Abilities, Rule 410.10a.
• Note - The Portal version had no creature type.
• Note - This card was of creature type "Cleric" and not "Human Monk Cleric" until Ninth Edition and Oracle 2005/08/01.

122. Wall of Essence

• Does trigger the life gain when combat damage is redirected to it. Redirected combat damage is still combat damage. [D'Angelo 1998/10/19]
• Note - Also see Defender, Rule 502.41.
• Note - Also see Walls, Rule G23.1.

123. Warrior Angel

• Note - Also see Lifelink, Rule 502.68.
• Note - This card was creature type "Angel" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Angel Warrior".

124. Warrior en-Kor

• See Lancers en-Kor for rulings.
• Note - This card was creature type "Knight" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Kor Warrior Knight".

125. Youthful Knight

• Note - Also see First Strike, Rule 502.2.
• Note - This card was of creature type "Knight" and not "Human Knight" until Tenth Edition and Oracle 2007/07/13.

126. Bullwhip

• If the creature can attack, it must. If it cannot, then nothing happens. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 30]
• Note - Also see Must Attack or Block, Rule 500.

127. Ensnaring Bridge

• It only checks the cards in your hand when declaring attackers. Once they are declared, changes to your hand size or to the power of the creatures will not remove creatures from the attack. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 30]
• All creatures in play (including yours) are subject to the restriction based on the number of cards in your hand. [D'Angelo 1998/07/22]

128. Heartstone

• The cost reduction can be applied to extra costs such as Gloom. [D'Angelo 1998/02/27]
• Will not add a 1 generic mana cost to abilities with no generic mana in their activation cost. [Barclay 1998/02/27]
• It will never reduce any colored mana portion of an activation cost. [D'Angelo 1998/11/06]

129. Horn of Greed

• Playing a land will trigger it, but putting a land into play as part of an effect will not. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 30]

130. Hornet Cannon

• Note - Also see Haste, Rule 502.5.
• Note - Also see Token Creatures, Rule 216.
• Note - The token was creature type (and name) "Hornet" until Oracle 2007/10/01, when it became "Insect" (but kept the "Hornet" name).

131. Jinxed Ring

132. Mox Diamond

• Vintage tournaments (see Rule 801) restricted this card from 1999/10/01 until 2008/09/20.
• Legacy tournaments (see Rule 802) banned this card from 1999/10/01 until 2004/09/20.
• Note - Also see Comes Into Play Abilities, Rule 410.10a.

133. Portcullis

• If the creature that triggered Portcullis is no longer in play when the ability resolves, then it fails to do anything. [Duelist Magazine #25, Page 31]
• Creatures which are phasing in will not trigger this card's ability. [D'Angelo 1998/04/13]
• You check the count of the number of creatures in play again during resolution. The creature will not be removed if the count is 2 or less. [D'Angelo 2003/01/19]
• If Portcullis phases out, and something prevents one of the creatures from coming into play, then the creature remains out of play and can try to enter play again the next time Portcullis leaves play. [bethmo 1998/05/02]
• The "when Portcullis leaves play" is not part of setting the creature aside, so it does not happen if Portcullis' abilities are removed at the time it leaves play. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01]
• If multiple creatures come into play at the same time, Portcullis triggers for each creature. [bethmo 1999/05/26]
• If multiple creatures come into play at the same time, Portcullis sees the creature count as being the new total after all the creatures are in play. Don't handle this like creatures coming into play one at a time. [bethmo 1999/05/26]
• If multiple creatures come into play at once, due to Living Death for example, then Portcullis will trigger on all of those creatures. The player controlling Portcullis decides the order to resolve the Portcullis triggers and therefore chooses which two creatures stay in play (assuming that none were already in play... if some were already in play he might not really get a choice). All the others get yanked by the Portcullis. [D'Angelo 1998/06/11]
• If any creature comes into play which has a "comes into play" ability (see Rule 410.10a), that ability is still applied even if Portcullis removes that creature from play before you resolve the ability. [D'Angelo 1998/06/11]
• If any creature comes into play which has a "comes into play" ability (see Rule 410.10a), you need to use the timing rules for triggered abilities (see Rule 404) to determine the order to put the triggers on the stack. The rule is that first the current player does all of their triggers in any order they choose, then the other player does all of theirs in any order they choose. [D'Angelo 1999/06/01] The result is that if the current player controls Portcullis, they can do their creatures' "comes into play" abilities before or after Portcullis removes creatures from play, while the other player always resolves their creatures' "comes into play" abilities before Portcullis. If the other player controls Portcullis, the current player always does their creatures' "comes into play" abilities after Portcullis, then the other player can do their creatures' "comes into play" abilities before or after the Portcullis removes creatures from play.
• Note - Also see Comes Into Play Abilities, Rule 410.10a.

134. Shifting Wall

• Note - Also see Defender, Rule 502.41.
• Note - Also see Walls, Rule G23.1.
• Note - Also see X Costs, Rule G24.1.

135. Sword of the Chosen

• Note - Also see Legendary, Rule G12.9.

136. Volrath's Laboratory

• You do have to choose an existing creature type. (Rule 212.1e). [D'Angelo 2003/05/16]
• The token has the same name as the creature type. [bethmo 1998/02/27]
• The token does not have any built-in abilities. For example, choosing creature type Bird does not give the token Flying. [D'Angelo 1998/06/16]
• Note - Also see Creature Type, Rule 205.3 and Rule 212.3.
• Note - Also see Token Creatures, Rule 216.

137. Volrath's Stronghold

• Note - Also see Legendary, Rule G12.9.

138. Acidic Sliver

139. Crystalline Sliver

• This card makes slivers in play untargetable. What this means is that no spell or ability with the word "target" in its text can be announced with a Sliver in play as the target. If the spell or ability does not use the word "target", then Crystalline Sliver does not protect the slivers from it. It is very important to remember that cards can be affected without targeting them! [D'Angelo 1998/06/11] For example, none of the Slivers use the word "target" when granting Sliver abilities.
• The ability only applies while this card is in play. [D'Angelo 1999/06/02]
• Note - Also see Shroud, Rule 502.36.

140. Hibernation Sliver

141. Sliver Queen

• The token creatures created by this card are Slivers. [D'Angelo 1998/03/05]
• Note - Also see Legendary, Rule G12.9.
• Note - Also see Token Creatures, Rule 216.
• Note - This card was of creature type "Legend" until Oracle 2004/10/01.

142. Spined Sliver

• If two Spined Slivers are in play then each blocked sliver gets +2/+2 for each creature blocking it. [D'Angelo 1998/10/27]

143. Victual Sliver