When in play allows you to pay zero mana when casting a zombie creature spell. This effect does not apply to spells and abilities that put zombie tokens into the battlefield or otherwise relate to zombies. For example, you still have to pay the mana cost when playing from your hand. Similarly, you’d have to […]
Category: Type & Subtypes
Bonds of Faith will give +2/+2 to a Human Werewolf
has a variable effect depending on the creature type of the creature that it is enchanting. When attached to a creature with the subtype of human, it will give this creature +2/+2. When attached to a non-human creature, that creature will be unable to attack or block. Some creature cards in Innistrad have the creature […]
When types and subtypes are removed and when they are not.
There are a lot of effects in Magic that take away or add types and subtypes. The important tip to remember is that when an effect changes the type of subtype of an object, that object loses all other types and subtypes unless the effect specifically states that it keeps previous types.* For example, will […]
War Reports counts artifact creatures twice
As is often mentioned, artifact creature is not a creature type. An artifact creature has two permanent types; artifact and creature. Artifact creatures do have creature subtypes, but artifact is not one of them. , a common from New Phyrexia, counts the number of creatures on the battlefield and then it counts the number of […]
When a land gains or changes subtype
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This article has been updated as of the prerelease of Magic 2014 on July 13; Please refer to the revisions below. Some cards such as the recently reprinted card change a land into a basic land type. When an effect says that a land becomes one of the basic land types (Plains, Island, […]
Objects can have multiple permanent types.
Obejects (cards, spells and permanents in play) can have multiple permanent types. When an object does have more than one type it is important pay attention to the text of spells and abilities to determine if an object is affected. For example, can target and destroy a . It does not matter that Chrome Steed […]
What Legends were and are now.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This article has been updated as of the prerelease of Magic 2014 on July 13; Please refer to the revisions below. When first introduced in the early expansion set Legends, Legend was a creature type. Creatures could gain or have it removed from them if an effect were to change a creatures type. […]
Artifact is a type, not a creature type
‘Artifact’ is a type, not a subtype. When an effect has you choose a subtype, like a creature subtype, you cannot choose artifact. This also applies to effects that depend on or apply to specific creature subtypes. Years ago, it was more common for an artifact creature to exist without a creature type. However that […]