Predatory Advantage
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Alara RebornARB · #58
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.29 € · ★ 0.67 € · 0.32 $ · ★ 1.12 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Colour
- Red Green
Card text
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if that player didn't cast a creature spell this turn, create a 2/2 green Lizard creature token.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Raymond Swanland
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2009-04-30
Flavour text
Those who forget their past are doomed to be eaten by it.
Rulings
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Predatory Advantage’s ability triggers twice at the end of the opposing team’s turn: once for each player. If neither of those players cast a creature spell that turn, you’ll get two Lizards. If one of those players cast a creature spell but the other didn’t, you’ll get one Lizard.
Predatory Advantage checks whether a player cast a creature spell, not whether a creature entered the battlefield under that player’s control. If that player cast a creature spell but you countered it, for example, you won’t get a Lizard token that turn.
Predatory Advantage’s ability has an “intervening ‘if’ clause.” That means (1) the ability won’t trigger at all unless the opponent whose turn it is didn’t cast a creature spell that turn, and (2) the ability will do nothing unless the opponent whose turn it is still hasn’t cast a creature spell by the time it resolves.