Stack of Paperwork
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2021CMB2 · #13
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.41 € · 0.22 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- White
Card text
When Stack of Paperwork enters, draw a card. Combat damage uses the stack. (Combat damage assignment can be responded to before damage is dealt. You know, like it used to.)
Format legality
Legality is not available in the catalogue.
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Hanspeter Ziegler
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-08-20
Rulings
If Stack of Paperwork leaves the battlefield once a combat damage object is on the stack, combat damage still uses the stack for this combat damage step.
If a creature leaves the battlefield, combat damage it deals is dealt by that creature as it last existed on the battlefield. Combat damage that would be dealt to it isn’t dealt.
If a creature that would be dealt combat damage stops being a creature, combat damage that would be dealt to it isn’t dealt. If a creature that would deal combat damage stops being a creature, it deals combat damage.
No other aspects of the previous combat damage rules are applied while Stack of Paperwork is on the battlefield. Blocking creatures are still ordered and combat damage must be assigned going through that order, requiring lethal damage to be assigned in that order.
Normally, each player assigns a creature’s combat damage and it’s immediately dealt. While Stack of Paperwork is on the battlefield, this assignment is put onto the stack as a single game object controlled by no player, and all damage is dealt as assigned as that object resolves.
