Timely Reinforcements
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Magic 2012M12 · #40
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.22 € · ★ 2.19 € · 0.24 $ · ★ 1.04 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- White
Card text
If you have less life than an opponent, you gain 6 life. If you control fewer creatures than an opponent, create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
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
- Tomasz Jedruszek
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2011-07-15
Flavour text
The gods are not always kind, but they do have a soft spot for plucky underdogs.
Rulings
In a Two-Headed Giant game, you’ll compare your team’s life total with the opposing team’s life total. You’ll then compare the number of creatures you control (ignoring creatures your teammate controls) to the number of creatures each opponent controls separately.
In a multiplayer game, you consider each opponent. If you have less life than one of your opponents and fewer creatures than one of your opponents (although this may be a different opponent), you’ll get both bonuses.
You compare life totals with each of your opponents when Timely Reinforcements resolves. At that time, if you have less life than an opponent, you’ll gain 6 life. Similarly, you compare the number of creatures you control with the number of creatures each opponent controls when Timely Reinforcements resolves.
