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Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: X1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
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Set: New Capenna Commander (NCC)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 24
Oracle Text
Each of X target creatures you control connive. You may have any number of them phase out. (To have a creature connive, draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. Treat phased-out permanents and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)
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Card Rulings
- April 29, 2022
If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to connive but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still connives. If you discard a nonland card this way, you won't put a +1/+1 counter on anything. Abilities that trigger “when [that creature] connives” will trigger.
Source: wotc - April 29, 2022
Once an ability that causes a creature to connive begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Notably, opponents can't try to remove the conniving creature after you discard a nonland card but before it receives a counter.
Source: wotc - April 29, 2022
If multiple creatures are instructed to connive simultaneously, they connive one at a time in the order of their controller's choice.
Source: wotc - April 29, 2022
If no card is discarded, most likely because that player's hand is empty and an effect says they can't draw cards, the conniving creature does not receive a +1/+1 counter.
Source: wotc - April 29, 2022
You choose which creatures to phase out after all of those creatures have connived.
Source: wotc
Price History
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