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Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
Card Information
Type (Front): Legendary Artifact
Type (Back): Legendary Land
Mana Cost (Front): 3
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 256
Oracle Text
Matzalantli, the Great Door
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {4}, {T}: Transform Matzalantli. Activate only if there are four or more permanent types among cards in your graveyard. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker are permanent types.)
The Core
(Transforms from Matzalantli.) Fathomless descent — {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
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Card Rulings
- November 10, 2023
Cards with the ability word "fathomless descent" have abilities that care how many permanent cards are in your graveyard.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
The Core's activated ability is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
Transforming Matzalantli doesn't cause it to leave the battlefield. It also doesn't cause it to become untapped.
Source: wotc - November 10, 2023
Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.
Source: wotc
Price History
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