Printings
Nessian Wilds Ravager
Card Information
Type: Creature — Hydra
Mana Cost: 4
CMC: 6
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Born of the Gods (BNG)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 129
Oracle Text
Tribute 6 (As this creature enters, an opponent of your choice may put six +1/+1 counters on it.) When this creature enters, if tribute wasn't paid, you may have this creature fight another target creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- April 18, 2017
For effects that check which player put counters on the entering creature, the player chosen to pay tribute puts those counters on it, not the creature’s controller.
Source: wotc - February 1, 2014
Players can’t respond to the tribute decision before the creature enters the battlefield. That is, if the opponent doesn’t pay tribute, the triggered ability will trigger before any player has a chance to remove the creature.
Source: wotc - February 1, 2014
The triggered ability will resolve even if the creature with tribute isn’t on the battlefield at that time.
Source: wotc - February 1, 2014
If the triggered ability has a target, that target will not be known while the creature spell with tribute is on the stack.
Source: wotc - February 1, 2014
The choice of whether to pay tribute is made as the creature with tribute is entering the battlefield. At that point, it’s too late to respond to the creature spell. For example, in a multiplayer game, opponents won’t know whether tribute will be paid or which opponent will be chosen to pay tribute or not when deciding whether to counter the creature spell.
Source: wotc - February 1, 2014
If the opponent pays tribute, the creature will enter the battlefield with the specified number of +1/+1 counters on it. It won’t enter the battlefield and then have the +1/+1 counters placed on it.
Source: wotc
Price History
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