Printings
Obstinate Baloth
Card Information
Type: Creature — Beast
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Foundations Jumpstart (J25)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 692
Oracle Text
When this creature enters, you gain 4 life. If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- October 14, 2022
If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Obstinate Baloth, and both Obstinate Baloth's ability and another ability (such as that of an opponent's Leyline of the Void) instruct you to put Obstinate Baloth somewhere else instead of putting it into your graveyard, you choose which one to apply.
Source: wotc - October 14, 2022
If you discard Obstinate Baloth and put it onto the battlefield, you've still discarded it. Abilities that trigger when you discard a card will still trigger.
Source: wotc - November 17, 2017
If you discard Obstinate Baloth and put it onto the battlefield, you've still discarded it. Abilities that trigger when you discard a card (such as that of Raiders' Wake) will still trigger.
Source: wotc - November 17, 2017
If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Obstinate Baloth, and both Obstinate Baloth's ability and another ability (such as that of an opponent's Leyline of the Void) instruct you to put Obstinate Baloth somewhere else instead of putting it into your graveyard, you choose which one to apply.
Source: wotc
Price History
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