Opal Champion
Card Information
Type: Enchantment
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Urza's Legacy (ULG)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 16
Oracle Text
When an opponent casts a creature spell, if this permanent is an enchantment, it becomes a 3/3 Knight creature with first strike.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- August 1, 2008
A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn't matter how long the permanent has been a creature.
Source: wotc - April 1, 2008
A "creature spell" is any spell with the type Creature, even if it has other types such as Artifact or Enchantment. Older cards of type Summon are also Creature spells.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
It triggers when the spell is cast, so it becomes a creature before the spell resolves. A creature that would destroy an enchantment when it enters can't be used to destroy this card, since it will no longer be an enchantment when the creature enters.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
It changes into a creature even if the spell is countered.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
When it turns into a creature, it is no longer an enchantment.
Source: wotc
Price History
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