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Startling Development
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Jumpstart 2022 (J22)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 350
Oracle Text
Until end of turn, target creature becomes a blue Serpent with base power and toughness 4/4. Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- April 17, 2020
Effects that modify the affected creature’s power or toughness without setting it will apply no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for counters that change the creature’s power or toughness.
Source: wotc - April 17, 2020
Startling Development overwrites all previous effects that set the affected creatures’ color, creature types, power, and/or toughness to specific values. Other effects that set these characteristics to specific values that start to apply after Startling Development resolves will overwrite that part of the effect.
Source: wotc - April 17, 2020
The affected creature doesn’t lose any abilities when it becomes a Serpent.
Source: wotc - April 17, 2020
Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to the target creature may become lethal once its base toughness becomes 4.
Source: wotc
Price History
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