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Sudden Spoiling
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Time Spiral Remastered (TSR)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 144
Oracle Text
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- March 19, 2021
If the resolution of a triggered ability involves casting a spell, that spell can't be cast if a spell with split second is on the stack.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
Players may turn face-down creatures face up while a spell with split second is on the stack.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
Split second doesn't stop triggered abilities from triggering, such as that of Chalice of the Void. If one does, its controller puts it on the stack and chooses targets for it, if any. Those abilities will resolve as normal.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
After a spell with split second resolves (or otherwise leaves the stack), players may again cast spells and activate abilities before the next object on the stack resolves.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
Sudden Spoiling affects only creatures the target player controls at the time it resolves. Creatures they begin to control later in the turn won't change power and toughness or lose abilities.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
Casting a spell with split second won't affect spells and abilities that are already on the stack.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
Players still get priority while a card with split second is on the stack; their options are just limited to mana abilities and certain special actions.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
Sudden Spoiling overwrites any effects that set a creature's power and toughness. Any existing effects or counters that raise, lower, or switch a creature's power and/or toughness continue to apply to the creature's newly-set power and toughness.
Source: wotc
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