Thought Gorger
Card Information
Type: Creature — Horror
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Rise of the Eldrazi (ROE)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 129
Oracle Text
Trample When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each card in your hand. If you do, discard your hand. When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.
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Card Rulings
- June 15, 2010
As Thought Gorger's first ability resolves, putting a +1/+1 counter on it for each card in your hand is mandatory. The effect says "if you do" because performing that action might be impossible. If Thought Gorger has left the battlefield by the time the ability resolves, you can't put any +1/+1 counters on it, so you won't discard your hand.
Source: wotc - June 15, 2010
Once an ability starts to resolve, it's too late to respond to it. For example, you can't count a card in your hand while determining how many +1/+1 counters Thought Gorger gets and then cast it in response. If a card is counted, it'll be discarded.
Source: wotc - June 15, 2010
When Thought Gorger's second ability resolves, its last existence on the battlefield is checked to see how many +1/+1 counters it had on it. All of them are counted, not just the ones put on it by its "enters" ability.
Source: wotc
Price History
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