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Tide Shaper
Card Information
Type: Creature — Merfolk Wizard
Mana Cost:
CMC: 1
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 72
Oracle Text
Kicker {1} (You may pay an additional {1} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, target land becomes an Island for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield. This creature gets +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls an Island.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 8, 2024
If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
Source: wotc - June 18, 2021
A land that becomes an Island gains "{T}: Add {U}" and loses all other abilities. It loses any other land types, but it doesn't lose any types or supertypes, such as creature, legendary, or snow.
Source: wotc - June 18, 2021
If Tide Shaper leaves the battlefield before its triggered ability resolves, the target land will not become an Island.
Source: wotc - June 18, 2021
Tide Shaper will get +1/+1 as long as an opponent controls any land with the Island land type, not just ones named Island.
Source: wotc
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