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Varchild's War-Riders
Card Information
Type: Creature — Human Warrior
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: Yes
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Set: Alliances (ALL)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 83
Oracle Text
Cumulative upkeep—Have an opponent create a 1/1 red Survivor creature token. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Trample; rampage 1 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)
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Card Rulings
- October 1, 2008
Paying cumulative upkeep is always optional. If it's not paid, the permanent with cumulative upkeep is sacrificed. Partial payments of the total cumulative upkeep cost can't be made. For example, if a permanent with "cumulative upkeep {1}" has three age counters on it when its cumulative upkeep ability triggers, it gets another age counter and then its controller chooses to either pay {4} or sacrifice the permanent.
Source: wotc - September 16, 2007
The rampage bonus is calculated only once per combat, when the triggered ability resolves. Adding or removing blockers later in combat won't change the bonus.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
In a multiplayer game, you can put the Survivor tokens onto the battlefield under the control of different players.
Source: wotc
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