Primal Surge
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Posted on July 17, 2013, 4:55 p.m. by rache
A comment on a post has me wanting to run Primal Surge in a deck but I'm concerned that the new land play rule will neuter the card. Will you still be able to put lands into play with the Primal Surge or will revealing a land with no land plays left end the surge chain?
Primal Surge doesn't interact with the new land play rules, because it uses the term put a permanent onto the battlefield rather than play that permanent. You can put as many lands as you reveal onto the battlefield with primal surge, and still use your land play for the turn afterwards, assuming you didn't use it beforehand.
July 17, 2013 5:10 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #4
There are two ways to "play" a land. You can play a land card as a special action during your turn and at sorcery speed, or you can put a land card onto the battlefield from another zone. Primal Surge does the latter, and is therefore unaffected by the M14 rules update. This update will only affect effects that modify how many special action land drops you get per turn.
Also, questions like this are best asked in the Q&A.
July 17, 2013 5:11 p.m.
I don't believe so. Primal Surge gather page has no update to it. It is a may ability, but I would think you could still put as many lands into play as found, since the gather page describes a permanent as "an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card."
In short this may be the exception to the new rule.
July 17, 2013 5:16 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #6
@gufymike: It isn't an exception. The new rule just doesn't apply to lands that are put onto the battlefield as an effect and not as a special action.
July 17, 2013 5:25 p.m.
The new land ruling applies to cards like Oracle of Mul Daya
July 17, 2013 5:27 p.m.
Thanks, sorry I posted this in the wrong forum Epochalyptik I'll double check which forum I'm in next time beforehand lol
MindAblaze says... #2
Technically Primal Surge doesn't play lands, it puts them onto the battlefield. You should be ok. The new ruling mostly effects cards that say "you may plan an additional land..."
July 17, 2013 5:08 p.m.