Name stickers make no sense
Asked by purpleballspurple 1 year ago
I am building a deck that uses name stickers but can't figure out what sticker cards work or not. my question is if I play a card that says I can put a sticker on a permanent I control, such as Glitterflitter, can I choose a name sticker? Im confused because there are cards like Baaallerina that specify name stickers.
Thank you
GondorsAid says... #2
If I could ask a followup. I noticed there are many text stickers like "Elephant, Eldrazi, Squirrel, Elf, Beast, Elemental, etc". When a card says "you may put a sticker on target creature you own", it doesn't give a specific sticker type or a location. Can I put the "Squirrel" sticker on the creature type?
October 31, 2025 11:21 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
No, you won't be able to do that. A sticker can only be applied to a card according to what kind of sticker it is. As of right now, the 4 types of sticker are Name, Art, Ability and P/T. In your example, the "Squirrel" Name sticker can only be applied to a card's name.
FYI: In the case of an old topic like this, it would have been better to post a new question topic rather than add a follow-up here. With the way this website is set up, adding a comment to a thread doesn't make it float up to the top of the list. When an old thread gets a new comment, the only people who will be able to see it easily are people who have already commented in it and haven't unsubscribed from new-comment notifications for it.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
Because Glitterflitter doesn't specify a particular kind of sticker (name, art, P/T etc.), that means you get to choose.
This is the same principle as any other effect that gives you an instruction but is silent on certain details. For example, an effect that specifically says you can put a creature from your hand onto the battlefield limits you to creature cards, but if it instead says you can put down a "permanent" that means you can choose any kind of permanent card you have available (creature, enchantment, land, whatever).
November 16, 2023 11:16 a.m.