Runic Armasaur ruling
Asked by gregroth12 5 years ago
I was watching my two friends have a nice battle of dino vs vampire and for Runic Armasaur his effect "Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land that isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card." does that trigger everytime a vampire puts a +1/+1 counter on another vampire and if so would they only draw a card for the first activation of the counters or would it be everytime? also does that effect trigger when something transforms?
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #2
It depends on what kind of ability is adding the +1/+1 counters. There are three general types of abilities in Magic: activated, triggered, and static.
- Activated abilities are always written in the form of "[cost] : [effect]". This is the only kind of ability that Runic Armasaur can trigger from
- Triggered abilities are always written to start with one of the words "when", "whenever", or "at"
- Anything else is some kind of static ability
Also, a "mana ability" is an ability that produces mana, doesn't have targets, and isn't a loyalty ability of a planeswalker.
August 14, 2018 1:38 p.m.
gregroth12 says... #3
you guys are a blessing my friend was drawing cards anytime someone got buffed from a triggered ability not an activated one
FSims81 says... #1
https://www.mtgassist.com/cards/Magic-2019-Core-Set/Runic-Armasaur/rulings/
August 14, 2018 12:45 p.m.