Spell mastery and fuze/split cards

Asked by elephantdogman 8 years ago

I was chatting with a friend about cool interactions with the new Amonkhet split cards as they are identified as both an instant and sorcery spell. He pointed out that they help with delirium as one of the interactions, which I do agree with. He then went on to say they are also single handed spell mastery enablers siting rule 708.6c.

"708.6c If anything performs a comparison involving multiple characteristics or values of one or more split cards in any zone other than the stack or involving multiple characteristics or values of one or more fused split spells, each characteristic or value is compared separately. If each of the individual comparisons would return a yes answer, the whole comparison returns a yes answer. The individual comparisons may involve different halves of the same split card."

My whole issue with this is the wording on the spell mastery ability which specifically requires two or more cards.

"Spell mastery - If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard..."

I suspect ruling 708.6c was writing to help clarify card types for something like delirium or Tarmogoyfs type effects and that spell mastery simply requires two actual cards which can be identified as either a sorcery or instant.

I would greatly appreciate some clarification on this matter.

Neotrup says... Accepted answer #1

Spell Mastery requires two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard. A split card with both sides being instant is only one card for spell mastery. A split card that is both an instant and a sorcery is still only one card for spell mastery. Spell mastery looks at the card and asks "is this an instant or sorcery?" the answer is yes, because it is in fact both, but all that matters is it's a yes, and you still need a second card that gets the yes answer. If Spell Mastery required having both an instant and a sorcery in your graveyard, the one card would be sufficient as it could fulfill both those criteria.

April 9, 2017 7:41 a.m.