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Resplendent Griffin

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Multicolor. Creature — Griffin

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Resplendent Griffin

Rivals of Ixalan #170 · Illustrated by Sam Rowan

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Oracle text

Flying

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)

Whenever this creature attacks, if you have the city's blessing, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

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Card details

First printed
2018
Printings
1
Mana value
3
EDHREC rank
#28,685 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Keywords
Flying, Ascend
Artist
Sam Rowan

What the codes mean

The small print at the bottom of the Rivals of Ixalan card (#170).

170 · RIX · U · EN

  • 170Collector number: this card's place in the set list. Main-set cards print it over the set's card count.
  • RIXSet code for Rivals of Ixalan
  • UUncommon
  • ENPrinted in English

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Rulings (7)

  1. 2018-01-19

    Some cards have triggered abilities with an intervening “if” clause that checks whether you have the city’s blessing. These are worded “[Trigger condition], if you have the city’s blessing, [effect].” You must already have the city’s blessing in order for these abilities to trigger; otherwise they do nothing. In other words, there’s no way to have the ability trigger if you don’t have the city’s blessing, even if you intend to get it in response to the triggered ability.

  2. 2018-01-19

    If you cast a spell with ascend, you don’t get the city’s blessing until it resolves. Players may respond to that spell by trying to change whether you get the city’s blessing.

  3. 2018-01-19

    Once you have the city’s blessing, you have it for the rest of the game, even if you lose control of some or all of your permanents. The city’s blessing isn’t a permanent itself and can’t be removed by any effect.

  4. 2018-01-19

    If your tenth permanent enters the battlefield and then a permanent leaves the battlefield immediately afterwards (most likely due to the “Legend Rule” or due to being a creature with 0 toughness), you get the city’s blessing before it leaves the battlefield.

  5. 2018-01-19

    A permanent is any object on the battlefield, including tokens and lands. Spells and emblems aren’t permanents.

  6. 2018-01-19

    Ascend on a permanent isn’t a triggered ability and doesn’t use the stack. Players can respond to a spell that will give you your tenth permanent, but they can’t respond to getting the city’s blessing once you control that tenth permanent. This means that if your tenth permanent is a land you play, players can’t respond before you get the city’s blessing.

  7. 2018-01-19

    If you control ten permanents but don’t control a permanent or resolving spell with ascend, you don’t get the city’s blessing. For example, if you control ten permanents, lose control of one, then cast Golden Demise, you won’t have the city’s blessing and the spell will affect creatures you control.

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