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This page describes abilities of cards. Abilities can influence creature combat, the [[Gem board]], cards in hand, or other aspects of the game.

*[[#Icon Abilities|'''Icon abilities''']] - Abilities denoted by an icon on a card

*[[#General abilities and effects|'''General abilities and effects''']] - General terms used in card descriptions which may or may not be capitalised, and which have a well-defined effect

==Icon Abilities==

!Expansions

!Description

|- {{IconAbility|Deathtouch|''all''|Whenever this creature deals {{Ability|combat damage}} to another creature, the other creature is {{Ability|Destroy|Destroyed}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Defender|''all''|Blocks your opponent's creatures' attacks, becoming their attack target in place of your Planeswalker. Your first creature with {{Ability|Defender}} or {{Ability|Reach}} is the creature which tries to block first.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Adventure|{{ELD}}|{{Ability|Adventure}} cards are a special type of {{Ability|Split Card|Split Cards}} with a Spell side and a Creature side. If you cast the Spell side, the Creature side returns to your hand.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Afflict|{{HOU}}|When a creature with {{Ability|Afflict}} is blocked, your opponent additionally takes {{Ability|damage}} equal to this creature's Power.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Awaken|{{BFZ}}{{ZVE}}|An {{Ability|Awaken}} ability {{Ability|trigger|triggers}} if a secondary mana cost is paid in addition to the card's main cost. (Auto-casts if the {{Ability|Awaken}} cost is fully paid.)}}

|- {{IconAbility|Boast|{{KHM}}|When a creature with {{Ability|Boast}} attacks, you may drain mana from your hand equal to its {{Ability|Boast}} cost. If you do, it {{Ability|trigger|triggers}} a special effect.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Buried|{{THB}}|A card with {{Ability|Buried}} can be cast from the graveyard when it has mana equal to its {{Ability|Buried}} cost (the number in the tombstone icon) in one of several ways, such as {{Ability|Disturb}}, {{Ability|Escape}}, {{Ability|Flashback}}, {{Ability|Jump-start}}, or {{Ability|Unearth}}. Matching a Graveyard [[Gems|Gem]] gives 3 mana to the first card in your graveyard with {{Ability|Buried}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Changeling|{{KHM}}|A card with {{Ability|Changeling}} counts as having every creature subtype at all times.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Converge|{{BFZ}}|Cards with {{Ability|Converge}} have an effect which scales for each different mana color used to pay for the card.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Convoke|{{GRN}}|Costs one less mana for each creature and {{Ability|reinforce|reinforcement}} you control, up to the number in the {{Ability|Convoke}} symbol.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Copy|''all''|A card which is a copy gains the {{Ability|Copy}} icon and may be treated differently by some effects.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Coven|{{MID}}|The {{Ability|Coven}} ability of your creatures with {{Ability|Coven}} is active if the attack power of at least two of your creatures in play are different numbers.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Cycling|{{AKH}}{{HOU}}{{IKO}}|When you {{Ability|Cycle}} a card, {{Ability|draw}} a card. {{Ability|Cycling}} {{Ability|trigger|triggers}} when you {{Ability|Exile}} a card with {{Ability|Cycling}} from your hand, if you can pay at least the specified amount of mana from your cards in hand (including this one).}}

|- {{IconAbility|Decayed|{{MID}}|Creatures with {{Ability|Decayed}} have {{Ability|Can't Attack}}. In your attack phase, you can choose to remove {{Ability|Can't Attack}} from your {{Ability|Decayed}} creature. If you do, the creature gains {{Ability|Imminent Death}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Devoid|{{BFZ}}{{OGW}}{{ZVE}}|Gains mana from Void Gem matches. Void Gems are created by cards with {{Ability|Ingest}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Devotion|{{THB}}|Some abilities become more powerful if you have a higher {{Ability|Devotion}} to a color. Your {{Ability|Devotion}} to a color is the number of mono-colored, non-{{Ability|copy}} cards of that color you've cast during the current fight.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Disturb|{{MID}}|Some cards with {{Ability|Buried}} also have {{Ability|Disturb}}. When you match colored [[Gems]], the first card of that color with {{Ability|Disturb}} in your graveyard gains 3 mana. When a card with {{Ability|Disturb}} is cast from the graveyard, it enters play {{Ability|Transformed}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Dungeon|{{AFR}}|A {{Ability|Dungeon}} is a support {{Ability|Token}} from outside of the game which has a [[Dungeons|sequence of connected rooms]]. These rooms can be encountered and their effects performed by {{Ability|Venture|Venturing into the Dungeon}}. When a you complete the last room of a {{Ability|Dungeon}}, you gain {{Ability|Dungeon Spoils}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Dungeon Spoils|{{AFR}}|When you complete a {{Ability|Dungeon}}, you gain {{Ability|Dungeon Spoils}} from that Dungeon. Some cards have beneficial effects or abilities which are only active if you have {{Ability|Dungeon Spoils}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Enhance|{{STX}}|When a card with {{Ability|Enhance}} enters your hand from anywhere, the specified number of normal [[Gems]] become {{Ability|Enhanced}} Gems.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Enhanced|{{STX}}|Matching an {{Ability|Enhanced}} [[Gems|Gem]] with a swap adds 1 to the first {{Ability|Enhanced}} value of a card in your hand not already at its maximum. Cards which are {{Ability|Enhanced}} gain more powerful effects, or lose drawbacks.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Equip|{{ZNR}}|When a creature you control attacks, cards with {{Ability|Equip}} in your hand gain the specified amount of mana.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Escape|{{THB}}|Some cards with {{Ability|Buried}} also have {{Ability|Escape}}. A card in the graveyard with {{Ability|Escape}} can only be cast from the graveyard if it has full mana and you have 3 other cards in your graveyard, which are {{Ability|Exile|Exiled}} when the {{Ability|Escape}} card is cast.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Flash|{{ZVE}}{{RIX}}{{DOM}}{{M19}}{{GRN}}|Before an opponent's creature attacks, if this card is {{Ability|Disable|Disabled}}, you may cast it for its normal mana cost. (Can also be cast during your turn, like normal.)}}

|- {{IconAbility|Flashback|{{ODY}}|Some cards with {{Ability|Buried}} also have {{Ability|Flashback}}. As well as being able to gain mana from Graveyard [[Gems]] like all {{Ability|Buried}} cards, the first {{Ability|Flashback}} card in your graveyard gains 2 mana when another card with {{Ability|Flashback}} enters the graveyard. If a card with {{Ability|Flashback}} is cast from the graveyard, it is {{Ability|Exile|Exiled}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Herald|{{KHM}}|When you have a support card in your hand with {{Ability|Herald}}, if you already have the same card in play, the cost of the card in hand becomes the card's {{Ability|Herald}} cost, and when it's {{Ability|cast}}, its {{Ability|Herald}} creature {{Ability|Token}} enters play instead of the support card.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Hexproof|''all''|Cannot be targeted by enemy spells and abilities. (Effects which don't require a target to be selected still affect creatures with {{Ability|Hexproof}}.)}}

|- {{IconAbility|Hired|{{AFR}}|When a card gains mana from a treasure {{Ability|Token}} on the gem board, that card gains {{Ability|Hired}}. Some cards have effects or abilities which are only active if the card is {{Ability|Hired}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Imminent Death|{{MID}}|At the end of every turn, each creature with {{Ability|Imminent Death}} loses a {{Ability|reinforce|reinforcement}}, or if it can't, it's {{Ability|Destroy|destroyed}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Invoke|{{STX}}|When a card with {{Ability|Invoke}} enters your hand from anywhere, you may choose to replace it with the card named by the {{Ability|Invoke}} ability. If you do, the card with {{Ability|Invoke}} is {{Ability|Exile|Exiled}}, and the replacement card gains the {{Ability|Invoked}} status.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Leader|{{DOM}}{{M19}}{{GRN}}{{ZNR}}|Your {{Ability|Leader}} creature {{Ability|Exile|Exiles}} your {{Ability|Token}} creatures of the specified subtype and converts each one into a {{Ability|reinforce|reinforcement}} of itself. This effect occurs both as the {{Ability|Leader}} enters play, and as you play any {{Ability|Token}} creatures of the specified subtype.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Learn|{{STX}}|When a {{Ability|Learn}} effect is {{Ability|trigger|triggered}}, you choose a {{Ability|Lesson}} card to add to your hand. Each card with {{Ability|Learn}} has its own selection of {{Ability|Lesson}} cards, which are listed here: [[Learn cards]].}}

|- {{IconAbility|Lesson|{{STX}}|A card with {{Ability|Lesson}} means it can appear as a possible choice of a card to receive for the {{Ability|Learn}} effect of at least one card.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Level|{{STX}}|Cards with {{Ability|Level}} become more powerful when their {{Ability|Level}} is higher. Their {{Ability|Level}} may be increased or decreased by effects and abilities.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Lifelink|''all''|Your Planeswalker gains life equal to the {{Ability|combat damage}} dealt by this creature.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Magecraft|{{STX}}|Whenever you {{Ability|cast}} a spell or {{Ability|Copy}} a spell, your cards in play with {{Ability|Magecraft}} {{Ability|trigger}} their {{Ability|Magecraft}} abilities. A card can trigger its {{Ability|Magecraft}} ability a number of times per turn up to the number in its {{Ability|Magecraft}} icon.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Mana Field|{{PMA}}|A support with {{Ability|Mana Field}} {{Ability|trigger|triggers}} its {{Ability|Mana Field}} ability when any [[Gems|Gem]] on the [[Gem board]] is matched adjacent or diagonally adjacent to the support.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Mutate|{{IKO}}|A card with {{Ability|Mutate}} may be {{Ability|cast}} as a {{Ability|Mutation}} targeting a non-{{Ability|Token}} creature you control which has not already gained a {{Ability|Mutation}}. If you do, that creature gains the {{Ability|Mutation}} ability written on the card with {{Ability|Mutate}}, and is {{Ability|reinforce|reinforced}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Mutation|{{IKO}}|A card gains the {{Ability|Mutation}} icon, and cannot gain further {{Ability|Mutation|Mutations}}, once it has been the target of a card with {{Ability|Mutate}} cast as a {{Ability|Mutation}}. Each {{Ability|Mutation}} ability of a creature, whether an original Mutation ability of the card or one granted by another card with {{Ability|Mutate}}, {{Ability|trigger|triggers}} each time that creature is {{Ability|reinforce|reinforced}} via {{Ability|cast|casting}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Party|{{ZNR}}|Your {{Ability|Party}} consists of up to one each of a Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard amongst creatures and supports you control. {{Ability|Party}} effects on your cards are {{ability|trigger|triggered}} if the corresponding {{Ability|Party}} condition is met. (If a creature or support has more than one party subtype, it only counts as one party member.)}}

|- {{IconAbility|Prevent Damage|''all''|{{Ability|damage|Damage}} effects applied to this creature or Planeswalker, including {{Ability|combat damage}}, are reduced to zero. (Other effects, including {{Ability|Destroy}}, are not prevented.)}}

|- {{IconAbility|Protection from Black|{{M20}}|Gains {{Ability|Hexproof}} while the opponent controls a black creature. Damage received from black sources is reduced by half, rounded up.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Protection from Red|{{M20}}|Gains {{Ability|Hexproof}} while the opponent controls a red creature. Damage received from red sources is reduced by half, rounded up.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Protection from White|{{M20}}|Gains {{Ability|Hexproof}} while the opponent controls a white creature. Damage received from white sources is reduced by half, rounded up.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Renown|{{ORI}}|The first time a creature with {{Ability|Renown}} deals {{Ability|Combat damage}} to an opponent, it gains the {{Ability|Renown}} icon, and its power and toughness are increased by the number beside the {{Ability|Renown}} keyword.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Riot|{{RNA}}|When this creature enters play, choose one: It gets a +1/+1 {{Ability|buff}}, or it gains {{Ability|Haste}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Roll a D20|{{AFR}}|When a {{Ability|Roll a D20}} effect is {{Ability|trigger|triggered}}, the [[Gem board]] is {{Ability|Shuffle|Shuffled}}, then a random D20 roll (in the range 1-20) is made. An effect on the card which caused the roll is performed, its strength depending on the result of the roll.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Split Card|{{GRN}}|You can select which side of this card you want to play. Tap the flip symbol on the card to change its side. Mana gained charges both sides, up to a maximum of the cost of the currently selected side.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Stored Mana|{{M19}}{{GRN}}|This card stores extra mana up to a maximum of the number in the {{Ability|Stored Mana}} icon, and {{Ability|trigger|triggers}} additional effects when cast. (Auto-casts if the Stored Mana is full.) A Stored Mana card can't have its mana drained or raised.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Unearth|{{PMA}}|Some cards with {{Ability|Buried}} also have {{Ability|Unearth}}. When a card with {{Ability|Unearth}} is {{Ability|cast}} from the graveyard, it gains {{Ability|Unearthed}} and {{Ability|Haste}}, and is returned to play with all its {{Ability|reinforce|reinforcements}}.}}

|- {{IconAbility|Unearthed|{{PMA}}|At the end of the turn, or when it dies, a creature with {{Ability|Unearthed}} is {{Ability|Exile|exiled}}.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Bloodletting|{{MID}}|Your creatures' {{Ability|Bloodletting}} abilities are active as long as your opponent has lost life this turn.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Can't Attack|''all''|A creature with {{Ability|Can't Attack}} can't attack.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Casting a Spell|{{MID}}|A {{Ability|Casting a Spell}} effect on a card in play is {{Ability|trigger|triggered}} whenever you {{Ability|cast}} a Spell card.}}

|- {{TextAbility|City's Blessing|{{RIX}}|Some abilities become more powerful if you have the {{Ability|City's Blessing}}. You gain the {{Ability|City's Blessing}} for the rest of the game when you play a card with {{Ability|Ascend}} if the sum of your creatures, supports, and {{Ability|reinforce|reinforcements}} is greater than or equal to 10.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Delirium|{{SOI}}{{EMN}}|An associated effect is {{Ability|trigger|triggered}} if there are 5 or less Gems on the board of the specified color, or the card's color if unspecified.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Destroy|''all''|{{Ability|Destroy|Destroying}} a card moves it to the graveyard. Cards are most often {{Ability|Destroy|Destroyed}} from play, but may be {{Ability|Destroy|Destroyed}} from other zones like your hand or library. {{Ability|Destroy|Destroying}} a {{Ability|Token}} removes it from the game. {{Ability|Destroy|Destroying}} a gem means to remove the gem from the board by a gem match, or by a card's effect.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Discard|''all''|{{Ability|Discard|Discarding}} moves one or more cards from the target player's hand into their graveyard. Unless otherwise specified, cards are {{Ability|Discard|Discarded}} starting from the bottom of their hand.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Embalm|{{AKH}}{{HOU}}|When in the graveyard, {{Ability|Activate}} for the number beside the {{Ability|Embalm}} keyword. Matching one or more {{Ability|Activate|Activated}} Gems of your {{Ability|Embalm}} creature {{Ability|Exile|Exiles}} the creature, and brings a Zombie {{Ability|Token}} copy of the creature into play (minus the {{Ability|Embalm}} ability).}}

|- {{TextAbility|Energize|{{KLD}}{{AER}}|The specified number of normal gems become {{Ability|Energize|Energized}} Gems. Matching {{Ability|Energize|Energized}} gems can {{Ability|trigger}} {{Ability|Overload}} effects.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Enrage|{{XLN}}{{RIX}}|Whenever a creature with {{Ability|Enrage}} receives {{Ability|damage}}, it {{Ability|trigger|triggers}} a specified effect.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Eternalize|{{HOU}}|When in the graveyard, {{Ability|Activate}} for the number beside the {{Ability|Eternalize}} keyword. Matching one or more {{Ability|Activate|Activated}} Gems of your {{Ability|Eternalize}} creature {{Ability|Exile|Exiles}} the creature, and brings a 4/4 Zombie {{Ability|Token}} copy of the creature into play (minus the {{Ability|Eternalize}} ability).}}

|- {{TextAbility|Exert|{{AKH}}{{HOU}}|A normal gem becomes an {{Ability|Activate|Activated}} Gem with a timer equal to the number beside the {{Ability|Exert}} keyword. The timer counts down by 1 at the start of your turn. If you match the Gem or the timer reaches zero, the associated effect is {{Ability|trigger|triggered}}, and a new Gem becomes {{Ability|Activate|Activated}} at the start of your next turn.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Fight|{{M20}}|When two creatures {{Ability|Fight}}, each creature deals damage equal to its power to the other creature.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Food|{{ELD}}|Your effects which create {{Ability|Food}} bring 1/1 {{Ability|Token|token}} supports with 1 shield into play on your side. When one of your {{Ability|Food}} Tokens is matched or destroyed by you, you gain 3 life. Other creatures or supports in play other than Food Tokens may also have the Food sub-type.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Heroic|{{THB}}|Whenever you cast a spell targeting your creature with {{Ability|Heroic}}, its associated {{Ability|Heroic}} effect is {{Ability|trigger|triggered}}.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Ingest|{{BFZ}}{{OGW}}{{ZVE}}|The specified number of normal Gems of your opponent's color become Void Gems. Void Gems may be consumed by a {{Ability|Process|Process}} ability, or matched on the board. Matching Void Gems only gives mana to cards with {{Ability|Devoid}}.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Investigate|{{SOI}}|A normal gem becomes an {{Ability|Activate|Activated}} Gem with a two-turn timer. The timer counts down by 1 at the start of your turn. If any player matches your {{Ability|Investigate}} Gem or its timer reaches zero, you {{Ability|draw}} a card.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Madness|{{SOI}}{{EMN}}|All of your cards with {{Ability|Madness}} gain their specified amount of mana whenever a card is {{Ability|Discard|Discarded}} (not {{Ability|Exile|Exiled}}) from your hand. A card with {{Ability|Madness}} is immune to being {{Ability|Discard|Discarded}} itself.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Mill|{{ELD}}|{{Ability|Mill}} effects on your cards are active while the opponent's graveyard contains at least the specified number of cards.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Morbid|{{M21}}|If any creature dies or loses a {{Ability|reinforce|reinforcement}}, the associated effect becomes active until the end of the turn.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Overflow|{{M20}}|When you draw a card with {{Ability|Overflow}}, if you then have 5 or more cards, you may {{Ability|exile}} that card to trigger the associated effect.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Pack Tactics|{{AFR}}|The {{Ability|Pack Tactics}} effects of your cards in play are {{Ability|trigger|triggered}} at the start of combat on your turn, if you control 2 or more {{Ability|buff|buffed}} creatures.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Partner|{{WAR}}|An associated effect is triggered if you control a {{Ability|Vanguard}} support.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Populate|{{M21}}|{{Ability|reinforce|Reinforce}} the first creature {{Ability|Token|token}} you control with the greatest base power.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Process|{{BFZ}}|{{Ability|Process}} only works if the specified number of Void Gems are present. If so, then that many Void Gems become gems of your opponent's color, and the associated effect is {{Ability|trigger|triggered}}. Void Gems are created by cards with {{Ability|Ingest}}.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Raided|{{XLN}}{{RIX}}|If one of your creatures attacked on your last turn, a {{Ability|Raided}} effect on one of your cards {{Ability|trigger|triggers}} this turn. Only the first {{Ability|Raided}} effect on a turn {{Ability|trigger|triggers}}; any further {{Ability|Raided}} effects do nothing.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Rally|{{BFZ}}{{ZVE}}|Your creatures with {{Ability|Rally}} have their associated effects {{Ability|trigger|triggered}} whenever you bring a creature with the Ally subtype into play.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Regenerate|''all''|At the start of your turn, your creatures with {{Ability|Regenerate}} regain the specified amount of toughness which had previously been lost by taking {{Ability|damage}}.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Renewal|{{M21}}|If you gained the specified amount of life or more in a turn, the associated effect becomes active until the end of the turn.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Surveil|{{GRN}}|Look at the top four cards of your library, and choose any number up to the number beside the {{Ability|Surveil}} keyword. Those cards are discarded, and the rest return to your library.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Threshold|{{ODY}}|If you have the specified number of copies of this card in your graveyard, the associated ability is triggered.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Trap|''all''|The specified number of normal Gems become {{Ability|Trap}} Gems associated with this card. When your opponent destroys one of your {{Ability|Trap}} Gems, its associated ability is triggered. If you match one of your {{Ability|Trap}} Gems which is caused by an ongoing effect, a new Gem becomes {{Ability|Trap|Trapped}} on your next turn.}}

|- {{TextAbility|Treasure|{{XLN}}{{AER}}|Your effects which find {{Ability|Treasure|Treasures}} bring the specified number of {{Ability|Treasure}} {{Ability|Token|Tokens}} into play on your side. Once you have four {{Ability|Treasure}} tokens, one of your existing {{Ability|Treasure}} {{Ability|Token|Tokens}} is {{Ability|reinforce|reinforced}} rather than a new one being created. Matching your {{Ability|Treasure}} {{Ability|Token}} adds 3 mana to a random card in your hand. Matching your opponent's {{Ability|Treasure}} {{Ability|Token}} adds 2 mana to a random card in your hand, and 2 mana to a random card in your opponent's hand.}}

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