Abilities

Question 1

Deathtouch

Answer 1

Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to another creature is enough to destroy it.

Question 2

Defender

Answer 2

A creature with defender cannot attack.

Question 3

Double Strike

Answer 3

A creature with double strike attacks during both the first-strike and regular combat phase.

Question 4

Enchant [object]

Answer 4

A card with enchant can only be attached to an [object]. Destroyed if the [object] is destroyed.

Question 5

Equip [cost]

Answer 5

(Cost): Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery. Is not destroyed if the creature is destroyed.

Question 6

First Strike

Answer 6

A creature with first strike deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.

Question 7

Flash

Answer 7

A player may cast a spell with flash any time one could cast an instant.

Question 8

Flying

Answer 8

A creature with flying can’t be blocked except by creatures with flying and/or reach.

Question 9

Haste

Answer 9

A creature with haste does not get summoning sickness and can attack as soon as it comes into play.

Question 10

Hexproof

Answer 10

A permanent or player with hexproof can’t be the target of spells or abilities from opponents.

Question 11

Indestructible

Answer 11

A permanent with indestructible can’t be destroyed by rules or effects. Such permanents aren’t destroyed by lethal damage, and they ignore the state-based action that checks for lethal damage.

Question 12

Intimidate

Answer 12

A creature with intimidate can’t be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.

Question 13

Landwalk

Answer 13

A creature with landwalk can’t be blocked as long as the defending player controls at least one land with the specified subtype (as in “islandwalk”), with the specified supertype (as in “legendary landwalk”), without the specified supertype (as in “nonbasic landwalk”), or with both the specified supertype and the specified subtype (as in “snow swampwalk”).

Question 14

Lifelink

Answer 14

Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.

Question 15

Protection from [quality]

Answer 15

A permanent with protection from [quality] can’t be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything [quality].

Question 16

Reach

Answer 16

A creature with reach can block creatures with flying.

Question 17

Shroud

Answer 17

A permanent or player with shroud can’t be the target of spells or abilities.

Question 18

Trample

Answer 18

An attacker with trample can deal excess damage to the defending player or planeswalker even if it is blocked.

Question 19

Vigilance

Answer 19

A creature with vigilance can attack without tapping

Question 20

Banding

Answer 20

Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding a player controls are blocking or being blocked by a creature, that player divides that creature’s combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it’s being blocked by or is blocking.

Question 21

Rampage

Answer 21

Whenever a creature with rampage becomes blocked, it gets +N/+N until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.

Question 22

Cumulative Upkeep [cost]

Answer 22

At the beginning of a player’s upkeep, if that player controls a permanent with cumulative upkeep, that player must put an age counter on the permanent. Then that player may pay [cost] for each age counter on it. If the player does not, the player must sacrifice it.

Question 23

Flanking

Answer 23

Whenever a creature without flanking blocks a creature with flanking, the blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Question 24

Phasing

Answer 24

A permanent with phasing phases in or out before its untap during each of its controller’s untap steps. While it’s phased out, it’s treated as though it doesn’t exist. Any Auras, Equipment, and/or Fortifications attached to that permanent phase out with it.

Question 25

Buyback [cost]

Answer 25

The player may pay an additional [cost] as the player casts a spell with buyback. If the buyback cost was paid, the spell is put into its owner’s hand instead of into that player’s graveyard as it resolves.

Question 26

Shadow

Answer 26

A creature with shadow can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.

Question 27

Cycling [cost]

Answer 27

When a player has a card with cycling, the player can pay [cost] and discard the card to draw a new card, potentially with other steps, such as revealing the card.

Question 28

Echo [cost]

Answer 28

If a player has a card with echo, at the beginning of that player’s upkeep, if the card came under the player’s control since the beginning of the player’s last upkeep, the player must either sacrifice the card or pay its echo cost.

Question 29

Horsemanship

Answer 29

A creature with horsemanship can’t be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.

Question 30

Fading [N]

Answer 30

A creature with fading enters the battlefield with [N] fade counters on it. At the beginning of its controller’s upkeep, the controller must remove a fade counter from it. If the controller can’t do so (e.g., there are no more counters on it), the controller must sacrifice it.

Question 31

Kicker [cost]

Answer 31

When a player uses a spell with kicker, that player may pay an additional (cost) to use an additional effect.

Question 32

Flashback [cost]

Answer 32

When a player uses an instant or sorcery with flashback, that player may pay its flashback cost to cast the card from their graveyard. After using flashback, the player must exile the card.

Question 33

Madness

Answer 33

When a player discards a card with madness, it is exiled. When it is exiled, the player may cast it for its madness cost or put it into their graveyard.