Pacification Array
Artifact
The Consulate had access to thousands of innovative devices displayed at the Inventors' Fair. A few small changes transformed some of them from marvels of ingenuity to instruments of oppression.
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2015
- Pull rate
- about 1 per booster–1 in 1087
- Illustrator
- Joseph Meehan
- Found in
- Aether Revolt MTGO Redemption · Aether Revolt MTGO Redemption Foil · 2 more
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: Tap target artifact or creature.VenuesHide venues
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Rulings
3 · latest Feb 9, 2017 · one tap opens all
- WotCFeb 9, 2017
If you want to stop someone from attacking with a creature by using Pacification Array’s ability, you must do so before attackers are declared. You can’t wait until after attackers are declared and then try to use it to make a creature stop attacking. Note that your opponent can’t start declaring attackers without letting you use your Pacification Array.
- WotCFeb 9, 2017
Once a player has activated an ability with
in its cost, Pacification Array can’t be used to undo or counter that ability. - WotCFeb 9, 2017
Players may respond to Pacification Array’s ability by activating an ability of the target permanent if that ability’s timing permissions allow it. Players may also respond by activating abilities or casting spells whose costs include tapping the target permanent.