Crystalline Resonance

c20Commander 2020#31rare
{2}{U}
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Card text & rulings

Oracle text

Enchantment

Whenever you cycle a card, you may have this enchantment become a copy of another target permanent until your next turn, except it has this ability.

Ability breakdown
Abilities
TriggeredWhenever you cycle a card, you may have this enchantment become a copy of another target permanent until your next turn, except it has this ability.
Rulings
  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    Crystalline Resonance copies the printed values of the target permanent, plus any copy effects that have been applied to it. It won’t copy counters on that permanent or effects that have changed its power, toughness, types, color, or so on. Notably, it won’t copy effects that made the target permanent become a creature.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    Crystalline Resonance’s copy effect wears off immediately before your next turn begins.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    If Crystalline Resonance becomes a copy of a legendary permanent you control, you’ll put one of them into its owner’s graveyard.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    If Crystalline Resonance becomes a copy of a planeswalker, it won’t receive loyalty counters for that planeswalker’s starting loyalty. Unless it already has loyalty counters on it somehow, it will be put into its owner’s graveyard.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    If Crystalline Resonance becomes a copy of an Aura, it’s put into its owner’s graveyard unless it’s somehow attached to an appropriate object or player already. If it becomes a copy of an Equipment and is attached to a creature, it’ll become unattached when it becomes an enchantment again.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    If Crystalline Resonance becomes a copy of an object with a set of linked abilities (for example, one ability that exiles a card and another that refers to the card “exiled with” the object), that link only lasts as long as Crystalline Resonance is copying that object. If it stops being a copy of that object and then becomes a copy again later, the link is lost.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    If Crystalline Resonance becomes a creature the same turn it enters the battlefield, you can’t attack with it or use any of its {T} abilities (if it gains any) unless it has haste.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    If Crystalline Resonance copies a permanent that’s copying something else, it will become whatever the target is copying.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    If Crystalline Resonance’s ability triggers multiple times in a turn, then each time one of those abilities resolves, it will overwrite whatever Crystalline Resonance is copying. Crystalline Resonance will wind up as a copy of the permanent targeted by the last ability to resolve. As your next turn begins, all instances of the ability will wear off at the same time.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    If an effect begins to apply to Crystalline Resonance before it becomes a copy of another permanent, that effect will continue to apply.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    If another permanent becomes a copy of Crystalline Resonance, it will become whatever Crystalline Resonance is copying and it will also have its ability.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    Some cards with cycling have an ability that triggers when you cycle them, and some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    Triggered abilities from cycling a card and the cycling ability itself aren’t spells. Effects that interact with spells (such as that of Cancel) won’t affect them.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    You can cycle a card even if it has a triggered ability from cycling that won’t have a legal target. This is because the cycling ability and the triggered ability are separate. This also means that if either ability is countered (with Disallow, for example), the other ability will still resolve.

Market & version spread

Why you'd run this

Plays as
Cycling Payoff

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Flavor & art
"As a boulder diverts a stream, the crystals bend life around them." —Rielle, the Everwise
Illustrated by
Joe Slucher
Where you can play it
commander
Legal to play
All formats
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
competitivebrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal

Physical object & links

Card details
Artist
Joe Slucher
Frame
2015
Language
EN
Border
black
Security stamp
oval