Staff of the Death Magus
Artifact
A symbol of ambition in ruthless times.
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2015
- Pull rate
- about 1 per booster–1 in 1422
- Illustrator
- Daniel Ljunggren
- Found in
- 2015 Core Set Intro Pack Price of Glory · 2015 Core Set Sample Deck Liliana Vess · 10 more
Plays as: Lifegain Source
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Rulings
3 · latest Jul 18, 2014 · one tap opens all
- WotCJul 18, 2014
Each of these artifacts cares about any land with the appropriate basic land type. For example, Staff of the Sun Magus’s ability triggers when any land with the subtype Plains enters the battlefield under your control, not just lands named Plains.
- WotCJul 18, 2014
If you cast a copy of a card that’s a certain color, the appropriate Staff’s ability will trigger. However, if you copy a spell on the stack without casting that copy, it will not.
- WotCJul 18, 2014
Most nonbasic lands don’t have basic land types, even if they produce colored mana. For example, Caves of Koilos is neither a Plains nor a Swamp. Having one enter the battlefield under your control won’t cause Staff of the Sun Magus’s ability to trigger.