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Richard Garfield, Ph.D.

p30m30th Anniversary Misc Promos#1★rare
{3}{U}{U}
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Card details
Artist
Dave Dorman
Frame
legendary
Language
EN
Border
silver
Security stamp
oval
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderNot legal
DuelNot legal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyNot legal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerNot legal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageNot legal
Oracle text

Legendary Creature — Human Designer

You may play cards as though they were other cards of your choice with the same mana cost. You can't choose the same card twice. (Mana cost includes color.)

P/T2/2
Abilities
StaticYou may play cards as though they were other cards of your choice with the same mana cost. You can't choose the same card twice. (Mana cost includes color.)
Flavor & art
And yea he doth spake: "Let there be Magic."
Illustrated by
Dave Dorman
Rulings
  • WotCFeb 29, 2020

    By default, you are limited to cards legal in the format you’re playing. If you’re playing Draft or Sealed Deck, you can name any card available in the format you’re playing. If you’re playing with Unsanctioned decks, anything goes. Discuss with your playgroup if you’d prefer to modify or eliminate these limitations.

  • WotCFeb 29, 2020

    Each Richard tracks its own list of played cards. If one leaves the battlefield and another enters, cards previously played under the first Richard are available once again.

  • WotCFeb 29, 2020

    If more than one player controls a Richard Garfield, Ph.D., the cards one player plays has no effect on the other players. For example, each player could play Savannah Lions as a Swords to Plowshares this way.

  • WotCFeb 29, 2020

    Playing cards as though they were other cards is optional.

  • WotCFeb 29, 2020

    Richard Garfield, Ph.D. essentially makes you play a variant of the Magic game called “Mental Magic.” Here’s how the game works. Whenever you cast a spell, you reveal the card to all players and choose any other card (see below for the cards that you can use) that has that card’s mana cost. (Note that color very much does matter.) That spell can then be cast as though it was the chosen card. You aren’t allowed to choose the same card twice.

  • WotCFeb 29, 2020

    The same is true if Richard Garfield, Ph.D. changes controllers. If you play a Savannah Lions as Swords to Plowshares, then an opponent gains control of Richard Garfield, Ph.D., that player can then do the same.