Thought Gorger
Creature — Horror
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2003
- Pull rate
- about 1 per booster–1 in 1793
- Illustrator
- Jason Felix
- Found in
- Rise of the Eldrazi MTGO Redemption · Rise of the Eldrazi MTGO Redemption Foil · 2 more
Plays as: Card Draw · Counter Payoff · Counter Placer · Ltb Trigger
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Rulings
3 · latest Jun 15, 2010 · one tap opens all
- WotCJun 15, 2010
As Thought Gorger's first ability resolves, putting a +1/+1 counter on it for each card in your hand is mandatory. The effect says "if you do" because performing that action might be impossible. If Thought Gorger has left the battlefield by the time the ability resolves, you can't put any +1/+1 counters on it, so you won't discard your hand.
- WotCJun 15, 2010
Once an ability starts to resolve, it's too late to respond to it. For example, you can't count a card in your hand while determining how many +1/+1 counters Thought Gorger gets and then cast it in response. If a card is counted, it'll be discarded.
- WotCJun 15, 2010
When Thought Gorger's second ability resolves, its last existence on the battlefield is checked to see how many +1/+1 counters it had on it. All of them are counted, not just the ones put on it by its "enters" ability.