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Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core

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Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core, The Lost Caverns of Ixalan printing
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan LCI · No. 256 2023-11-17

Card text

{3}
Legendary Artifact // Legendary Land
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {4}, {T}: Transform Matzalantli. Activate only if there are four or more permanent types among cards in your graveyard. (Artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker are permanent types.) // (Transforms from Matzalantli.) Fathomless descent — {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
EDHREC rank #1837 Rare Not on the Reserved List
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Standard ✓ Legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ✓ Legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

4 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

Cards with the ability word "fathomless descent" have abilities that care how many permanent cards are in your graveyard.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

The Core's activated ability is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

Transforming Matzalantli doesn't cause it to leave the battlefield. It also doesn't cause it to become untapped.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.

2023-11-10 · Wizards of the Coast

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