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Obscura Confluence

Obscura Confluence

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Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Until end of turn, target creature loses all abilities and has base power and toughness 1/1. • Target creature connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.) • Target player returns a creature card from their graveyard to their hand.

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Semantic Tags

Cantripmechanical

A spell that replaces itself by drawing a card as part of its resolution.

Card Drawmechanical

Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.

Cares about +1/+1 counters — places, moves, doubles, or benefits from counters on creatures.

Infectvector

A keyword ability that affects how an object deals damage to creatures and players. See rule 702.90, “Infect.”

Draw-then-discard or discard-then-draw effects that improve hand quality without net card advantage.

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernnot legal
pioneernot legal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historicnot legal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (3)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
New Capenna Commander#76rare···
New Capenna Commander Promos#76prare···
New Capenna Commander#176rare···

Related Concepts

Connive

A keyword action that causes a player to draw a card, discard a card, and then to put a +1/+1 counter on a creature if a nonland card was discarded this way. See rule 701.50, “Connive.”

Related Rules

120.3a

Damage dealt to a player by a source without infect causes that player to lose that much life.

120.3b

Damage dealt to a player by a source with infect causes that source’s controller to give the player that many poison counters.

120.3d

Damage dealt to a creature by a source with wither and/or infect causes that source’s controller to put that many -1/-1 counters on that creature.

120.3e

Damage dealt to a creature by a source with neither wither nor infect causes that much damage to be marked on that creature.

702.90f

Multiple instances of infect on the same object are redundant.

302.7

Damage dealt to a creature by a source with neither wither nor infect is marked on that creature (see rule 120.3). If the total damage marked on that creature is greater than or equal to its toughness, that creature has been dealt lethal damage and is destroyed as a state-based action (see rule 704). All damage marked on a creature is removed when it regenerates (see rule 701.19, “Regenerate”) and during the cleanup step (see rule 514.2).

701.50

Connive

701.50a

Certain spells and abilities instruct a permanent to connive. To do so, that permanent’s controller draws a card, then discards a card. If a nonland card is discarded this way, that player puts a +1/+1 counter on the conniving permanent.

Rulings

2022-04-29

If no card is discarded, most likely because that player's hand is empty and an effect says they can't draw cards, the conniving creature does not receive a +1/+1 counter.

2022-04-29

If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to connive but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still connives. If you discard a nonland card this way, you won't put a +1/+1 counter on anything. Abilities that trigger “when [that creature] connives” will trigger.

2022-04-29

Once an ability that causes a creature to connive begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Notably, opponents can't try to remove the conniving creature after you discard a nonland card but before it receives a counter.