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Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Legendary Creature — Angel
mythic
Flying, first strike If a source would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, that source deals double that damage to that player or permanent instead. If a source would deal damage to you or a permanent you control, prevent half that damage, rounded up.
5/5
Semantic Tags
Attacks quickly and deals damage efficiently. Includes haste, double strike, first strike, prowess, and cards that grant these.
A keyword ability that lets a creature deal its combat damage twice. See rule 702.4, “Double Strike.”
Difficult to block or grants evasion. Includes flying, menace, fear, intimidate, shadow, skulk, horsemanship, unblockable effects, and cards that grant these abilities.
A keyword ability that lets a creature deal its combat damage before other creatures. See rule 702.7, “First Strike.”
Has first strike or double strike — trades favorably in combat.
Has first strike or double strike — trades favorably in combat.
A keyword ability that restricts how a creature may be blocked. See rule 702.9, “Flying.”
Effects that double or multiply mana production.
A card or token on the battlefield. See rule 110, “Permanents.”
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Printings (11)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murders at Karlov Manor Commander#211 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Commander Masters#682 | rare | · | · | · |
| Commander Masters#579 | rare | · | · | · |
| Commander Masters#338 | rare | · | · | · |
| The List#AVR-209 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Secret Lair Drop#218 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Commander Anthology Volume II#9 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Masters 25#204 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Commander 2015#219 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Avacyn Restored#209 | mythic | · | · | · |
| Open the Helvault#209 | mythic | · | · | · |
Related Concepts
Related Rules
If an ability would produce one or more mana of an undefined type, it produces no mana instead.
Some spells or abilities that produce mana restrict how that mana can be spent, have an additional effect that affects the spell or ability that mana is spent on, or create a delayed triggered ability (see rule 603.7a) that triggers when that mana is spent. This doesn’t affect the mana’s type.
Some abilities produce mana based on the type of mana another permanent or permanents “could produce.” The type of mana a permanent could produce at any time includes any type of mana that an ability of that permanent would produce if the ability were to resolve at that time, taking into account any applicable replacement effects in any possible order. Ignore whether any costs of the ability could or could not be paid. If that permanent wouldn’t produce any mana under these conditions, or no type of mana can be defined this way, there’s no type of mana it could produce.
To “tap [a permanent] for mana” is to activate a mana ability of that permanent that includes the {T} symbol in its activation cost. See rule 605, “Mana Abilities.”
An ability that triggers whenever a permanent “is tapped for mana” or is tapped for mana of a specified type triggers whenever such a mana ability resolves and produces mana or the specified type of mana.
A replacement effect that applies if a permanent “is tapped for mana” or tapped for mana of a specific type and/or amount modifies the mana production event while such an ability is resolving and producing mana or the specified type and/or amount of mana.
If an object’s enters-the-battlefield triggered ability or replacement effect refers to X, and the spell that became that object as it resolved had a value of X chosen for any of its costs, the value of X for that ability is the same as the value of X for that spell, although the value of X for that permanent is 0. This is an exception to rule 107.3i.
The tap symbol is {T}. The tap symbol in an activation cost means “Tap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already tapped can’t be tapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the tap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
Rulings
Gisela doubles damage dealt to opponents and permanents your opponents control from any source, including sources controlled by those opponents.
If damage dealt by a source you control is being divided or assigned among multiple permanents an opponent controls or among an opponent and one or more permanents they control simultaneously, divide the original amount and double the results. For example, if you attack with a 5/5 creature with trample and your opponent blocks with a 2/2 creature, you can assign 2 damage to the blocker and 3 damage to the defending player. These amounts are then doubled to 4 and 6 damage, respectively. You can't double the damage to 10 first and then assign 2 to the creature and 8 to the player.
If multiple replacement effects would modify how damage would be dealt, the player being dealt damage (or the controller of the permanent being dealt damage) chooses the order in which to apply those effects.