Startling Development

Mana Value

2

Rarity

common

Startling Development

Instant

{1}{U}
Color Identity: U

Card Text

Until end of turn, target creature becomes a blue Serpent with base power and toughness 4/4. Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Keywords

Cycling

Set

Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

(IKO)

EDHREC Rank

#19,969

Startling Development overwrites all previous effects that set the affected creatures’ color, creature types, power, and/or toughness to specific values. Other effects that set these characteristics to specific values that start to apply after Startling Development resolves will overwrite that part of the effect.

Wotc — April 17, 2020

Effects that modify the affected creature’s power or toughness without setting it will apply no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for counters that change the creature’s power or toughness.

Wotc — April 17, 2020

The affected creature doesn’t lose any abilities when it becomes a Serpent.

Wotc — April 17, 2020

Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to the target creature may become lethal once its base toughness becomes 4.

Wotc — April 17, 2020

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