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Question by Ixidor
Submitted on 3/20/2004
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What exactly IS a "spell"? Are creature cards spells? Or just sorcery cards...

Answer by MillMaster
Submitted on 3/22/2004
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A spell is anything that is not an ability or a land. Creatures, artifacts, enchantments, instants, sorceress are all spells. More specificaly they are spell CARDS, but are still spells. In some cases, like with Isochron Scepter, you can have a spell on the stack without a card. Lands dont count as spells, since they dont use the stack when you play them. Things like veldakane arkmage specificaly reference artifact spells, so something like a seat of the synod will NOT trigger it since it doesnt count as a spell.

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