Card

Arboria

World Enchantment


Creatures can't attack a player unless that player cast a spell or put a nontoken permanent onto the battlefield during their last turn.

"I have never before felt so unwelcome in a forest." —Jolrael


  Dominaria Remastered (DMR)
#438, Rare

Illustrated by: Dave Kendall

Not Legal Alchemy BO1
Not Legal Standard BO1
Not Legal Brawl
Not Legal Explorer BO1
Not Legal Historic BO1
Not Legal Historic Brawl
Not Legal Modern
Not Legal Pauper
Not Legal Pioneer
Not Legal Traditional Standard
Not Legal Timeless BO1
Not Legal Traditional Alchemy
Not Legal Traditional Explorer
Not Legal Traditional Historic
Not Legal Traditional Timeless

Rulings

  • 2009-10-01
    Arboria doesn’t stop creatures from attacking planeswalkers, regardless of what their controllers did or didn’t do during their last turns.
  • 2009-10-01
    Arboria’s effect cares whether a player put a nontoken permanent onto the battlefield. It’s unusual for an ability to care who did the putting (as opposed to whose control the permanent entered the battlefield under), and requires careful reading of spells and abilities to see which player is instructed to put something onto the battlefield. For example, Exhume causes each player to return a creature card from their graveyard to the battlefield. If Exhume’s controller has no creature cards in their graveyard, but another player does, only that other player puts a permanent onto the battlefield. It doesn’t matter who controls the effect.
  • 2009-10-01
    Arboria’s effect cares about the actions taken by players, not their results. If a player cast a spell during their last turn but that spell was countered, that player may still be attacked. The same is true if a player put a nontoken permanent onto the battlefield during their last turn, even if it’s no longer on the battlefield by the time that player is attacked.
  • 2008-10-01
    This has the supertype world. When a world permanent enters the battlefield, any world permanents that were already on the battlefield are put into their owners’ graveyards. This is a state-based action called the “world rule.” The new world permanent stays on the battlefield. If two world permanents enter the battlefield at the same time, they’re both put into their owners’ graveyards.
  • 2004-10-04
    This effect modifies the announcement of an attack, so it only works if it is on the battlefield at that time.
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