Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist
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First strike
Ward {1} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)
Disturb {3}{W} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.)
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Flying, first strike
Each creature you control has ward {1}. (Whenever it becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {1}.)
If Chapel Shieldgeist would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
What it does
Tagged as Recursion — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.
Keyword reminders
Official rulings
- When you cast a spell using a card's disturb ability, the card is put onto the stack with its back face up. The resulting spell has all the characteristics of that face. (2021-09-24)
- "Disturb [cost]" means "You may cast this card transformed from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than its mana cost." (2021-09-24)
- The back face of each card with disturb has an ability that instructs its controller to exile if it would be put into a graveyard from anywhere. This includes going to the graveyard from the stack, so if the spell is countered after you cast it using the disturb ability, it will be put into exile. (2021-09-24)
- To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a disturb cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of a spell cast using disturb is determined by the mana cost on the front face of the card, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was. (This is a special rule that applies only to nonmodal double faced-cards, including ones with disturb.) (2021-09-24)
- Disturb is found only on the front faces of some double-faced cards. (2021-09-24)
- A spell cast this way enters the battlefield with its back face up. (2021-09-24)
- If you copy a permanent spell cast this way (perhaps with a card like Double Major), the copy becomes a token that's a copy of the card's back face, even though it isn't itself a double-faced card. (2021-09-24)
Printings & prices
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