MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #31

Royal Decree

DIGITAL ONLY

me2·#31·rare·foil

Illus. Pete Venters

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Sep '08

18 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #25,229 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$0.02

Nonfoil$0.02

Gameplay

Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep {W} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever a Swamp, Mountain, black permanent, or red permanent becomes tapped, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that permanent's controller.

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawlnot legal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 1

2008-10-01wotc

Royal Decree’s ability will trigger a maximum of once for each permanent that becomes tapped, even if that permanent meets multiple criteria. (For example, Badlands is both a Swamp and a Mountain.)

Context

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from ME2 — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #31 of *Masters Edition II*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2008 Masters Edition II release.

Card type: Enchantment, color identity white, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {2}{W}{W} (4 converted). Keyword abilities: Cumulative upkeep.

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander. This printing is on Wizards of the Coast's Reserved List — Wizards has committed never to reprint cards on that list, which underwrites a structural scarcity floor on every surviving copy.

EDHrec ranks this card #25,229 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Pete Venters. Rarix catalogs 943 other cards credited to this artist.