Hus Werny 火山: Mechanics

Mechanics | Skeleton | Deck Archetypes | Tribes

Ingest: Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top PARAM1 cards of er library. Used on 4 cards: Scorpion King, Devourer Scorpion, Avaricious Vulkmer, Pyrfolk Sandblaster

Evergreen mechanic for {u} {b} (and sometimes {r} ) to enable library depletion strategies.

Retrace: You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs. Used on 10 cards: Card91357 // Regroup, Card91366 // Reignite, Card91364 // Reestablish, Card91360 // Recapture, Card91357 // Regroup, Card91362 // Refinish, Card91360 // Recapture, Card91366 // Reignite, Card91362 // Refinish, Card91364 // Reestablish

Vanguard: Creatures with vanguard must be blocked before creatures without vanguard Used on 7 cards: Pyrfolk Scout, Vanguardian, Bumbei Trekker, Magnetic Baloth, Sludge of Terror, Solareal Pioneer, Holographic Projector

Evergreen ability. Combos with Decoy. All colors, but mainly {u} {r} .

Sorcerous: Activate this ability only as a sorcery. Used on 8 cards: Jolting Phoenix, Vulktar Familiar, Mindfeed Scorpion, Silicate Armor, Ashfeather Wren, Cactar Tender, Remolten Skeleton, Solareal Disciple

Evergreen keyword that signifies certain activated abilities can only be activated at sorcery speed.

manafacture: Summon PARAM1 1/1 Elemental creatures of all colors with "Sacrifice this creature: Produce one mana of any type." Used on 6 cards: Kwiwi Summoner, Mana Fracture, Flagrant Lavamancer, Volcanoplankton, Optimus Pine, Fuming Cactar

Token creation. Mainly {r} {g} . More frequent on Fire World.

Decoy: PARAM1: During your declare blockers step, put this card onto the field from your hand tapped and attacking blocked by a blocking creature. An attacking creature blocked by that creature becomes unblocked. Used on 10 cards: Sulfuric Scorpion, Silicate Rhox, Plume Elemental, Pyrfolk Lava Bather, Lava Elemental, Magma Wurm, Solareal Templar, Crackback Turtle, Vulkmer Vagabond, Teethed Mole

Surprise attacker to represent red and blue's tendency for change and trickery. Mainly {u} {r} then {b} . Cf. Ninjutsu

*Heat up*: Used on 15 cards: Lava Divination, Jukkau Marauder, Kwiwi Summoner, Oppressive Heat, Bumbei Energizer, Balanced Weight, Magnetic Baloth, Depression Elemental, Sulfuric Acid, Lava Soup, Goldfeather Wren, Snorting Rhox, Galvanize, Silver Wall, Haggard Cinder

Ability word. All colors, but mainly {r} . Fire world only.

Catalyze: Used on 13 cards: Foundry Laundry, Suffocate by Plume, Heat of the Fight, Scorching Gas, Fumigate, Startide, Ion Blast, Fallen Into Depression, Deprive Light, Plasma Form, Tectonic Plate, Seeping Cajole, Solareal Zealot

Ability word grants bonus if target meets criteria. Mainly {u} {w} {b} . More frequent on Water World.

Erupt: When this card enters, you may sacrifice a land. Used on 3 cards: Hongjim Planum, Dwarven Brawler, Tectonic Fault

Land related mechanic. Sacrifice a land for some effect.

Invoke: PARAM2, Discard ~: Exile the top PARAM1 cards of your library. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play those cards. Used on 1 cards: Fiery Effervescence

May replace derive. Mainly {u} {r} , secondary in other colors. Both worlds.

ethereal: This creature takes no combat damage from nor deals combat damage to creatures without ethereal Used on 3 cards: Solareal Pioneer, Holographic Projector, Aspect of Smoke

Evergreen (?) mechanic. Mainly {u} {b} {w} .

Augury: Reveal the top PARAM1 cards of your library. You may put an instant or sorcery card revealed this way into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard. Used on 0 cards:

Keyword action wrt spell matters for {r} only on fire world and {u} only on water world.

In card text or details pages, write the mechanic's code name (playtest name) between square brackets, like "[Crittercast]", "[Bushido 1]" or "[Delay 4 {2}{R}{R}]". It will be expanded to the mechanic's name plus reminder text, such as "Suspend 4 – {2} {r} {r} . (Rather than cast this spell from your hand,...)"
To expand a mechanic's name but not its reminder text, include parentheses at the end of the square brackets: "[Crittercast()]", "[Delay 9 {R}()]".