Card

Ruthless Sniper

Creature — Human Archer


Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay . If you do, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

"You may feel a slight sting."


  Amonkhet (AKH)
#105, Uncommon

Illustrated by: Sara Winters
Multiverse ID: 426807

Rulings

  • 2017-04-18
    If a player discards a card during his or her cleanup step due to having too many cards in hand, any appropriate abilities that trigger on discarding that card trigger. If this happens, those triggered abilities are put onto the stack and players receive priority in that cleanup step to cast spells or activate abilities (normally, no players may take actions during a cleanup step). Another cleanup step is created following that one.
  • 2017-04-18
    An ability that triggers whenever you "cycle or discard" a card triggers only once if you cycle a card. The ability "Whenever you discard a card" is functionally identical to this ability; cycling is mentioned for clarity.
  • 2017-04-18
    An ability that triggers whenever you discard a card doesn't give you permission to discard cards. You'll need another effect that instructs or allows you to discard them.
  • 2017-04-18
    Some cards have an ability that triggers whenever you cycle any card. These triggered abilities resolve before you draw from the cycling ability.
  • 2017-04-18
    While resolving Ruthless Sniper's triggered ability, you can't pay multiple times to put more counters on creatures.
  • 2017-04-18
    If a player discards a card during their cleanup step due to having too many cards in hand, any appropriate abilities that trigger on discarding that card trigger. If this happens, those triggered abilities are put onto the stack and players receive priority in that cleanup step to cast spells or activate abilities (normally, no players may take actions during a cleanup step). Another cleanup step is created following that one.
  • 2017-04-18
    An ability that triggers whenever you “cycle or discard” a card triggers only once if you cycle a card. The ability “Whenever you discard a card” is functionally identical to this ability; cycling is mentioned for clarity.
  • 2017-04-18
    An ability that triggers whenever you discard a card doesn’t give you permission to discard cards. You’ll need another effect that instructs or allows you to discard them.
  • 2017-04-18
    While resolving Ruthless Sniper’s triggered ability, you can’t pay multiple times to put more counters on creatures.
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