The text “if you attacked with a creature this turn” uses the old Raid template. This should say “if you attacked this turn” to match every other Raid (and Raid-equivalent) Oracle text.

This says “draw card” instead of “draw a card.”

Allowing players to choose a targeted mode and an untargeted mode for the same effect creates an avoidable play issue: if all targets are removed in response, the entire effect fails to resolve. This is unintuitive and rewards niche rules knowledge over core gameplay. I doubt there’s ever been a worse example of this; ‘countering’ menace, trample, and -1/-1 midcombat is a brutal shift in combat math.

This has received errata to make a “creature token” instead of a “creature.” This would normally be an obvious typo, but I’m marking it as a rules issue since it appears on an acorn card. If a card is allowed to break rules, any rules mistakes in the text could be misinterpreted as intentional.

missing the word “as”

“Add or subtract 1 from” is bad grammar. This should be “Add 1 to or subtract 1 from” or a completely different template like “Increase or decrease [value] by 1” (which they use on Night Shift of the Living Dead in the same set).

Unfortunately this is a consistent template and not a mistake, so I’m not going to track other cards with the same problem.

The first ability is templated as a triggered ability that causes a replacement effect. This makes no sense and has received errata to make it a regular replacement effect: “If a hot source you control would deal damage to a player or permanent, it deals that much damage plus 1 instead.”

Day 0 errata changed the highlighted text to “Whenever you roll a die, if the result isn’t stored on Goblin Girder Gang, you may store that result on it.” Unlike the original, this new text prevents you from storing multiple identical results rolled at the same time.

Day 0 errata changed the highlighted text to “[…] you may have Ambassador Blorpityblorpboop’s base power become equal to the total power of all stickers on permanents you control and its base toughness become equal to those stickers’ total toughness.”

The original text was unclear and could have been interpreted as an instruction to sum powers and toughnesses together and use the result for each of Ambassador’s stats.

This might be the only card to require two separate day 0 errata.

First, its ability was reworded to clarify that “until end of turn” applied to all parts of the effect.

Second, the order of events in the last highlighted text was reversed so the Vehicle first gets sacrificed, then deals damage. As written, resolving a Crash Land trigger would trigger a second Crash Land trigger, with a chance to deal damage a second time. This wouldn’t go infinite, but it was weird and easy to miss.

The character’s name in Warhammer lore is “Archaon,” not “Archaeon.”

First-person flavor text should be inside quotation marks.

This is, of course, the only problem with 30th Anniversary Edition.

First-person flavor text should be inside quotation marks.

This is, of course, the only problem with 30th Anniversary Edition.

First-person flavor text should be inside quotation marks.

This is, of course, the only problem with 30th Anniversary Edition.

Missed opportunity to correct an unnecessary template change from Masters Edition IV. “Other Zombies have swampwalk and ‘B: Regenerate this permanent’” is closer to the original as well as to the Oracle texts of Lord of Atlantis and Goblin King. (The current template is technically functional errata. You have to try pretty hard to make landwalk matter on a noncreature Tribal Zombie card, but it’s still an unnecessary rules change.)

First-person flavor text should be inside quotation marks.

First-person flavor text should be inside quotation marks.

This is, of course, the only problem with 30th Anniversary Edition.

First-person flavor text should be inside quotation marks.

This is, of course, the only problem with 30th Anniversary Edition.

First-person flavor text should be inside quotation marks.

This is, of course, the only problem with 30th Anniversary Edition.

First-person flavor text should be inside quotation marks.

This is, of course, the only problem with 30th Anniversary Edition.

First-person flavor text should be inside quotation marks.

This is, of course, the only problem with 30th Anniversary Edition.

First-person flavor text should be inside quotation marks.

This is, of course, the only problem with 30th Anniversary Edition.

The highlighted ability received day 0 errata to clarify that the two lands you search for must have the same name. The printed text was ambiguous and could have been interpreted to allow the player to reference two different lands in play for the two new lands.

The new text is “If you do, choose a land you control. Then search your library for up to two basic land cards which have the same name as the chosen land, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.”

Just a pet peeve—they never printed an emblem for this planeswalker.

This received day 0 errata to replace the highlighted “a creature” text with “an artifact creature”. This errata actually allows it to keep all types and subtypes, so Hammer of Purphuros would be an artifact enchantment creature. The printed text, since it does not reference any types being retained, would instead remove all non-creature types and subtypes.

This is consistent with WotC’s pronoun rules, but it’s a good example of why I find those rules annoying: Captain Ripley Vance’s rules text refers to “it” while the flavor text refers to “she.”

This doesn’t bother me too much on its own; rules text can refer to all cards as game objects, and game objects don’t need a gender. But there are already exceptions for planeswalker cards, as well as for Universes Beyond cards. At that point, just hire more editors and do a final pronoun pass on the legendary creature cards before print. Commander is the most popular format after all; make the commanders feel more like proper characters in the rules text if you’re going to put the same effort into Tibalt.

It’s best to avoid a mix-and-match of targeted and untargeted modes for modal effects that allow you to choose more than one mode, to prevent feel-bad and unintuitive interactions with target removal and fizzling.

But to be honest this one is pretty forgivable since the last two modes really want to target and the first one is nice and clean without targeting. If play design liked how this was playing I wouldn’t fight over it.

If the target of the first mode is removed in response, none of the effects happen. This unintuitive and unpleasant possibility could have been avoided by templating the first mode without targets, for instance “Choose a creature. If it has a counter on it, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.”

If one targeting and one nontargeting mode are chosen, removing one target will prevent the entire ability from resolving, including the nontargeting mode.

Wizards usually tries to avoid this, and they could have done it here by templating the third mode as “Target player creates […]” and the fourth mode as “[…] on target creature you control.”

The highlighted text is a nonstandard template, and has been erratad to use the typical “as though it were mana of any color.”

The printed template could be misinterpreted as using “it” to refer to the exiled card, instead of the mana.

Jodah both counts himself and buffs himself, meaning his printed power and toughness are almost never his actual power and toughness.

To be honest I don’t really mind this one because this template serves other priorities. Templating it as “Other legendary creatures” would have been a significant nerf, and more convoluted retemplating would get away from the simple “unifier” flavor of the ability.

Due to the very specific way the relevant rules are written, Serra Paragon’s ability did not create the ‘exile’ effect at time of printing. Abilities granted to spells on the stack only transfer onto the permanents those spells become in certain circumstances, none of which applied here.

The underlying rules were changed specifically to make this card work (after already changing them once to solve a very similar problem with Henzie). That’s never the situation you want to be in with a ruleset as complicated and important as Magic’s.

The highlighted word “player” is ambiguous here; it could refer to the player the commander creature is attacking. The card has received an update to change this word to “opponent,” making it clear whom each soldier is attacking.

The highlighted text is ambigous, and could mean that the token only has flying if the target was legendary. The card received an update to change this to “has flying and it isn’t legendary […].”

(The card was later updated again to remove extra words, but that was part of a general template update and not mistake correction.)

This card received a day zero update to specify “an ability that isn’t a mana ability.”

This is a style issue and not a rules issue; due to the unique way mana abilities work, you could never copy them with Dynaheir even as printed. But most players wouldn’t know that and the card screams “infinite mana loop” without the specification, so it is wise to state the restriction up front.

The words “the rest” excludes the nonland card you revealed. This means that, if you declined to cast that card, it would stay on top of your library. This was not the card’s intended behavior, and day zero errata changed this to “all revealed cards not cast this way.”

Day zero errata changed the highlighted “targets a” to “targets only a.” As printed, Zevlor could copy an instant or sorcery that targeted a single opponent but any number of your own permanents, which is a major change to the intended functionality.

Following the current style guide, any effect that could put four or more cards on the bottom of a library should use the template “in a random order” to avoid wasting time on a usually meaningless decision. They got this right for Harper Recruiter in the same set, but messed it up here.

Probably the funniest mistake ever. At the time of printing, Henzie’s ability allowed you to pay a creature’ spell’s blitz cost and… sacrifice it at end of turn. There are very specific rules about when a change to a spell carries over onto the permanent that spell becomes, and Henzie did not follow them. The creature spell on the stack had haste and the card draw effect, but the permanent did not. The sacrifice was not linked to card text, however, so you still got to do that!

This card was not errata’d; instead, the rules themselves were changed. This is the biggest risk from poor templating: that the enormous Jenga tower of rules are forced to change not from careful iteration and improvement, but to make one card work. And now poor judges in training need to learn this inelegant mess: “Effects from static abilities that give a permanent spell on the stack an ability that allows it to be cast for an alternative cost continue to apply to the permanent that spell becomes.”

(Before long, Serra Paragon made a very similar mistake and these rules had to be changed again.)

Of the five ordinary prints of the Praetor cycle redux, this is the only one without a Phyrexian watermark. Boo!

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker s a reference to Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker.

Enhance:

Mirror-Breaker references Mirror Breaker

Enhance:

r-B vs r B

Who stabbed this goblin with a hyphen?

The printed card left out “until end of turn.” Oops!

Following the current style guide, any effect that could put four or more cards on the bottom of a library should use the template “in a random order” to avoid wasting time on a usually meaningless decision. They got this right for Arcane Infusion in the same set, but messed it up here.

The word “its” is ambiguous: do you use the toughness of the creature card in the graveyard, or the creature on the battlefield? The text was updated to “that creature’s” to make it unambiguously the latter.

The printed text first creates Vecna, then gives it triggered abilities. This means any abilities that trigger when Vecna enters the battlefield don’t have a chance to trigger. (Mostly Eye of Vecna’s, though with trickery you can exile any permanent card.)

The text has been updated to extend the previous action instead: “[…] with indestructible and all triggered abilities of the exiled cards.”

Delina required not one but two updates:

First, the “Roll again” instruction was changed to “You may roll again.” As printed, you could use cards like Pixie Guide to create a situation where you were required to keep rolling dice and creating tokens forever.

Later, the text “Exile this creature at end of combat” was changed to “At end of combat, exile this creature.” The first template is the one used for delayed triggered abilities, but this is just a regular triggered ability, which should be written with the trigger condition first.

The word “type” here could refer to a few different things; the most likely misinterpretation is “creature type,” which would mean your opponents only need to sacrifice a creature if they also have an Elf (for example).

The card has been updated to specify “card type.”

The printed template instructed the player to phase out the creatures. It has been corrected to use the standard template, which just makes the creatures phase out without involving a player: “those creatures phase out.”

The last ability on the printed text only triggered if you, the controller of Elemental Expressionist, exiled the creature. The card has been changed to the intended behavior, which doesn’t care about the controller of the exile effect: “When this creature is put into exile, […]”

The printed text told you to put the exiled card into “your” graveyard no matter what. This isn’t actually possible with cards owned by other players, so the card was changed to the standard template that makes this clear: “its owner’s graveyard.”

The printed text refers to the card by the wrong name.

The original text, unusually, only triggered if “you” caused the exile.

This was deemed unintuitive (Does your own Rest in Peace count?), so this was changed to “Whenever a spell or ability you control exiles one or more cards from your hand and/or permanents from the battlefield […]”

This caused a worse problem, since Ranar is the Foretell-themed commander, and Foretell didn’t trigger its ability, since Foretell is a special action and neither a spell nor ability!

So this was changed again to “Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from your hand or a spell or ability you control exiles one or more permanents from the battlefield.” So… elegant…

Of all cards printed with the Spirit and Angel types, this is the only one that orders them “Spirit Angel” instead of “Angel Spirit.”

Style guides aren’t about following rules absolutely, and it’s possible this is an intentional change to stress the Spirit subtype in a Spirit-heavy preconstructed deck.

This text was updated to add “revealed this way” . . . because without it, the ability mandates you to put every card of the chosen type that you own in any public zone into your hand!