Market price
- Near Mint
- $0.69
- Lightly Played
- $0.59
- Moderately Played
- $0.60
- Damaged
- $1.27
- Near Mint
- $0.69
- Lightly Played
- $0.59
- Moderately Played
- $0.60
- Damaged
- $1.27
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Creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.
“The glorious city of Pachatupa is the center of the Sun Empire, and Tocatli, the emperor's palace, is its glowing heart.”
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Illustrated by Sara Winters
Rulings (6)
Sep 29, 2017
If Tocatli Honor Guard and another creature enter the battlefield at the same time, neither creature entering the battlefield will cause triggered abilities to trigger.
Sep 29, 2017
Look at the permanent as it exists on the battlefield, taking into account continuous effects, to determine whether any triggered abilities will trigger. For example, if you control March of the Machines, which says, in part, "Each noncreature artifact is an artifact creature," each artifact will be a creature at the time it enters the battlefield and will not cause triggered abilities to trigger.
Sep 29, 2017
Replacement effects, such as a permanent entering the battlefield tapped or with counters on it, are unaffected. Abilities that apply "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" are replacement effects.
Sep 29, 2017
The trigger event doesn't have to specify "creatures" entering the battlefield. For example, Contraband Kingpin has an ability that says "Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, scry 1." If an artifact creature enters the battlefield under your control, that ability won't trigger. If a noncreature artifact enters the battlefield under your control, the ability will trigger.
Sep 29, 2017
Tocatli Honor Guard's ability stops a creature's own enters-the-battlefield triggered abilities as well as other triggered abilities that would trigger when a creature enters the battlefield. This includes abilities that would trigger when Tocatli Honor Guard itself enters the battlefield.
Sep 29, 2017
Triggered abilities use the word "when," "whenever," or "at." They're usually written as "[Trigger condition], [effect]."
