Startling Development
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #68 (common)
- Price
- $0.18 USD
Until end of turn, target creature becomes a blue Serpent with base power and toughness 4/4.
Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Startling Development has 2 printings, first in Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (2020). EDHREC ranks it #21,838 among Commander cards. It appears most in Gregor, Shrewd Magistrate decks (104 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Startling Development most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Gregor, Shrewd Magistrate: 104 decks
- Ghost of Ramirez DePietro: 2 decks
- Glacian, Powerstone Engineer: 1 decks
Often played with Startling Development
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Effects that modify the affected creature’s power or toughness without setting it will apply no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for counters that change the creature’s power or toughness.
- : Startling Development overwrites all previous effects that set the affected creatures’ color, creature types, power, and/or toughness to specific values. Other effects that set these characteristics to specific values that start to apply after Startling Development resolves will overwrite that part of the effect.
- : The affected creature doesn’t lose any abilities when it becomes a Serpent.
- : Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to the target creature may become lethal once its base toughness becomes 4.