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Magic (The Gathering) => Rules => Topic started by: RDJDenley on February 03, 2014, 01:27:19 PM

Title: Cipher
Post by: RDJDenley on February 03, 2014, 01:27:19 PM
Seriously, can someone step by step, walk me through how cipher works, I want to use it, but I have little understanding of the thing.
Pls, pls help.
Title: Re: Cipher
Post by: DylanW18 on February 03, 2014, 01:30:03 PM
Cipher is a bit confusing, so I'll attempt to explain it.


After the spell has resolved, say, {Whispering Madness}, it Ciphers onto a creature you control. All this means is when that creature that has the spell "Ciphered" deals combat damage to a player, you re-cast the spell for free
Title: Re: Cipher
Post by: RDJDenley on February 03, 2014, 01:31:05 PM
Just the once or repeatedly ?
Title: Re: Cipher
Post by: Mattao19 on February 03, 2014, 01:33:21 PM
Quote from: RDJDenley on February 03, 2014, 01:31:05 PM
Just the once or repeatedly ?

Repeatedly so if you have a double striking creature you're good to go! It works EVERY TIME that creature deals COMBAT damage to a player so every turn you MAY recast the spell for free :P
Title: Re: Cipher
Post by: Wingnut on February 03, 2014, 02:24:28 PM
Quote from: CbStrad on February 03, 2014, 01:45:12 PM
Also, Cipher spells trigger "when you cast" abilities (such as {Consuming Aberration}'s)

An example I like is {guttersnipe}, it's a pretty snazzy combo.
Title: Re: Cipher
Post by: particle on February 03, 2014, 06:53:32 PM
just as an extention of this, when a cipher spell is "encoded" on another card, can that encoding be copied. if you make a copy of the creature, will it have cipher?
Title: Re: Cipher
Post by: Gorzo on February 03, 2014, 06:57:01 PM
Quote from: particle on February 03, 2014, 06:53:32 PM
just as an extention of this, when a cipher spell is "encoded" on another card, can that encoding be copied. if you make a copy of the creature, will it have cipher?

No, just the original creature has it. Copies only copy the card, not other cards or effects attached to them