| Meddling Mage | ||
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| CMC: | 2 | |
| Card Type: | Creature — Human Wizard | |
| Power/Toughness: | 2/2 | |
| Oracle Text: | As Meddling Mage enters the battlefield, name a nonland card.
The named card can't be cast. | |
| Flavor Text: |  : "Meddling mages chant so loudly that no one can get a spell in edgewise."
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| Rulings | |
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| 5/1/2009 | No one can cast spells or activate abilities between the time a card is named and the time that Meddling Mage's ability starts to work. |
| 5/1/2009 | Spells with the chosen name that somehow happen to already be on the stack when Meddling Mage enters the battlefield are not affected by Meddling Mage's ability. |
| 5/1/2009 | Although the named card can’t be cast, it can still be put onto the battlefield by a spell or ability (if it’s a permanent card). |
| 5/1/2009 | You can name either half of a split card, but not both. If you do so, that half (and both halves, if the split card has fuse) can’t be cast. The other half is unaffected. |
| 5/1/2009 | If a card with morph is named, that card may still be cast face down. Face-down cards have no names. |
| 5/1/2009 | Some cards (such as Isochron Scepter, for example) let you cast a copy of a card. A copy of a card isn’t actually a card, so Meddling Mage can’t stop this. |
| 5/1/2009 | Once Meddling Mage leaves the battlefield, the named card can be cast again. |