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River Kelpie

Display: Oracle | Printed

Card Name:

River Kelpie

Mana Cost:

Converted Mana Cost:

Types:

Creature — Beast

Card Text:

Whenever River Kelpie or another permanent is put onto the battlefield from a graveyard, draw a card.

Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card.

Persist (When this creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

P/T:

3 / 3

Expansion:

Shadowmoor

Rarity:

Rare

Card #:

Artist:

Jeff Easley

Community Rating:

Rating: 3.885 / 5 (13 votes)

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5/1/2008	River Kelpie doesn't give you the ability to cast spells from graveyards. Its second ability merely triggers whenever a spell is cast this way (by using Memory Plunder, for example).
5/1/2008	If River Kelpie and another permanent are each put onto the battlefield from a graveyard at the same time, River Kelpie's first ability will trigger twice. (It will see the other permanent entering the battlefield.)
5/1/2008	If you cast another artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker spell from a graveyard, only the second ability triggers. That's because the card is put onto the stack, not onto the battlefield.
5/1/2008	If you cast River Kelpie itself from your graveyard (by using Yawgmoth's Will, for example), neither ability triggers. The first ability doesn't trigger because River Kelpie is put onto the stack; the second ability doesn't trigger because it works only while River Kelpie is already on the battlefield.
5/1/2008	If you play a land card from a graveyard (by using Crucible of Worlds, for example), only the first ability triggers. That's because the land (which isn't a spell) is put directly onto the battlefield from the graveyard.