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Bronze Tablet

Card Name

Bronze Tablet

Mana Cost

6

Type

Artifact

Rarity

Rare

rules Text

Comes into play tapped.
4
, : Remove Bronze Tablet and target card opponent owns from the game. You become owner of opponent's card, and opponent becomes owner of Bronze Tablet. Opponent may prevent this exchange by paying 10 life; if he or she does so, destroy Bronze Tablet. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Play this ability as an interrupt.Remove Bronze Tablet from your deck before playing if not playing for ante.

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Banned Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Modern, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(10/4/2004)
If using a copy of the Tablet, you must trade the copy card to your opponent just like you would have traded the Tablet.
(10/4/2004)
You can't choose to pay 10 life if you have less than 10 life, but you may choose to give up the game immediately. This has roughly the same effect.
(10/4/2004)
You can take control of your opponent's Tablet and in the trade you only have to give them back their Tablet.
(10/4/2004)
If the card being targeted by the Bronze Tablet is removed before Tablet takes effect, then the Tablet ability doesn't resolve and it remains tapped.
(8/1/2008)
If the tablet is not still on the battlefield when the ability resolves, it is not exiled. The other player still has the choice to pay 10 life, and you still become the owner of their card if they choose not to do so.