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Nesting Grounds

Card Name

Nesting Grounds

Type

Land

Rarity

Uncommon

rules Text

: Add .
1
, : Move a counter from target permanent you control onto a second target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Flavor Text

A butterfly will lead the way to secret things.

Legal Formats

Commander, Explorer, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(4/17/2020)
You choose the two target permanents as Nesting Grounds's second ability is put onto the stack. You choose which kind of counter to move as that ability resolves.
(4/17/2020)
To move a counter from one creature to another, the counter is removed from the first permanent and put on the second. Any abilities that care about a counter being removed from or put onto a permanent will apply.
(4/17/2020)
If either permanent becomes an illegal target, no counter is removed or put.
(4/17/2020)
The two target permanents don't have to share a type, which can result in some counters on permanents that would not occur normally, such as loyalty counters on creatures or +1/+1 counters on lands. Keyword counters will grant the permanent that keyword even if it's meaningless (such as trample on an enchantment); +1/+1 counters won't affect the permanent unless it's a creature; and many named counters (such as soul counters) won't have an effect unless the recipient permanent refers to them in some way.