Academy at Tolaria West

set	min	mtgo
-	0.00	1.65 tix

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Name	Academy at Tolaria West
Type	Plane — dominaria
Description	At the beginning of your end step, if you have no cards in hand, draw seven cards. Whenever chaos ensues, discard your hand.
Artist	James Paick
Set	Planechase Anthology Planes #9
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Academy at Tolaria West

Academy at Tolaria West, Plane — dominaria, designed by James Paick first released in Sep, 2009 in the set Planechase Planes and was printed exactly in 2 different ways.

This card, Academy at Tolaria West, would benefit a deck that focuses on quickly emptying its hand to take advantage of the powerful card draw effect. Decks that utilize strategies like wheel effects or aggressive discard mechanics would find this card particularly useful. While there may be more efficient card draw options available, the unique ability of Academy at Tolaria West to draw seven cards at the end of your turn with an empty hand can be a game-changer in the right deck. It could see play in specific decks that can effectively leverage its ability to draw a large number of cards in one go.

Rules

10/01/09

A plane card is treated as if its text box included “When you roll , put this card on the bottom of its owner’s planar deck face down, then move the top card of your planar deck off that planar deck and turn it face up.” This is called the “planeswalking ability.”

10/01/09

Academy at Tolaria West’s first ability has an “intervening ‘if’ clause.” That means (1) the ability won’t trigger at all unless you have no cards in hand as your end step begins, and (2) the ability will do nothing unless you have no cards in hand by the time it resolves.

10/01/09

The controller of a face-up plane card is the player designated as the “planar controller.” Normally, the planar controller is whoever the active player is. However, if the current planar controller would leave the game, instead the next player in turn order that wouldn’t leave the game becomes the planar controller, then the old planar controller leaves the game. The new planar controller retains that designation until they leave the game or a different player becomes the active player, whichever comes first.