Cliffside Market

set	min	mtgo
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Name	Cliffside Market
Type	Plane — mercadia
Description	When you planeswalk to Cliffside Market or at the beginning of your upkeep, you may exchange life totals with target player. Whenever chaos ensues, exchange control of two target permanents that share a card type.
Artist	Matt Stewart
Set	Planechase Anthology Planes #18
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Cliffside Market

Cliffside Market, Plane — mercadia, designed by Matt Stewart first released in Sep, 2009 in the set Planechase Planes and was printed exactly in 2 different ways.

A deck focused on life manipulation and control effects would benefit from using Cliffside Market in Magic: the Gathering. While this card can create interesting and unpredictable gameplay situations, there are more efficient options available, such as Sorin Markov or Gideon Jura, which offer targeted life manipulation or control effects without the randomness of Cliffside Market. Overall, Cliffside Market may not see much play in competitive decks due to its unpredictability and higher mana cost compared to other more reliable options.

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.”

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For two players to exchange life totals, what actually happens is that each player gains or loses the amount of life necessary to equal the other player’s previous life total. For example, if Player A has 5 life and Player B has 3 life before the exchange, Player A will lose 2 life and Player B will gain 2 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.

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If either permanent targeted by the chaos ability is an illegal target by the time the ability resolves, the exchange doesn’t happen. If both targets become illegal, the ability doesn’t resolve.

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The control-change effect has no duration. For each permanent, it will last until the game ends or the permanent leaves the battlefield. It will override all previous control-change effects for those permanents, and may be overridden by a later control-change effect.

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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.

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