Flying
Riot
Skarrgan Hellkite
Card Rules and Details
Card Type: Creature — Dragon
Mana Cost: {3}{R}{R}
Oracle Rules Text: Riot (This creature enters with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.) Flying {3}{R}: This creature deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two targets. Activate only if this creature has a +1/+1 counter on it.
Set: Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (#233), Rarity: Mythic, Artist: Svetlin Velinov
Creature
Red
Mythic
Evasion
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Historical Printings & Sets (1)
1 Languages
Official Rulings (6)
2019-01-25
If you choose for the creature to gain haste, it gains haste indefinitely. It won't lose it as the turn ends or as another player gains control of it.
2019-01-25
You divide the damage as you activate Skarrgan Hellkite's ability, not as it resolves. Each target must be assigned at least 1 damage. In other words, as you activate the ability, you choose whether to have Skarrgan Hellkite deal 2 damage to a single target, or deal 1 damage to each of two targets.
2019-01-25
If a creature entering the battlefield has riot but can't have a +1/+1 counter put onto it, it gains haste.
2019-01-25
Riot is a replacement effect. Players can't respond to your choice of +1/+1 counter or haste, and they can't take actions while the creature is on the battlefield without one or the other.
2019-01-25
Once Skarrgan Hellkite's ability has been activated, it resolves even if all +1/+1 counters are removed from it or if Skarrgan Hellkite leaves the battlefield.
2019-01-25
If Skarrgan Hellkite's ability has two targets and one becomes illegal, the remaining target is dealt 1 damage, not 2.
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