Mental Vapors
Sorcery
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
Legal in
Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander
Rulings (11)
The exiled card with cipher grants a triggered ability to the creature it’s encoded on. If that creature loses that ability and subsequently deals combat damage to a player, the triggered ability won’t trigger. However, the exiled card will continue to be encoded on that creature.
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If the creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card will no longer be encoded on any creature. It will stay exiled.
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The spell with cipher is encoded on the creature as part of that spell’s resolution, just after the spell’s other effects. That card goes directly from the stack to exile. It never goes to the graveyard.
2013-04-15
If another player gains control of the creature, that player will control the triggered ability. That player will create a copy of the encoded card and may cast it.
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