Rules glossary
↑ Section 701. Keyword Actions
701.50 Connive
- 701.50a Certain spells and abilities instruct a permanent to connive. To do so, that permanent’s controller draws a card, then discards a card. If a nonland card is discarded this way, that player puts a +1/+1 counter on the conniving permanent.
- 701.50b If a permanent is no longer on the battlefield as an effect instructs it to connive, its last known information is used to determine which object connived and who controlled it.
- 701.50c If multiple permanents are instructed to connive at the same time, the first player in APNAP order who controls (or, in the case of a permanent no longer on the battlefield, last controlled; see rule 701.50b) one or more of those permanents chooses one of them and it connives. Then this process is repeated for each remaining instruction to connive. (refs: 701.50b)
- 701.50d Connive N is a variant of connive. To have a permanent connive N, the permanent’s controller draws N cards, discards N cards, then puts a number of +1/+1 counters on the permanent equal to the number of nonland cards discarded this way.
- 701.50e If a permanent would connive 0, no connive event occurs. Abilities that trigger whenever a permanent connives won’t trigger.
- 701.50f A permanent “connives” after the process described in either rule 701.50a or 701.50d is complete, even if some or all of those actions were impossible. (refs: 701.50a)