Golden Demise

Format legality

Where you can play Golden Demise in sanctioned and popular formats.

All printings

Prices range from $0.23 to $0.35 across finishes. Cheapest printing: Rivals of Ixalan at $0.23.

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Rulings

Official rulings from Wizards of the Coast (6).

• 2018-01-19A permanent is any object on the battlefield, including tokens and lands. Spells and emblems aren’t permanents.
• 2018-01-19If you cast a spell with ascend, you don’t get the city’s blessing until it resolves. Players may respond to that spell by trying to change whether you get the city’s blessing.
• 2018-01-19Golden Demise affects only creatures that are on the battlefield at the time it resolves. Creatures that enter the battlefield later in the turn won’t get -2/-2. Similarly, if you have the city’s blessing, creatures that come under your opponents’ control later in the turn won’t get -2/-2.
• 2018-01-19Once you have the city’s blessing, you have it for the rest of the game, even if you lose control of some or all of your permanents. The city’s blessing isn’t a permanent itself and can’t be removed by any effect.
• 2018-01-19If you control ten permanents but don’t control a permanent or resolving spell with ascend, you don’t get the city’s blessing. For example, if you control ten permanents, lose control of one, then cast Golden Demise, you won’t have the city’s blessing and the spell will affect creatures you control.
• 2018-01-19If your tenth permanent enters the battlefield and then a permanent leaves the battlefield immediately afterwards (most likely due to the “Legend Rule” or due to being a creature with 0 toughness), you get the city’s blessing before it leaves the battlefield.

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