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In-hand effects are card effects which are active while they are in the player's hand, rather than while in the battlefield. In-hand effects are notable for being exceptions to the general game rule that cards do not become active until played or otherwise put into play.

Most cards with in-hand effects have a variable mana cost that changes in response to game conditions, as with LegacyMolten Giant or The Grand TournamentKnight of the Wild. Other effects include increasing stats (as with Goblins vs GnomesBolvar Fordragon or Mean Streets of GadgetzanBlubber Baron), transforming into other cards (as with Whispers of the Old GodsShifter Zerus and Journey to Un'GoroMolten Blade), or directly causing an effect outside of the card itself (as with The League of ExplorersCursed!).

Because mana cost modifications are lost upon being played, the consequences of most in-hand effects exist only while in the hand. Modifications made to the card itself other than mana cost tend to survive into the battlefield, although they will be lost if returned to the hand. Most in-hand effects are calculated on an ongoing basis, depending on certain events within the game; these provide their values regardless of when they were brought into the hand. Others activate at specific times, only recording the number of times the triggering event has taken place while they were in the hand.

In-hand effects are distinguished from on-draw effects, which activate when they are drawn from the deck, but not otherwise while they are in the player's hand. However, since on-draw effects must first be drawn into the player's hand in order to activate, they are in a sense in-hand effects.

Notes[]

  • While some in-hand effects, like those of The Grand TournamentFrost Giant or One Night in KarazhanArcane Giant, appear to respond to events taking place while the card is still in the player's deck, the effect is in fact not triggered until the card enters the player's hand.[1]

Cards[]

For Wild format listings, see In-hand effect/Wild format

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TTN 950
TSC 641ta
TSC 955t
TSC 058
TID 707
ETC 523
TTN 930
TSC 651
CORE NEW1 022
RLK 603
ETC 384
JAM 028
TTN 831
RLK 082
TTN 741
TID 709
TTN 841
REV 940
TTN 085
MAW 101
TTN 088
CORE OG 028
JAM 016
MAW 020
REV 843
RLK 213
RLK 651
TTN 954
TTN 462
RLK 744
RLK 590
REV 838
TID 077
CORE EX1 586
NX2 033
TSC 061
TTN 459
TSC 829
JAM 030

References[]

 
  1. Chadd Nervig on Twitter. (2020-07-24). 
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