Form of the Dinosaur is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
When this enchantment enters, your life total becomes 15. At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals 15 damage to target creature an opponent controls and that creature deals damage equal to its power to you.
How it works : Form of the Dinosaur
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
For your life total to become 15, you gain or lose the appropriate amount of life. For example, if your life total is 4 when Form of the Dinosaur’s first ability resolves, it will cause you to gain 11 life; alternatively, if your life total is 40 when it resolves, it will cause you to lose 25 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Form of the Dinosaur’s last ability isn’t optional. You have to pick a fight with an opponent’s creature if any are legal targets. If that creature leaves the battlefield after it becomes the target of Form of the Dinosaur’s ability but before it resolves, you won’t be dealt damage.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Form of the Dinosaur’s first ability causes your team’s life total to become 15. Only you gain or lose life this way.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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