Scout's Warning 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
The next creature card you play this turn can be played as though it had flash. Draw a card.
How it works : Scout's Warning
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
After Scout's Warning resolves, you can suspend a creature card in your hand any time you can cast an instant. As soon as you actually cast a creature card, you lose this capability.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If you cast multiple Scout's Warnings on the same turn, they'll all apply to the very next creature spell you cast.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
You cannot use this effect to play Dryad Arbor during an opponent's turn.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
You don't choose a creature card when Scout's Warning resolves. Rather, this sets up a rule that is true for you until the turn ends or until you cast a creature card, even if you cast that creature at a time you normally could.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Transcendence + Exquisite Archangel + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Mind Over Matter
- 1Tap Kiki-Jiki to activate it, creating token copy of Drogskol Reaver.
- 2Discard a card to activate Mind Over Matter, untapping Kiki-Jiki.
- 3Pay
to cast Transcendence.
- 4Transcendence's second ability triggers.
- 5In response, tap Kiki-Jiki to activate it, creating a token copy of Exquisite Archangel.
- 6Resolve Transcendence's ability modified by the token Exquisite Archangel's replacement effect, exiling the token and reducing your life total to your starting life total.
- 7Transcendence's second and third abilities each trigger.
- 8Resolve its third ability, gaining life equal to twice the amount you lost.
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