Startling Development 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
Until end of turn, target creature becomes a blue Serpent with base power and toughness 4/4. Cycling(
How it works : Startling Development
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Startling Development overwrites all previous effects that set the affected creatures’ color, creature types, power, and/or toughness to specific values. Other effects that set these characteristics to specific values that start to apply after Startling Development resolves will overwrite that part of the effect.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Effects that modify the affected creature’s power or toughness without setting it will apply no matter when they started to take effect. The same is true for counters that change the creature’s power or toughness.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
The affected creature doesn’t lose any abilities when it becomes a Serpent.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to the target creature may become lethal once its base toughness becomes 4.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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