Titania's Song — ruling 1

A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn't matter how long the permanent has been a creature.

Titania's Song : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Titania's Song 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

Each noncreature artifact loses all abilities and becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value. If this enchantment leaves the battlefield, this effect continues until end of turn.

Complete guide

Titania's Song is a classic green enchantment that turns the world of machinery into a forest of living constructs. By stripping artifacts of their cold utility, it transforms them into creatures ready for battle based on their inherent magical weight. This card is a powerful tool for shutting down complex artifact engines while building a sudden army.

Mechanical Transformation

Titania's Song applies a continuous effect that changes the type and characteristics of all noncreature artifacts on the battlefield. These artifacts lose all their printed abilities—including mana abilities and triggered effects—and become artifact creatures. Their power and toughness are set to be equal to their total mana value. For example, an artifact that costs three mana becomes a 3/3 creature with no other text.

Resolution and Duration

When Titania's Song enters the battlefield, the transformation is immediate and does not use the stack for each individual artifact. Crucially, the card contains a 'lingering effect' clause: if Titania's Song leaves the battlefield, the artifacts do not immediately revert. Instead, they remain non-ability creatures until the end of the current turn, providing a window of safety or a final chance to attack.

Summoning Sickness and Timing

A common mistake involves forgetting that these new creatures are subject to 'summoning sickness.' Even if an artifact has been under your control for several turns, it cannot attack or use tap abilities the moment it becomes a creature unless you have controlled the permanent itself since the start of your most recent turn. Additionally, because they lose all abilities, artifacts with static effects will stop functioning as soon as the Song begins.

Strategic Implementation

Play Titania's Song when your opponents rely on powerful utility artifacts like mana rocks or static buffers. By turning them into creatures, you not only stop their effects but also make them vulnerable to creature removal and board wipes. In your own deck, use it to convert high-cost, non-combat artifacts into a lethal force for a surprise alpha strike.

Interaction examples

The Song of Growth

Garruk's Uprising

If you have Garruk's Uprising on the battlefield and then cast Titania's Song, any noncreature artifact with a mana value of 4 or greater will trigger the Uprising. As these artifacts become 4/4 creatures (or larger), they will trigger the 'Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters' ability if they were entering at the same time, or simply benefit from the trample granted by the Uprising once they are creatures.

Doubling the Powerless

Doubling Season

When Titania's Song is active, Doubling Season becomes a 5/5 artifact creature because its mana value is 5. Because Titania's Song causes noncreature artifacts to lose all abilities, Doubling Season's effect to double tokens and counters is suppressed. It will simply be a vanilla 5/5 creature until Titania's Song leaves the battlefield and the turn ends.

Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.

How it works : Titania's Song

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1August 1, 2008· Wizards of the Coast
A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn't matter how long the permanent has been a creature.
No other card is named in this ruling.