Witherbloom Pledgemage 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
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, you gain 1 life.
How it works : Witherbloom Pledgemage
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Each magecraft ability has a different effect, although they all have the same trigger condition, whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
For example, if you control Archmage Emeritus and cast an instant or sorcery spell, Archmage Emeritus’s magecraft ability will trigger and you will draw a card.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If an effect creates a copy of an instant or sorcery spell, this will also cause the magecraft ability to trigger.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If an effect creates multiple copies of an instant or sorcery spell, magecraft abilities trigger once for each copy created by the effect.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Some effects instruct you to copy an instant or sorcery card in a zone other than the stack. These copies do not cause magecraft abilities to trigger. However, most effects that do this also allow you to cast the copy, and casting the copy will cause magecraft abilities to trigger.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Chain of Smog + Witherbloom Pledgemage
- 1Cast Chain of Smog by paying
, targeting yourself. - 2Witherbloom Pledgemage triggers, causing you to gain 1 life.
- 3Resolve Chain of Smog, causing you to discard two cards and copy Chain of Smog, targeting yourself.
- 4Repeat from step 2.
Chain of Acid + Witherbloom Pledgemage
- 1Cast Chain of Acid by paying
, targeting an indestructible noncreature permanent you control. - 2Witherbloom Pledgemage triggers, causing you to gain 1 life.
- 3Resolve Chain of Acid, destroying nothing and causing you to copy Chain of Acid, targeting an indestructible noncreature permanent you control.
- 4Repeat from step 2.
Fury Storm + Witherbloom Pledgemage
- 1Cast your additional instant or sorcery spell, or wait for an opponent to cast one.
- 2Witherbloom Pledgemage triggers, gaining you 1 life.
- 3Cast Fury Storm targeting the instant or sorcery spell.
- 4Witherbloom Pledgemage triggers, gaining you 1 life.
- 5Fury Storm triggers, copying itself for each time you have cast your commander from your command zone this game and choosing the original copy of Fury Storm as the target.
- 6Witherbloom Pledgemage triggers for each copy, gaining you 1 life each time.
- 7Resolve a Fury Storm copy, copying Fury Storm and choosing the original Fury Storm as the target.
- 8Witherbloom Pledgemage triggers, gaining you 1 life.
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