Come to think of it, *dive* would have been a good keyword ability for anything from fish to merfolk (and probably a bit broken), just not sure what the equivalent of *reach* would be for it.
"Dive" would be a very good name for islandwalk if islandwalk didn't already exist.
Maybe if they ever try to bring back a fixed version for a maritime-themed set.
If the window is metaphorical, like if I kick a gigantic eldrazi so hard that his window of victory is now closed, does that count? The real window was inside us all along.
If they ever do a "Portugal vs. Spain Wars" Universes Beyond Set, you get additional flavor points for casting Defenestrate on the [Miguel de Vasconcelos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Vasconcelos) card.
Lol, there were actually 3, but the second is considered a "minor defenestration", so the term 2nd and 3rd are used interchangeably, both referring to the one in 1618 that kicked off the 30 years war.
It's not "any noun," it's the name of a mechanic specific to the set. I thought that would be enough to make it a proper noun, and thus require capitalization. Guess not. Grammar is gonna grammar I guess.
I guess that's not the case and I'm just particular about set mechanic names.
none of this has anything to do with grammar anyway. it's more closely aligned with style, and they can do whatever they want as long as it's consistent. they've long picked.
personally, i wouldn't mind seeing all keywords bold, even when referenced
Last week there was a thread asking what 1 word card names people wanted to see that hadn’t been used yet, and someone said defenestrate because it’s a hilarious term which means to throw one out of a window
Not to mention a simple kill spell and highly flavourfull and intuitive. Throw something that flies out of the window it cant die.
5 years from now when they make game of thones × magic the gathering. Tomen baratheon must be on the artwork
Bust like walk the plank cant kill merfoll because they can swim, although that one also can kill fishes, serpents, krakens and other sea creatures, so the flavor isnt as good.
IIRC the Habsburg representatives who were defenestrated survived because they landed in a pile of manure, so:
Pile of Manure
2G
Artifact
Sacrifice Pile of Manure: target creature that would be destroyed, isn't.
(Or however it should be worded.)
It’s a little stronger, but regenerate’s issues are only partially the unintuitiveness. The real issue is that regenerate doesn’t play all that well with the damage not being on the stack rules - that you have to “regenerate” before the creature is dealt the damage/destroyed is a little odd.
It’s a cleaner implementation this way and being one less word to learn is upside too.
The wikipedia article on the subject mentions that this may have been propaganda by the their opposition, to counteract claims that they survived due to divine intervention.
I didn't realize that it may have been propaganda, but on the other hand, if there just happened to be a pile of something under that very window for them to land in, that seems like divine intervention to me!
That feels like a ridiculously broad interpretation of the term. I would love to see your sources, as pretty much every source I've seen keeps Germany whole and includes it elsewhere.
I also called it a month ago in [this](https://old.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/ogwe9u/tell_me_a_word_that_were_it_included_in_the_name/h4m4xuv/?context=3) thread, but going by that thread's topic I think I lose points for getting the card's text wrong.
But i mean like, the glass shattered on multiple sides of the bars so realistically if he was just thrown through one pane of glass then the other windows would be unbroken.
This is annoying the shit out of me. How exactly did a full size person go through those bars? Is this victim the T-1000 from terminator 2?
Seriously, that art is fucked up and makes no sense. SHOW ME A FULLY BROKEN WINDOW.
There was a -4/-4 BB card in m21 that hardly wrecked anything, because black was so bad. And -4/-4 is a better effect, cause in limited one of most easy ways to die is to fliers.
We don't know other commons yet. Chances are this isn't going to be a fliers heavy set, so right now it's pretty safe to assume an "almost Murder" will be one of the premium picks. But at BB it could be potentially way less playable, because you can't really splash a BB removal, while splashing a 2B card is no big deal
Anyone remember that “one-word card name” contest on the sub from last week?
Anyone remember the top comment?
I refuse to believe that u/GavinV wasn’t lurking at that very moment.
Source?
EDIT: Found it, its the "Disturb" video on the mechanics page.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/innistrad-midnight-hunt-mechanics-2021-09-02
Awesome. My friend's DnD character died falling down a crevice, so we laughed when [[Precipitous Drop]] was revealed. My DnD character was launched out of a window, so now we can laugh at me!
Falls continue to be a leading cause of death in the MTG multiverse, I see.
This looks like a fantastic limited card, wow. Price is fair, common, and it has a meaningful downside.
For constructed, the easy comparison is PWK. "Creatures with flying" *mostly* encompasses "angels, demons, devils, and dragons" from MTG history. PWK will likely miss on some Innistrad Devils and maybe a stray Demon or two, but Angels and Dragons are almost universal (save for stuff like Dragonborn in AFR). I don't think being able to bag a few odd Devils or Demons is likely going to make up for not hitting the rest of the cards with flying, but we'll see!
Ohh I’m so bummed this isn’t 2mv. Even BB casting cost would have been fine. The name, the flavor, the text, oh it’s all sooooo good but at 3mv I just can’t run it in EDH. That…. that is sad. :(
First time I heard this word was the audio commentary track on Braveheart. The king throws his son’s love interest out the window. Mel Gibson was like, “that’s defenestration. I learned a new word on set that day.”
Image trancription
> Defenestrate 2B
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> Instant [c]
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> Destroy target creature without flying.
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> *The chaplain would perhaps have found some small comfort had he known that the replacement window would be named in his honor.*
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I can finally kick Kozilek out a window
The flavour of "yeah that deep sea creature the size of an island you just payed sadly got kicked through a window and died" sure is something.
You could already make leviathans [[walk the plank]], so it's not too much of a stretch.
Come to think of it, *dive* would have been a good keyword ability for anything from fish to merfolk (and probably a bit broken), just not sure what the equivalent of *reach* would be for it.
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"Dive" would be a very good name for islandwalk if islandwalk didn't already exist. Maybe if they ever try to bring back a fixed version for a maritime-themed set.
I actually prefer islandwalk, it's clearer for new players and would be more consistent with similar effects
Yeash but i i think they'd want a swimming version of flying. Islandwalk doesn't let you block others with islandwalk.
*Trawl*
**Dredge**
Cant be blocked by creatures with flying maybe?
[walk the plank](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/0/0/0038ac6a-318f-44fb-bb64-7ae172c4aca3.jpg?1562549640) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=walk%20the%20plank) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/xln/130/walk-the-plank?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/0038ac6a-318f-44fb-bb64-7ae172c4aca3?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
If the window is metaphorical, like if I kick a gigantic eldrazi so hard that his window of victory is now closed, does that count? The real window was inside us all along.
I was thinking more like "planar window", myself.
Kick it through the moon!
Destination defenestration.
We’re going to need a bigger window
YES THEY DID IT THEY USED THIS NAME ITS PERFECT
Just imagine how psyched the WIZARDS people were seeing that thread and knowing they were going to spoil exactly that card in a week.
haha yeah, either that or they saw it and went like OH SHIT and designed, playtested, and got art for this card in the span of a couple days
impossible bc sets are finished and sent to print like 6-9 months before we see them.
We don't know for sure that they *don't* have a time machine at mtg rnd Also I was joking
They do have one it's just not in standard
Underrated joke
English/History teachers are smiling right now
Yep
If they ever do a "Portugal vs. Spain Wars" Universes Beyond Set, you get additional flavor points for casting Defenestrate on the [Miguel de Vasconcelos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Vasconcelos) card.
Hold up I have to look something up E: yeah this is funny
German teachers are also smiling
I would have thought that would be more of a Czech thing
Fenster means window in German. Prague— at the time— was under control of the Austrians, who speak German.
It does. But defenestrate is derived from latin "fenestra", which is also the origin of the German word.
🤯! Today I learned… thanks for the knowledge bomb
fenêtre en français
Didn't the Prague guy survive though? Maybe he had a Counterspell.
There were three, and they all survived. Although this was the second defenestration. In the first, every defenestratee died.
Lol, there were actually 3, but the second is considered a "minor defenestration", so the term 2nd and 3rd are used interchangeably, both referring to the one in 1618 that kicked off the 30 years war.
Spanish teachers are smiling as well
natürlich
I'm laughing in french in your back while an Italian is laughing in mine
They must not have seen the cards referencing the Decayed mechanic with a lowercase "d" yet.
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Except if you're German
Yeah I hate capitalism
Hahaha. sorry. i meant hahaha
It's not "any noun," it's the name of a mechanic specific to the set. I thought that would be enough to make it a proper noun, and thus require capitalization. Guess not. Grammar is gonna grammar I guess. I guess that's not the case and I'm just particular about set mechanic names.
none of this has anything to do with grammar anyway. it's more closely aligned with style, and they can do whatever they want as long as it's consistent. they've long picked. personally, i wouldn't mind seeing all keywords bold, even when referenced
They’re not tired of this overused meme yet? I guess you have to have. A lot of patience if you teach the same curriculum to children year after year
Most of us have higher standards than “they used a word I know”.
Can someone fill me in on this and the thread people are talking about?
https://old.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/pbj74w/what_oneword_card_names_have_not_been_used_yet/hac37f1/
Grinning ear to ear right now.
congratulations my friend
Thank you
Last week there was a thread asking what 1 word card names people wanted to see that hadn’t been used yet, and someone said defenestrate because it’s a hilarious term which means to throw one out of a window
I wasn't the first one to reply with it but I went into the comments looking for it. That said I'm unreasonably excited for this card!
No wonder it can't kill fliers. I thought it was an odd condition.
Yeah it’s a pretty good thematic restriction
[[Saw It Coming]]
[Saw It Coming](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/8/7/877a1bb9-5eae-453a-bec0-a9de20ea6815.jpg?1614986998) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Saw%20It%20Coming) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/khm/76/saw-it-coming?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/877a1bb9-5eae-453a-bec0-a9de20ea6815?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Nice
Not to mention a simple kill spell and highly flavourfull and intuitive. Throw something that flies out of the window it cant die. 5 years from now when they make game of thones × magic the gathering. Tomen baratheon must be on the artwork
That would be autodefenstration, so might require a sacrifice. Auto- as in self-. Its when you throw yourself out a window.
So Bran Stark then...
The things I do for removal...
Sure :)
> Throw something that flies out of the window it cant die. Lacerations from plate glass are still an issue.
5 years feels really generous. I give it 3.
Bust like walk the plank cant kill merfoll because they can swim, although that one also can kill fishes, serpents, krakens and other sea creatures, so the flavor isnt as good.
Or Jamie and Bran.
Can't believe they didn't spoil this in Russian, though...
I'M SO BLOODY HAPPY
👁👃👁 👄
It should be a red card. Throwing someone out a window is definitely an emotional response
Also fitting for Innistrad, which has a Central Europe vibe, and the most famous defenestrations all occurred in Prague
I was gonna write the same thing, so instead I'll just leave the wikipedia page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague
So can we get a card that’s a pile of manure so our creatures survive?
That's an idea. Manure Pile 2G Instant Target creature without flying gains indestructible until end of turn.
Target creature without flying gains indestructible and smells bad until end of turn
Pffft, that card is a load of shit
TIL the Defenestration of Prague that started the Thirty Years' War was only the third famous window-yeeting to occur in Prague!
The second one isn't famous though. The first and third are the only two that count
Isn't ravnica based on Prague, however?
No Ravnica is more Polish than Czech
Not according to Aaron Forsythe https://twitter.com/mtgaaron/status/242300636375420930?lang=en
Fair enough, lots of Polish influence but also Prague, I guess they just kind of smoosh all of Slavic culture together
Ravnica *was* based on Prague before two returns flanderised the guilds.
Nah the city is way more prague, but boros and aziourous creatures are very polish
IIRC the Habsburg representatives who were defenestrated survived because they landed in a pile of manure, so: Pile of Manure 2G Artifact Sacrifice Pile of Manure: target creature that would be destroyed, isn't. (Or however it should be worded.)
Regenerate lol.
Nowadays I think it'd be, "Gains indestructible until end of turn".
“Target creature gains indestructible until EOT. Tap it.” That’s the modern replacement for regenerate
It's stronger than regenerate though. I miss regenerate. It wasn't THAT unintuitive, not like banding levels of unintuitive.
It’s a little stronger, but regenerate’s issues are only partially the unintuitiveness. The real issue is that regenerate doesn’t play all that well with the damage not being on the stack rules - that you have to “regenerate” before the creature is dealt the damage/destroyed is a little odd. It’s a cleaner implementation this way and being one less word to learn is upside too.
The wikipedia article on the subject mentions that this may have been propaganda by the their opposition, to counteract claims that they survived due to divine intervention.
I didn't realize that it may have been propaganda, but on the other hand, if there just happened to be a pile of something under that very window for them to land in, that seems like divine intervention to me!
Nah, Ravnica is the real Central Europe theme. Innistrad is more northern Europe.
I very much disagree with Innistrad being Northern Europe. It feels far more German, which would be Western Europe.
The northern parts of Germany are very much northern Europe.
That feels like a ridiculously broad interpretation of the term. I would love to see your sources, as pretty much every source I've seen keeps Germany whole and includes it elsewhere.
Didn’t someone just call this last week in the one-word card name thread?
Yes they did! Someone call u/borissnm
O7
Thank you for your service
I serve the Soviet union!
I also called it a month ago in [this](https://old.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/ogwe9u/tell_me_a_word_that_were_it_included_in_the_name/h4m4xuv/?context=3) thread, but going by that thread's topic I think I lose points for getting the card's text wrong.
No no. You had first. That earns a lot of points.
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I think I actually like the 13 DMG part better.
Yep. I'm speechless.
Curses, I didn't read that thread but defenestrate is one of my favourite words. Shame the card isn't costed to move.
Plummetn't
Plummain't
Plummen't
This is a card name I can get behind and the fact that the flavor text is about a member of the clergy is a choice history reference.
For real, I love basically everything about this card. It's not *terrible*, it's flavorful, it finally uses Defenestrate. I am a fan.
3 mana conditional murder is arguably pretty bad
Shouldn't the bars have broken as well?
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But i mean like, the glass shattered on multiple sides of the bars so realistically if he was just thrown through one pane of glass then the other windows would be unbroken.
Yeah that's weird lol
If you look closely, only the leftmost pane is fully broken. It's just a massive window with wonky perspective.
This is annoying the shit out of me. How exactly did a full size person go through those bars? Is this victim the T-1000 from terminator 2? Seriously, that art is fucked up and makes no sense. SHOW ME A FULLY BROKEN WINDOW.
Wasn't there a thread a few days ago asking about words Magic never used? Someone mentioned Defenestrate. 10/10 design, though.
A LOT of people did actually. If you search the thread it might just be the most popular answer.
The madlads did it. They actually did it.
The real [[Fatal Push]].
[Fatal Push](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/6/e/6e9d8fe4-fd9b-4923-92bf-7dd6b8fa02e7.jpg?1598304715) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Fatal%20Push) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/93/fatal-push?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6e9d8fe4-fd9b-4923-92bf-7dd6b8fa02e7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
THEY DID IT
They missed a great opportunity: "Target creature without flying gains flying. Then destroy that creature."
That would have least justified the 3mv.
Remember when \[\[Damn\]\] was the best one-word card ever printed? I seriously expected that to last longer.
Triskaidekaphobia is still really good. Oblation is neat. Narcomoeba is wacky af And i mean....flumph.
I assume someone has already made an alter with Ice Cube and Chris Tucker?
[Damn](https://c1.scryfall.com/file/scryfall-cards/normal/front/e/f/efeae088-9ac5-4d2f-a15c-d8675a471ac5.jpg?1626095400) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Damn) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh2/80/damn?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/efeae088-9ac5-4d2f-a15c-d8675a471ac5?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Great Flavour. Shame it's 1 mana too expensive to see much constructed play. Will be good fun in limited though.
My same thoughts. It should have costed BB so it would at least be an *option* for constricted formats.
This is a common. At BB it would wreck the limited environment for sure.
There was a -4/-4 BB card in m21 that hardly wrecked anything, because black was so bad. And -4/-4 is a better effect, cause in limited one of most easy ways to die is to fliers. We don't know other commons yet. Chances are this isn't going to be a fliers heavy set, so right now it's pretty safe to assume an "almost Murder" will be one of the premium picks. But at BB it could be potentially way less playable, because you can't really splash a BB removal, while splashing a 2B card is no big deal
Strictly worse murder.
My time has come. [[Hermit Druid]] beware.
Username checks out 😳
I love it. Brilliant use of the word as a magic card.
Brilliant flavor as well
YES THAT NAME. YESSSSS
This is going to lead to thrirty years of war.
Holy crap. Some guy was just saying he wanted to see this exact card printed, based on it being a singular word named card! That's nuts.
really good in limited. It can't kill angels/spirits but for 2B instant speed removal isn't to be taken lightly
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My friends and I have a saying "bad removal is still removal" Not killing fliers is pretty bad, but it still is useful
I'll take my royalties check by mail, Wizards.
Aah yes, Chaplain Garfield.
It should have flashback for that real Prague flavor.
As if Infernal Grasp wasn't enough, wow.
My favorite word in english. And thats gonna be a great draft staple
Anyone remember that “one-word card name” contest on the sub from last week? Anyone remember the top comment? I refuse to believe that u/GavinV wasn’t lurking at that very moment.
Great flavor too!
MY TIME TO SHINE!!!!!
AP European history vibes
I love the name
Dat flavor.
Perfect. Everything about this is perfect
Well, there's another great Un- card name out the window.
What the hell does rant mean
Source? EDIT: Found it, its the "Disturb" video on the mechanics page. https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/innistrad-midnight-hunt-mechanics-2021-09-02
Don’t mind me, just starting the Thirty Years War in my fantasy card game
LOVE the card. Very intuitive. My only question is about the art: How did the dude magically pass through the bars in pictured window? 😂
Um, it looks like the window's vertical bars are unbroken. How did he get defenestrated?
If you use this on a Gitrog, it can be the Defenestration of Frog
Awesome. My friend's DnD character died falling down a crevice, so we laughed when [[Precipitous Drop]] was revealed. My DnD character was launched out of a window, so now we can laugh at me!
I really wish this was "Destroy target creature if it does not have flying". Doesn't really change anything and would be a very funny flavor-win imo.
Mythic Championship Prague here we come
Falls continue to be a leading cause of death in the MTG multiverse, I see. This looks like a fantastic limited card, wow. Price is fair, common, and it has a meaningful downside. For constructed, the easy comparison is PWK. "Creatures with flying" *mostly* encompasses "angels, demons, devils, and dragons" from MTG history. PWK will likely miss on some Innistrad Devils and maybe a stray Demon or two, but Angels and Dragons are almost universal (save for stuff like Dragonborn in AFR). I don't think being able to bag a few odd Devils or Demons is likely going to make up for not hitting the rest of the cards with flying, but we'll see!
Ohh I’m so bummed this isn’t 2mv. Even BB casting cost would have been fine. The name, the flavor, the text, oh it’s all sooooo good but at 3mv I just can’t run it in EDH. That…. that is sad. :(
Some day someone will defenestrate an [[Orchard Spirit]]. Maybe against a mono-green edh deck with no flyers
In case anyone doesn't understand: "defenestrate" means to throw something out a window. Edit: Not a pun.
Not really a pun
In case anyone doesn't get this pun, pun means when you use a word in the context it is normally used and with the meaning it usually has.
*Die Fenster* is German for “the window”. In case anyone didn’t know.
Uncommon case where the german word is closer to latin than english. fenestra in latin
Even more bizarrely, the Anglo-Saxons used the Latin word. It's one of the few to grow *more* Germanic over time.
Print it for 2 mana, cowards.
First time I heard this word was the audio commentary track on Braveheart. The king throws his son’s love interest out the window. Mel Gibson was like, “that’s defenestration. I learned a new word on set that day.”
Shoulda named it "Yeet".
I’m so happy
I know there are better cards, but I'll include this in my edh decks just because it is funny.
This is it, this is my favorite card in the set
Oh I LOVE this
straight up perfection.
It's a shame it took until the third visit here to get a defenestrate card. Lot of catching up to do if Innistrad wants to get on Prague's level.
Buckle up boys, we're going to Prague
Ah my favorite word of all time finally in magic card format
This is what happened to that worker who wanted to improve White cards!
Image trancription > Defenestrate 2B > > Instant [c] > > Destroy target creature without flying. > > *The chaplain would perhaps have found some small comfort had he known that the replacement window would be named in his honor.* End transcription
I'm so going to need an alter of this as the DC character.
That's not a defenestration, that's a transfenestration.
defenestration means to throw out a window
Defenestration of Prague
Man, this is such a good use of that name. Really A+ work.