Heroic

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Heroic is an ability word introduced in Theros. A creature with heroic gives the controlling player powerful benefits every time he casts a spell that targets it.

Rulings

• A heroic ability triggers only when the creature's controller casts a spell that targets it, not when any other player does.
• A heroic ability triggers whenever a player casts any spell that targets the heroic creature, including a spell that also targets another creature.
• If a spell targets multiple creatures with heroic abilities, all of them trigger.
• Activated abilities, such as equip, do not cause heroic abilities to trigger.
• An instant or sorcery spell has a target if it includes the word "target" in its rules text.
• Each Aura spell also has a target, indicated by its enchant ability.
• Creature spells and other permanent spells (except for Auras) never have targets.
• Heroic abilities will resolve before the spell that caused them to trigger.
• Heroic abilities will trigger only once per spell, even if that spell targets the creature with the heroic ability multiple times.
• Heroic abilities won't trigger when a copy of a spell is created on the stack or when a spell's targets are changed to include a creature with a heroic ability.

Color percentages

There is a total of 18 cards that involve heroic, which divide by color as such:

• White = 27 %
• Blue = 17 %
• Red = 17 %
• Green = 17 %
• Black = 11 %
• Multicolor = 11 %