Amplify

Amplify
Keyword Ability
Type	Static
Introduced	Legions
Last used	Legions
Reminder Text	Amplify N (As this creature enters the battlefield, put N +1/+1 counters on it for each [creature type] card you reveal in your hand.)
Statistics	9 cards 22.2% 33.3% 11.1% 33.3%
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Amplify is a keyword ability on creatures that allows the player to reveal creature cards in their hand that share a creature type with the creature. The creature enters the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters for each such card revealed. Some creatures with amplify have additional abilities tied to the number of +1/+1 counters on them (see Kilnmouth Dragon).

All tournament-legal creatures with Amplify were printed in Legions.

Rules

From the glossary of the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

Amplify: A keyword ability than can have a creature enter the battlefield with +1/+1 counters on it. See rule 702.38, “Amplify.”

From the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

702.38. Amplify
- 702.38a Amplify is a static ability. “Amplify N” means “As this object enters the battlefield, reveal any number of cards from your hand that share a creature type with it. This permanent enters the battlefield with N +1/+1 counters on it for each card revealed this way. You can’t reveal this card or any other cards that are entering the battlefield at the same time as this card.”
- 702.38b If a creature has multiple instances of amplify, each one works separately.

Rulings

The player who will control the creature is the one who reveals the cards.
Each revealed card must share a creature type with the card with amplify. The reminder text reminds you what those types are.
Using the Onslaught card Artificial Evolution on a spell with amplify on the stack can change what types need to be revealed. The card Conspiracy can also change what types need to be revealed.
If multiple creatures with amplify are entering the battlefield under your control at the same time, you may reveal the same cards for each of them.
If you cast Clone (or a creature with a similar ability) and choose for it to copy a creature with amplify, you get to reveal cards and have the creature get +1/+1 counters.

Examples

Example

Glowering Rogon
Creature — Beast
4/4
Amplify 1 (As this creature enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on it for each Beast card you reveal in your hand.)

Mechanics

Keyword Abilities

Evergreen	Deathtouch Defender Double strike Enchant Equip Equip [quality] Equip planeswalker First strike Flash Flying Haste Hexproof Hexproof from [quality] Indestructible Lifelink Menace Protection Reach Trample Trample over Planeswalkers Vigilance Ward

Other	Absorb Affinity Afflict Afterlife Aftermath Amplify Annihilator Ascend Assist Aura swap Awaken Backup Banding Bands with other [quality] Bargain Battle cry Bestow Blitz Bloodthirst Boast Bushido Buyback Cascade Casualty Champion Changeling Cipher Cleave Companion Compleated Conspire Convoke Craft Crew Cumulative upkeep Cycling [Type]cycling Dash Daybound Nightbound Decayed Delve Demonstrate Dethrone Devoid Devour Devour [type] Disguise Disturb Dredge Echo Embalm Emerge Encore Enlist Entwine Epic Escalate Escape Eternalize Evoke Evolve Exalted Exploit Extort Fabricate Fading Fear Flanking Flashback Forecast Foretell Fortify For Mirrodin! Freerunning Frenzy Fuse Graft Gravestorm Haunt Hidden agenda Double Agenda Hideaway Horsemanship Improvise Infect Ingest Intimidate Jump-start Kicker Multikicker Landwalk Level up Living Metal Living weapon Madness Melee Mentor Miracle Modular More Than Meets the Eye Morph Megamorph Mutate Myriad Ninjutsu Commander Ninjutsu Offering Outlast Overload Partner Choose a Background Doctor's Companion Friends forever Partner with [name] Persist Phasing Plot Poisonous Prototype Provoke Prowess Prowl Rampage Ravenous Read ahead Rebound Reconfigure Recover Reinforce Renown Replicate Retrace Riot Ripple Scavenge Shadow Shroud Skulk Solved Soulbond Soulshift Space sculptor Spectacle Splice Split second Spree Squad Storm Sunburst Surge Suspend Toxic Training Transfigure Transmute Tribute Umbra armor Undaunted Undying Unearth Unleash Vanishing Visit Wither

Keyword Actions

Evergreen	Activate Attach Cast Counter Create Double Destroy Discard Exchange Exile Fight Goad Mill Play Reveal Sacrifice Scry Search Shuffle Tap Untap

Other	Abandon Adapt Amass Assemble Bolster Clash Cloak Collect evidence Connive Convert Detain Discover Exert Explore Face a villainous choice Fateseal Incubate Initiative Investigate Learn Manifest Meld Monstrosity Open an attraction Planeswalk Populate Proliferate Regenerate The Ring Tempts You Roll to visit your attractions Saddle Set in motion Support Surveil Suspect Time Travel Transform Venture into the dungeon Venture into [Quality] Vote

Ability words

Other

Digital only	Backbone Boon Conjure Draft Double team Heist Incorporate Intensity Not the starting player Perpetually Seek Spellbook Specialize Unstoppable

Miscellaneous	Ante Batching Historic Modified Outlaw Party Biting Committing a crime Divvy Dice rolling Energy Flipping a coin Monarch Predefined token Radiation Rhystic

Acorn	Art menace Rampage Augment Ban Blurry Combine Coolness Crank‎ Denimwalk Family gathering Gear Up Gobble Gotcha Hide Install Just a second Knightlifelink Last strike Rangeling Reassemble Stare down Super haste Switch Triple strike Typelink Undeathtouch Uninstall Wrap

Playtest	Aggressive Bank Challenge Curse First strike Four-faced Interplanar Kinfall Landship Legacy Megalegendary Motivate Ransom Reflect Requirement Miracle Scrycast Spark Spellmorph Tasty Token card Underdog Upgrade

Unreleased	Double-tap Forbidden Glorify‎ Hieroglyphics‎ Link Mummify‎ Reckless Unique‎

Former	Bury Landhome Substance

See also	List of Acorn mechanics List of deprecated mechanics List of obsolete terminology List of unreleased mechanics Storm Scale

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