Meddling

Meddling
Mechanic
Introduced	Mirage
Last used	Strixhaven: School of Mages
Scryfall Statistics
12 cards 41.7% 16.7% 41.7%

Meddling is a slang term used by Magic R&D to describe the ability that names a spell, after which that spell can't be played as long as the card with the ability is on the battlefield.^[1] This ability is named after Meddling Mage from Invasion (Chris Pikula's Invitational card). Originally not a common ability (only two were printed in the pre-Mirrodin era), the design space and acceptable applications widened with time.

The ability is usually found on a creature or enchantment. As this is proactive, it is primary in white.^[1] Blue is tertiary, with artifacts having a large share of related abilities.

References

↑ ^a ^b Mark Rosewater (June 5, 2017). "Mechanical Color Pie 2017". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.

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 City's Blessing Assist Aura swap Awaken Backup Banding Bands with other [quality] Bargain Battle cry Bestow Blight 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 Exhaust Exploit Extort Fabricate Fading Firebending Fear Flanking Flashback Forecast Foretell Fortify For Mirrodin! Freerunning Frenzy Fuse Gift Graft Gravestorm Harmonize Haunt Hidden agenda Double agenda Hideaway Horsemanship Impending Improvise Infect Ingest Intimidate Job select Jump-start Kicker Multikicker Landwalk Level up Living metal Living weapon Madness Mayhem Melee Mentor Miracle Mobilize Modular More Than Meets the Eye Morph Megamorph Mutate Myriad Ninjutsu Commander ninjutsu Offering Offspring Outlast Overload Partner Choose a Background Doctor's companion Partner with [name] Persist Phasing Plot Poisonous Power-up Prototype Provoke Prowess Prowl Rampage Ravenous Read ahead Rebound Reconfigure Recover Reinforce Renown Replicate Retrace Riot Ripple Saddle Scavenge Shadow Shroud Skulk Sneak Solved To solve Soulbond Soulshift Space sculptor Spectacle Splice Split second Spree Squad Start your engines! Max speed Speed Station Storm Sunburst Surge Suspend Tiered Toxic Training Transfigure Transmute Tribute Umbra armor Undaunted Undying Unearth Unleash Vanishing Visit Prize Warp Web-slinging Enweb Wither

Keyword Actions

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

Other	Abandon Adapt Airbend Amass Assemble Behold Blight Bolster Clash Cloak Collect evidence Connive Convert Detain Discover Earthbend Endure Exert Explore Face a villainous choice Fateseal Forage Harness Incubate Investigate Learn Manifest Manifest dread Meld Monstrosity Open an attraction Planeswalk Populate Proliferate Regenerate The Ring tempts you Roll to visit your attractions Set in motion Support Suspect Time travel Transform Venture into the dungeon Venture into [quality] Vote Waterbend

Ability words

Other

Additional rules	Coin flip Copy Day and night Dice roll Die Enter Energy Expend Hand size Initiative Intrinsic ability Mana value Manipulate time Monarch Rad counter Starting player Subgame

Digital only	Backbone Boon Conjure Draft Double team Heist Incorporate Intensity Perpetually Seek Spellbook Specialize Unstoppable

Miscellaneous	Abyss Alt con Animate Attack alone Balance Basic land counting Batching Historic Modified Party Outlaw Bidding Biting Board wipe Bounce Cantrip Card filtering Chaos ensues Clockwork creature Creature pumping Firebreathing Cremate Crime Devil's Deal Devotion Direct damage Divvy Draft ability Enchantress en-Kor Evasion ability Daunt Flicker Fog Free mechanic Free spell Pitch spell Freeze Future Sight Gating Grind Growing permanent Guess Guildmage Hoser Illusion Imprison Invoker Keyword soup Life threshold Lobotomy Loner Looting Lucky charm Lure Mana acceleration Mana washing Meddling Mix-and-match Modal Pawprint Anchor word Odd or even Polymorph Power/Toughness switcher Punisher Torment Reanimation Kindle Relentless Removal Land destruction Saboteur Bloodlust Saga creature Spiritcraft Stalking Star creature Taxing Rhystic Text-changing effect Color changer Land changer Transformation Tuck Tutor Uncounterable Unlocking a door Wheel Wish X

Acorn	Art menace Rampage Augment Ban Best in show Blurry Combine Coolness Crank‎ Denimwalk Dexterity card 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 Annihinfect Assist kicker Bank Batching Afraid Familiar Bedtime story Buddy list Challenge Construct Coststorm Curse Deworded Equipment swap Firstest strike Flashforward Four-faced Grazing type Hope Host Interplanar Kinfall Land drop Landship Legacy Library ninjutsu Megalegendary Megasunburst Monk Track Mono Eminence Motivate Negamorph Nimble Oil Scavenge Old Companion Onionfect Partner with itself‎ Pass the ball Performing a magic trick Planeswalkerwalk Plot booster Poison Modular Poison Tolerance Positioning Proliferatelink Ransom Ratmanship Reflect Requirement Rulebreaker Scrycast Scryfall Shackle Sinecure Spaceship Spark Spellmorph Tantrum Tasty Teach Thoughtweft Token card Underdog Upgrade Ustujnin Way behind Whammy deck

Unreleased	Double-tap Forbidden Glorify‎ Hieroglyphics‎ Link Mummify‎ Reckless Unique‎

Former	Bury Landhome Substance

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List of Acorn mechanics List of deprecated mechanics List of obsolete terminology List of unreleased mechanics Special action Storm Scale

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