Niffle Kong

Niffle Kong

Niffle Kong • Untamed • Creature • Rare • (Play only with the other half of Niffle Kong.) 
 Play: Search your deck and discard pile for any number of Niffle creatures, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Shuffle your deck.  
 Fight/Reap: You may destroy a friendly Niffle creature. If you do, deal 3 to a creature, steal 1, and destroy an enemy artifact. • Artist: Gabriel Rubio • Card Number: MM:422

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Untamed

Creature

Rare

12 Power

2 Armor

Mutant • Niffle

(Play only with the other half of Niffle Kong.)

Play: Search your deck and discard pile for any number of Niffle creatures, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Shuffle your deck.

Fight/Reap: You may destroy a friendly Niffle creature. If you do, deal 3 to a creature, steal 1, and destroy an enemy artifact.

MM 422

Artist: Gabriel Rubio

Official Rulings

• If I play Exhume and target half a Gigantic creature in the discard pile for which I have the other half in my hand, does the Gigantic creature get played or does the effect of Exhume fail?
  Any card that would let you play a single card (Exhume, Wild Wormhole, Lateral Shift, Phase Shift, Helper Bot, etc.) cannot play a Gigantic creature because that creature is two cards while out of play. Even if you have the other half of the Gigantic creature in your hand, essentially the effect tries to target a single card, but then fails because that single card cannot be played on its own.

  Note from the Arcanists: Some of the cards mentioned in this ruling we believe may have been cited inadvertently. We've reached out to FFG for further clarification from FFG and will update this when we receive more information.

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If I play Exhume and target half a Gigantic creature in the discard pile for which I have the other half in my hand, does the Gigantic creature get played or does the effect of Exhume fail?

Any card that would let you play a single card (Exhume, Wild Wormhole, Lateral Shift, Phase Shift, Helper Bot, etc.) cannot play a Gigantic creature because that creature is two cards while out of play. Even if you have the other half of the Gigantic creature in your hand, essentially the effect tries to target a single card, but then fails because that single card cannot be played on its own.

Note from the Arcanists: Some of the cards mentioned in this ruling we believe may have been cited inadvertently. We've reached out to FFG for further clarification from FFG and will update this when we receive more information.

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Commentary

In order to play a gigantic creature, a player must have both halves of the creature in hand, and play those cards together as a single creature. The top half of a gigantic creature has the text “1 of 2” next to its title, while its corresponding bottom half shares the same title and has the text “2 of 2” next to its rarity icon.

A gigantic creature counts as 2 cards while out of play, but as a single creature card while in play. Playing a gigantic creature only counts as playing 1 card, and therefore it is allowed on the first turn. After a gigantic creature leaves play, the 2 halves are treated as separate cards again.

Both halves of a gigantic creature have the same title, house, and card type. Otherwise, each half has the attributes printed on it: the top half has bonus icons, while the bottom half has power, armor, and the text box (including traits).

If a card instructing the active player to play or put into play a creature chooses one half of a gigantic creature, that effect will fail.

Examples:

• Regrowth would only be able to return one half of a gigantic creature to hand.
• Tempting Offer returns both halves of a gigantic creature from play to its owner's hand.
• Resurgence could return the bottom half of Niffle Kong (with the Mutant trait) and then return the top half, but the same would not work for Ultra Gravitron as the bottom half does not have the Mutant trait.
• Troop Call can return all of Niffle Kong to hand from play. From the discard pile, however, Troop Call can only return the bottom half of Niffle Kong since only the bottom half has the Niffle trait.
• The ability of Library Card draws a single card when Ultra Gravitron is played.
• A gigantic creature counts as playing a single card in regards to the ability of Ember Imp.
  Source: Gigantic

When resolving the ability of Niffle Kong, "any number" can be treated as zero.

Source: "Any Number"

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Niffle Kong always appears in a deck with:

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