Truss, Chief Engineer

Truss, Chief Engineer Rulings

• Oct 7, 2022

  Indefinite articles such as “a” in “draw a card” aren’t number words and can’t be modified.

• Oct 7, 2022

  Note that you’re changing numbers, not digits. For example, if you remove two hack counters from Truss, you could change 10 to 12 or 8. You couldn’t change it to 30.

• Oct 7, 2022

  Truss’s last ability affects a single number or number word on the spell or permanent. It can be anything—power, toughness, something in rules text, the name of a card (Four Wishes, anyone?), collector number, and so on. Mark says you can even change the copyright date, but don’t tell the lawyers.

• Oct 7, 2022

  You can change the number of dice rolled for an effect only if the original instruction included a number word to describe how many dice to roll. You can’t change the “a” in “roll a six-sided die,” but you could change the “two” in “roll two six-sided dice.”

• Oct 7, 2022

  You can change the number of sides on a die. If you don’t have any thirteen-sided dice handy, you can use other dice to simulate the rolls.