Messenger Jays
The List (PLST) #CN2-35 · Common · Creature — Bird
Mana cost: {4}{U}
Flying
Council's dilemma — When this creature enters, starting with you, each player votes for feather or quill. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature for each feather vote and draw a card for each quill vote. For each card drawn this way, discard a card.
Power/toughness 2/1 · Illustrated by Lars Grant-West · Released November 7, 2019
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.46 USD · €0.17 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.02 USD (4.5%) to $0.46 USD; low $0.43 USD, high $0.47 USD.
Printings
- The List #CN2-35 (this printing) · Common · 2019 · $0.46 USD
- Conspiracy: Take the Crown #35 (CN2) · Common · 2016 · $0.16 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2016-08-23 · wotc — No player votes until the spell or ability resolves. Any responses to that spell or ability must be made without knowing the outcome of the vote.
- 2016-08-23 · wotc — If a creature with an enters-the-battlefield council’s dilemma ability leaves the battlefield before that ability resolves, players can still vote for any option that would put +1/+1 counters on that creature, even though—or perhaps especially because—those votes won’t generate an effect.
- 2016-08-23 · wotc — Unlike the will of the council cards from the original Conspiracy set, where a majority of votes determined what happened, each vote made for a council’s dilemma card adds to the ultimate effect.
- 2016-08-23 · wotc — You must vote for one of the available options. You can’t abstain.
- 2016-08-23 · wotc — Because the votes are made in turn order, each player will know the votes of players who voted beforehand.
- 2016-08-23 · wotc — Players can’t do anything between voting and finishing the resolution of the spell or ability that included the vote.
- 2016-08-23 · wotc — The effects of each council’s dilemma ability happen in the stated order. First the vote occurs, then the first effect, and finally the second effect.