Paradox Engine The July 2019 announcement said the most telling thing about Paradox Engine: While we dont ban cards which are only problematic if you build around them, Paradox Engine has clearly demonstrated that it doesnt need to be built around to be broken. We knew we had to ban Paradox Engine despite its popularity
Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering, has the card printed to celebrate his wedding to Koni Kim and send it out among the wedding invites
Its one of my favorite Magic pieces that Ive done
For example, Complains Clerk has "Whenever you roll a 1, create a 1/1 white Clown Robot artifact creature token." If you choose that ability, you ignore everything up to the first comma, ending up with "Create a 1/1 white Clown Robot artifact creature token." Some triggered abilities have an "intervening if" clausethat is, they are written in the form of "When/Whenever/At [trigger event], if [condition], [effect]." If you choose such an ability with Trigger Happy, you ignore the trigger event, and the ability will go on the stack even if the intervening if condition is not fulfilled, but the ability will still check the intervening if condition as the ability tries to resolve