Upgrade (This creature enters covering another artifact you control. If it can't, exile it. Ignore the artifact it's covering. Anywhere this card goes, cards underneath it also go. It has haste.)
The card with upgrade moves to the battlefield, but it doesn’t enter the battlefield. Instead it overlays an artifact you control. That artifact becomes represented by the new card – if it was tapped, it’s still tapped; if it had counters on it, it still has those counters; if it was attacking, it’s still attacking; and so on.
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If you can’t choose an artifact you control while applying a permanent’s upgrade replacement effect, it doesn’t move to or enter the battlefield at all and instead moves to exile.
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If the upgraded object moves to the top or bottom of its owner’s library, that player chooses the relative order for its component cards without revealing that order.
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If a player’s commander is upgraded, the resulting creature is still their commander. If it leaves the battlefield, the commander can be put into the command zone instead, and the other cards move to the expected zone.
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Enters-the-battlefield triggers won’t trigger when an artifact with upgrade overlays another artifact.
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An artifact can be upgraded more than once.
Format Legality
Standard
Not Legal
Future
Not Legal
Historic
Not Legal
Timeless
Not Legal
Gladiator
Not Legal
Pioneer
Not Legal
Modern
Not Legal
Legacy
Not Legal
Pauper
Not Legal
Vintage
Not Legal
Penny
Not Legal
Commander
Not Legal
Oathbreaker
Not Legal
Standardbrawl
Not Legal
Brawl
Not Legal
Alchemy
Not Legal
Paupercommander
Not Legal
Duel
Not Legal
Oldschool
Not Legal
Premodern
Not Legal
Predh
Not Legal
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