Indicating that their triggering has certain conditions that need to be met. “Some auto-abilities are written in the format “(trigger event), if (condition), (effect)”,

To make sure that people understand how popular cards like Locke from Opus IV work with newer cards like Ghost from Opus IX, figured I’d put this article together explaining Conditional Autos in a way that’s hopefully a bit more accessible and readily available than the advanced rules.ġ1.8.13 of the Advanced Rules defines Conditional Auto Abilities as: In the run up to nats I felt I wanted to get this one down on paper as I’ve seen a tonne of people asking the same questions in a lot of different channels repeatedly, and I have a sneaking suspicion that not a lot of people know about Conditional Autos (and who can blame them? It’s buried away in the advanced rules and not mentioned anywhere in any of the stuff you get with a starter deck).