Sona, Harmonious

Sona, Harmonious

[NEW TEXT] At the end of your turn, if I'm at a battlefield, ready up to 4 friendly runes.

[OLD TEXT] While I'm at a battlefield, ready 4 friendly runes at the end of your turn.

Q: What about triggered abilities with multiple targets, like Sona, Harmonious?

The same is true of triggered abilities with multiple targets. For triggered abilities, however, this causes some cards-Sona in particular-to work in unintended ways.

Going forward, we'll put the words "up to" on most triggered abilities. In the meantime, several cards are receiving errata so that their triggered abilities behave intuitively.

Sona, Harmonious

At the end of your turn, if I'm at a battlefield, ready up to 4 friendly runes.

Sona, Harmonious reads "At the end of your turn, if I'm at a battlefield, ready up to 4 friendly runes." "If I'm at a battlefield," appears where we would expect it to based on the sequence described above, so it is part of the condition and not the effect. The ability can be split into "At the end of your turn, if I'm at a battlefield," and "ready up to 4 runes."

383.2.a.1. Any additional conditional statement immediately after the Condition must be true in order for the Condition to be fulfilled. Such a conditional statement is part of the Trigger Condition and not the Effect. Example: Sona, Harmonious reads "At the end of your turn, if I'm at a battlefield, ready up to 4 friendly runes." Her Trigger Ability's Condition will be fulfilled in the Ending Step, but the Triggered Ability will only be placed on the chain if she is located at a battlefield when the Condition is fulfilled. If she is removed in reaction to the triggered ability, it will still resolve. Example: Loose Cannon reads "At the start of your Beginning Phase, draw 1 if you have one or fewer cards in your hand." The "if you have one or fewer cards in your hand" conditional statement is not immediately after the trigger condition, so it is part of the effect and not the condition.