A Quick Question
Does anyone know when you would use the word “each” and when you use “all” in a card?
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I get confused by this as well. What I tend to do is look up cards with the most similar wording to whatever I am working on and go with that.
Each is the way to go.
The word all was invented though. So when do we use it?
In french, tout la terre means all the world.. Which is a way to specify "The world and all its contents" as opposed to saying just "la terre", "the world".
So,
In magic, I find that we use "all" to describe an effect that effects something and all or some of the contents of that something.
Whereas we would say "each player loses 1 life," for an effect that only impacts the player, we would say "All players sacrifice all lands they control and discard all cards in their hand," because it impacts the player and "some or all" of those players' contents.