Situation: I have a flying carpet on the table, the enemy has creatures on the table. I put a vancliff, I make him shade-nous, he becomes over 1. I put him on the table, but he doesn’t get the onslaught. Why? The sea giant at zushka always gets an onslaught, when it becomes over 1, like terrible corsairs.
Okay, it’s obvious that you are not playing the English version. When you say you make him shade-nous, I think you mean Shadowstep? That lowers the cost with 2, so that would make Van Cleef 0 mana instead of 1 (since he costs 2). How are you making him cost 1 mana because I can’t think of a way to do so?
Cliff costs 3 mana. Shadowstep -> Cliff costs 1 mana.
Right, my bad. I usually check the cards before I comment, but somehow, I had it in my mind that he was only 2 mana.