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Primal Surge

{8}{G}{G}

Sorcery

AVRAvacyn Restored#189mythic
Foil
Banned in Oathbreaker

With Avacyn's return, the flow of life became a tidal wave.

Border
black
Frame
2003
Pull rate
about 1 per booster–1 in 3585
Illustrator
David Rapoza
Found in
Avacyn Restored MTGO Redemption · Avacyn Restored MTGO Redemption Foil · 2 more
Printings1CombosIn 3
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerBanned
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyLegal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
Exile the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you do, repeat this process.

Plays as: Mill Finisher

Market · per finishspark updated 23h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+2.8%
$5.81
$3.50 low$1.50 gap
Foil+0.0%
$19.34
$16.59 low$1.59 gap
Cheapest playable copy$5.81· across 1 printing

Rulings

4 · latest May 1, 2012 · one tap opens all
  • WotCMay 1, 2012

    A permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card.

  • WotCMay 1, 2012

    If putting any of those permanent cards onto the battlefield causes abilities to trigger, those abilities will wait to go on the stack until Primal Surge has finished resolving. Starting with the active player, each player puts their abilities on the stack in any order.

  • WotCMay 1, 2012

    If you exile a permanent card that you can’t put onto the battlefield (such as an Aura with nothing legal to enchant) or one you don’t want to put onto the battlefield, Primal Surge finishes resolving.

  • WotCMay 1, 2012

    Repeating the process includes the instruction to repeat the process. That is, you’ll keep exiling cards and putting them onto the battlefield until you fail to put a permanent card onto the battlefield.