Ethereal Forager

c20Commander 2020#34rare
{4}{U}{U}
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Card text & rulings

Oracle text

Creature — Elemental Whale

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)

Flying

Whenever this creature attacks, you may return an instant or sorcery card exiled with this creature to its owner's hand.

P/T3/3
Ability breakdown
Abilities
DelveFlying
TriggeredWhenever this creature attacks, you may return an instant or sorcery card exiled with this creature to its owner's hand.
Rulings
  • WotCMar 19, 2021

    Because delve isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.

  • WotCMar 19, 2021

    Delve doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise’s mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.

  • WotCMar 19, 2021

    You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can’t exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can’t exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    After Ethereal Forager’s triggered ability resolves, players will have priority to cast spells (such as the card you returned to your hand, if it’s legal to do so) before blockers are declared.

  • WotCApr 17, 2020

    If Ethereal Forager leaves the battlefield while its triggered ability is on the stack, that ability can still find the cards exiled with Ethereal Forager’s delve ability.

Market & version spread

Why you'd run this

Plays as
Attack Trigger

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Flavor & art
Illustrated by
Nicholas Gregory
Where you can play it
commander
Legal to play
All formats
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
competitivebrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernNot legal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal

Physical object & links

Card details
Artist
Nicholas Gregory
Frame
2015
Language
EN
Border
black
Security stamp
oval