Empty the Pits
Instant
KTKKhans of Tarkir#72mythic
Foil
The Sultai would rebuild the empire on the backs of the dead.
- Border
- black
- Security stamp
- oval
- Frame
- 2015
- Pull rate
- about 1 per booster–1 in 3585
- Illustrator
- Ryan Alexander Lee
- Found in
- Khans of Tarkir MTGO Redemption Foil · Khans of Tarkir MTGO Redemption · Khans of Tarkir Booster Pack
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 
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Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
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Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.Delve
Plays as: Mana Sink · Creature Token Maker · X Spell
Market · per finishspark updated 6h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+0.0%
$0.79
$0.15 low-$0.08 gap
Foil+0.0%
$1.64
$0.85 low-$0.55 gap
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$0.79as of 2026-07-12
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H $0.86L $0.31since Feb 2024$0.15
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$1.64as of 2026-07-12
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Cheapest playable copy$0.79· across 2 printings
Rulings
3 · latest Mar 19, 2021 · one tap opens all
- 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.