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Starving Revenant

plciThe Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos#123srare
{2}{B}{B}
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Card details
Artist
Fesbra
Frame
2015
Language
EN
Border
black
Security stamp
oval
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardLegal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyLegal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardLegal
Standard BrawlLegal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
Oracle text

Creature — Spirit Horror

When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.

Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

P/T4/4
Abilities
TriggeredWhen this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.
StaticDescend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
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Fesbra
Rulings
  • WotCJan 12, 2024

    When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.

  • WotCNov 10, 2023

    Cards with the ability word "descend N" have abilities that care if you have at least N permanent cards in your graveyard.

  • WotCNov 10, 2023

    Except in some unusual cases, the cards you put on top of your library while surveilling will be the cards you draw.

  • WotCNov 10, 2023

    For Starving Revenant's enters-the-battlefield ability, you put cards into your graveyard for surveil (if any) before drawing cards. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard by the time you draw cards, those draws will cause the descend 8 ability to trigger.

  • WotCNov 10, 2023

    Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.