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Psychic Vortex

{2}{U}{U}

Enchantment

WTHWeatherlight#50rare
Reserved List

"Tolaria floats upon a wheel of fortune." —Ertai, wizard adept

Border
black
Frame
1997
Pull rate
~1 in 50
Illustrator
Steve Luke
Found in
Weatherlight Booster Pack
Printings1
CommanderLegalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlNot 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
PreDHLegal
PremodernLegal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
Cumulative upkeep—Draw a card. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice a land and discard your hand.

Plays as: Card Draw

Market · per finishspark updated 2h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+0.5%
$3.66
$2.70 low$2.05 gap
Cheapest playable copy$3.66· across 1 printing

Rulings

2 · latest Apr 1, 2008 · one tap opens all
  • WotCApr 1, 2008

    Psychic Vortex’s cumulative upkeep ability has you draw cards as a cost. If you choose to do so, and some or all of those draws are replaced by replacement effects, you are still considered to have paid the cumulative upkeep cost.

  • WotCApr 1, 2008

    You may choose to draw cards to pay the cumulative upkeep cost even if the number of cards you’d have to draw exceeds the number of cards in your library. If enough of those draws are replaced by replacement effects so you don’t actually attempt to draw a card with an empty library, everything’s fine. However, if you do attempt to draw a card with an empty library this way, Psychic Vortex will remain on the battlefield but you’ll lose the game as a state-based action as soon as the cumulative upkeep ability finishes resolving.