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Terror Ballista

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Colorless. Artifact Creature — Construct

seven generic mana

290 · BRO · R · ENWhat the codes mean

Terror Ballista

The Brothers' War #290 · Illustrated by Leon Tukker

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~$0.28

Extended Art non-foil · The Brothers' War #375

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Foil · The Brothers' War #290

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Oracle text

Menace

Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Unearth three generic manaone black manaone black mana (three generic manaone black manaone black mana: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

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All 2 printings of Terror Ballista

PrintingRarityNon-foilFoilCardmarket (EUR)My collection
The Brothers' War #375
The Brothers' War
bro #375· 2022Extended Artrare· Cardmarket €0.09
rare$0.28No foil printing€0.09

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Card details

First printed
2022
Printings
2
Mana value
7
EDHREC rank
#19,477 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Keywords
Unearth, Menace
Artist
Leon Tukker

What the codes mean

The small print at the bottom of the The Brothers' War card (#290).

290 · BRO · R · EN

  • 290Collector number: this card's place in the set list. Main-set cards print it over the set's card count.
  • BROSet code for The Brothers' War
  • RRare
  • ENPrinted in English

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Rulings (6)

  1. 2022-10-14

    You don't choose a target for Terror Ballista's triggered ability when it attacks. If you choose to sacrifice a creature, a second triggered ability triggers and you choose a target for that second ability. Players may respond as normal to this second ability.

  2. 2022-10-14

    Unearth grants haste to the permanent that's returned to the battlefield (even if it's not a creature card). However, neither of the "exile" abilities is granted to that permanent. If that permanent loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of the next end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.

  3. 2022-10-14

    If a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth would leave the battlefield for any reason, it's exiled instead—unless the spell or ability that's causing the permanent to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it! In that case, it succeeds at exiling it. If that spell or ability later returns the card to the battlefield (as Static Net might, for example), the permanent card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effects will no longer apply to it.

  4. 2022-10-14

    If you activate a card's unearth ability but that card is removed from your graveyard before the ability resolves, that unearth ability will do nothing as it resolves.

  5. 2022-10-14

    Activating a card's unearth ability isn't the same as casting that card. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities (such as Defabricate's second mode) will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Scatter Ray) will not.

  6. 2022-10-14

    At the beginning of the next end step, a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability, and it can be countered by effects such as Defabricate that counter triggered abilities. If the ability is countered, the permanent will stay on the battlefield and the delayed triggered ability won't trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the permanent if it eventually leaves the battlefield.

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