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To the Slaughter

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Black. Instant

two generic manaone black mana

139 · SOI · R · ENWhat the codes mean

To the Slaughter

Shadows over Innistrad #139 · Illustrated by Christine Choi

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Non-foil · Shadows over Innistrad #139

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Promo foil · Shadows over Innistrad Promos #139s

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Oracle text

Target player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.

Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead that player sacrifices a creature and a planeswalker of their choice.

"Where has little Gossamer gone?" —Thaniel, Gatstaf shepherd

All 2 printings of To the Slaughter

PrintingRarityNon-foilFoilCardmarket (EUR)My collection
Shadows over Innistrad Promos #139s
Shadows over Innistrad Promos
psoi #139s· 2016Promorare· Cardmarket €0.60 foil
rareNo non-foil printing$0.79€0.60 foil

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Card details

First printed
2016
Printings
2
Mana value
3
EDHREC rank
#23,153 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Keywords
Delirium
Artist
Christine Choi

What the codes mean

The small print at the bottom of the Shadows over Innistrad card (#139).

139 · SOI · R · EN

  • 139Collector number: this card's place in the set list. Main-set cards print it over the set's card count.
  • SOISet code for Shadows over Innistrad
  • RRare
  • ENPrinted in English

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Rulings (6)

  1. 2016-04-08

    The card types in Magic are artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery. Supertypes (such as legendary and basic) and subtypes (such as Human and Equipment) are not counted.

  2. 2016-04-08

    In some rare cases, you can have a token or a copy of a spell in your graveyard at the moment that an object's delirium ability counts the card types among cards in your graveyard, before that token or copy ceases to exist. Because tokens and copies of spells are not cards, even if they are copies of cards, their types will never be counted.

  3. 2016-04-08

    Some delirium abilities that appear on instants and sorceries use the word "instead." These spells have an upgraded effect when they resolve if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard. They check that number only while they're resolving and don't count themselves, since they aren't in your graveyard yet. You only get the upgraded effect, not both effects.

  4. 2016-04-08

    If the delirium ability applies, that player must sacrifice a creature object and a planeswalker object if able. In the unusual case that the player controls a single permanent that's both a creature and a planeswalker, that player must sacrifice another creature or planeswalker (unless they control no other creatures and no other planeswalkers).

  5. 2016-04-08

    Because you consider only the characteristics of a double-faced card's front face while it's not on the battlefield, the types of its back face won't be counted for delirium.

  6. 2016-04-08

    The number of card types matters, not the number of cards. For example, Wicker Witch (an artifact creature) along with Catalog (an instant) and Chaplain's Blessing (a sorcery) will enable delirium.

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