Sygg, River Cutthroat
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
ShadowmoorSHM · #176
- Card type
- Legendary Creature — Merfolk Rogue
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 7.84 € · ★ 44.66 € · 12.67 $ · ★ 290.19 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- Blue Black
Card text
At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 3 or more life this turn, you may draw a card. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Jeremy Enecio
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2008-05-02
Flavour text
"It's not a matter of deserving. It's a matter of strength. The power to hold versus the power to take."
Rulings
As the end step begins, Sygg’s ability checks whether a player who is currently your opponent, or a player who was your opponent at the time they left the game, has lost 3 or more life over the course of the turn. If so, the ability will trigger. If not, it won’t.
It doesn’t matter how the opponent lost life or who caused it, as long as the total loss of life is 3 or more.
Sygg’s ability checks only whether life was lost. It doesn’t care whether life was also gained. For example, if an opponent lost 4 life and gained 6 life during the turn, that player will have a higher life total than they started the turn with — but Sygg’s ability will trigger anyway.
Sygg’s ability checks to see if it triggers at the end of every turn. It doesn’t have to be your turn, and it doesn’t have to be the turn of the opponent that lost life.
Sygg’s ability will trigger even if Sygg wasn’t on the battlefield at the time some or all of the life was lost.
You don’t specify an opponent when the ability triggers. If multiple opponents have lost 3 or more life over the course of the turn, the ability will trigger only once.
