Aven Heartstabber
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Streets of New CapennaSNC · #433
- Card type
- Creature — Bird Assassin
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.17 € · ★ 0.53 € · 0.34 $ · ★ 0.32 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 1
- Colour
- Blue Black
Card text
Flying As long as there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2 and has deathtouch. When this creature dies, mill two cards, then draw a card.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Dan Murayama Scott
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2022-04-29
Rulings
If you have five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard and then some of them are removed such that you have fewer than five mana values among those cards, Aven Heartstabber loses its bonus to power and toughness. Notably, this may cause it to die if it now has damage marked on it greater than its toughness.
The mana value of a double-faced card in your graveyard is always the mana value of the front face.
The mana value of a land card is 0.
The mana value of a split card in the graveyard is the total mana value of both halves of that card. It does not have two mana values.
X is 0 when determining the mana value of a card in your graveyard.
“Five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard” means there are at least five different mana values among those cards.
