Patriarch's Bidding
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
World Championship Decks 2003WC03 · #pk161sb
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 2.98 € · 3.63 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.
Format legality
Legality is not available in the catalogue.
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
- Ben Thompson
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2003-08-06
Flavour text
"Family plots are so convenient." —Cabal Patriarch
Rulings
Any player may choose a creature type that's already been chosen. Doing so won't affect which creature cards are returned to the battlefield.
Each player may choose any creature type, even if they don't have any creature cards of that type in their graveyard.
The player whose turn it is chooses a creature type first, followed by each other player in turn order. Then, all creature cards that have one or more of the chosen types are returned to the battlefield at the same time.
You must choose a creature type, such as Elf or Shaman. You can't choose other card types such as artifact or supertypes such as legendary.
