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Magic: The GatheringWeatherlight#41

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Magic: The Gathering

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WeatherlightWTH · #41

Card type: Enchantment — Aura
Rarity: Common
Indicative price: 0.16 € · 0.24 $
Mana value: 1
Colour: Blue

Card text

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has "Cumulative upkeep ." (At the beginning of its controller's upkeep, that player puts an age counter on it, then sacrifices it unless they pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Format legality

CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
LegacyLegal
OathbreakerLegal
PauperLegal
PaupercommanderLegal
PredhLegal
PremodernLegal
VintageLegal

Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).

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Printing information

Illustrator: Bryan Talbot
Card language: English
Release date: 1997-06-09

Flavour text

"The Lord of the Wastes must be destroyed; I am bound to this destiny by the chains of fate. If only Gerrard would see his part." —Sisay, journal

Rulings

2013-04-15

If a permanent has multiple instances of cumulative upkeep, each triggers separately. However, the age counters are not connected to any particular ability; each cumulative upkeep ability will count the total number of age counters on the permanent at the time that ability resolves.