Price of Fame
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Zendikar Rising CommanderZNC · #52
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.18 € · 0.32 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Black
Card text
This spell costs less to cast if it targets a legendary creature. Destroy target creature. Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- 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
- Winona Nelson
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-09-25
Rulings
Price of Fame can target a creature that's indestructible. It won't be destroyed, but you'll surveil.
Price of Fame's mana value is 4, even if it costs less to cast.
You'll surveil before resolving any abilities that trigger on the target creature dying.
Some spells that instruct you to surveil require targets. You can't cast a spell without choosing legal targets. If all of those targets become illegal, the spell doesn't resolve and you won't surveil.
When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.
You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.
