Parting Thoughts
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Commander 2016C16 · #15
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.29 € · 0.26 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Destroy target creature. You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of counters on that creature.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- 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
- Seb McKinnon
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2016-11-11
Flavour text
"To spend your life seeking, only to find regret upon achieving . . . this is the most delicious irony of all." —Leshrac, Walker of Night
Rulings
If a creature has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, state-based actions remove the same number of each so that it has only one of those kinds of counters on it. There won’t be any counters of the other kind for Parting Thoughts to count.
Parting Thoughts can target a creature without any counters on it. You’ll lose no life and draw no cards.
Parting Thoughts counts every kind of counter on that creature. Effects such as that of Giant Growth, Auras, and Equipment aren’t counters.
