Ethereal Forager
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Commander 2020C20 · #34
- Card type
- Creature — Elemental Whale
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.52 € · 0.28 $
- Mana value
- 6
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .) Flying Whenever this creature attacks, you may return an instant or sorcery card exiled with this creature to its owner's hand.
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).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Nicholas Gregory
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-04-17
Rulings
After Ethereal Forager’s triggered ability resolves, players will have priority to cast spells (such as the card you returned to your hand, if it’s legal to do so) before blockers are declared.
If Ethereal Forager leaves the battlefield while its triggered ability is on the stack, that ability can still find the cards exiled with Ethereal Forager’s delve ability.
Because delve isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.
Delve doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise’s mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can’t exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can’t exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.