Hateflayer
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
EventideEVE · #55
- Card type
- Creature — Elemental
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 1.22 € · ★ 4.55 € · 2.48 $ · ★ 18.98 $
- Mana value
- 7
- Power
- 5
- Toughness
- 5
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) , : This creature deals damage equal to its power to any target. ( is the untap symbol.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- 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
- Thomas M. Baxa
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2008-07-25
Flavour text
It has no safe side.
Rulings
If the permanent is already untapped, you can't activate its ability. That's because you can't pay the "Untap this permanent" cost.
The "summoning sickness" rule applies to . If a creature with an ability hasn't been under your control since your most recent turn began, you can't activate that ability. Ignore this rule if the creature also has haste.
When you activate an ability, you untap the creature with that ability as a cost. The untap can't be responded to. (The actual ability can be responded to, of course.)
Wither applies to any damage Hateflayer deals to a creature, which includes both its combat damage and damage from its activated ability.