Drought
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Ice AgeICE · #21
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.22 € · 0.32 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- White
Card text
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this enchantment unless you pay . Spells cost an additional "Sacrifice a Swamp" to cast for each black mana symbol in their mana costs. Activated abilities cost an additional "Sacrifice a Swamp" to activate for each black mana symbol in their activation costs.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- 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
- NéNé Thomas
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1995-06-03
Rulings
You have to sacrifice a Swamp for each black mana in the activation cost. If you use Pestilence with , that’s 4 activations with each so you sacrifice 4 Swamps.
A hybrid symbol that is both black and another type is a black mana symbol, regardless of what cost is paid for it.
Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.