Withering Wisps
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Ice AgeICE · #168
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.30 € · 0.37 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Black
Card text
At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment. : This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. Activate no more times each turn than the number of snow Swamps you control.
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).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- NéNé Thomas
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1995-06-03
Rulings
If all creatures leave the battlefield during a turn's End step (after any "at the beginning of the end step" triggers would have triggered that turn), Withering Wisps will remain on the battlefield because the trigger condition has already passed.
The number of snow Swamps you control and the number of times Withering Wisps's ability has been activated so far that turn are checked each time you attempt to activate the ability.
Withering Wisps's triggered ability has an "intervening 'if' clause." That means (1) the ability won't trigger at all unless there are no creatures on the battlefield when a turn's end step begins, and (2) the ability will do nothing if there are any creatures on the battlefield by the time the ability resolves.
