Primal Empathy
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Ikoria: Lair of BehemothsIKO · #200
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.13 € · ★ 0.31 € · 0.22 $ · ★ 0.31 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Blue Green
Card text
At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card if you control a creature with the greatest power among creatures on the battlefield. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on a creature you control.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Micah Epstein
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-04-24
Flavour text
"From this day forward, we confront this world together, lifting each other up."
Rulings
If the greatest power among creatures on the battlefield is shared by a creature you control and a creature you don't control, you draw a card.
If you control no creatures, you do nothing as Primal Empathy's ability resolves. If there are no creatures on the battlefield at all, you don't draw a card.
If you don't control a creature with the greatest power, you choose which creature gets a +1/+1 counter while the ability is resolving. Players can't take actions in between the time you make this choice and the time that creature has a +1/+1 counter.
You determine whether you draw a card or put a +1/+1 counter only as Primal Empathy's triggered ability begins resolving. Players may respond to the ability to try to change which happens.
