Experimental Overload
Click the card to switch sides
Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Core Set 2021M21 · #218
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.10 € · ★ 0.26 € · 0.22 $ · ★ 0.54 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Blue Red
Card text
Create an X/X blue and red Weird creature token, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard. Then you may return an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Exile Experimental Overload.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Lie Setiawan
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-07-03
Flavour text
Explosions aren't necessarily failures, just a different kind of success.
Rulings
Because Experimental Overload is still on the stack while it's resolving, it doesn't count towards the value of X.
The value of X is determined only as Experimental Overload resolves. The Weird's power and toughness don't change if the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard changes.
You exile Experimental Overload even if you don't return a card to your hand.