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Hideous Taskmaster

Magic: The GatheringModern Horizons 3 Commander#57

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Modern Horizons 3 CommanderM3C · #57
Card type
Creature — Eldrazi
Rarity
Rare
Indicative price
1.46 € · ★ 6.25 € · 2.82 $
Mana value
7
Power
7
Toughness
2
Colour
Colourless

Card text

Devoid (This card has no color.) When you cast this spell, for each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain trample, haste, and annihilator 1 until end of turn. Trample, haste, annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.)

Format legality

  • CommanderLegal
  • DuelLegal
  • LegacyLegal
  • OathbreakerLegal
  • 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
Helge C. Balzer
Card language
English
Release date
2024-06-14

Rulings

A card with devoid is just colorless. It's not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.

Annihilator abilities trigger and resolve during the declare attackers step. The defending player sacrifices the required number of permanents of their choice before they declare blockers. Any creatures sacrificed this way won't be able to block.

Devoid doesn't affect the color identity of the card for the purposes of the Commander variant. For example, while Abstruse Appropriation is colorless because it has devoid, its color identity is still white and black, and it can't be included in a Commander deck where the commander's color identity doesn't include both white and black.

Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.

Hideous Taskmaster's second ability will resolve before Hideous Taskmaster does. If Hideous Taskmaster is countered or otherwise leaves the stack in response to that triggered ability, the triggered ability will still resolve as normal.

If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object's color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.

If a creature with annihilator is attacking a planeswalker, and the defending player chooses to sacrifice that planeswalker, the attacking creature continues to attack. It may be blocked. If it isn't blocked, it simply won't deal combat damage to anything.

Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid a color. If that happens, it's just the new color, not that color and colorless.

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