The Abyss
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Masters Edition IIIME3 · #77
- Card type
- World Enchantment
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Black
Card text
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, destroy target nonartifact creature that player controls of their choice. It can't be regenerated.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- 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
- Pete Venters
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2009-09-07
Flavour text
"An immense river of oblivion is sweeping us away into a nameless abyss." —Ernest Renan, Souvenirs d'Enfance et de Jeunesse
Rulings
The controller of The Abyss controls the ability, but the current player chooses what gets destroyed.
This has the supertype world. When a world permanent enters, any world permanents that were already on the battlefield are put into their owners' graveyards. This is a state-based action called the "world rule." The new world permanent stays on the battlefield. If two world permanents enter at the same time, they're both put into their owners' graveyards.
