Grim Servant
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Modern Horizons 3MH3 · #409
- Card type
- Creature — Zombie Warlock
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.24 € · ★ 0.36 € · 0.34 $ · ★ 0.39 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Menace When this creature enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- 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
- David Astruga
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2024-06-14
Rulings
Colorless and generic mana symbols (, , , , , and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
Count the number of black mana symbols among the mana costs of permanents you control as Grim Servant's triggered ability resolves to determine your devotion to black. If Grim Servant is still on the battlefield at that time, it will be included in that count.
Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
If a card in a player's library has in its mana cost, X is 0 when determining that card's mana value.
If you put an Aura on an opponent's permanent, you still control the Aura, and mana symbols in its mana cost count towards your devotion. Similarly, if you make an opponent the protector of a Siege you control, mana symbols in that battle's mana cost count toward your devotion.
Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.