Terror Tide
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan PromosPLCI · #127p
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.40 € · ★ 0.61 € · 0.26 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Fathomless descent — All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of permanent cards in your graveyard.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- FutureLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- StandardLegal
- StandardbrawlLegal
- 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
- Brock Grossman
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2023-11-17
Flavour text
Those who go under rise again as cruel mockeries of their former selves, spewing foul water and keening with sorrow.
Rulings
Cards with the ability word "fathomless descent" have abilities that care how many permanent cards are in your graveyard.
Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.
The value of X is checked only once, as Terror Tide resolves.
