The Abyss
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Magic Online PromosPRM · #46938
- 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
- Jason A. Engle
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2002-06-24
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.
