Excruciator
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Ravnica: City of GuildsRAV · #121
- Card type
- Creature — Avatar
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.28 € · ★ 0.64 € · 0.29 $ · ★ 0.50 $
- Mana value
- 8
- Power
- 7
- Toughness
- 7
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Damage that would be dealt by this creature can't be prevented.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Paolo Parente
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2005-10-07
Flavour text
"Though used as a piercing weapon, the tusk is more akin to a stinger, spreading pain instantly throughout the body of its victim. This specimen deserves further study." —Simic research notes
Rulings
A creature dealt lethal damage by Excruciator can be regenerated.
An effect may redirect Excruciator’s damage.
Damage prevention shields that would prevent this damage aren’t used up and they stick around for the next time something would deal damage.
Excruciator can deal damage to creatures with protection from red. (It can’t block creatures with protection from red, though.)
Replacement effects that don’t use the word “prevent” can replace Excruciator’s damage with something else. See Phytohydra and Szadek, Lord of Secrets, for example.