Hand of Emrakul
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Rise of the EldraziROE · #5
- Card type
- Creature — Eldrazi
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.42 € · ★ 6.59 € · 0.35 $ · ★ 7.45 $
- Mana value
- 9
- Power
- 7
- Toughness
- 7
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
You may sacrifice four Eldrazi Spawn rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- 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
- Chippy
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2010-04-23
Flavour text
"I believed in a beautiful god. But this is the true face of the divine." —Ayli, Kamsa cleric
Rulings
Annihilator abilities trigger and resolve during the declare attackers step. The defending player chooses and sacrifices the required number of permanents before they declare blockers. Any creatures sacrificed this way won't be able to block.
Casting Hand of Emrakul by paying its alternative cost doesn't change its mana cost or mana value.
Casting Hand of Emrakul by paying its alternative cost doesn't change when you can cast it. You can cast it only at the normal time you could cast a creature spell.
Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast Hand of Emrakul will apply to it even if you choose to pay its alternative cost.
If a creature with annihilator is attacking a planeswalker, and the defending player chooses to sacrifice that planeswalker, the attacking creature continues to attack. It may be blocked. If it isn't blocked, it simply won't deal combat damage to anything.