Cinderhaze Wretch
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
ShadowmoorSHM · #60
- Card type
- Creature — Elemental Shaman
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.32 € · ★ 3.53 € · 0.24 $ · ★ 29.99 $
- Mana value
- 5
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 2
- Colour
- Black
Card text
: Target player discards a card. Activate only during your turn. Put a -1/-1 counter on this creature: Untap this creature.
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).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Steven Belledin
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2008-05-02
Flavour text
Thick smoke billows and twists to form disturbing faces that cackle and click their teeth to the popping embers.
Rulings
You put the -1/-1 counter on Cinderhaze Wretch as a cost. That means it happens when you activate the ability, not when it resolves. If paying the cost causes the creature to have 0 toughness, it’s put into the graveyard before you can untap it and before you can even pay the cost again.