Pestilent Cauldron // Restorative Burst
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Strixhaven: School of MagesSTX · #154
- Card type
- Artifact
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.13 € · ★ 0.21 € · 0.37 $ · ★ 0.38 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Black
Card text
, Discard a card: Create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life." , : Each opponent mills cards equal to the amount of life you gained this turn. , : Exile four target cards from a single graveyard. Draw a card.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- 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
- Dan Murayama Scott
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-04-23
Restorative Burst
Sorcery
Mana cost :
Return up to two target creature, land, and/or planeswalker cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each player gains 4 life. Exile Restorative Burst.
Rulings
Pestilent Cauldron’s second ability counts the total amount of life gained without considering any life you lost during that turn. For example, if you lost 2 life and gained 2 life earlier in the turn, your opponents will mill two cards.
You may cast Restorative Burst with no targets. If you do, each player will gain 4 life and you’ll exile Restorative Burst. However, if you choose one or two target cards, and each of those cards is an illegal target as Restorative Burst tries to resolve (usually because something else moved them in response), Restorative Burst won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. No one will gain life, and Restorative Burst won’t be exiled.
You must be able to target four cards in a single graveyard in order to activate Pestilent Cauldron’s last ability.
