Ashes to Ashes
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The DarkDRK · #39
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 1.12 € · 0.99 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Exile two target nonartifact creatures. Ashes to Ashes deals 5 damage to you.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- OldschoolLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- 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
- Drew Tucker
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1994-08-01
Flavour text
"All rivers eventually run to the sea. My job is to sort out who goes first." —Maeveen O'Donagh, Memoirs of a Soldier
Rulings
If both of the targeted creatures are illegal targets by the time Ashes to Ashes resolves, it’s countered. It doesn’t deal 5 damage to you.
If one of the targeted creatures is an illegal target by the time Ashes to Ashes resolves, it still exiles the other one and deals 5 damage to you.
