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Cosmic Horror
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Fourth Edition4ED · #126
- Card type
- Creature — Horror
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.37 € · 0.39 $
- Mana value
- 6
- Power
- 7
- Toughness
- 7
- Colour
- Black
Card text
First strike At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy this creature unless you pay . If this creature is destroyed this way, it deals 7 damage to you.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- OldschoolLegal
- PennyLegal
- 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
- Jesper Myrfors
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1995-04-01
Flavour text
". . . [S]creams of horror rend th' affrighted skies." —Alexander Pope, *The Rape of the Lock*
Rulings
If you choose not to pay Cosmic Horror’s upkeep cost, it deals 7 damage to you only if it’s actually destroyed. If it regenerates or an effect has given it indestructible, it deals no damage.
