Diminishing Returns
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Classic Sixth Edition6ED · #65
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 6.49 € · 10.09 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library. You exile the top ten cards of your library. Then each player draws up to seven cards.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- 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
- Allen Williams
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1999-04-21
Rulings
Diminishing Returns won’t be put into your graveyard until after it’s finished resolving, which means it won’t be shuffled into your library as part of its own effect.
Each player chooses to draw any number of cards from zero to seven. First the player whose turn it is chooses how many cards to draw, then draws those cards, then each other player in turn order does the same.
The exiled cards are exiled face up. You’ll see them before you choose how many cards to draw.
