Embodiment of Agonies
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Core Set 2020M20 · #98
- Card type
- Creature — Demon
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.16 € · ★ 0.66 € · 0.44 $ · ★ 0.40 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Power
- 0
- Toughness
- 0
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Flying, deathtouch This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each different mana cost among nonland cards in your graveyard. (For example, and are different mana costs.)
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- 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
- Igor Kieryluk
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2019-07-12
Flavour text
"I feel your pain. It's exquisite."
Rulings
Alternative costs, additional costs you could pay, cost increases, and cost reductions are all ignored by Embodiment of Agonies.
Embodiment of Agonies checks the mana symbols in a card's mana cost. For example, a mana cost of is different than a mana cost of .
Every Magic card has either no mana cost or exactly one mana cost. A card with no mana cost is never counted by Embodiment of Agonies. A card with a mana cost of is counted.
Hybrid mana symbols are treated as the actual symbols, not as either of their two components individually. For example, , , and are three different mana costs.
If you return Embodiment of Agonies from your graveyard to the battlefield, its last ability counts itself.
The mana cost of a split card is determined by its two halves combined. For example, the mana cost of Fire//Ice in your graveyard is , the same as the mana cost of Ral's Outburst.
