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Maralen of the Mornsong

Magic: The GatheringMorningtide#65

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MorningtideMOR · #65
Card type
Legendary Creature — Elf Wizard
Rarity
Rare
Indicative price
13.20 € · ★ 49.58 € · 31.61 $ · ★ 94.93 $
Mana value
3
Power
2
Toughness
3
Colour
Black

Card text

Players can't draw cards. At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player loses 3 life, searches their library for a card, puts it into their hand, then shuffles.

Format legality

  • CommanderLegal
  • DuelLegal
  • LegacyLegal
  • ModernLegal
  • OathbreakerLegal
  • PennyLegal
  • PredhLegal
  • 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
Mark Zug
Card language
English
Release date
2008-02-01

Flavour text

Maralen sent Veesa, Endry, and Iliona—the Vendilion clique—on the gravest of tasks.

Rulings

In a Two-Headed Giant game, Maralen’s triggered ability will trigger twice per draw step (once for each player on the active team). Maralen’s controller chooses the order to put the abilities on the stack.

Maralen prevents players from drawing cards for any reason, including as a cost, as an effect, and as a result of the “draw a card” turn-based action during the draw step.

The effect of the triggered ability is mandatory. The life loss isn’t a payment; you’ll lose 3 life even if you have 3 or less life left. Unless your library is empty, you must put a card from your library into your hand.

While Maralen is on the battlefield, a player can’t choose to draw cards (or choose to have another player draw cards) as a spell or ability resolves. For example, if you cast the Development side of Research // Development (“Put a 3/1 red Elemental creature token onto the battlefield unless any opponent lets you draw a card. Repeat this process two more times.”), you’ll put three Elemental tokens onto the battlefield because your opponents can’t “let you draw a card.”

While Maralen is on the battlefield, no player can lose the game due to being instructed to draw a card with an empty library.

While Maralen is on the battlefield, replacement effects that instruct a player to do something instead of drawing a card won’t work.

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