Scythe of the Wretched
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
MirrodinMRD · #239
- Card type
- Artifact — Equipment
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 1.21 € · ★ 11.65 € · 7.49 $ · ★ 37.65 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
Equipped creature gets +2/+2. Whenever a creature dealt damage by equipped creature this turn dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control. Attach this Equipment to that creature. Equip
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
- Matt Cavotta
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2003-10-02
Rulings
If the card isn't a creature when it comes back onto the battlefield, then Scythe of the Wretched won't move onto it.
Scythe of the Wretched needs to equip your creature when the other creature goes to the graveyard for the ability to trigger, but it doesn't matter whether the Scythe equipped your creature when the damage was actually dealt.
The Scythe's ability triggers even if something other than the damage dealt by the equipped creature causes the creature to be put into a graveyard that turn.