Card text
Emerge {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When you cast this spell, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose from it a nonland card with mana value 3 or less and a card with mana value 4 or greater. That player discards those cards.
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Mana cost
{8}
Power / toughness
5/5
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Card text
Emerge {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.)
When you cast this spell, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose from it a nonland card with mana value 3 or less and a card with mana value 4 or greater. That player discards those cards.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Distended Mindbender
Distended Mindbender (3) is a Creature — Eldrazi Insect from Eldritch Moon (EMN). It costs {8}, has mana value 8 and is a 5/5. It is printed at Rare rarity. The one keyword in its text is Emerge. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy and Vintage and 5 more formats.
Eldritch Moon is a main expansion, released July 2016. Distended Mindbender has 2 other cards in the database, listed further down the page.
Emerge {5}{B}{B} (You may cast this spell by sacrificing a creature and paying the emerge cost reduced by that creature's mana value.) When you cast this spell, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose from it a nonland card with mana value 3 or less and a card with mana value 4 or greater. That player discards those cards.
Card details
- Card number
- 3
- Set
- Eldritch Moon (EMN)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 22 July 2016
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Creature — Eldrazi Insect
- Colour
- Colourless
- Colour identity
- Black
- Mana cost
- {8}
- Power / toughness
- 5/5
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Distended Mindbender
Distended Mindbender in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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