Card text
Converge — You draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.
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Mana cost
{2}{B}
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Card text
Converge — You draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Painful Truths
Painful Truths (120) is a Black Sorcery from Battle for Zendikar (BFZ). It costs {2}{B} and has mana value 3. It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy and Vintage and 5 more formats.
Battle for Zendikar is a main expansion, released October 2015. Painful Truths has 11 other cards in the database, listed further down the page.
Converge — You draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of colors of mana spent to cast this spell.
Card details
- Card number
- 120
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar (BFZ)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 2 October 2015
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Sorcery
- Colour
- Black
- Colour identity
- Black
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Painful Truths
Painful Truths in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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