Card text
Descend 8 — Choose one. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard as you cast this spell, choose one or more instead.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Target opponent discards a card.
• Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
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Mana cost
{U}{B}
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Card text
Descend 8 — Choose one. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard as you cast this spell, choose one or more instead.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Target opponent discards a card.
• Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Format legality
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Wail of the Forgotten
Wail of the Forgotten (244) is a Blue and Black Sorcery from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI). It costs {U}{B} and has mana value 2. It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern and Legacy and 6 more formats.
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan is a main expansion, released November 2023. Wail of the Forgotten has 2 other cards in the database, listed further down the page.
Descend 8 — Choose one. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard as you cast this spell, choose one or more instead. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. • Target opponent discards a card. • Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Card details
- Card number
- 244
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 17 November 2023
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Sorcery
- Colour
- Blue / Black
- Colour identity
- Blue / Black
- Mana cost
- {U}{B}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Wail of the Forgotten
Other printings of Wail of the Forgotten in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
The same card in other art and frames from this set — priced in the United States.
Wail of the Forgotten in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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