Printings
Birthing Pod
Card Information
Type: Artifact
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity: 
Set: New Phyrexia (NPH)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 104
Oracle Text
({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) {1}{G/P}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- June 1, 2011
As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2011
A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2011
To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2011
If a creature is copying something else, its mana value is the mana value of whatever it's copying.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2011
A token has a mana value of 0, unless it is copying something else.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2011
Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2011
If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
Source: wotc - June 1, 2011
A creature's mana value is determined solely by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner (unless that creature is copying something else; see below). If its mana cost includes {X}, X is considered to be 0. If it has no mana symbols in its upper right corner (because it's an animated land, for example), its mana value is 0. Ignore any alternative costs or additional costs (such as kicker) paid when the creature was cast.
Source: wotc
Price History
To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.