
Consuming Ashes
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 83
Oracle Text
Exile target creature. If it had mana value 3 or less, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
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Card Rulings
- April 12, 2024
Use the mana value of the creature as it last existed on the battlefield to determine whether or not you surveil.
Source: wotc - April 12, 2024
If the target creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0 for the purpose of determining its mana value.
Source: wotc - April 12, 2024
If the target creature is an illegal target as Consuming Ashes tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won’t surveil.
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.