Printings
Disciple of Phenax
Card Information
Type: Creature — Human Cleric
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Theros (THS)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 84
Oracle Text
When this creature enters, target player reveals a number of cards from their hand equal to your devotion to black. You choose one of them. That player discards that card. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- September 15, 2013
Numeric mana symbols ({0}, {1}, and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
Source: wotc - September 15, 2013
Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
Source: wotc - September 15, 2013
Use your devotion to black as the triggered ability resolves to determine how many cards will be revealed. If Disciple of Phenax is still on the battlefield at that time, its mana cost will count toward your devotion to black.
Source: wotc - September 15, 2013
If an activated ability or triggered ability has an effect that depends on your devotion to a color, you count the number of mana symbols of that color among the mana costs of permanents you control as the ability resolves. The permanent with that ability will be counted if it's still on the battlefield at that time.
Source: wotc - September 15, 2013
Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don't count toward your devotion to any color.
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.