

Printings
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
Card Information
Type (Front): Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
Type (Back): Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Elder Dinosaur
Mana Cost (Front): 5
CMC: 7
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: March of the Machine (MOM)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 137
Oracle Text
Etali, Primal Conqueror
Trample When Etali enters, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among the nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. {9}{G/P}: Transform Etali. Activate only as a sorcery.
7/7
Etali, Primal Sickness
Trample, indestructible Whenever Etali deals combat damage to a player, they get that many poison counters. (A player with ten or more poison counters loses the game.)
11/11
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Card Rulings
- April 14, 2023
If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the card.
Source: wotc - April 14, 2023
If an exiled card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
Source: wotc - April 14, 2023
Any cards not cast, including land cards, remain in exile. They can’t be cast on later turns.
Source: wotc - April 14, 2023
Losing the game because a player (preferably an opponent) has ten or more poison counters is a rule of the game. Etali, Primal Sickness doesn’t have to still be on the battlefield when someone (preferably an opponent) gets their tenth poison counter.
Source: wotc - April 14, 2023
In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spells or permanents you control from Etali’s ability are exiled.
Source: wotc - April 14, 2023
If you cast more than one of the exiled cards, you choose the order in which to cast them. A spell you cast this way can be the target of a later spell you cast this way. However, permanent spells cast this way won’t resolve until you’re done casting spells, so the permanents they become can’t be the target of spells cast this way. For example, if you exile Twincast and Lightning Strike, you can cast Lightning Strike and then cast Twincast targeting it; but if you exile a creature card and an Aura card, you can’t cast that Aura targeting that creature.
Source: wotc - April 14, 2023
If you cast any of the exiled cards, you do so as part of the resolution of the triggered ability. You can’t wait to cast them later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on a card’s type are ignored.
Source: wotc
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