Printings
Genesis Wave
Card Information
Type: Sorcery
Mana Cost: X
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Foundations (FDN)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 221
Oracle Text
Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 8, 2024
You don't have to put permanent cards revealed this way onto the battlefield if you choose not to, regardless of their mana values.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
If you have fewer than X cards in your library, you reveal all of them.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
If a permanent card in your library has no mana symbols in its upper right corner (because it's a land card, for example), its mana value is 0. Such cards can always be put onto the battlefield with Genesis Wave.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
If a card in a player's library has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
A permanent card is an artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
All of the permanents put onto the battlefield this way enter at the same time. If any have triggered abilities that trigger on something else entering, they'll see each other.
Source: wotc
Price History
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