Printings
Suffer the Past
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: X
CMC: 1
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Rise of the Eldrazi (ROE)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 128
Oracle Text
Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- June 15, 2010
The life that’s lost and the life that’s gained are based on the number of cards that are actually exiled, not on the value of X (in case any of the targeted cards somehow leave the graveyard in response and thus can’t be exiled this way).
Source: wotc - June 15, 2010
If the targeted player becomes an illegal target by the time Suffer the Past resolves but the targeted cards don’t, you still exile the cards and gain life. The player won’t be lose any life, though.
Source: wotc - June 15, 2010
Suffer the Past’s effect causes a single life-gain event, not a number of separate ones. This matters for cards such as Cradle of Vitality.
Source: wotc
Price History
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