Grave Birthing
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar #93 (common)
- Price
- $0.10 USD
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Target opponent exiles a card from their graveyard. You create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."
Draw a card.
Grave Birthing has 1 printing, first in Battle for Zendikar (2015). EDHREC ranks it #18,602 among Commander cards. It appears most in Azlask, the Swelling Scourge decks (1,365 on EDHREC). It has 11 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Grave Birthing most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Azlask, the Swelling Scourge: 1,365 decks
- Vela the Night-Clad: 68 decks
- Joel, Resolute Survivor: 4 decks
- Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel: 1 decks
Often played with Grave Birthing
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
- : If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object's color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.
- : Some instants and sorceries that create Eldrazi Scions require targets. If all targets for such a spell have become illegal by the time that spell tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't get any Eldrazi Scions.
- : Cards with devoid use frames that are variations of the transparent frame traditionally used for Eldrazi. The top part of the card features some color over a background based on the texture of the hedrons that once imprisoned the Eldrazi. This coloration is intended to aid deckbuilding and game play.
- : The target opponent chooses which card to exile as Grave Birthing resolves.
- : Eldrazi and Scion are each separate creature types. Anything that affects Eldrazi will affect these tokens, for example.
- : A card with devoid is just colorless. It's not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
- : Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid color. If that happens, it's just the new color, not that color and colorless.
- : You can cast Grave Birthing targeting an opponent with an empty graveyard. Even though that player won't exile a card from their graveyard, you'll still get an Eldrazi Scion and draw a card.
- : Eldrazi Scions are similar to Eldrazi Spawn, seen in the Zendikar block. Note that Eldrazi Scions are 1/1, not 0/1.
- : Sacrificing an Eldrazi Scion creature token to add {C} is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.