Fasting
- Mana cost
- {W}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- The Dark #7 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.70 USD
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a hunger counter on this enchantment. Then destroy this enchantment if it has five or more hunger counters on it.
If you would begin your draw step, you may skip that step instead. If you do, you gain 2 life.
When you draw a card, destroy this enchantment.
Fasting has 1 printing, first in The Dark (1994). EDHREC ranks it #30,635 among Commander cards. It appears most in Hazduhr the Abbot decks (5 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Fasting most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Hazduhr the Abbot: 5 decks
- Pang Tong, "Young Phoenix": 1 decks
- Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes: 1 decks
Often played with Fasting
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : When you resolve the beginning-of-upkeep triggered ability, you first put a hunger counter on Fasting, then you check how many hunger counters it has. If there are five or more, Fasting is destroyed.
- : You choose whether or not to skip your draw step as that step begins. This ability is now separate from the beginning-of-upkeep triggered ability.