Empty the Pits
- Mana cost
- {X}{X}{B}{B}{B}{B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir #72 (mythic)
- Price
- $0.72 USD
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Empty the Pits has 2 printings, first in Khans of Tarkir (2014). EDHREC ranks it #14,266 among Commander cards. It appears most in Witherbloom, the Balancer decks (1,920 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Empty the Pits most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Witherbloom, the Balancer: 1,920 decks
- Egon, God of Death // Throne of Death: 22 decks
- Josu Vess, Lich Knight: 20 decks
- Burakos, Party Leader: 2 decks
- Hammerhead, Maggia Boss: 1 decks
- Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel: 1 decks
- Baron Helmut Zemo
- Maga, Traitor to Mortals
Often played with Empty the Pits
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.
- : You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.
- : Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise's mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.