Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{B}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Skeleton Horror
- Power / toughness
- 6 / 4
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #242 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.19 USD
Vigilance, menace
Descend 8 — {4}{U}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard and only as a sorcery. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake has 2 printings, first in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (2023). EDHREC ranks it #17,077 among Commander cards. It appears most in Indominus Rex, Alpha decks (939 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Indominus Rex, Alpha: 939 decks
- The Ancient One: 403 decks
- Skeleton Ship: 155 decks
Often played with Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Cards with the ability word "descend N" have abilities that care if you have at least N permanent cards in your graveyard.
- : Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.
- : Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant.
- : Finality counters work on any permanent, not only creatures. If a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead.
- : Finality counters don't stop permanents from going to zones other than the graveyard from the battlefield. For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner's hand from the battlefield, it does so normally.
- : Finality counters aren't keyword counters, and a finality counter doesn't give any abilities to the permanent it's on. If that permanent loses its abilities and then would go to a graveyard, it will still be exiled instead.