Diminishing Returns
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}{U}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Masters Edition #32 (rare)
Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library. You exile the top ten cards of your library. Then each player draws up to seven cards.
Diminishing Returns has 4 printings, first in Alliances (1996). EDHREC ranks it #18,013 among Commander cards. It appears most in Zhou Yu, Chief Commander decks (2 on EDHREC). It has 3 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 Diminishing Returns most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Zhou Yu, Chief Commander: 2 decks
- Glacian, Powerstone Engineer: 1 decks
- Graviton, Fundamental Force: 1 decks
Often played with Diminishing Returns
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Each player chooses to draw any number of cards from zero to seven. First the player whose turn it is chooses how many cards to draw, then draws those cards, then each other player in turn order does the same.
- : The exiled cards are exiled face up. You’ll see them before you choose how many cards to draw.
- : Diminishing Returns won’t be put into your graveyard until after it’s finished resolving, which means it won’t be shuffled into your library as part of its own effect.