Killing Wave
- Mana cost
- {X}{B}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Avacyn Restored Promos #111 (rare)
For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.
Killing Wave has 6 printings, first in Avacyn Restored (2012). EDHREC ranks it #5,975 among Commander cards. It appears most in Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern decks (1,331 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Killing Wave most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern: 1,331 decks
- Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer: 888 decks
- Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast: 558 decks
- Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker: 479 decks
- Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian: 423 decks
- Fumulus, the Infestation: 349 decks
- Mai, Scornful Striker: 263 decks
- Thraximundar: 211 decks
Often played with Killing Wave
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You can’t pay more life than you have.
- : A player may choose to pay life for some creatures and sacrifice the rest. It’s not an all-or-nothing decision.
- : If you can’t sacrifice a creature (perhaps because of Sigarda, Host of Herons), you can choose not to pay life and nothing will happen.
- : First, the active player chooses whether to pay X life for each creature they control. Then each other player in turn order chooses for their creatures. Then each player pays life and sacrifices creatures at the same time. Players will know the decisions of players who chose before them.