Starving Revenant
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Spirit Horror
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 4
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos #123s (rare)
When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.
Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Starving Revenant has 4 printings, first in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (2023). EDHREC ranks it #7,459 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mirko, Obsessive Theorist decks (2,578 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Starving Revenant most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mirko, Obsessive Theorist: 2,578 decks
- The Ancient One: 972 decks
- Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel: 792 decks
- Iname, Death Aspect: 646 decks
- The Speed Demon: 581 decks
- Tom, Bert, and William: 315 decks
- Zoyowa Lava-Tongue: 267 decks
- Vilis, Broker of Blood: 166 decks
Often played with Starving Revenant
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : Cards with the ability word "descend N" have abilities that care if you have at least N permanent cards in your graveyard.
- : For Starving Revenant's enters-the-battlefield ability, you put cards into your graveyard for surveil (if any) before drawing cards. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard by the time you draw cards, those draws will cause the descend 8 ability to trigger.
- : Except in some unusual cases, the cards you put on top of your library while surveilling will be the cards you draw.
- : When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.