Lie in Wait
- Mana cost
- {B}{G}{U}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm #203 (uncommon)
- Price
- $0.24 USD
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Lie in Wait deals damage equal to that card's power to target creature.
Lie in Wait has 1 printing, first in Tarkir: Dragonstorm (2025). EDHREC ranks it #13,094 among Commander cards. It appears most in Teval, the Balanced Scale decks (1,978 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Lie in Wait most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Teval, the Balanced Scale: 1,978 decks
- Indominus Rex, Alpha: 617 decks
- Teval, Arbiter of Virtue: 427 decks
- Kotis, Sibsig Champion: 99 decks
Often played with Lie in Wait
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You can’t cast Lie in Wait unless you choose a creature card in your graveyard and a creature on the battlefield as targets.
- : Use the power of the card in the graveyard to determine how much damage Lie in Wait deals to the target creature.