Impending

Keywords · intermediate

Impending lets you cast a permanent cheaply, but it arrives on a delay before it becomes a creature. It reads "Impending N - [cost]."

How it works

• You may cast a card with impending for its impending cost instead of its mana cost.
• If you do, it enters the battlefield with N time counters on it, and it is not a creature for as long as it has a time counter.
• At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last one is removed, it becomes a creature.

Rules notes

• While it still has time counters, an impending permanent is not a creature, so it cannot attack or block and is safe from creature removal.
• Impending is an alternative cost; the card's mana value is unchanged.

Rule reference

[702.176]