Genesis Wave
Card Rules and Details
Card Type: Sorcery
Mana Cost: {X}{G}{G}{G}
Oracle Rules Text: Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.
Set: Foundations (#221), Rarity: Rare, Artist: Arif Wijaya
Sorcery
Green
Rare
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Historical Printings & Sets (1)
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Official Rulings (6)
2024-11-08
You don't have to put permanent cards revealed this way onto the battlefield if you choose not to, regardless of their mana values.
2024-11-08
If you have fewer than X cards in your library, you reveal all of them.
2024-11-08
If a permanent card in your library has no mana symbols in its upper right corner (because it's a land card, for example), its mana value is 0. Such cards can always be put onto the battlefield with Genesis Wave.
2024-11-08
If a card in a player's library has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
2024-11-08
A permanent card is an artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card.
2024-11-08
All of the permanents put onto the battlefield this way enter at the same time. If any have triggered abilities that trigger on something else entering, they'll see each other.
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