---
name: "17-Year Cicadas"
mana_cost: "{7}{W}"
cmc: 8
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: ["W"]
color_identity: ["W"]
keywords: ["Suspend"]
set: "UNK"
set_name: "Unknown Event"
collector_number: "UW05c"
rarity: "uncommon"
artist: ""
oracle_id: "dcbf8d0d-a5a8-4dc2-828f-25ccfe87fe0f"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/17-year-cicadas-unk"
legalities:
  commander: "not_legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "not_legal"
  vintage: "not_legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# 17-Year Cicadas
- **Mana Cost:** `{7}{W}` (CMC: 8)
- **Type:** Sorcery
- **Keywords:** Suspend

## Oracle Text
Create ten 1/1 white Insect creature tokens with flying. Exile 17-Year Cicadas with seventeen time counters on it.
Suspend 17 — {0} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {0} and exile it with seventeen time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Whenever you cast a spell, if this card is suspended, remove a time counter from it.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Suspend](/printing/suspend-mh2.md) — Instant
2. [Giant Dustwasp](/printing/giant-dustwasp-plc.md) — Creature — Insect
3. [Cyclical Evolution](/printing/cyclical-evolution-fut.md) — Sorcery
4. [Ivory Giant](/printing/ivory-giant-tsp.md) — Creature — Giant
5. [Errant Ephemeron](/printing/errant-ephemeron-tsr.md) — Creature — Illusion
6. [Epochrasite](/printing/epochrasite-c14.md) — Artifact Creature — Construct

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Unknown Event (UNK) #UW05c
- **Rarity:** Uncommon
- **Artist:** 

## Format Legalities
Commander: `not_legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `not_legal` | Vintage: `not_legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`