Grave Birthing

Grave Birthing {2}{B}

Instant
Devoid
Target opponent exiles a card from their graveyard. You create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."
Draw a card.
Details
Legalities
Rulings
  • 2015-08-25 A card with devoid is just colorless. It's not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
  • 2015-08-25 Cards with devoid use frames that are variations of the transparent frame traditionally used for Eldrazi. The top part of the card features some color over a background based on the texture of the hedrons that once imprisoned the Eldrazi. This coloration is intended to aid deckbuilding and game play.
  • 2015-08-25 Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
  • 2015-08-25 Eldrazi Scions are similar to Eldrazi Spawn, seen in the Zendikar block. Note that Eldrazi Scions are 1/1, not 0/1.
  • 2015-08-25 Eldrazi and Scion are each separate creature types. Anything that affects Eldrazi will affect these tokens, for example.
  • 2015-08-25 If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object's color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.
  • 2015-08-25 Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid color. If that happens, it's just the new color, not that color and colorless.
  • 2015-08-25 Sacrificing an Eldrazi Scion creature token to add {C} to your mana pool is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
  • 2015-08-25 Some instants and sorceries that create Eldrazi Scions require targets. If all targets for such a spell have become illegal by the time that spell tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't get any Eldrazi Scions.
  • 2015-08-25 The target opponent chooses which card to exile as Grave Birthing resolves.
  • 2015-08-25 You can cast Grave Birthing targeting an opponent with an empty graveyard. Even though that player won't exile a card from their graveyard, you'll still get an Eldrazi Scion and draw a card.
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Printings
  • Battle for Zendikar (common)

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Foreign names
  • 生自墓穴
  • 生自墓穴
  • Grabgeburt
  • Gestation de la tombe
  • Nascita Sepolcrale
  • 墓の出産
  • 무덤 부화
  • Nascimento Tumular
  • Могильное Порождение
  • Eclosión sepulcral