Empty the Pits (Khans of Tarkir) - Gatherer

Empty the Pits

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Community Rating: 4.000 / 5 (3 votes)

Oracle Printed

Card Name:

Empty the Pits

Mana Cost:

Mana Value:

Types:

Instant

Card Text:

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)

Put X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens onto the battlefield tapped.

Flavor Text:

The Sultai would rebuild the empire on the backs of the dead.

Watermark:

Sultai

Expansion:

Khans of Tarkir

Rarity:

Mythic Rare

Card Number:

Artist:

Ryan Alexander Lee

Language:

English

Rulings

3/19/2021	Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise's mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
3/19/2021	You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.
3/19/2021	Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.