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Cemetery Desecrator

Card Name

Cemetery Desecrator

Mana Cost

4

Type

Creature – Zombie

Rarity

Mythic Rare

rules Text

MenaceWhen Cemetery Desecrator enters the battlefield or dies, exile another card from a graveyard. When you do, choose one —• Remove X counters from target permanent, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.• Target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the mana value of the exiled card.

Legal Formats

Commander, Explorer, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Pauper, Standard

Rulings

(11/19/2021)
After you exile a card from a graveyard, another triggered ability goes on the stack. You choose the mode and target as you put that second ability on the stack, not before you exile a card.
(11/19/2021)
The controller of Cemetery Desecrator chooses which counters are removed, and they may remove more than one kind of counter. If the target permanent has fewer than X counters, all of them are removed.