Cards/Shards of Alara/Immortal Coil
Immortal Coil
Artifact
Oracle Text
, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Draw a card.
If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage. Exile a card from your graveyard for each 1 damage prevented this way.
When there are no cards in your graveyard, you lose the game.
Print Details
- Set
- Shards of Alara (ALA)
- Number
- #79
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Dan Murayama Scott
- Frame
- 2003
- Border
- Black
- Language
- EN
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- USD
- $0.56
- USD Foil
- $2.33
- EUR
- €0.26
- EUR Foil
- €1.09
- MTGO Tix
- 0.02
Indicative figures.
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The third ability checks whether your graveyard is empty only at the time it triggers. Putting a card into your graveyard after that doesn’t help. You’ll lose the game when the ability resolves.
The second ability prevents all damage that would be dealt to you, regardless of how many cards are in your graveyard. For example, if you have three cards in your graveyard and would be dealt 5 damage, Immortal Coil prevents all 5 damage and exiles all the cards in your graveyard.
Similarly, if the third ability resolves but you don’t lose the game for some reason (because you control Platinum Angel, perhaps), it will immediately trigger again if your graveyard is still empty. Immortal Coil + Platinum Angel + an empty graveyard is an involuntary infinite loop. Unless a player disrupts it, the game will end in a draw.
Print Details
- Set
- Shards of Alara (ALA)
- Number
- #79
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Dan Murayama Scott
- Frame
- 2003
- Border
- Black
- Language
- EN
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
Value
- USD
- $0.56
- USD Foil
- $2.33
- EUR
- €0.26
- EUR Foil
- €1.09
- MTGO Tix
- 0.02
Indicative figures.
