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Roiling Horror

{3}{B}{B}

Creature — Horror

Planar Chaos·plc #79·Rare·2007·Art by John Avon
StandardNot Legal
ModernLegal
CommanderLegal
LegacyLegal
PioneerNot Legal
VintageLegal

Oracle Text

Roiling Horror's power and toughness are each equal to your life total minus the life total of an opponent with the most life.

X—{X}{B}{B}{B}. X can't be 0. (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {X}{B}{B}{B} and exile it with X 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. It has haste.)

Whenever a time counter is removed from this card while it's exiled, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

P / T

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Print Details

Set
Planar Chaos (PLC)
Number
#79
Rarity
Rare
Artist
John Avon
Frame
2003
Border
Black
Language
EN
Finishes
Nonfoil, Foil
USD
$0.35
USD Foil
$0.84
EUR
0.14
EUR Foil
1.79
MTGO Tix
0.02

Indicative figures.

Card Knowledge

Legalities

StandardNot Legal
PioneerNot Legal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal

Rulings17

2/1/2007·wotc

If your life total is less than or equal to the life total of the opponent with the most life, Roiling Horror's toughness is 0 or less. It will be put into its owner's graveyard as a state-based action.

2/1/2007·wotc

You never choose an opponent, and the opponent that Roiling Horror looks at is never "locked in." Roiling Horror continuously looks at the life totals of all opponents and uses whichever value is the largest.

2/2/2024·wotc

Suspend is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that allows you to exile the card from your hand with the specified number of time counters (the number before the dash) on it by paying its suspend cost (listed after the dash). The second is a triggered ability that removes a time counter from the suspended card at the beginning of each of your upkeeps. The third is a triggered ability that gives you the option to cast the card when the last time counter is removed.

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