Starving Revenant

Creature — Spirit Horror

When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.

Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

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Set

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI #123)

Rarity

Rare

Mana value

4

Released

2023-11-17

Artist

Fesbra

EDHREC rank

#7,398

Colour identity

Finishes

Nonfoil, Foil

Served from

Local database

Commander bracket

EDHREC

Combos 73

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Format legality

Rulings

• 2023-11-10

  Cards with the ability word "descend N" have abilities that care if you have at least N permanent cards in your graveyard.

• 2023-11-10

  Except in some unusual cases, the cards you put on top of your library while surveilling will be the cards you draw.

• 2023-11-10

  For Starving Revenant's enters-the-battlefield ability, you put cards into your graveyard for surveil (if any) before drawing cards. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard by the time you draw cards, those draws will cause the descend 8 ability to trigger.

• 2023-11-10

  Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.

• 2024-01-12

  When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.