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Writhing Chrysalis
Creature — Eldrazi Drone
common
Devoid (This card has no color.) When you cast this spell, create two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens with "Sacrifice this token: Add ." Reach Whenever you sacrifice another Eldrazi, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
2/3
Semantic Tags
Benefits from creatures dying — drain effects, death triggers, and sacrifice-for-value payoffs.
Cares about +1/+1 counters — places, moves, doubles, or benefits from counters on creatures.
Suited for blocking and defense. Includes defender, reach, vigilance, and cards that incentivize blocking.
A card or token on the battlefield. See rule 110, “Permanents.”
Accelerates mana production beyond the one-land-per-turn baseline. Umbrella tag — see ramp subtypes for land ramp, mana dorks, mana rocks, and rituals.
A keyword ability that allows a creature to block an attacking creature with flying. See rule 702.17, “Reach.” See also Flying.
Broadly benefits from sacrificing permanents — overlaps aristocrats but includes non-creature sacrifice.
Creates creature tokens, Treasure tokens, Food tokens, Clue tokens, or other token types.
Format Legality
Price history
Printings (2)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The List#MH3-208 | common | · | · | · |
| Modern Horizons 3#208 | common | · | · | · |
Related Concepts
Related Rules
If an ability would produce one or more mana of an undefined type, it produces no mana instead.
Some abilities produce mana based on the type of mana another permanent or permanents “could produce.” The type of mana a permanent could produce at any time includes any type of mana that an ability of that permanent would produce if the ability were to resolve at that time, taking into account any applicable replacement effects in any possible order. Ignore whether any costs of the ability could or could not be paid. If that permanent wouldn’t produce any mana under these conditions, or no type of mana can be defined this way, there’s no type of mana it could produce.
To “tap [a permanent] for mana” is to activate a mana ability of that permanent that includes the {T} symbol in its activation cost. See rule 605, “Mana Abilities.”
An ability that triggers whenever a permanent “is tapped for mana” or is tapped for mana of a specified type triggers whenever such a mana ability resolves and produces mana or the specified type of mana.
A replacement effect that applies if a permanent “is tapped for mana” or tapped for mana of a specific type and/or amount modifies the mana production event while such an ability is resolving and producing mana or the specified type and/or amount of mana.
If an object’s enters-the-battlefield triggered ability or replacement effect refers to X, and the spell that became that object as it resolved had a value of X chosen for any of its costs, the value of X for that ability is the same as the value of X for that spell, although the value of X for that permanent is 0. This is an exception to rule 107.3i.
The tap symbol is {T}. The tap symbol in an activation cost means “Tap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already tapped can’t be tapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the tap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
The untap symbol is {Q}. The untap symbol in an activation cost means “Untap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already untapped can’t be untapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the untap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
Rulings
Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid a color. If that happens, it's just the new color, not that color and colorless.
If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object's color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.
Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
Devoid doesn't affect the color identity of the card for the purposes of the Commander variant. For example, while Abstruse Appropriation is colorless because it has devoid, its color identity is still white and black, and it can't be included in a Commander deck where the commander's color identity doesn't include both white and black.
A card with devoid is just colorless. It's not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
Writhing Chrysalis's second ability will resolve before Writhing Chrysalis does. If Writhing Chrysalis is countered or otherwise leaves the stack in response to that triggered ability, the triggered ability will still resolve as normal.