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Glorious Decay

Glorious Decay

Instant

common

Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Glorious Decay deals 4 damage to target creature with flying. • Exile target card from a graveyard. Draw a card.

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Semantic Tags

Artifact Hatemechanical

Specifically destroys, exiles, or shuts down artifacts.

Specifically destroys, exiles, or shuts down artifacts.

Specifically removes artifacts.

Burnmechanical

A spell that deals direct damage to creatures or players.

Cantripmechanical

A spell that replaces itself by drawing a card as part of its resolution.

Card Drawmechanical

Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.

Specifically removes creatures — destroy, exile, damage, or -X/-X.

Draw Hatevector

Punishes or prevents opponents from drawing extra cards.

Graveyard Hatemechanical

Exiles cards from graveyards or prevents graveyard interaction. Shuts down recursion, flashback, and graveyard-matters strategies.

Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.

Removalmechanical

Answers an opponent's threat by destroying, exiling, bouncing, or otherwise removing a permanent or spell.

Removalvector

Answers an opponent's threat by destroying, exiling, bouncing, or otherwise removing a permanent or spell.

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneerlegal
standardlegal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
pauperlegal
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemylegal

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Secrets of Strixhaven#150common···

Rulings

2026-03-20

If the last mode of Glorious Decay is chosen but the target is illegal as Glorious Decay tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't draw a card.