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Eat to Extinction
Instant
rare
Exile target creature or planeswalker. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
Semantic Tags
Specifically removes creatures — destroy, exile, damage, or -X/-X.
A keyword ability that lets you exile cards from your graveyard rather than pay generic mana to cast a spell. See rule 702.66, “Delve.”
A keyword ability that lets a player return a card from their graveyard to their hand. See rule 702.52, “Dredge.”
Removes threats by exiling rather than destroying — bypasses indestructible and death triggers.
Removes threats by exiling rather than destroying — bypasses indestructible and death triggers.
Exiles cards from graveyards or prevents graveyard interaction. Shuts down recursion, flashback, and graveyard-matters strategies.
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.
Answers an opponent's threat by destroying, exiling, bouncing, or otherwise removing a permanent or spell.
Prevents players from searching their libraries. Shuts down tutors and fetchlands.
A keyword ability that provides an alternative way to play a card. See rule 702.62, “Suspend.” A card is “suspended” if it’s in the exile zone, has suspend, and has a time counter on it.
Cares about or manipulates the top card(s) of your library. Includes scry, surveil, and top-deck payoffs.
Cares about or manipulates the top card(s) of your library. Includes scry, surveil, and top-deck payoffs.
Cares about or manipulates the top of library — Sensei's Top, miracles, Future Sight.
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Printings (5)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magic Online Promos#79927 | rare | · | · | · |
| Theros Beyond Death Promos#90s | rare | · | · | · |
| Theros Beyond Death#312 | rare | · | · | · |
| Theros Beyond Death Promos#90p | rare | · | · | · |
| Theros Beyond Death#90 | rare | · | · | · |
Related Concepts
Related Rules
If a cost associated with a special action, such as a suspend cost or a morph cost, has an {X} or an X in it, the value of X is chosen by the player taking the special action immediately before they pay that cost.
A player who has a card with suspend in their hand may exile that card. This is a special action. A player can take this action any time they have priority, but only if they could begin to cast that card by putting it onto the stack. See rule 702.62, “Suspend.”
Suspend
Surveil
To “surveil N” means to look at the top N cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.
If an effect allows you to look at additional cards while you surveil, those cards are included among the cards you may put into your graveyard and on top of your library in any order.
If a player is instructed to surveil 0, no surveil event occurs. Abilities that trigger whenever a player surveils won’t trigger.
To time travel means to choose any number of permanents you control with one or more time counters on them and/or suspended cards you own in exile with one or more time counters on them and, for each of those objects, put a time counter on it or remove a time counter from it. See rule 702.62, “Suspend.”
Rulings
If you don't put the top card of your library into your graveyard, it remains on top of your library.
If the target creature or planeswalker is an illegal target by the time Eat to Extinction tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve. You won't look at or move the top card of your library.
You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.