First printed in Wilds of Eldraine (2023)
Legendary Planeswalker — Ashiok
If you would pay life while your library has at least that many cards in it, exile that many cards from the top of your library instead.
+1: Look at the top two cards of your library. Exile one of them and put the other into your hand.
−2: Create two 1/1 black Nightmare creature tokens with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, if a card was put into exile this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this token."
−7: Target player exiles the top X cards of their library, where X is the total mana value of cards you own in exile.
Loyalty: 5
- Illustrated by
- Raymond Swanland
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Pauper, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders
Rulings (3)
- Ashiok, Wicked Nightmare's first ability isn't optional. You can't choose to pay life instead of exiling cards from the top of your library while you control Ashiok, and you can't split the payment between life and cards.
- If you would pay life while you control Ashiok and your library does not have at least that many cards in it, you'll just pay life as normal.
- Ashiok's first ability doesn't allow you to attempt to pay an amount of life greater than your current life total.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilds of Eldraine (WOE), Premier Draft | 61.0% | +5.8 | +7.8 | 8708 |
| Wilds of Eldraine (WOE), Sealed | 60.5% | +3.9 | +3.7 | 980 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
5 combos, the most popular first:
- Exile your library: Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator + Necropotence
- Exile your library: Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator + Doom Whisperer
- Exile your library: Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator + Blood Celebrant
- Exile your library, Near-infinitely large creature until end of turn: Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator + Wall of Blood
- Exile your library: Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator + Unspeakable Symbol