First printed in Dragons of Tarkir (2015)
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As this creature enters, exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard.
Living Lore's power and toughness are each equal to the exiled card's mana value.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage, you may sacrifice it. If you do, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
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- Illustrated by
- Jason Felix
- Watermark
- Ojutai
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Penny Dreadful, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (8)
- Similarly, if the exiled card somehow leaves exile while Living Lore is on the battlefield, it will become a 0/0 creature.
- If there are no instant or sorcery cards in your graveyard as Living Lore enters the battlefield, it will enter the battlefield as a 0/0 creature and be put into its owner's graveyard due to having 0 toughness.
- If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Tormenting Voice, those must be paid to cast the card.
- You may cast a sorcery this way even if it's not your turn.
- If an instant or sorcery spell puts Living Lore onto the battlefield, that spell is still on the stack while you choose a card to exile. You can't exile it with Living Lore.
- If a spell has
in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost. - Living Lore's last ability will trigger whenever it deals combat damage, no matter if that damage is dealt to an opponent, an opposing planeswalker, or a creature it's blocking or being blocked by. You choose whether to sacrifice Living Lore as that ability resolves. If Living Lore has already left the battlefield, perhaps because it was dealt lethal damage at the same time it dealt damage, you can't sacrifice it.
- If Living Lore leaves the battlefield, the ability that defines its power and toughness will lose track of the exiled card. Its power and toughness are 0 in other zones.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 31 Oct 2026).
Combos
14 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite turns, Lock: Concordant Crossroads + Living Lore + Muldrotha, the Gravetide + Temporal Manipulation
- Infinite turns, Lock: Concordant Crossroads + Living Lore + Muldrotha, the Gravetide + Time Warp
- Infinite turns, Lock: Capture of Jingzhou + Concordant Crossroads + Living Lore + Muldrotha, the Gravetide
- Infinite turns, Lock: Concordant Crossroads + Living Lore + Muldrotha, the Gravetide + Walk the Aeons
- Infinite turns, Lock: Living Lore + Nim Deathmantle + Walk the Aeons
- Infinite turns, Lock: Living Lore + Nim Deathmantle + Time Warp
- Infinite turns, Lock: Living Lore + Nim Deathmantle + Time Walk
- Infinite turns, Lock: Living Lore + Nim Deathmantle + Time Stretch
- Infinite turns, Lock: Living Lore + Nim Deathmantle + Temporal Manipulation
- Infinite turns, Lock: Capture of Jingzhou + Living Lore + Nim Deathmantle