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Parting Thoughts

First printed in Commander 2016 (2016)

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Parting Thoughts

Sorcery

Destroy target creature. You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of counters on that creature.

"To spend your life seeking, only to find regret upon achieving . . . this is the most delicious irony of all."
—Leshrac, Walker of Night

Illustrated by
Seb McKinnon

Parting Thoughts legality

Legal in
Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
Not legal in
Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl

Rulings (3)
  • Parting Thoughts counts every kind of counter on that creature. Effects such as that of Giant Growth, Auras, and Equipment aren’t counters.
  • Parting Thoughts can target a creature without any counters on it. You’ll lose no life and draw no cards.
  • If a creature has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, state-based actions remove the same number of each so that it has only one of those kinds of counters on it. There won’t be any counters of the other kind for Parting Thoughts to count.

Prices

Paper price: €0.22 / $0.25 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket, and TCGplayer, otherwise Mana Pool or Card Kingdom, through MTGJSON, 10 Nov 2026).

MTGO price: 0.005 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 10 Nov 2026).