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Piercing Exhale

First printed in Tarkir: Dragonstorm (2025)

Piercing Exhale

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may behold a Dragon. (You may choose a Dragon you control or reveal a Dragon card from your hand.)
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker. If a Dragon was beheld, surveil 2.

Illustrated by
Jorge Jacinto

Piercing Exhale legality

Rulings (4)

  • If a card in your hand is already revealed (perhaps because it was revealed to pay a cost of a spell that’s still on the stack or due to the effect of a card like Telepathy), you may reveal it again to pay the cost of another spell or ability that requires you to reveal a card from your hand.
  • Effects that say “If a [quality] was beheld” only care if a card of that quality was revealed or a permanent you control of that quality was chosen. No matter what happens to that card or permanent after that, it was still beheld, and any additional effects that depend on that card or permanent being beheld will still happen.
  • If a cost to cast a spell includes revealing a card, that card remains revealed from the time the spell is announced until the time it leaves the stack.
  • If an effect refers to a “[subtype] card,” it refers only to a card that has that subtype. For example, Teeming Dragonstorm is a card that cares about Dragons and features Dragons in its art, but it isn’t a Dragon card.

Prices

Paper price: €0.12 / $0.24 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket, and TCGplayer, otherwise Mana Pool or Card Kingdom, through MTGJSON, 8 Nov 2026).

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 8 Nov 2026).

Limited On MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Piercing Exhale in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM), Premier Draft 57.5% +2.5 +4.6 66938
Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM), Sealed 60.8% +3.5 +4.8 9815
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