First printed in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (2023)
All 4 prints
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Creature — Spirit Horror
When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.
Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
4/4
- Illustrated by
- Fesbra
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 (5)
- Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.
- Cards with the ability word "descend N" have abilities that care if you have at least N permanent cards in your graveyard.
- For Starving Revenant's enters-the-battlefield ability, you put cards into your graveyard for surveil (if any) before drawing cards. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard by the time you draw cards, those draws will cause the descend 8 ability to trigger.
- Except in some unusual cases, the cards you put on top of your library while surveilling will be the cards you draw.
- When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 31 Oct 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), Premier Draft | 58.8% | +3.5 | +7.6 | 10434 |
| The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI), Sealed | 58.8% | +3.2 | +6.1 | 1019 |
- 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
71 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite card draw, Near-infinite lifegain…: Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin + Starving Revenant
- Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers…: Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel + Starving Revenant
- Infinite card draw, Near-infinite lifeloss…: Bolas's Citadel + Sensei's Divining Top + Starving Revenant
- Infinite card draw, Near-infinite lifegain…: Drogskol Reaver + Starving Revenant
- Infinite card draw, Near-infinite lifeloss…: Marina Vendrell's Grimoire + Starving Revenant
- Infinite self-discard triggers, Near-infinite lifeloss…: Currency Converter + Ketramose, the New Dawn + Starving Revenant
- Infinite card draw, Near-infinite lifeloss…: Gwenom, Remorseless + Sensei's Divining Top + Starving Revenant
- Infinite card draw, Near-infinite lifeloss…: Asmodeus the Archfiend + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Necrotic Ooze + Starving Revenant
- Infinite self-discard triggers, Near-infinite lifeloss…: Ketramose, the New Dawn + Necropotence + Starving Revenant
- Infinite self-discard triggers, Near-infinite lifeloss…: Containment Construct + Ketramose, the New Dawn + Starving Revenant
