Primal Surge
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SetAVR
Collector #189
Released2012-05-04
Raritymythic
ArtistDavid Rapoza
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Primal Surge

MythicColour IDMV 10
Sorcery
Exile the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you do, repeat this process.
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (4)
wotc1 May 2012
If putting any of those permanent cards onto the battlefield causes abilities to trigger, those abilities will wait to go on the stack until Primal Surge has finished resolving. Starting with the active player, each player puts their abilities on the stack in any order.
wotc1 May 2012
If you exile a permanent card that you can’t put onto the battlefield (such as an Aura with nothing legal to enchant) or one you don’t want to put onto the battlefield, Primal Surge finishes resolving.
wotc1 May 2012
Repeating the process includes the instruction to repeat the process. That is, you’ll keep exiling cards and putting them onto the battlefield until you fail to put a permanent card onto the battlefield.
wotc1 May 2012
A permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card.