Suffer the Past
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This printing
SetROE
Collector #128
Released2010-04-23
Rarityuncommon
ArtistTrevor Claxton
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Suffer the Past

UncommonColour IDMV 1
Instant
Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
2 other English printingsEarliest 2021-04-23Newest 2024-06-14Cheapest priced $0.26 in C21
Rulings (3)
wotc15 Jun 2010
If the targeted player becomes an illegal target by the time Suffer the Past resolves but the targeted cards don’t, you still exile the cards and gain life. The player won’t be lose any life, though.
wotc15 Jun 2010
Suffer the Past’s effect causes a single life-gain event, not a number of separate ones. This matters for cards such as Cradle of Vitality.
wotc15 Jun 2010
The life that’s lost and the life that’s gained are based on the number of cards that are actually exiled, not on the value of X (in case any of the targeted cards somehow leave the graveyard in response and thus can’t be exiled this way).