Hand of Emrakul
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SetROE
Collector #5
Released2010-04-23
Raritycommon
ArtistChippy
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Hand of Emrakul

CommonMV 9
Creature — Eldrazi
You may sacrifice four Eldrazi Spawn rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.)
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Keywords
Annihilator
Card capabilities
Creature
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (5)
wotc15 Jun 2010
Annihilator abilities trigger and resolve during the declare attackers step. The defending player chooses and sacrifices the required number of permanents before they declare blockers. Any creatures sacrificed this way won't be able to block.
wotc15 Jun 2010
If a creature with annihilator is attacking a planeswalker, and the defending player chooses to sacrifice that planeswalker, the attacking creature continues to attack. It may be blocked. If it isn't blocked, it simply won't deal combat damage to anything.
wotc15 Jun 2010
Casting Hand of Emrakul by paying its alternative cost doesn't change its mana cost or mana value.
wotc15 Jun 2010
Casting Hand of Emrakul by paying its alternative cost doesn't change when you can cast it. You can cast it only at the normal time you could cast a creature spell.
wotc15 Jun 2010
Effects that increase or reduce the cost to cast Hand of Emrakul will apply to it even if you choose to pay its alternative cost.