Serra's Hymn
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SetUSG
Collector #48
Released1998-10-12
Rarityuncommon
ArtistRebecca Guay
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Serra's Hymn

UncommonColour IDMV 1
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on this enchantment.
Sacrifice this enchantment: Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt this turn to any number of targets, divided as you choose, where X is the number of verse counters on this enchantment.
Card capabilities
Enchantment
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (3)
wotc4 Oct 2004
You count the number of counters, then divide up the prevention during the announcement of the ability. Each targeted creature receives the appropriate amount of damage prevention when the ability resolves.
wotc4 Oct 2004
Adding a counter is optional. If you forget to add one during your upkeep, you cannot back up and add one later.
wotc4 Oct 2004
You can activate the ability (choosing no targets) even if there are no verse counters on it. It doesn’t do anything useful if you do this.