wotc
The third ability checks whether your graveyard is empty only at the time it triggers. Putting a card into your graveyard after that doesn’t help. You’ll lose the game when the ability resolves.
MTG · Card
◇ Catalog #79
Immortal Coil
ala·#79·rare·nonfoil
Illus. Dan Murayama Scott
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Oct '08
17 yr ago
Value
$1.58+$0 (+1.8%)
30 days high $0.58 · low $0.56
Volatility · stable
EUR€0.59USD$0.58TIX0.02 tix
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Played in EDH
EDHrec rank #14,307 · Fringe play
Variants
Gameplay
Artifact
{T}, Exile two cards from your graveyard: Draw a card.
If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage. Exile a card from your graveyard for each 1 damage prevented this way.
When there are no cards in your graveyard, you lose the game.
Legalities
tlrnot legal
duellegal
brawlnot legal
pennylegal
PreDH
Rulings · 6
wotc
The second ability prevents all damage that would be dealt to you, regardless of how many cards are in your graveyard. For example, if you have three cards in your graveyard and would be dealt 5 damage, Immortal Coil prevents all 5 damage and exiles all the cards in your graveyard.
wotc
Similarly, if the third ability resolves but you don’t lose the game for some reason (because you control Platinum Angel, perhaps), it will immediately trigger again if your graveyard is still empty. Immortal Coil + Platinum Angel + an empty graveyard is an involuntary infinite loop. Unless a player disrupts it, the game will end in a draw.
Context
Last observed at $0.58, up from $0.57 thirty days ago. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.02 and $0.58 across 41 observations. Headline volatility reads stable. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
Last observed on Scryfall 19 hours ago at $0.58.
This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from ALA — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
This card belongs to *Shards of Alara* (released October 2008).
Card #79 in Shards of Alara.
Rarity tier: rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters.
Card type: Artifact. Color identity: black. Mana cost: {2}{B}{B} (4 converted).
Legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #14,307 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott. Rarix tracks 1,317 other cards credited to this artist across the catalog — browse the full gallery to see the body of work.
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