Once you've activated an embalm ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can't try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation.
Heart-Piercer Manticore
If a spell or ability puts a creature card with embalm into your graveyard during your main phase, you'll have priority immediately after that spell or ability resolves. You can activate the creature card's embalm ability before any player can exile it with an effect, such as that of Crook of Condemnation, if it's legal for you to do so.
Heart-Piercer Manticore's damage-dealing ability triggers only when you sacrifice a creature as a result of the instruction of its triggered ability. It won't trigger if you sacrifice a creature for any other reason.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PIO — the lineup includes 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.
Card #140 of *Pioneer Masters*, the set that shipped alongside the December 2024 Pioneer Masters release.
Card type: Creature — Manticore, color identity red, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {2}{R}{R} (4 converted). Keyword abilities: Embalm.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #18,589 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Scott Murphy. Rarix catalogs 392 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Scott Murphy
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