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.
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.
The token is a Zombie in addition to its other types and is white instead of its other colors. It has no mana cost, and thus its mana value is 0. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy.
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 #179 of *Pioneer Masters*, the set that shipped alongside the December 2024 Pioneer Masters release.
Card type: Creature — Snake Hydra, color identity green, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {5}{G} (6 converted). Keyword abilities: Trample and Embalm.
Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.
EDHrec ranks this card #17,049 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Todd Lockwood. Rarix catalogs 404 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Todd Lockwood
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For each card with embalm, a corresponding game play supplement token can be found in some Amonkhet booster packs. These supplements are not required to play with cards with embalm; you can use the same items to represent an embalmed token as you would any other token.
The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else. It doesn't copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard.
