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◇ Catalog #11

Debt of Loyalty

wth·#11·rare·nonfoil

Illus. Pete Venters

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wishlisted

Jun 1997

29 yr ago

Value

$15.69+$1 (+4.2%)

30 days high $15 · low $14

NM$14.7

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$14–$16modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $16low $0.47range 3300.0%n 46

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #16,251 · Fringe play

Variants

Nonfoil$15

Gameplay

Instant

Regenerate target creature. You gain control of that creature if it regenerates this way.

"I killed him because I had to," Starke lied to Gerrard. "But now I pledge my loyalty to you."

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawlnot legal

pennynot legal

PreDH

Rulings · 5

2013-07-01wotc

A creature with indestructible never needs to regenerate, so Debt of Loyalty will have no effect on it.

2008-04-01wotc

Casting Debt of Loyalty puts a regeneration shield on a creature. If, later in the turn, that creature would be destroyed, instead it regenerates and you gain control of it. Note that it will be tapped when you gain control of it. The control change has no duration; you’ll retain control of that creature until the game ends or until some other effect causes it to change control.

2008-04-01wotc

If a creature has two regeneration shields on it — one from a Debt of Loyalty you cast and one from another effect — and it would be destroyed, its controller chooses which regeneration shield to use. If that player chooses to use the Debt of Loyalty shield, you’ll gain control of the creature. If the player chooses to use the other shield, you won’t gain control of the creature, but the Debt of Loyalty shield will remain on that creature for the rest of the turn (in case it would be destroyed again).

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $14.69. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.47 and $15.98 across 46 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from WTH — 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 #11 of *Weatherlight*, the set that shipped alongside the June 1997 Weatherlight release.

Card type: Instant, color identity white, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {1}{W}{W} (3 converted).

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander. This printing is on Wizards of the Coast's Reserved List — Wizards has committed never to reprint cards on that list, which underwrites a structural scarcity floor on every surviving copy.

EDHrec ranks this card #16,251 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Pete Venters. Rarix catalogs 943 other cards credited to this artist.