You may choose to draw cards to pay the cumulative upkeep cost even if the number of cards you’d have to draw exceeds the number of cards in your library. If enough of those draws are replaced by replacement effects so you don’t actually attempt to draw a card with an empty library, everything’s fine. However, if you do attempt to draw a card with an empty library this way, Psychic Vortex will remain on the battlefield but you’ll lose the game as a state-based action as soon as the cumulative upkeep ability finishes resolving.
MTG · Card
◇ Catalog #50
Psychic Vortex
wth·#50·rare·nonfoil
Illus. Steve Luke
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wishlisted
Jun 1997
29 yr ago
Value
$4.83+$0 (+0.0%)
30 days high $3.83 · low $3.83
Volatility · stable
EUR€3.09USD$3.83TIX0.35 tix
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Played in EDH
EDHrec rank #14,621 · Fringe play
Variants
Gameplay
Enchantment
Cumulative upkeep—Draw a card. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice a land and discard your hand.
"Tolaria floats upon a wheel of fortune."
—Ertai, wizard adept
Legalities
tlrnot legal
duellegal
brawlnot legal
pennynot legal
PreDHlegal
Rulings · 2
wotc
wotc
Psychic Vortex’s cumulative upkeep ability has you draw cards as a cost. If you choose to do so, and some or all of those draws are replaced by replacement effects, you are still considered to have paid the cumulative upkeep cost.
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Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Steve Luke
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