Card

Starving Revenant

Creature — Spirit Horror


When Starving Revenant enters the battlefield, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.
Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.


  The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Promos (PLCI)
#123p, Rare

Illustrated by: Fesbra

Rulings

  • 2023-11-10
    Except in some unusual cases, the cards you put on top of your library while surveilling will be the cards you draw.
  • 2023-11-10
    For Starving Revenant's enters-the-battlefield ability, you put cards into your graveyard for surveil (if any) before drawing cards. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard by the time you draw cards, those draws will cause the descend 8 ability to trigger.
  • 2023-11-10
    Cards with the ability word "descend N" have abilities that care if you have at least N permanent cards in your graveyard.
  • 2023-11-10
    Some descend triggered abilities include intervening "if" clauses (i.e. "if you have [four or eight] permanent cards in your graveyard" in the middle of the ability). Each of these abilities checks your graveyard at the moment it would trigger to see if it does. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability doesn't trigger at all. If it does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you don't have the required number of permanent cards in your graveyard at that time, the ability won't resolve and none of its effects will happen.