Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake
Some links are affiliate links — if you buy through them Mauldron may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. How this works.
Build around Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake as your commander →
Create a free account to add this card to a deck or collection — log in if you have one.
Vigilance, menace
Descend 8 — {4}{U}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Activate only if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard and only as a sorcery. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)
What it does
Tagged as Recursion — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.
Keyword reminders
Official rulings
- 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. (2023-11-10)
- Multiple finality counters on a single permanent are redundant. (2023-11-10)
- Finality counters work on any permanent, not only creatures. If a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead. (2023-11-10)
- Finality counters don't stop permanents from going to zones other than the graveyard from the battlefield. For example, if a permanent with a finality counter on it would be put into its owner's hand from the battlefield, it does so normally. (2023-11-10)
- Finality counters aren't keyword counters, and a finality counter doesn't give any abilities to the permanent it's on. If that permanent loses its abilities and then would go to a graveyard, it will still be exiled instead. (2023-11-10)
Printings & prices
Every set Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake has been printed in, with the art, the finishes and the market price of each — the headline price above is the cheapest of these.
Cards like this
The most-played cards that do something similar to Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake, and are playable in its colours.
