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    Suffer the Past

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    Suffer the Past

    Illustrated by Trevor Claxton

    EDHREC Rank #13,434
    Exile X target cards from target player's graveyard. For each card exiled this way, that player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

    Ulamog's tentacles, their touch like burning ice, rummaged through his soul and stung his memories one by one.

    Rulings (3)

    Suffer the Past’s effect causes a single life-gain event, not a number of separate ones. This matters for cards such as Cradle of Vitality.

    Jun 15, 2010

    If the targeted player becomes an illegal target by the time Suffer the Past resolves but the targeted cards don’t, you still exile the cards and gain life. The player won’t be lose any life, though.

    Jun 15, 2010

    The life that’s lost and the life that’s gained are based on the number of cards that are actually exiled, not on the value of X (in case any of the targeted cards somehow leave the graveyard in response and thus can’t be exiled this way).

    Jun 15, 2010

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    Commander

    Competitive

    Prints (3)

    Suffer the Past — Modern Horizons 3 Commander
    M3C#205$0.37
    Modern Horizons 3 Commander
    Suffer the Past — Commander 2021
    C21#155$0.22
    Commander 2021