Channel is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Until end of turn, any time you could activate a mana ability, you may pay 1 life. If you do, add.
How it works : Channel
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Once your life total is 0, you can't pay any more life, even if you've somehow not lost the game yet.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Channel + Cut // Ribbons
- 1Cast Channel by paying
. - 2Activate the ability granted by Channel by paying 1 life, adding .
- 3Repeat step 2 as desired.
- 4Cast Ribbons from your graveyard by paying
and all remaining available mana, causing each opponent to lose a significant amount of life.
Channel + Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
- 1Cast Channel by paying .
- 2Activate the ability granted by Channel by paying 1 life, adding .
- 3Repeat step 2 as desired.
- 4Cast a copy of Exsanguinate by paying and all remaining available mana, causing each opponent to lose a significant amount of life and you to gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Near-Death Experience + Channel + Tidal Barracuda
- 1On the end step prior to your turn, cast Channel by paying .
- 2Activate Channel by paying 1 life, adding .
- 3Repeat step 2 until you have exactly 1 life.
- 4At the beginning of your upkeep, Near-Death Experience triggers, causing you to win the game.
Near-Death Experience + Channel + High Fae Trickster
- 1On the end step prior to your turn, cast Channel by paying .
- 2Activate Channel by paying 1 life, adding .
- 3Repeat step 2 until you have exactly 1 life.
- 4At the beginning of your upkeep, Near-Death Experience triggers, causing you to win the game.
Channel + Comet Storm
- 1Cast Channel by paying .
- 2Activate the ability granted by Channel by paying 1 life, adding .
- 3Repeat step 2 as desired.
- 4Cast Comet Storm by paying
and all remaining available mana, dealing a large amount of damage to a set number of targets.
Channel + Debt to the Deathless
- 1Cast Channel by paying .
- 2Activate the ability granted by Channel by paying 1 life, adding .
- 3Repeat step 2 as desired.
- 4Cast Debt to the Deathless by paying
and all remaining available mana, causing each opponent to lose a significant amount of life and you to gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Near-Death Experience + Channel + Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
- 1On the end step prior to your turn, cast Channel by paying .
- 2Activate Channel by paying 1 life, adding .
- 3Repeat step 2 until you have exactly 1 life.
- 4At the beginning of your upkeep, Near-Death Experience triggers, causing you to win the game.
Near-Death Experience + Channel + Alchemist's Refuge
- 1On the end step prior to your turn, activate Alchemist's Refuge by paying
and tapping it, allowing you to cast spells this turn as if they had flash. - 2Cast Channel by paying .
- 3Activate Channel by paying 1 life, adding .
- 4Repeat step 2 until you have exactly 1 life.
- 5At the beginning of your upkeep, Near-Death Experience triggers, causing you to win the game.
Interactions with other cards
These cards' text mentions Channel.
{T}: Add {G}. Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
{T}: Add {U}. Channel — {3}{U}, Discard this card: Return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
{T}: Add {W}. Channel — {2}{W}, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
{T}: Add {R}. Channel — {3}{R}, Discard this card: Create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
{1}{G}, {T}, Return Shigeki to its owner's hand: Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest into your graveyard. Channel — {X}{X}{G}{G}, Discard this card: Return X target nonlegendary cards from your graveyard to your hand.
When this enchantment enters, exile up to one target artifact or creature until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Channel — {1}{W}, Discard this card: Exile target artifact or creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Flying, ward {2} Channel — {2}{G}, Discard this card: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand. Channel — {1}{U}, Discard this card: Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or Vehicle you control. Channel — {X}{G}{G}, Discard this card: Put X +1/+1 counters on target land you control. It becomes a 0/0 green Spirit creature with haste. It's still a land.
Haste At the beginning of your end step, return this creature to its owner's hand. Channel — {1}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.
Trample Channel — {2}{G}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
{T}, Tap an untapped artifact or creature you control: Add {C}. Channel — {4}{U}, Discard this card: The owner of target nonland permanent puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.
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