Ethereal Absolution 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.
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Official card text
Creatures you control get +1/+1. Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1.: Exile target card from an opponent's graveyard. If it was a creature card, you create a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying.
How it works : Ethereal Absolution
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
No additional ruling has been published for this card.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
#1
Ethereal Absolution + Humility
Creatures opponents control die upon enteringLock
- 1Humility makes all creatures lose all abilities and sets their power and toughness to 1/1.
- 2Ethereal Absolution gives all opponent' creatures -1/-1.
- 3Creatues lose ETB and LTB abilities and opponent' creatures die when played.
#2
Living Plane + Ethereal Absolution
Destroy all lands opponents controlMass Land Denial
- 1Living Plane makes all lands 1/1 creatures, and Ethereal Absolution gives opponent creatures -1/-1.
#3
Godhead of Awe + Ethereal Absolution
Creatures opponents control die upon enteringLock
- 1Godhead of Awe causes all other creatures to have base power and toughness of 1/1.
- 2Ethereal Absolution gives all creatures your opponent control -1/-1.
- 3Any creature that enters the battlefield under an opponent's control will do so as a 0/0 creature, and will die as a state-based action due to having zero or less toughness.
#4
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth + Life and Limb + Ethereal Absolution
Destroy all lands opponents controlDestroy all lands that enter the battlefield under an opponent's controlLockMass Land Denial
- 1Yavimaya causes all lands to be Forests in addition to their other types, thus Life and Limb causes all lands to be 1/1 Saproling creatures.
- 2Because Ethereal Absolution gives all creatures your opponents control -1/-1, they die as a state-based action due to having zero toughness.
- 3Whenever an opponent plays a land, it will also die as a state-based action.
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Legal formats
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