Ethereal Forager 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
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for.) Flying Whenever this creature attacks, you may return an instant or sorcery card exiled with this creature to its owner's hand.
How it works : Ethereal Forager
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Delve doesn’t change a spell’s mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise’s mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can’t exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can’t exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Because delve isn’t an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If Ethereal Forager leaves the battlefield while its triggered ability is on the stack, that ability can still find the cards exiled with Ethereal Forager’s delve ability.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
After Ethereal Forager’s triggered ability resolves, players will have priority to cast spells (such as the card you returned to your hand, if it’s legal to do so) before blockers are declared.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Chulane, Teller of Tales + Ethereal Forager + Time Warp
- 1Declare Ethereal Forager as an attacker.
- 2Ethereal Forager triggers, returning Time Warp from exile to your hand.
- 3Activate Chulane by paying
and tapping it, returning Ethereal Forager to your hand from the battlefield. - 4Move to your postcombat main phase.
- 5Cast Time Warp by paying
, causing you to take an extra turn after this one. - 6Cast Ethereal Forager by paying and exiling Time Warp from your graveyard.
- 7Chulane triggers, causing you to draw a card and allowing you to put a land from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 8Repeat each turn.
Chulane, Teller of Tales + Ethereal Forager + Capture of Jingzhou
- 1Declare Ethereal Forager as an attacker.
- 2Ethereal Forager triggers, returning Capture of Jingzhou from exile to your hand.
- 3Activate Chulane by paying and tapping it, returning Ethereal Forager to your hand from the battlefield.
- 4Move to your postcombat main phase.
- 5Cast Capture of Jingzhou by paying , causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 6Cast Ethereal Forager by paying and exiling Capture of Jingzhou from your graveyard.
- 7Chulane triggers, causing you to draw a card and allowing you to put a land from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 8Repeat each turn.
Chulane, Teller of Tales + Ethereal Forager + Temporal Manipulation
- 1Declare Ethereal Forager as an attacker.
- 2Ethereal Forager triggers, returning Temporal Manipulation from exile to your hand.
- 3Activate Chulane by paying and tapping it, returning Ethereal Forager to your hand from the battlefield.
- 4Move to your postcombat main phase.
- 5Cast Temporal Manipulation by paying , causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 6Cast Ethereal Forager by paying and exiling Temporal Manipulation from your graveyard.
- 7Chulane triggers, causing you to draw a card and allowing you to put a land from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 8Repeat each turn.
Chulane, Teller of Tales + Ethereal Forager + Walk the Aeons
- 1Declare Ethereal Forager as an attacker.
- 2Ethereal Forager triggers, returning Walk the Aeons from exile to your hand.
- 3Activate Chulane by paying and tapping it, returning Ethereal Forager to your hand from the battlefield.
- 4Move to your postcombat main phase.
- 5Cast Walk the Aeons by paying
, causing you to take an extra turn after this one. - 6Cast Ethereal Forager by paying and exiling Walk the Aeons from your graveyard.
- 7Chulane triggers, causing you to draw a card and allowing you to put a land from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 8Repeat each turn.
Ethereal Forager + Meticulous Excavation + Time Warp
- 1Declare Ethereal Forager as an attacker.
- 2Ethereal Forager triggers, returning Time Warp from exile to your hand.
- 3Activate Termur Sabertooth by paying
, returning Ethereal Forager to your hand from the battlefield. - 4Move to your postcombat main phase.
- 5Cast Time Warp by paying , causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 6Cast Ethereal Forager by paying and exiling Time Warp from your graveyard.
- 7Chulane triggers, causing you to draw a card and allowing you to put a land from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 8Repeat each turn.
Ethereal Forager + Meticulous Excavation + Walk the Aeons
- 1Declare Ethereal Forager as an attacker.
- 2Ethereal Forager triggers, returning Walk the Aeons from exile to your hand.
- 3Activate Termur Sabertooth by paying , returning Ethereal Forager to your hand from the battlefield.
- 4Move to your postcombat main phase.
- 5Cast Walk the Aeons by paying , causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 6Cast Ethereal Forager by paying and exiling Walk the Aeons from your graveyard.
- 7Chulane triggers, causing you to draw a card and allowing you to put a land from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 8Repeat each turn.
Ethereal Forager + Temur Sabertooth + Walk the Aeons
- 1Declare Ethereal Forager as an attacker.
- 2Ethereal Forager triggers, returning Walk the Aeons from exile to your hand.
- 3Activate Termur Sabertooth by paying
, returning Ethereal Forager to your hand from the battlefield. - 4Move to your postcombat main phase.
- 5Cast Walk the Aeons by paying , causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 6Cast Ethereal Forager by paying and exiling Walk the Aeons from your graveyard.
- 7Chulane triggers, causing you to draw a card and allowing you to put a land from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 8Repeat each turn.
Ethereal Forager + Meticulous Excavation + Temporal Manipulation
- 1Declare Ethereal Forager as an attacker.
- 2Ethereal Forager triggers, returning Temporal Manipulation from exile to your hand.
- 3Activate Termur Sabertooth by paying , returning Ethereal Forager to your hand from the battlefield.
- 4Move to your postcombat main phase.
- 5Cast Temporal Manipulation by paying , causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 6Cast Ethereal Forager by paying and exiling Temporal Manipulation from your graveyard.
- 7Chulane triggers, causing you to draw a card and allowing you to put a land from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 8Repeat each turn.
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