From Beyond 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
Devoid (This card has no color.) At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add."
, Sacrifice this enchantment: Search your library for an Eldrazi card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Complete guide
From Beyond is a versatile colorless enchantment that provides both a steady stream of resources and a powerful tutor effect. Whether you need mana to ramp or a way to find your biggest threats, this card ensures your board presence grows every turn.
Colorless Utility and Upkeep Triggers
Despite costing green mana, From Beyond has the Devoid keyword, meaning it is colorless in all zones. At the beginning of each of your upkeep steps, the first ability triggers. When it resolves, you create a 1/1 Eldrazi Scion creature token. These tokens are unique because they can be sacrificed at any time to add one colorless mana to your pool, serving as both blockers and ramp.
Searching for the Titans
The second ability allows you to sacrifice From Beyond itself for one green and one colorless mana to search your library for an Eldrazi card. This search is not restricted to creatures; you can find any card with the Eldrazi subtype. Once you find the card, reveal it, put it into your hand, and shuffle your library.
Key Timings and Mana Abilities
Sacrificing an Eldrazi Scion is a mana ability, which means it does not use the stack and cannot be responded to by your opponents. However, the upkeep trigger and the search ability both use the stack. You can respond to the upkeep trigger by sacrificing From Beyond, but you will still get your token for that turn if the trigger is already on the stack.
Common Mistakes
A frequent error is assuming you can search for any card with 'Eldrazi' in the name. You can only find cards that officially have the 'Eldrazi' creature type (or tribal type). Additionally, remember that Devoid makes the card colorless even for effects that check for non-green permanents, despite the green mana symbols on the card.
Interaction examples
Doubling SeasonWith Doubling Season on the battlefield, the triggered ability of From Beyond is modified. During your upkeep, instead of creating one 1/1 Eldrazi Scion, you will create two. This allows you to accumulate mana or blockers twice as fast every turn.
Eldrazi ScionEach turn, From Beyond creates an Eldrazi Scion. You can use this token to attack or block, and then sacrifice it for one colorless mana to help pay for the activation cost of From Beyond's search ability later in the same turn.
Garruk's UprisingWhen From Beyond creates an Eldrazi Scion during your upkeep, Garruk's Uprising checks the token's power. Since the Scion is a 1/1 and the enchantment requires a power of 4 or greater, you will not draw a card. However, the Scions can be sacrificed to provide the mana needed to cast a larger Eldrazi creature that will trigger the draw.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : From Beyond
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
An Eldrazi card is one with the creature type Eldrazi. Just having "Eldrazi" in its name or being an Eldrazi-themed card doesn't count.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Cards with devoid use frames that are variations of the transparent frame traditionally used for Eldrazi. The top part of the card features some color over a background based on the texture of the hedrons that once imprisoned the Eldrazi. This coloration is intended to aid deckbuilding and game play.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
A card with devoid is just colorless. It's not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid color. If that happens, it's just the new color, not that color and colorless.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object's color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
Eldrazi Scions are similar to Eldrazi Spawn, seen in the Zendikar block. Note that Eldrazi Scions are 1/1, not 0/1.
Card named in this ruling
- #8· Wizards of the Coast
Eldrazi and Scion are each separate creature types. Anything that affects Eldrazi will affect these tokens, for example.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #9· Wizards of the Coast
Sacrificing an Eldrazi Scion creature token to add
is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.Card named in this ruling
- #10· Wizards of the Coast
Some instants and sorceries that create Eldrazi Scions require targets. If all targets for such a spell have become illegal by the time that spell tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't get any Eldrazi Scions.
Card named in this ruling
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Esix, Fractal Bloom + Timestream Navigator + From Beyond
- 1At the beginning of your upkeep, From Beyond triggers, creating a copy of Timestream Navigator.
- 2Activate the oldest Timestream Navigator, paying
and putting Timestream Navigator on the bottom of your library to take an extra turn after this one. - 3Pass the turn.
- 4Repeat.
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