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LeviathanHow it works & interactions with other cards

By the ManaCount desk· 2 min read· Time Spiral Timeshifted· October 6, 2006
Carte Magic Leviathan

Leviathan 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

Trample This creature enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice two Islands. If you do, untap this creature. This creature can't attack unless you sacrifice two Islands. (This cost is paid as attackers are declared.)

How it works : Leviathan

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

  1. #1· Wizards of the Coast

    You don't have to pay the untap cost if it is untapped outside the upkeep phase or is untapped by an effect.

    No other card is named in this ruling.

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Interactions with other cards

These cards' text mentions Leviathan.

Whelming Wave
Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Summon: Leviathan
Summon: Leviathan

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — Return each creature that isn't a Kraken, Leviathan, Merfolk, Octopus, or Serpent to its owner's hand. II, III — Until end of turn, whenever a Kraken, Leviathan, Merfolk, Octopus, or Serpent attacks, draw a card. Ward {2}

Spawning Kraken
Spawning Kraken

Whenever a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent you control deals combat damage to a player, create a 9/9 blue Kraken creature token.

Serpent of Yawning Depths
Serpent of Yawning Depths

Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents you control can't be blocked except by Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep
Slinn Voda, the Rising Deep

Kicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} as you cast this spell.) When Slinn Voda enters, if it was kicked, return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Merfolk, Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Quest for Ula's Temple
Quest for Ula's Temple

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, you may reveal it and put a quest counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of each end step, if there are three or more quest counters on this enchantment, you may put a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep
Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep

Vigilance, ward {3} Whenever you cast a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent spell from your hand, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is that spell's mana value. You may cast a spell with mana value less than X from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Kenessos, Priest of Thassa
Kenessos, Priest of Thassa

If you would scry a number of cards, scry that many cards plus one instead. {3}{G/U}: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent creature card, you may put it onto the battlefield. If you don't put the card onto the battlefield, you may put it on the bottom of your library.

Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep
Runo Stromkirk // Krothuss, Lord of the Deep

Flying When Runo enters, put up to one target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If a creature card with mana value 6 or greater is revealed this way, transform Runo. Flying Whenever Krothuss attacks, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of another target attacking creature. If that creature is a Kraken, Leviathan, Octopus, or Serpent, create two of those tokens instead.

Kiora of Salt and Sand
Kiora of Salt and Sand

Whenever you attack, if you've activated a loyalty ability this turn, untap target attacking creature. It can't be blocked this turn. Planeswalkers you control have "[−8]: Create an 8/8 blue Leviathan creature token with hexproof."

Atlantis Attacks
Atlantis Attacks

Teamwork 4 (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may tap any number of creatures you control with total power 4 or more.) Choose one. If this spell was cast using teamwork, choose both instead. • Target player creates a 6/5 blue Leviathan creature token with hexproof. • Return one or two target nonland permanents to their owners' hands.

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Legal formats

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