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Perennial BehemothHow it works & interactions with other cards

By the ManaCount desk· 6 min read· Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander· April 19, 2024
Carte Magic Perennial Behemoth

Perennial Behemoth 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

You may play lands from your graveyard. Unearth {G}{G} ({G}{G}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

How it works : Perennial Behemoth

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

  1. #1· Wizards of the Coast

    Perennial Behemoth doesn't change the times when you can play those land cards. You can still play only one land per turn, and only during your main phase when you have priority and the stack is empty.

    No other card is named in this ruling.

  2. #2· Wizards of the Coast

    Perennial Behemoth doesn't allow you to activate abilities (such as cycling) of land cards in your graveyard.

    No other card is named in this ruling.

  3. #3· Wizards of the Coast

    If you activate a card's unearth ability but that card is removed from your graveyard before the ability resolves, that unearth ability will do nothing as it resolves.

    No other card is named in this ruling.

  4. #4· Wizards of the Coast

    Activating a card's unearth ability isn't the same as casting that card. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities (such as Defabricate's second mode) will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Scatter Ray) will not.

    No other card is named in this ruling.

  5. #5· Wizards of the Coast

    At the beginning of the next end step, a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability, and it can be countered by effects such as Defabricate that counter triggered abilities. If the ability is countered, the permanent will stay on the battlefield and the delayed triggered ability won't trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the permanent if it eventually leaves the battlefield.

    No other card is named in this ruling.

  6. #6· Wizards of the Coast

    Unearth grants haste to the permanent that's returned to the battlefield (even if it's not a creature card). However, neither of the "exile" abilities is granted to that permanent. If that permanent loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of the next end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.

    No other card is named in this ruling.

  7. #7· Wizards of the Coast

    If a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth would leave the battlefield for any reason, it's exiled instead—unless the spell or ability that's causing the permanent to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it! In that case, it succeeds at exiling it. If that spell or ability later returns the card to the battlefield (as Static Net might, for example), the permanent card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effects will no longer apply to it.

    No other card is named in this ruling.

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Popular combos

Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.

Glacial Chasm
+Perennial Behemoth
+Azusa, Lost but Seeking
#1

Glacial Chasm + Perennial Behemoth + Azusa, Lost but Seeking

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to youLock
  1. 1Play Glacial Chasm either from your hand or from your graveyard.
  2. 2When Glacial Chasm enters the battlefield, its second ability triggers, causing you to sacrifice another land you control.
  3. 3Play any land from your graveyard.
  4. 4At the beginning of your next upkeep, Glacial Chasm's cumulative upkeep ability triggers, allowing you to choose not to pay the cost and sacrifice it instead.
  5. 5Repeat.
Glacial Chasm
+Perennial Behemoth
+Oracle of Mul Daya
#2

Glacial Chasm + Perennial Behemoth + Oracle of Mul Daya

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to youLock
  1. 1Play Glacial Chasm either from your hand or from your graveyard.
  2. 2When Glacial Chasm enters the battlefield, its second ability triggers, causing you to sacrifice another land you control.
  3. 3Play any land from your graveyard.
  4. 4At the beginning of your next upkeep, Glacial Chasm's cumulative upkeep ability triggers, allowing you to choose not to pay the cost and sacrifice it instead.
  5. 5Repeat.
Glacial Chasm
+Perennial Behemoth
+Exploration
#3

Glacial Chasm + Perennial Behemoth + Exploration

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to youLock
  1. 1Play Glacial Chasm either from your hand or from your graveyard.
  2. 2When Glacial Chasm enters the battlefield, its second ability triggers, causing you to sacrifice another land you control.
  3. 3Play any land from your graveyard.
  4. 4At the beginning of your next upkeep, Glacial Chasm's cumulative upkeep ability triggers, allowing you to choose not to pay the cost and sacrifice it instead.
  5. 5Repeat.
Glacial Chasm
+Perennial Behemoth
+Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
#4

Glacial Chasm + Perennial Behemoth + Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to youLock
  1. 1Play Glacial Chasm either from your hand or from your graveyard.
  2. 2When Glacial Chasm enters the battlefield, its second ability triggers, causing you to sacrifice another land you control.
  3. 3Play any land from your graveyard.
  4. 4At the beginning of your next upkeep, Glacial Chasm's cumulative upkeep ability triggers, allowing you to choose not to pay the cost and sacrifice it instead.
  5. 5Repeat.
Glacial Chasm
+Zuran Orb
+Perennial Behemoth
#5

Glacial Chasm + Zuran Orb + Perennial Behemoth

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to youLock
  1. 1Play Glacial Chasm either from your hand or from your graveyard.
  2. 2When Glacial Chasm enters the battlefield, its second ability triggers, causing you to sacrifice another land you control.
  3. 3Pass the turn.
  4. 4At the beginning of your next upkeep, Glacial Chasm's cumulative upkeep ability triggers, causing you to put an age counter on it and lose 2 life.
  5. 5Play any land from your graveyard.
  6. 6Pass the turn.
  7. 7At the beginning of your next upkeep, Glacial Chasm's cumulative upkeep ability triggers.
  8. 8Holding priority, activate Zuran Orb by sacrificing Glacial Chasm, causing you to gain two life.
Glacial Chasm
+The Gitrog Monster
+Perennial Behemoth
#6

Glacial Chasm + The Gitrog Monster + Perennial Behemoth

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to youLock
  1. 1Play Glacial Chasm either from your hand or from your graveyard.
  2. 2When Glacial Chasm enters the battlefield, its second ability triggers, causing you to sacrifice another land you control.
  3. 3Play any land from your graveyard.
  4. 4At the beginning of your next upkeep, Glacial Chasm's cumulative upkeep ability and The Gitrog Monster's first ability trigger.
  5. 5Resolve The Gitrog Monster trigger, sacrificing Glacial Chasm.
  6. 6Resolve the Glacial Chasm trigger, choosing not to pay and doing nothing as Glacial Chasm is no longer on the battlefield.
  7. 7Repeat.
Glacial Chasm
+Perennial Behemoth
+Wayward Swordtooth
#7

Glacial Chasm + Perennial Behemoth + Wayward Swordtooth

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to youLock
  1. 1Play Glacial Chasm either from your hand or from your graveyard.
  2. 2When Glacial Chasm enters the battlefield, its second ability triggers, causing you to sacrifice another land you control.
  3. 3Play any land from your graveyard.
  4. 4At the beginning of your next upkeep, Glacial Chasm's cumulative upkeep ability triggers, allowing you to choose not to pay the cost and sacrifice it instead.
  5. 5Repeat.
Glacial Chasm
+Perennial Behemoth
+Case of the Locked Hothouse
#8

Glacial Chasm + Perennial Behemoth + Case of the Locked Hothouse

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to youLock
  1. 1Play Glacial Chasm either from your hand or from your graveyard.
  2. 2When Glacial Chasm enters the battlefield, its second ability triggers, causing you to sacrifice another land you control.
  3. 3Play any land from your graveyard.
  4. 4At the beginning of your next upkeep, Glacial Chasm's cumulative upkeep ability triggers, allowing you to choose not to pay the cost and sacrifice it instead.
  5. 5Repeat.
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