Vraska's Stoneglare 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
Destroy target creature. You gain life equal to its toughness. You may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Vraska, Regal Gorgon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
Complete guide
Vraska's Stoneglare is a powerful sorcery that combines removal, life gain, and card selection into one package. This spell ensures your opponent loses their best threat while you find your legendary planeswalker to seal the game.
Precision Removal and Tutoring
When you cast Vraska's Stoneglare, you must choose a target creature to destroy. Upon resolution, the creature is destroyed, and you gain life based on that creature's toughness. Importantly, the spell then allows you to search your library or graveyard for Vraska, Regal Gorgon to add to your hand.
Step-by-Step Resolution
First, the spell checks if the target is still legal; if the creature has left the battlefield or gained Hexproof, the entire spell fails and you get no effects. If the target is legal, it is destroyed. Next, you gain life equal to its toughness. Finally, you search for the specific planeswalker card. If you searched your library, you must shuffle it, even if you did not find the card.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
The most common error involves Indestructible creatures. If you target a creature with Indestructible, it is not destroyed, but the spell still resolves. You will still gain life equal to its current toughness and search for Vraska, Regal Gorgon. Another mistake is forgetting that if the target is removed in response by another effect, you do not get to search your library.
When to Cast It
This spell is best used when you need to stabilize against aggressive decks. The life gain can pull you out of dangerous territory, and searching for Vraska, Regal Gorgon ensures you have a follow-up threat. Since it costs six mana, time it for when you have enough mana to potentially cast the planeswalker shortly after.
Interaction examples
Vraska, Regal GorgonIf you target a creature and it is destroyed, you can look through your library or graveyard for Vraska, Regal Gorgon. If the card was in your graveyard because it was destroyed earlier, you can return it to your hand to cast it again next turn.
Shamanic RevelationWhile Shamanic Revelation rewards you for having high-power creatures, Vraska's Stoneglare rewards you for your opponent's high-toughness creatures. If you destroy a creature with 5 toughness, you gain 5 life regardless of its power.
Rishkar's ExpertiseIf you cast Rishkar's Expertise and draw cards, you cannot use its secondary effect to cast Vraska's Stoneglare for free, because Stoneglare has a mana value of 6 and the limit is 5. You must pay the full six mana for Vraska's Stoneglare.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Vraska's Stoneglare
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If the target creature becomes an illegal target for Vraska’s Stoneglare, the spell doesn’t resolve. You don’t gain life or search for Vraska, Regal Gorgon.
Card named in this ruling
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The amount of life gained is equal to the destroyed creature’s toughness as it last existed on the battlefield. If it wasn’t destroyed (most likely because it has indestructible), you gain life equal to its toughness as it currently exists on the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
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Outrider en-Kor + Task Force + Vraska's Stoneglare
- 1Pay
to activate Outrider en-Kor, targeting Task Force. - 2Task Force triggers, giving itself +0/+3 untill end of turn.
- 3Repeat steps 1-2 untill Task Force has infinite toughness.
- 4Cast Vraska's Stoneglare, destroying Task Force and gaining life equal to its toughness.
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