Yawgmoth's Vile Offering 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
(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Put up to one target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker. Exile Yawgmoth's Vile Offering.
Complete guide
Yawgmoth's Vile Offering is a powerful legendary sorcery that showcases the dark ambition of the Father of Machines. It allows you to simultaneously resurrect a threat from any graveyard while eliminating a problematic permanent on the battlefield. To unleash this spell, you must first prove your worth by controlling a legendary creature or planeswalker.
Mastering the Legendary Restriction
As a legendary sorcery, Yawgmoth's Vile Offering has a specific requirement: you must control a legendary creature or a legendary planeswalker to cast it. This check only happens at the moment you begin to cast the spell. If your opponent removes your only legend in response to the spell being cast, the Offering remains on the stack and will resolve normally.
Resolving the Offering
When the spell resolves, it performs its actions in the order printed. First, you put up to one target creature or planeswalker card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Second, you destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker on the battlefield. Finally, the spell exiles itself instead of going to the graveyard, preventing you from easily recurring this specific piece of dark magic.
Targeting and Legality
Because the spell says 'up to one' for both effects, you can cast it with two targets, one target, or even zero targets if you simply need to exile the spell. However, if you choose targets and all of those targets become illegal before resolution (such as a graveyard card being exiled in response), the entire spell will fail to resolve and none of its effects will happen.
Interaction examples
DamnationIf you cast Damnation to clear the board, your legendary creatures are destroyed. You cannot cast Yawgmoth's Vile Offering immediately after unless you play another legendary creature or planeswalker first. Once a new legend is on the battlefield, you can use the Offering to pluck the best creature destroyed by Damnation out of any graveyard and put it into play under your command.
Living DeathIf you use Yawgmoth's Vile Offering to bring back a creature, that creature is already on the battlefield when you choose to destroy a target. If you later cast Living Death, the creature you just resurrected will be sacrificed along with all others, while the creatures previously in graveyards return. Note that because the Offering exiles itself upon resolution, it will not be in your graveyard to interact with any other graveyard-based recursion spells.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Yawgmoth's Vile Offering
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
You can't cast a legendary sorcery unless you control a legendary creature or a legendary planeswalker. Once you begin to cast a legendary sorcery, losing control of your legendary creatures and planeswalkers won't affect that spell.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Other than the casting restriction, the legendary supertype on a sorcery carries no additional rules. You may cast any number of legendary sorceries in a turn, and your deck may contain any number of legendary cards (but no more than four of any with the same name).
No other card is named in this ruling.
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