Settle the Wreckage
Settle the Wreckage: Instant, Ixalan. Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}{W}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Ixalan (XLN)
- Released
- 2017-09-29
- Collector number
- 34
- Artist
- Dimitar Marinski
About Settle the Wreckage
Settle the Wreckage is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white instant from Ixalan (XLN), an expansion set released in September 2017. It is collector number 34 in that set, with art by Dimitar Marinski. It costs {2}{W}{W} (two generic and two white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Ixalan (2017) to The Hobbit (2026). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.61 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-18).
Card text
Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.61 (as of 2026-10-18).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Settle the Wreckage by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Settle the Wreckage
Settle the Wreckage has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Hobbit (HOB) #26 | Rare | 2026 |
| The Hobbit (HOB) #288 | Rare | 2026 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2372 | Rare | 2026 |
| The List (PLST) #XLN-34 | Rare | 2024 |
| Ixalan Promos (PXLN) #34p | Rare | 2017 |
| Ixalan Promos (PXLN) #34s | Rare | 2017 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Settle the Wreckage, newest first.
- That player can find fewer basic land cards than the number of exiled creatures, whether because they want to or because they don't have that many basic land cards left.
- Settle the Wreckage targets only the player. Attacking creatures with hexproof that player controls will be exiled as this spell resolves.
- The number of lands that player may find is the number of attacking creatures that were exiled, even if some of those creatures were tokens, weren't creature cards, or didn't end up in exile (most likely because one was that player's commander in the Commander variant).
- Settle the Wreckage targets only the player. Creatures with hexproof that player controls will be exiled as this spell resolves.
- That player can find fewer basic land cards than the number of exiled creatures, whether because they want to or because they don't have that many basic land cards left.
- The number of lands that player may find is the number of attacking creatures that were exiled, even if some of those creatures were tokens, weren't creature cards, or didn't end up in exile (most likely because one was that player's commander in the Commander variant).
Similar cards
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