Carth the Lion
Carth the Lion: Legendary Creature - Human Warrior, Modern Horizons 2. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}{G}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
- Colour identity
- Black and green (BG)
- Power / toughness
- 3/5
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
- Released
- 2021-06-18
- Collector number
- 189
- Artist
- Donato Giancola
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About Carth the Lion
Carth the Lion is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black and green legendary creature from Modern Horizons 2 (MH2), a draft-focused set released in June 2021. It is collector number 189 in that set, with art by Donato Giancola. It costs {2}{B}{G} (two generic, one black and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 3/5 creature. Its colour identity is black and green. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 3 sets. It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.38 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Whenever Carth enters or a planeswalker you control dies, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may reveal a planeswalker card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Planeswalkers' loyalty abilities you activate cost an additional [+1] to activate.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.38 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Carth the Lion by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Carth the Lion
Carth the Lion has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #91345 | Rare | 2021 |
| Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) #418 | Rare | 2021 |
| Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) #464 | Rare | 2021 |
| Modern Horizons 2 Promos (PMH2) #189s | Rare | 2021 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Carth the Lion, newest first.
- The total cost of a planeswalker's loyalty ability is calculated before any counters are added or removed. If a loyalty ability normally costs [-3] to activate, you do not remove three counters from it and then put one counter on it. You remove two counters at one time when you pay the cost.
- If you somehow manage to control two Carths (perhaps because of Spark Double), the cost-changing effect is cumulative. In total, loyalty abilities will cost an additional [+2] to activate.
- If an effect replaces the number of counters that would be placed on a planeswalker, such as that of Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider, that replacement happens only once, at the time payment is made.
- If a planeswalker's loyalty ability normally has a cost of [+1], Carth's ability makes it cost [+2] instead. A cost of [0] would become [+1], and a cost of [-6] would become [-5].
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