Diminishing Returns
Diminishing Returns: Sorcery, Eternal Masters. Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}{U}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Eternal Masters (EMA)
- Released
- 2016-06-10
- Collector number
- 46
- Artist
- Greg Opalinski
- Commander rank
- 17,527 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Diminishing Returns
Diminishing Returns is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue sorcery from Eternal Masters (EMA), a Masters set released in June 2016. It is collector number 46 in that set, with art by Greg Opalinski. It costs {2}{U}{U} (two generic and two blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Alliances (1996) to Eternal Masters (2016). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $7.04 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library. You exile the top ten cards of your library. Then each player draws up to seven cards.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $7.04 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Diminishing Returns by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Diminishing Returns
Diminishing Returns has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Masters Edition (ME1) #32 | Rare | 2007 |
| Classic Sixth Edition (6ED) #65 | Rare | 1999 |
| Alliances (ALL) #26 | Rare | 1996 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to Diminishing Returns, newest first.
- Each player chooses to draw any number of cards from zero to seven. First the player whose turn it is chooses how many cards to draw, then draws those cards, then each other player in turn order does the same.
- The exiled cards are exiled face up. You’ll see them before you choose how many cards to draw.
- Diminishing Returns won’t be put into your graveyard until after it’s finished resolving, which means it won’t be shuffled into your library as part of its own effect.
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
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