Fatestitcher
Fatestitcher: Creature - Zombie Wizard, Shards of Alara. Tap: You may tap or untap another target permanent. Unearth U. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}
- Mana value
- 4
- Type
- Creature - Zombie Wizard
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Power / toughness
- 1/2
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Shards of Alara (ALA)
- Released
- 2008-10-03
- Collector number
- 43
- Artist
- E. M. Gist
- Commander rank
- 6,380 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Unearth
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About Fatestitcher
Fatestitcher is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue creature from Shards of Alara (ALA), an expansion set released in October 2008. It is collector number 43 in that set, with art by E. M. Gist. It costs {3}{U} (three generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 4. It is a 1/2 creature. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 3 sets, from Shards of Alara (2008) to The List (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.74 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
{T}: You may tap or untap another target permanent.
Unearth {U} ({U}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.74 (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 Fatestitcher 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 |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Fatestitcher
Fatestitcher has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #835 | Rare | 2025 |
| The List (PLST) #ALA-43 | Uncommon | 2024 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Fatestitcher, newest first.
- If you activate a card’s unearth ability but that card is removed from your graveyard before the ability resolves, that unearth ability will resolve and do nothing.
- Unearth grants haste to the creature that’s returned to the battlefield. However, neither of the “exile” abilities is granted to that creature. If that creature loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of the end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.
- If a creature returned to the battlefield with unearth would leave the battlefield for any reason, it’s exiled instead - unless the spell or ability that’s causing the creature to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it! In that case, it succeeds at exiling it. If it later returns the creature card to the battlefield (as Oblivion Ring or Flickerwisp might, for example), the creature card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effect will no longer apply to it.
- Activating a creature card’s unearth ability isn’t the same as casting the creature card. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the creature card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle) will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul) will not.
- At the beginning of the end step, a creature returned to the battlefield with unearth is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability, and it can be countered by effects such as Stifle or Voidslime that counter triggered abilities. If the ability is countered, the creature will stay on the battlefield and the delayed trigger won’t trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the creature when it eventually leaves the battlefield.
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In these card lists
These card lists include Fatestitcher.