Genesis Wave
Genesis Wave: Sorcery, Foundations. Reveal the top X cards of your library. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {X}{G}{G}{G}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Foundations (FDN)
- Released
- 2024-11-15
- Collector number
- 221
- Artist
- Arif Wijaya
- Commander rank
- 1,374 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Genesis Wave
Genesis Wave is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare green sorcery from Foundations (FDN), a core set released in November 2024. It is collector number 221 in that set, with art by Arif Wijaya. It costs {X}{G}{G}{G} (X and three green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 7 sets, from Scars of Mirrodin (2010) to Foundations (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.43 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.43 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Genesis Wave 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 |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Genesis Wave
Genesis Wave has been printed in 7 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2752 | Rare | 2026 |
| Secret Lair Countdown (SLC) #75 | Rare | 2026 |
| Foundations (FDN) #334 | Rare | 2024 |
| Foundations (FDN) #396 | Rare | 2024 |
| Foundations Promos (PFDN) #221s | Rare | 2024 |
| Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #245 | Rare | 2023 |
| Iconic Masters (IMA) #164 | Rare | 2017 |
| Scars of Mirrodin (SOM) #122 | Rare | 2010 |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Genesis Wave, newest first.
- You don't have to put permanent cards revealed this way onto the battlefield if you choose not to, regardless of their mana values.
- If you have fewer than X cards in your library, you reveal all of them.
- If a permanent card in your library has no mana symbols in its upper right corner (because it's a land card, for example), its mana value is 0. Such cards can always be put onto the battlefield with Genesis Wave.
- If a card in a player's library has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
- A permanent card is an artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card.
- All of the permanents put onto the battlefield this way enter at the same time. If any have triggered abilities that trigger on something else entering, they'll see each other.
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Genesis Wave is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.