Heart-Piercer Manticore

Card text

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, this creature deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target.

Embalm {5}{R} ({5}{R}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a white Zombie Manticore with no mana cost. Embalm only as a sorcery.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.24 (as of 2026-11-12).

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Format legality

Legality of Heart-Piercer Manticore by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

Other printings of Heart-Piercer Manticore

Heart-Piercer Manticore has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Heart-Piercer Manticore, newest first.

• 2017-07-14 Once you've activated an embalm ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can't try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation.
• 2017-07-14 If a spell or ability puts a creature card with embalm into your graveyard during your main phase, you'll have priority immediately after that spell or ability resolves. You can activate the creature card's embalm ability before any player can exile it with an effect, such as that of Crook of Condemnation, if it's legal for you to do so.
• 2017-04-18 The sacrificed creature's last known existence on the battlefield is checked to determine its power.
• 2017-04-18 For each card with embalm, a corresponding game play supplement token can be found in some Amonkhet booster packs. These supplements are not required to play with cards with embalm; you can use the same items to represent an embalmed token as you would any other token.
• 2017-04-18 Heart-Piercer Manticore's damage-dealing ability triggers only when you sacrifice a creature as a result of the instruction of its triggered ability. It won't trigger if you sacrifice a creature for any other reason.
• 2017-04-18 The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else. It doesn't copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard.
• 2017-04-18 If the card copied by the token had any "when [this permanent] enters the battlefield" abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it's created. Similarly, any "as [this permanent] enters the battlefield" or "[this permanent] enters the battlefield with" abilities that the token has copied will also work.
• 2017-04-18 You can't sacrifice multiple creatures to deal damage multiple times.

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