Piercing Exhale
Piercing Exhale: Instant, Tarkir: Dragonstorm. As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may behold a Dragon. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{G}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)
- Released
- 2025-04-11
- Collector number
- 151
- Artist
- Jorge Jacinto
- Commander rank
- 13,995 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Surveil, Behold
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About Piercing Exhale
Piercing Exhale is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common green instant from Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM), an expansion set released in April 2025. It is collector number 151 in that set, with art by Jorge Jacinto. It costs {1}{G} (one generic and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy and Gladiator. Tarkir: Dragonstorm is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.20 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may behold a Dragon. (You may choose a Dragon you control or reveal a Dragon card from your hand.)
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or planeswalker. If a Dragon was beheld, surveil 2.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.20 (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 Piercing Exhale by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pauper Commander | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Piercing Exhale, newest first.
- If a card in your hand is already revealed (perhaps because it was revealed to pay a cost of a spell that’s still on the stack or due to the effect of a card like Telepathy), you may reveal it again to pay the cost of another spell or ability that requires you to reveal a card from your hand.
- Effects that say “If a [quality] was beheld” only care if a card of that quality was revealed or a permanent you control of that quality was chosen. No matter what happens to that card or permanent after that, it was still beheld, and any additional effects that depend on that card or permanent being beheld will still happen.
- If a cost to cast a spell includes revealing a card, that card remains revealed from the time the spell is announced until the time it leaves the stack.
- If an effect refers to a “[subtype] card,” it refers only to a card that has that subtype. For example, Teeming Dragonstorm is a card that cares about Dragons and features Dragons in its art, but it isn’t a Dragon card.
Similar cards
Other instant cards with a green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
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