Sire of Stagnation
Sire of Stagnation: Creature - Eldrazi, Battle for Zendikar. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {4}{U}{B}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Creature - Eldrazi
- Colour identity
- Blue and black (UB)
- Power / toughness
- 5/7
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar (BFZ)
- Released
- 2015-10-02
- Collector number
- 206
- Artist
- Tyler Jacobson
- Commander rank
- 2,727 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Devoid
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About Sire of Stagnation
Sire of Stagnation is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare blue and black creature from Battle for Zendikar (BFZ), an expansion set released in October 2015. It is collector number 206 in that set, with art by Tyler Jacobson. It costs {4}{U}{B} (four generic, one blue and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. It is a 5/7 creature. Its colour identity is blue and black. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Battle for Zendikar (2015) to Modern Horizons 3 Commander (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $2.06 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player exiles the top two cards of their library and you draw two cards.
As the great scourge passed by, Zendikar shivered, then lay silent.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $2.06 (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 Sire of Stagnation by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Sire of Stagnation
Sire of Stagnation has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #M3C-272 | Mythic | 2026 |
| Modern Horizons 3 Commander (M3C) #272 | Mythic | 2024 |
| Battle for Zendikar Promos (PBFZ) #206s | Mythic | 2015 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Sire of Stagnation, newest first.
- Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid color. If that happens, it’s just the new color, not that color and colorless.
- If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object’s color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.
- Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
- The cards are exiled from the library face up.
- If that player has one card in their library when Sire of Stagnation’s triggered ability resolves, that card will be exiled. If their library has zero cards, no cards are exiled. In both cases, you’ll still draw two cards. That player won’t lose the game (until they attempt to draw a card from an empty library).
- A card with devoid is just colorless. It’s not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
- Cards with devoid use frames that are variations of the transparent frame traditionally used for Eldrazi. The top part of the card features some color over a background based on the texture of the hedrons that once imprisoned the Eldrazi. This coloration is intended to aid deckbuilding and game play.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a blue and black colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Sire of Stagnation is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.