Culling Scales

Mana cost

Mana value3TypeArtifact Color identity

Colorless RarityRare SetMirrodin (MRD) ArtistDaren Bader Price€0.17 · foil €1.46 · $0.35

About this card

Culling Scales is an artifact card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 3 (color identity: colorless). Printed in Mirrodin (2003). Role in Commander: removal. Legal in Commander, Modern, Legacy and Vintage. Cardmarket price: €0.17.

Culling Scales

Artifact

At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy target nonland permanent with the lowest mana value. (If two or more permanents are tied for lowest, target any one of them.)

Name in each language

FrançaisBalance du sacrificeEnglishCulling ScalesEspañolBalanza selectivaDeutschWaage des AussortierensItalianoBilancia della SelezionePortuguêsBalanças Seletoras日本語選別の秤

Legality

CommanderLegalStandardNot legalPioneerNot legalModernLegalLegacyLegalVintageLegalPauperNot legalBrawlNot legalOathbreakerLegalHistoricNot legalTimelessNot legalPenny DreadfulLegal

Rulings

2004-12-01
You choose the target. If there's more than one nonland permanent tied for lowest mana value, you choose which one to target.

2004-12-01
If the targeted permanent doesn't have the lowest mana value when the ability resolves, the ability doesn't resolve and the permanent isn't destroyed.

2004-12-01
Most tokens have a mana value of 0. A token that's a copy of another permanent or card has a mana value equal to that permanent or card's mana value.

2004-12-01
If the lowest mana value is 3, Culling Scales can destroy itself.