Settle the Wreckage
Mana value4TypeInstant
Color identity White
RarityRare
SetThe Hobbit (HOB)
ArtistChris Cold
Price€0.37 · foil €0.48 · $0.48About this card
Settle the Wreckage is an instant card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 4 (color identity: white). First printed in Ixalan Promos (2017); 7 paper printings in total. It is one of the 5,000 most played cards in Commander (EDHREC rank 2,781). Legal in Commander, Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy and Vintage. Cheapest printing: €0.39 (The Hobbit); most expensive: €6.22 (Secret Lair Drop).
Settle the Wreckage
There was a hiss, a gushing whirl, and then silence. And that was the end of Smaug and Esgaroth.
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2026-06-29
That player can find fewer basic land cards than the number of exiled creatures, whether because they want to or because they don't have that many basic land cards left.
2026-06-29
The number of lands that player may find is the number of attacking creatures that were exiled, even if some of those creatures were tokens, weren't creature cards, or didn't end up in exile (most likely because one was that player's commander in the Commander variant).
2026-06-29
Settle the Wreckage targets only the player. Attacking creatures with hexproof that player controls will be exiled as this spell resolves.
2017-09-29
Settle the Wreckage targets only the player. Creatures with hexproof that player controls will be exiled as this spell resolves.
2017-09-29
The number of lands that player may find is the number of attacking creatures that were exiled, even if some of those creatures were tokens, weren't creature cards, or didn't end up in exile (most likely because one was that player's commander in the Commander variant).
2017-09-29
That player can find fewer basic land cards than the number of exiled creatures, whether because they want to or because they don't have that many basic land cards left.
