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Withering Wisps
Oracle Text
At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.
{B}: This enchantment deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. Activate no more times each turn than the number of snow Swamps you control.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Withering Wisps is a classic Ice Age control tool that rewards a bleak, attrition-heavy game plan, especially in black snow-based shells. The enchantment turns every snow Swamp into extra burn, letting you repeatedly sweep small creatures while nickeling away at players, so it shines in tempo-control and grindy control decks that can clear the board and then keep it empty. Its drawback is important: if no creatures remain on the battlefield at the beginning of the end step, it sacrifices itself, so you often want to pair it with your own resilient bodies, token makers, or recursion targets to keep at least one creature around and preserve the engine. Cards that generate disposable creatures, like token producers or self-replacing threats, are especially useful. In practice, Withering Wisps punishes swarm strategies, softens larger boards over time, and can lock up games when supported by enough snow Swamps to turn repeated pings into inevitability.
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Character Background
Withering Wisps is a classic Ice Age control tool that rewards a bleak, attrition-heavy game plan, especially in black snow-based shells. The enchantment turns every snow Swamp into extra burn, letting you repeatedly sweep small creatures while nickeling away at players, so it shines in tempo-control and grindy control decks that can clear the board and then keep it empty. Its drawback is important: if no creatures remain on the battlefield at the beginning of the end step, it sacrifices itself, so you often want to pair it with your own resilient bodies, token makers, or recursion targets to keep at least one creature around and preserve the engine. Cards that generate disposable creatures, like token producers or self-replacing threats, are especially useful. In practice, Withering Wisps punishes swarm strategies, softens larger boards over time, and can lock up games when supported by enough snow Swamps to turn repeated pings into inevitability.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-11 23:10:44 UTC