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Champion of the Weird

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3 printings listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Champion of the Weird, Lorwyn Eclipsed printing
Lorwyn Eclipsed ECL · No. 360 2026-01-23

Card text

{3}{B}
Creature — Goblin Berserker
As an additional cost to cast this spell, behold a Goblin and exile it. (Exile a Goblin you control or a Goblin card from your hand.) Pay 1 life, Blight 2: Target opponent blights 2. Activate only as a sorcery. When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.
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Keywords: Blight, Behold
EDHREC rank #13502 Rare Not on the Reserved List
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The 3 printings

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Standard ✓ Legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ✓ Legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ✓ Legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

10 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

The creature you choose to put -1/-1 counters on doesn't have to have enough toughness to survive the process. For example, if you blight 2, you can choose to put the counters on a 1/1 creature you control.

2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast

If a creature has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, state-based actions remove the same number of each so that it has only one kind of those counters on it. For example, if a creature has three +1/+1 counters on it and two -1/-1 counters are put on it, state-based actions will remove two of each of those kinds of counters, leaving the creature with just one +1/+1 counter.

2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast

Once you've announced that you're casting a spell or activating an ability, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to destroy or otherwise remove your creatures to stop you from blighting as part of paying the cost of that spell or ability.

2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast

All of the -1/-1 counters must be put on a single creature. You can't choose to split them up between multiple creatures.

2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast

If a creature that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, effects that refer to the counters on that creature when it died will see all of those +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters.

2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast

If you can't place -1/-1 counters on any creatures you control (probably because you control no creatures), you can't choose to blight.

2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast

If an effect refers to a "[subtype] card," it refers only to a card that has that subtype. For example, Glen Elendra's Answer creates a Faerie token and features a Faerie in its art, but it isn't a Faerie card.

2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast

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.

2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast

If Champion of the Weird is countered or otherwise fails to resolve, the beheld card will remain in exile indefinitely.

2025-11-17 · Wizards of the Coast

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