Kheru Lich Lord
Creature β Zombie Wizard
Kheru Lich Lord
Creature β Zombie Wizard
Card Text
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay . If you do, return a creature card at random from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains flying, trample, and haste. Exile that card at the beginning of your next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else.
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 6
- Colors
- Black, Green, Blue
- Color Identity
- Black, Green, Blue
- Power / Toughness
- 4 / 4
- EDHREC Rank
- #25,995
Format Legalities
Market Prices
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Price History (30d)
All Printings (12)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Khans of Tarkir Promos (PKTK) | #182s | rare | en | Karl Kopinski | β | $0.47 |
| Khans of Tarkir (KTK) | #182 | rare | en | Karl Kopinski | $0.16 | $0.36 |
| Khans of Tarkir (KTK) | #182 | rare | de | Karl Kopinski | β | β |
| Khans of Tarkir (KTK) | #182 | rare | es | Karl Kopinski | β | β |
| Khans of Tarkir (KTK) | #182 | rare | fr | Karl Kopinski | β | β |
| Khans of Tarkir (KTK) | #182 | rare | it | Karl Kopinski | β | β |
| Khans of Tarkir (KTK) | #182 | rare | ja | Karl Kopinski | β | β |
| Khans of Tarkir (KTK) | #182 | rare | ko | Karl Kopinski | β | β |
| Khans of Tarkir (KTK) | #182 | rare | pt | Karl Kopinski | β | β |
| Khans of Tarkir (KTK) | #182 | rare | ru | Karl Kopinski | β | β |
| Khans of Tarkir (KTK) | #182 | rare | zhs | Karl Kopinski | β | β |
| Khans of Tarkir (KTK) | #182 | rare | zht | Karl Kopinski | β | β |
Official Rulings (7)
If a creature card returned to the battlefield with Kheru Lich Lord would leave the battlefield for any reason, itβs exiled instead. However, if that creature is already being exiled, then the replacement effect wonβt apply. If the spell or ability that exiles it later returns it to the battlefield (as Suspension Field might, for example), the creature card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The effects from Kheru Lich Lord will no longer apply to it.
The creature card returned to the battlefield is chosen at random as the ability resolves. If any player responds to the ability, that player wonβt yet know what card will be returned.
Kheru Lich Lord grants flying, trample, and haste to the creature thatβs returned to the battlefield. However, neither of the βexileβ abilities is granted to that creature. If that creature loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of your next end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.
The ability that exiles the card at the beginning of your next end step is a delayed triggered ability. If the delayed triggered ability is countered, the creature will stay on the battlefield and the ability wonβt trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the creature when it eventually leaves the battlefield.
Because the ability doesnβt target any creature card, any creature card (including Kheru Lich Lord itself) put into the graveyard in response to that ability may be returned to the battlefield.
You decide whether to pay {2}{B} as the ability resolves.
The exiled creature is never put into the graveyard. Any abilities the creature has that trigger when it dies wonβt trigger.
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