Ghalta, Primal Hunger
Foundations · #222 · Rare
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Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur
This spell costs 
less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control.
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
The earth walks, strongest of all.
12/12
Card details
- Shown printing
- Foundations (FDN)
- Artist
- Chase Stone
- Color identity
- Green
- Colors
- Green
- Mana value
- 12
- Keywords
- Trample
- First released
- January 19, 2018
- Printings
- 19
- EDHREC rank
- #455 on EDHREC
- Market price
- $0.97 (cheapest printing, updated weekly)
Legality
- StandardLegal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- Standard BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderNot legal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHNot legal
- PremodernNot legal
- Old SchoolNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- FutureLegal
Rulings (4)
Ghalta's first ability can't reduce its cost below
.If a creature's power is somehow less than 0, it subtracts from the total power of your other creatures. If the total power of your creatures is 0 or less, Ghalta's cost remains
.The total cost to cast Ghalta is locked in before you pay that cost. For example, if you control three 2/2 creatures, including one you can sacrifice to add
, the total cost of Ghalta is 
. Then you can sacrifice the creature when you activate mana abilities just before paying the cost.To determine Ghalta's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. Ghalta's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
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