The Creation of Avacyn: Innistrad Saga Enchantment
The Creation of Avacyn is an uncommon Saga from Modern Horizons 3 that invites careful setup and precise timing. With a mana cost of {1}{B}{B}, it threads a path from library to battlefield by exiling a chosen card face down and letting you reveal it later. Each chapter builds toward a meaningful payoff, rewarding thoughtful sequencing and the careful management of your resources as the lore counters accumulate.
In Innistrad’s haunted history, this saga embodies a world where strategy and fate collide. The exiled card can end up on the battlefield if it’s a creature, or slip back to its owner’s hand otherwise, all depending on your own reads of the board state. The Creation of Avacyn rewards patience and planning, letting you leverage a single tutor into a potential threat, or convert a tutor into a safe, tactical redraw.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost – {1}{B}{B}
- Card Type – Enchantment — Saga
- Subtypes – Saga
- Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) –
As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.
I — Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle.
II — Turn the exiled card face up. If it’s a creature card, you lose life equal to its mana value.
III — You may put the exiled card onto the battlefield if it’s a creature card. If you don’t put it onto the battlefield, put it into its owner's hand.
- Power / Toughness – —
- Loyalty – —
