Genesis Wave
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Reveal the top X cards of your library. You may put any number of permanent cards with mana value X or less from among them onto the battlefield. Then put all cards revealed this way that weren't put onto the battlefield into your graveyard.
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-11-08
You don't have to put permanent cards revealed this way onto the battlefield if you choose not to, regardless of their mana values.
- 2024-11-08
If you have fewer than X cards in your library, you reveal all of them.
- 2024-11-08
If a permanent card in your library has no mana symbols in its upper right corner (because it's a land card, for example), its mana value is 0. Such cards can always be put onto the battlefield with Genesis Wave.
- 2024-11-08
If a card in a player's library has X in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
- 2024-11-08
A permanent card is an artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card.
- 2024-11-08
All of the permanents put onto the battlefield this way enter at the same time. If any have triggered abilities that trigger on something else entering, they'll see each other.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Genesis Wave, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galadriel, Elven-Queen | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Simic 1 deck
Genesis Wave price history
The Foundations #221 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.43 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.46 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.35 | $0.46 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.46 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $0.35 | $0.51 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.34 | $0.50 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.32 | $0.52 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.34 | $0.52 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.51 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.37 | $0.51 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.51 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.35 | $0.51 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.51 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.37 | $0.51 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.51 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.37 | $0.51 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.37 | $0.52 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.38 | $0.51 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Genesis Wave
8 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
- Normal
- $0.36
- Foil
- $0.43
Promo
Foundations Promos
- Foil
- $0.87
Inverted
- Normal
- $2.24
- Foil
- $6.14
Inverted
- Foil
- $41.26
Tales of Middle-earth Commander
- Normal
- $0.41
- Normal
- $0.60
- Foil
- $1.65
- Normal
- $0.75
- Foil
- $5.08
Borderless
Secret Lair Countdown
- Normal
- —
- Foil
- —
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Genesis Wave. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
