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Peer into the Abyss

Sorcery MV 7

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What it does

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Combos with Peer into the Abyss

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2020-06-23

    The life lost is rounded up, not the remaining life total. For example, if the target player has 7 life, they lose 4 life and end up with 3. Similarly, the number of cards drawn is rounded up, not the number of cards remaining in the library.

  • 2020-06-23

    To draw the cards, first the player determines how many cards to draw, then draws them. This event may be modified so that a different number of cards are actually drawn.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Peer into the Abyss, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 6
Games played 2
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Syr Konrad, the Grim 1 2 —
Athreos, God of Passage 1 0 —
Dargo, the Shipwrecker 1 0 —
Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied 1 0 —
M.O.D.O.K. 1 0 —
Tymna the Weaver 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 2 decks
  • Rakdos 1 deck
  • Orzhov 1 deck
  • Mardu 1 deck

Every version of Peer into the Abyss

7 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Peer into the Abyss — a name search across every version, for 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.