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Providence

{5}{W}{W} · Sorcery

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, at the beginning of the first upkeep, your life total becomes 26. Your life total becomes 26.

Rulings (3)

Jul 13, 2016 · For a player's life total to become 26, the player gains or loses the appropriate amount of life. For example, if your life total is 4 when Providence resolves, it will cause you to gain 22 life; alternatively, if your life total is 40 when it resolves, it will cause you to lose 14 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.

Jul 13, 2016 · Revealing multiples of Providence from your opening hand won't cause your life total to become 32 or any number other than 26.

Mar 19, 2021 · A player's "opening hand" is the hand of cards the player has after all players have taken mulligans. If players have any cards in hand that allow actions to be taken with them from a player's opening hand, the starting player takes all such actions first in any order, followed by each other player in turn order. Then the first turn begins.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
ModernLegal
PioneerLegal
StandardNot legal
PauperNot legal
PremodernNot legal

Where it’s played now

Inclusion by archetype · Modern

% of archetype's lists running it · last 30 days · n=10 decks
ArchetypeFormatInclusionCopiesDecks (n)
Cosmo FlingModern60%1–3×10
Data as of Jun 29, 2026 · MTGO + papercasthaven.com

Price

Providence — price trend

Daily cheapest printing · USD · last 90 days · n=17 snapshots
Data as of Jun 29, 2026 · Scryfallcasthaven.com

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