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Settle the Wreckage, art by Dimitar Marinski
Art by Dimitar Marinski · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · image via Scryfall
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checked Jun 14, 2026 · Scryfall
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Settle the Wreckage

{2}{W}{W} · Instant

Exile all attacking creatures target player controls. That player may search their library for that many basic land cards, put those cards onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Rulings (3)

Sep 29, 2017 · The number of lands that player may find is the number of attacking creatures that were exiled, even if some of those creatures were tokens, weren’t creature cards, or didn’t end up in exile (most likely because one was that player’s commander in the Commander variant).

Sep 29, 2017 · That player can find fewer basic land cards than the number of exiled creatures, whether because they want to or because they don’t have that many basic land cards left.

Sep 29, 2017 · Settle the Wreckage targets only the player. Creatures with hexproof that player controls will be exiled as this spell resolves.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
ModernLegal
PioneerLegal
StandardNot legal
PauperNot legal
PremodernNot legal
cEDHLegal

Where it’s played now

Inclusion by archetype · Modern

% of archetype's lists running it · last 30 days · n=21 decks
ArchetypeFormatInclusionCopiesDecks (n)
Jeskai BlinkModern4.8%21
Data as of Jun 14, 2026 · MTGO + papercasthaven.com

Price

Settle the Wreckage — price trend

Daily cheapest printing · USD · last 90 days · n=2 snapshots
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