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Wasteland Strangler, art by Jack Wang
Art by Jack Wang · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · image via Scryfall
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Wasteland Strangler

{2}{B} · Creature — Eldrazi Processor

Devoid (This card has no color.) When this creature enters, you may put a card an opponent owns from exile into that player's graveyard. If you do, target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.

Rulings (9)

Aug 25, 2015 · If a spell or ability requires that you put more than one exiled card into the graveyard, you may choose cards owned by different opponents. Each card chosen will be put into its owner’s graveyard.

Aug 25, 2015 · Face-down cards in exile are grouped using two criteria: what caused them to be exiled face down and when they were exiled face down. If you want to put a face-down card in exile into its owner’s graveyard, you must first choose one of these groups and then choose a card from within that group at random. For example, say an artifact causes your opponent to exile their hand of three cards face down. Then on a later turn, that artifact causes your opponent to exile another two cards face down. If you use Wasteland Strangler to put one of those cards into their graveyard, you would pick the first or second pile and put a card chosen at random from that pile into the graveyard.

Aug 25, 2015 · A card with devoid is just colorless. It’s not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.

Aug 25, 2015 · If a replacement effect will cause cards that would be put into a graveyard from anywhere to be exiled instead (such as the one created by Anafenza, the Foremost), you can still put an exiled card into its opponent’s graveyard. The card becomes a new object and remains in exile. In this situation, you can’t use a single exiled card if required to put more than one exiled card into the graveyard. Conversely, you could use the same card in this situation if two separate spells or abilities each required you to put a single exiled card into its owner’s graveyard.

Aug 25, 2015 · Cards with devoid use frames that are variations of the transparent frame traditionally used for Eldrazi. The top part of the card features some color over a background based on the texture of the hedrons that once imprisoned the Eldrazi. This coloration is intended to aid deckbuilding and game play.

Aug 25, 2015 · Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid color. If that happens, it’s just the new color, not that color and colorless.

Aug 25, 2015 · If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object’s color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.

Aug 25, 2015 · You can’t look at face-down cards in exile unless an effect allows you to.

Aug 25, 2015 · Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.

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=354 decks
ArchetypeFormatInclusionCopiesDecks (n)
EldraziModern3.4%354
Data as of Jun 14, 2026 · MTGO + papercasthaven.com

Price

Wasteland Strangler — price trend

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