Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator

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Legendary Planeswalker — Ashiok

If you would pay life while your library has at least that many cards in it, exile that many cards from the top of your library instead.

+1Magic the Gathering symbol : Look at the top two cards of your library. Exile one of them and put the other into your hand.

-2Magic the Gathering symbol : Create two 1/1 black Nightmare creature tokens with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, if a card was put into exile this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on this token."

-7Magic the Gathering symbol : Target player exiles the top X cards of their library, where X is the total mana value of cards you own in exile.

qRaymond Swanland
standard
Legal
alchemy
Legal
pioneer
Legal
modern
Legal
historic
Legal
standard brawl
Legal
historic brawl
Legal
timeless
Legal

Rulings

Ashiok, Wicked Nightmare's first ability isn't optional. You can't choose to pay life instead of exiling cards from the top of your library while you control Ashiok, and you can't split the payment between life and cards.
(wotc2023-09-01)
If you would pay life while you control Ashiok and your library does not have at least that many cards in it, you'll just pay life as normal.
(wotc2023-09-01)
Ashiok's first ability doesn't allow you to attempt to pay an amount of life greater than your current life total.
(wotc2023-09-01)
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