Waste Away
Torment 88 • common
- Set
- Torment
- Collector number
- 88
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana black mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Alan Pollack
- Market price
- $0.08
What it does
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card.
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Chainer's insanity touched nearly every living thing—including viruses.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Waste Away is a black-aligned sorcery card released in the Torment expansion for Magic: The Gathering in early 2002. Designed by Wizards of the Coast during a period when the game was exploring color-shifted mechanics, Torment was unique for being heavily biased toward black mana. The card was intended to provide black players with a specific form of creature-based removal that rewarded graveyard interaction, fitting the set's broader themes of decay, sacrifice, and the underworld.
The card’s illustration was created by artist Arnie Swekel, who contributed extensive work to Magic: The Gathering during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Swekel’s aesthetic often leaned into the dark, atmospheric fantasy style prevalent at the time, utilizing sharp lines and ominous lighting to emphasize the card’s morbid theme. While not a staple of competitive play, Waste Away serves as an example of the thematic world-building that defined the Odyssesy block’s graveyard-centric mechanics.
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