Reprinted 3x historically, most recently in 2019 -- no dedicated reprint sets or recent activity.
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Embodiment of Agonies
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Oracle Data
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each different mana cost among nonland cards in your graveyard. (For example,
and are different mana costs.)
""I feel your pain. It's exquisite.""
Official Judge Precedents
If you return Embodiment of Agonies from your graveyard to the battlefield, its last ability counts itself.
The mana cost of a split card is determined by its two halves combined. For example, the mana cost of Fire//Ice in your graveyard is 
, the same as the mana cost of Ral's Outburst.
Alternative costs, additional costs you could pay, cost increases, and cost reductions are all ignored by Embodiment of Agonies.
Embodiment of Agonies checks the mana symbols in a card's mana cost. For example, a mana cost of 
is different than a mana cost of 
.
Every Magic card has either no mana cost or exactly one mana cost. A card with no mana cost is never counted by Embodiment of Agonies. A card with a mana cost of is counted.
Hybrid mana symbols are treated as the actual symbols, not as either of their two components individually. For example, 
, , and are three different mana costs.
