MTG Salvation

Will the second effect "see" the color (if any) of the discarded card of the first effect?

For example, when you cast it with no cards in graveyard, draw a card, then discard a Progenitus, will the target creature get -5/-5 until end of turn?

Card Name
1B
Instant
Draw a card, then discard a card.
Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of colors among cards in your graveyard.

Normally yes, the second effect would "see" the results of the first effect. However in your specific example the creature would get -0/-0 because Progenitus never makes it to the graveyard and is instead shuffled into your deck.

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Normally yes, the second effect would "see" the results of the first effect. However in your specific example the creature would get -0/-0 because Progenitus never makes it to the graveyard and is instead shuffled into your deck.

Ha ha it figures I picked progenitus for my sample card. Thanks

Note that the effects do happen in the order printed on the card. So it wouldn't work if they were printed on the other way around. It's simply that the spell all happens before any triggered abilities are allowed to resolve which is why you don't normally notice. You would give the creature a -1/-1 if you used Guile instead of Progenitus, since Guile's effect is a triggered ability rather than a replacement effect.

For example a card that said...
Choose two -

• Destroy all creatures.
• Counter all spells and triggered abilities.
• Destroy all artifacts.

Would stop a Core Prowler's proliferate trigger if you pick the 1st and 2nd mode, but not if you pick the 2nd and 3rd mode.