Divine Smite

afrAdventures in the Forgotten Realms#12uncommon
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Card text & rulings

Oracle text

Instant

Target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls phases out. If that permanent is black, exile it instead. (If it phases out, treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

Ability breakdown
Abilities
SpellTarget creature or planeswalker an opponent controls phases out. If that permanent is black, exile it instead. (If it phases out, treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)
Rulings
  • WotCJul 23, 2021

    An attacking or blocking creature that phases out is removed from combat.

  • WotCJul 23, 2021

    Any continuous effects with a “for as long as” duration, such as that of Mind Flayer, ignore phased-out objects. If ignoring those objects causes the effect's conditions to no longer be met, the duration will expire.

  • WotCJul 23, 2021

    As a creature is phased out, Auras and Equipment attached to it also phase out at the same time. Those Auras and Equipment will phase in at the same time that creature does, and they'll phase in still attached to that creature.

  • WotCJul 23, 2021

    Choices made for permanents as they entered the battlefield are remembered when they phase in.

  • WotCJul 23, 2021

    If an opponent gains control of your nonblack creature, you phase it out with Divine Smite, and the duration of the control-change effect expires before it phases back in, your creature phases in under your control as that opponent's next untap step begins. If they leave the game before their next untap step, it phases in as the next untap step begins after their turn would have begun.

  • WotCJul 23, 2021

    Permanents phase back in during their controller's untap step, immediately before that player untaps their permanents. Creatures that phase in this way are able to attack and pay a cost of {T} during that turn. If a permanent had counters on it when it phased out, it will have those counters when it phases back in.

  • WotCJul 23, 2021

    Phased out permanents are treated as though they don't exist. They can't be the target of spells or abilities, their static abilities have no effect on the game, their triggered abilities can't trigger, they can't attack or block, and so on.

  • WotCJul 23, 2021

    Phasing out doesn't cause any “leaves the battlefield” abilities to trigger. Similarly, phasing in won't cause any “enters the battlefield” abilities to trigger.

Market & version spread

Why you'd run this

Plays as
Protection Spell

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Flavor & art
"When darkness closes in around us, my blade will light our path."
Illustrated by
Bryan Sola
Where you can play it
commander
Legal to play
All formats
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
competitivebrawlLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyNot legal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal

Physical object & links

Card details
Artist
Bryan Sola
Frame
2015
Language
EN
Border
black
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