Desertion
Instant
SPGSpecial Guests#31mythic
BorderlessFull Art
"It is one thing to run away. It is quite another to escape your fate." —Oko
- Finishes
- Nonfoil · Foil
- Border
- borderless
- Security stamp
- oval
- Frame
- 2015 · Full art
- Pull rate
- ~1 in 259–640
- Illustrator
- Donato Giancola
- Found in
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction Collector Booster Pack · Outlaws of Thunder Junction Play Booster Pack
CommanderLegalModernNot legalStandardNot legal
Format legality
Constructed
StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernNot legal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperNot legal
Commander
CommanderLegal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
Duel CommanderLegal
PreDHLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
Arena
AlchemyNot legal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
BrawlLegal
Standard BrawlNot legal
Competitive BrawlLegal
GladiatorLegal
Other
PremodernLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
Penny DreadfulLegal
Future StandardNot legal
Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.
Plays as:
Counterspell
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Nonfoil
$2.12
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Since Apr 2024:H $18.00L $1.10$0.90
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Rulings
3 · latest Apr 12, 2024
- WotCApr 12, 2024
This spell includes a replacement effect. If the target is an artifact or creature spell, it never goes to the graveyard.
- WotCOct 4, 2004
If the spell is not countered (because the spell it targets can't be countered), then this card's ability does not put the card onto the battlefield. The spell continues to resolve as normal.
- WotCOct 4, 2004
The card is put onto the battlefield, but any effects that check if the original card was "cast from your hand" will not trigger or otherwise consider the card to have been cast from your hand. The card was put onto the battlefield by the effect of Desertion instead.