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Clockspinning

{U}

Instant

TSPTime Spiral#53common
Foil
Border
black
Frame
2003
Pull rate
about 2 per booster–1 in 1253
Illustrator
Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai
Found in
Time Spiral Theme Deck Reality Fracture · Future Sight Theme Deck Suspended Sentence · 4 more
Printings3CombosIn 126
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
PennyNot legal
PioneerNot legal
PreDHLegal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.) Choose a counter on target permanent or suspended card. Remove that counter from that permanent or card or put another of those counters on it.
Buyback
Market · per finishspark updated 1h ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil+0.0%
$0.42
$0.25 low$0.22 gap
Foil+0.0%
$19.70
$9.99 low$3.99 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.42· across 3 printings

Rulings

15 · latest Feb 2, 2024 · one tap opens all
  • WotCFeb 2, 2024

    Cards exiled with suspend are exiled face up.

  • WotCFeb 2, 2024

    Due to a recent rules change to suspend, you are no longer required to cast the suspended card as the second triggered ability of suspend resolves. Instead, as the second triggered ability resolves, you may cast the card. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored. If you don't cast the card, it remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.

  • WotCFeb 2, 2024

    Exiling a card with suspend isn't casting that card. This action doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.

  • WotCFeb 2, 2024

    If an effect refers to a "suspended card," that means a card that (1) has suspend, (2) is in exile, and (3) has one or more time counters on it.

  • WotCFeb 2, 2024

    If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

  • WotCFeb 2, 2024

    If the first triggered ability of suspend (the one that removes time counters) is countered, no time counter is removed. The ability will trigger again at the beginning of the card's owner's next upkeep.

  • WotCFeb 2, 2024

    If the second triggered ability is countered, the card can't be cast. It remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.

  • WotCFeb 2, 2024

    If the spell requires any targets, those targets are chosen when the spell is finally cast, not when it's exiled.

  • WotCFeb 2, 2024

    If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," such as with suspend, you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those if you want to cast the card.

  • WotCFeb 2, 2024

    Suspend is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that allows you to exile the card from your hand with the specified number of time counters (the number before the dash) on it by paying its suspend cost (listed after the dash). The second is a triggered ability that removes a time counter from the suspended card at the beginning of each of your upkeeps. The third is a triggered ability that gives you the option to cast the card when the last time counter is removed.

  • WotCFeb 2, 2024

    The mana value of a spell cast without paying its mana cost is determined by its mana cost, even though that cost wasn't paid.

  • WotCFeb 2, 2024

    When the last time counter is removed, the second triggered ability of suspend (the one that lets you cast the card) triggers. It doesn't matter why the last time counter was removed or what effect removed it.

  • WotCFeb 2, 2024

    You can exile a card in your hand using suspend any time you could cast that card. Consider its card type, any effects that modify when you could cast it (such as flash) and any other effects that stop you from casting it (such as from Meddling Mage's ability) to determine if and when you can do this. Whether you could actually complete all steps in casting the card is irrelevant. For example, you can exile a card with suspend that has no mana cost or that requires a target even if no legal targets are available at that time.

  • WotCSep 25, 2006

    Clockspinning can affect any kind of counter, not just a time counter. The type of counter isn't chosen until resolution. Whether to add or remove a counter isn't chosen until resolution.

  • WotCSep 25, 2006

    If the target is a permanent and it has no counter on it when Clockspinning resolves, nothing happens.