Card text
Exile the top four cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top four cards of your library in a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your graveyard. Look at the cards in the other pile. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest into your hand.
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Mana cost
{5}{U}
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Card text
Exile the top four cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top four cards of your library in a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your graveyard. Look at the cards in the other pile. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest into your hand.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Abstract Performance
Abstract Performance (17) is a Blue Sorcery from Commander: Secrets of Strixhaven (SOC). It costs {5}{U} and has mana value 6. It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander and Oathbreaker.
Commander: Secrets of Strixhaven is a Commander product, released April 2026.
Exile the top four cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top four cards of your library in a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your graveyard. Look at the cards in the other pile. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest into your hand.
Card details
- Card number
- 17
- Set
- Commander: Secrets of Strixhaven (SOC)
- Set type
- Commander
- Released
- 24 April 2026
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Sorcery
- Colour
- Blue
- Colour identity
- Blue
- Mana cost
- {5}{U}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Abstract Performance
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