Card text
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, manifest the top card of your library. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Whenever a face-down creature you control dies, exile it if it's an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card until the end of your next turn.
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Mana cost
{2}{U}{R}
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Card text
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, manifest the top card of your library. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Whenever a face-down creature you control dies, exile it if it's an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card until the end of your next turn.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Cryptic Pursuit
Cryptic Pursuit (70) is a Blue and Red Enchantment from Commander: Streets of New Capenna (NCC). It costs {2}{U}{R} and has mana value 4. It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander and Oathbreaker.
Commander: Streets of New Capenna is a Commander product, released April 2022. Cryptic Pursuit has 1 other card in the database, listed further down the page.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, manifest the top card of your library. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Whenever a face-down creature you control dies, exile it if it's an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card until the end of your next turn.
Card details
- Card number
- 70
- Set
- Commander: Streets of New Capenna (NCC)
- Set type
- Commander
- Released
- 29 April 2022
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Enchantment
- Colour
- Blue / Red
- Colour identity
- Blue / Red
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}{R}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Cryptic Pursuit
Other printings of Cryptic Pursuit in Commander: Streets of New Capenna
The same card in other art and frames from this set — priced in the United States.
Cryptic Pursuit in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
More from Commander: Streets of New Capenna
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