Card text
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.
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Mana cost
{3}{U}{U}
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Card text
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.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Desertion
This page covers the borderless printing of Desertion (31), an Blue Instant from Special Guests (SPG). It is printed at Mythic Rare rarity. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander and Brawl and 3 more formats.
We track no other printing of 31 in this set, so there is no base card here to compare its price with.
Special Guests is The List, which reprints earlier cards. Desertion has 5 other cards in the database, listed further down the page.
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.
Card details
- Card number
- 31
- Set
- Special Guests (SPG)
- Set type
- The List
- Released
- —
- Rarity
- Mythic Rare (M)
- Printing
- Borderless · Special Guest
- Type line
- Instant
- Colour
- Blue
- Colour identity
- Blue
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{U}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Desertion
Desertion in other sets
Every other printing with this name, one per set.
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