Abstruse Appropriation
Mana cost:
Instant
Rules text
When to play this card
Abstruse Appropriation shows up in thousands of Commander and constructed lists as a staple in its role. EDHREC and tournament data confirm it is widely played — not because it is broken, but because it efficiently fills a slot in your curve or interaction package.
In deckbuilding: Instant — cast in response or during combat. Tune the number of copies to your format (1 in Commander, up to 4 in 60-card). If your deck lacks an answer to what this card does, consider sideboard slots or a same-mana-cost alternative.
- Rarity
- rare
- Prices
- $0.31 · €0.20
- Legal in
- modernlegacyvintagecommander
Rulings
If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield. You can't cast it.
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Abstruse Appropriation doesn't change when you can cast the exiled card. For example, if you exile a creature card without flash, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
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In the rare case where the exiled card is a land card (probably because that land became a copy of a permanent while it was still on the battlefield), you won't be able to play it from exile.
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In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spells or permanents you control from Abstruse Appropriation's effect are exiled, and any cards still exiled by it remain exiled.
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A card with devoid is just colorless. It's not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
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Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid a color. If that happens, it's just the new color, not that color and colorless.
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Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
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If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object's color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.
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Devoid doesn't affect the color identity of the card for the purposes of the Commander variant. For example, while Abstruse Appropriation is colorless because it has devoid, its color identity is still white and black, and it can't be included in a Commander deck where the commander's color identity doesn't include both white and black.
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