Printings
Archon of the Triumvirate
Card Information
Type: Creature — Archon
Mana Cost: 5
CMC: 7
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Return to Ravnica (RTR)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 142
Oracle Text
Flying Whenever this creature attacks, detain up to two target nonland permanents your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those permanents can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- April 15, 2013
Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form “[cost]: [effect].” No one can activate any activated abilities, including mana abilities, of a detained permanent.
Source: wotc - April 15, 2013
When a player leaves a multiplayer game, any continuous effects with durations that last until that player’s next turn or until a specific point in that turn will last until that turn would have begun. They neither expire immediately nor last indefinitely.
Source: wotc - April 15, 2013
If a creature is already attacking or blocking when it’s detained, it won’t be removed from combat. It will continue to attack or block.
Source: wotc - April 15, 2013
The static abilities of a detained permanent still apply. The triggered abilities of a detained permanent can still trigger.
Source: wotc - April 15, 2013
If a permanent’s activated ability is on the stack when that permanent is detained, the ability will be unaffected.
Source: wotc - April 15, 2013
If a noncreature permanent is detained and later turns into a creature, it won’t be able to attack or block.
Source: wotc - October 1, 2012
The two nonland permanents can be controlled by the same opponent or by different opponents.
Source: wotc - October 1, 2012
The nonland permanents will be detained before blockers are chosen. Notably, a creature detained this way can’t block before it is detained.
Source: wotc
Price History
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