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Dead Man's Chest
Card Information
Type: Enchantment — Aura
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Rivals of Ixalan (RIX)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 66
Oracle Text
Enchant creature an opponent controls When enchanted creature dies, exile cards equal to its power from the top of its owner's library. You may cast spells from among those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast them.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- January 19, 2018
If you gain control of the enchanted creature, Dead Man's Chest will be put into your graveyard.
Source: wotc - January 19, 2018
To determine how many cards to exile, use the enchanted creature's power as it last existed on the battlefield.
Source: wotc - January 19, 2018
You are a creature's owner if the card representing it began the game in your deck, or if it's a token that entered the battlefield under your control. If Dead Man's Chest enchants a creature that you own but an opponent controls, you'll exile cards from your library.
Source: wotc - January 19, 2018
The effect of Dead Man's Chest doesn't change when you can cast the exiled cards. For example, if you exile a creature card without flash, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
Source: wotc - January 19, 2018
Casting an exiled card causes it to leave exile. You can't cast it multiple times.
Source: wotc - January 19, 2018
If Dead Man's Chest and the enchanted creature are both put into graveyards at the same time, the last ability of Dead Man's Chest still triggers.
Source: wotc - January 19, 2018
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 Dead Man's Chest's ability are exiled.
Source: wotc
Price History
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