Printings
Detention Sphere
Card Information
Type: Enchantment
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Return to Ravnica (RTR)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 155
Oracle Text
When this enchantment enters, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- October 1, 2012
The "enters" ability has only one target. The other permanents with that name aren't targeted. For example, a permanent with protection from white will be exiled if it has the same name as the target nonland permanent.
Source: wotc - October 1, 2012
If Detention Sphere leaves the battlefield before its "enters" ability has resolved, its leaves-the-battlefield ability will trigger and do nothing. Then the "enters" ability will resolve and exile the targeted nonland permanent and other permanents with that name indefinitely.
Source: wotc - October 1, 2012
Although the target of the "enters" ability must not be a land, lands with the same name as that permanent will be exiled.
Source: wotc - October 1, 2012
If the target nonland permanent is an illegal target when the "enters" ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. No permanents will be exiled, including those with the same name as the target.
Source: wotc
Price History
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