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Expropriate
Card Information
Type: Sorcery
Mana Cost: 7
CMC: 9
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Conspiracy: Take the Crown (CN2)
Rarity: Mythic
Collector Number: 30
Oracle Text
Council's dilemma — Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- September 20, 2024
No player votes until Expropriate resolves. Any responses to the spell must be made without knowing the outcome of the vote.
Source: wotc - September 20, 2024
Each player must vote for one of the available options. They can't abstain.
Source: wotc - September 20, 2024
Votes are cast in turn order, and each player will know the votes of players who voted beforehand.
Source: wotc - August 23, 2016
No player votes until the spell or ability resolves. Any responses to that spell or ability must be made without knowing the outcome of the vote.
Source: wotc - August 23, 2016
If a creature with an enters-the-battlefield council's dilemma ability leaves the battlefield before that ability resolves, players can still vote for any option that would put +1/+1 counters on that creature, even though—or perhaps especially because—those votes won't generate an effect.
Source: wotc - August 23, 2016
Players can't do anything between voting and finishing the resolution of the spell or ability that included the vote.
Source: wotc - August 23, 2016
The effects of each council's dilemma ability happen in the stated order. First the vote occurs, then the first effect, and finally the second effect.
Source: wotc - August 23, 2016
Unlike the will of the council cards from the original Conspiracy set, where a majority of votes determined what happened, each vote made for a council's dilemma card adds to the ultimate effect.
Source: wotc - August 23, 2016
You must vote for one of the available options. You can't abstain.
Source: wotc - August 23, 2016
Because the votes are made in turn order, each player will know the votes of players who voted beforehand.
Source: wotc
Price History

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