Printings
Grinning Totem
Card Information
Type: Artifact
Mana Cost: 4
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Time Spiral Timeshifted (TSB)
Rarity: Special
Collector Number: 110
Oracle Text
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card. At the beginning of your next upkeep, if you haven't played it, put it into its owner's graveyard.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- September 25, 2006
You may choose to find any kind of card, including a land. You must exile a card (unless the opponent’s library is empty); you can’t fail to find anything.
Source: wotc - September 25, 2006
The exiled card is played using the normal rules for timing and priority for its card type, as well as any other applicable restrictions. You’ll have to pay its mana cost. The only thing that’s different is you’re casting it from the Exile zone.
Source: wotc - September 25, 2006
“Until the beginning of your next upkeep” means the effect wears off as soon as your next upkeep starts. Your last chance to play the card is usually the End step of the player who immediately precedes you.
Source: wotc
Price History
To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.