Printings
Illusionist's Stratagem
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Aether Revolt (AER)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 36
Oracle Text
Exile up to two target creatures you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control. Draw a card.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- February 9, 2017
You may cast Illusionist’s Stratagem without any targets if you wish to just draw a card.
Source: wotc - February 9, 2017
If each target creature is an illegal target as Illusionist’s Stratagem resolves, the spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t draw a card.
Source: wotc - February 9, 2017
Each card that returns to the battlefield will be a new object with no connection to the creature that was exiled. It won’t be in combat or have any additional abilities it may have had when it was exiled. Any +1/+1 counters on it or Auras attached to it are removed, and any Equipment will no longer be attached.
Source: wotc - February 9, 2017
If a creature token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and will not return to the battlefield.
Source: wotc - February 9, 2017
If you choose two target creatures and one is an illegal target as Illusionist’s Stratagem resolves, you’ll exile the other, return it, and draw a card.
Source: wotc
Price History
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