Jester's Scepter
Card Information
Type: Artifact
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Coldsnap (CSP)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 137
Oracle Text
When this artifact enters, exile the top five cards of target player's library face down. You may look at those cards for as long as they remain exiled. {2}, {T}, Put a card exiled with this artifact into its owner's graveyard: Counter target spell if it has the same name as that card.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- July 15, 2006
If half of a split card is cast (for example, Hit), and you put one of those split cards into its owner’s graveyard with Jester’s Scepter (for example, Hit/Run), the spell is countered.
Source: wotc - July 15, 2006
Because the cards that are exiled are not hidden to you, you can choose which one to put into its owner’s graveyard when you activate the second ability.
Source: wotc - July 15, 2006
When Jester’s Scepter’s second ability is activated, any of the exiled cards may be put into its owner’s graveyard, and any spell may be targeted, whether or not the card and the spell have the same name. If they don’t have the same name, the effect does nothing. The spell’s controller and the owner of the card put into a graveyard this way may be different.
Source: wotc - July 15, 2006
You can see the cards that are exiled with Jester’s Scepter, but no one else can.
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.