Printings
Moment of Reckoning
Card Information
Type: Sorcery
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 7
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 205
Oracle Text
Choose up to four. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Destroy target nonland permanent. • Return target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- March 20, 2026
If Moment of Reckoning is copied, the effect that creates the copy will usually allow you to choose new targets, but you can't choose new modes.
Source: wotc - March 20, 2026
If the same mode is chosen more than once, you choose their relative order as you cast the spell. For example, if you choose the second mode of Moment of Reckoning more than once, you choose the relative order to return the target nonland permanent cards.
Source: wotc - March 20, 2026
If all targets for the chosen modes become illegal before Moment of Reckoning resolves, the spell won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. If at least one target is still legal, the spell will resolve but will have no effect on any illegal targets.
Source: wotc - March 20, 2026
No player can cast spells or activate abilities in between the modes of a resolving spell. Any abilities that trigger won't be put onto the stack until a spell is done resolving.
Source: wotc - March 20, 2026
No matter which combination of modes you choose, you always follow the instructions in the order they are written.
Source: wotc - March 20, 2026
You choose the modes as you cast Moment of Reckoning. Once modes are chosen, they can't be changed.
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.