Printings
Moonhold
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity: 
Set: Eventide (EVE)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 143
Oracle Text
Target player can't play lands this turn if {R} was spent to cast this spell and can't cast creature spells this turn if {W} was spent to cast this spell. (Do both if {R}{W} was spent.)
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- August 1, 2008
When you cast the spell, you choose its targets before you pay for it.
Source: wotc - August 1, 2008
The spell checks on resolution to see if any mana of the stated colors was spent to pay its cost. If so, it doesn't matter how much mana of that color was spent.
Source: wotc - August 1, 2008
Moonhold is not a counterspell. It will have no effect on creature spells the targeted player cast before Moonhold resolved.
Source: wotc - August 1, 2008
The spell cares about what mana was spent to pay its total cost, not just what mana was spent to pay the hybrid part of its cost.
Source: wotc - August 1, 2008
The spell cares about what mana was spent to pay its total cost, not just what mana was spent to pay the hybrid part of its cost.
Source: wotc - August 1, 2008
The spell checks on resolution to see if any mana of the stated colors was spent to pay its cost. If so, it doesn't matter how much mana of that color was spent.
Source: wotc - August 1, 2008
If the spell is copied, the copy will never have had mana of the stated color paid for it, no matter what colors were spent on the original spell.
Source: wotc - August 1, 2008
Moonhold doesn't stop effects that "put a card onto the battlefield."
Source: wotc - August 1, 2008
If the spell is copied, the copy will never have had mana of the stated color paid for it, no matter what colors were spent on the original spell.
Source: wotc
Price History
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