Road // Ruin

Printings

  • Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)#212
  • Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)#376

Road // Ruin

Card Information

Type (Front): Instant

Type (Back): Sorcery

Mana Cost (Front): 2Green mana

Mana Cost (Back): 1Red manaRed mana

Mana Cost: 2Green mana1Red manaRed mana

CMC: 6

Part of the Reserved List: No

Color Identity: Mana symbol for GMana symbol for R

Set: Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)

Rarity: Uncommon

Collector Number: 212

Oracle Text

Road

Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Ruin

Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.) Ruin deals damage to target creature equal to the number of lands you control.

Keywords

Aftermath

Format Legalities

duel(Legal)
brawl(Not Legal)
penny(Not Legal)
predh(Not Legal)
future(Not Legal)
legacy(Legal)
modern(Legal)
pauper(Not Legal)
alchemy(Not Legal)
pioneer(Not Legal)
vintage(Legal)
historic(Not Legal)
standard(Not Legal)
timeless(Not Legal)
commander(Legal)
gladiator(Not Legal)
oldschool(Not Legal)
premodern(Not Legal)
oathbreaker(Legal)
standardbrawl(Not Legal)
paupercommander(Not Legal)

Card Rulings

  1. June 18, 2021

    While not on the stack, the characteristics of a split card are the combination of its two halves. For example, Road /// Ruin is a green and red card, it is both an instant card and a sorcery card, and its mana value is 6.

    Source: wotc
  2. June 18, 2021

    Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard one, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Road /// Ruin counts once, not twice.

    Source: wotc
  3. June 18, 2021

    Once you've started to cast a spell with aftermath from your graveyard, the card is immediately moved to the stack. Opponents can't try to stop the ability by exiling the card with another effect.

    Source: wotc
  4. June 18, 2021

    If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from any zone other than a graveyard, you can't cast the half with aftermath.

    Source: wotc
  5. June 18, 2021

    Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one, but not both.

    Source: wotc
  6. June 18, 2021

    A spell with aftermath cast from a graveyard will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it's countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way.

    Source: wotc
  7. June 18, 2021

    If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from a graveyard, you may cast either half. If you cast the half that has aftermath, you'll exile the card if it would leave the stack.

    Source: wotc
  8. June 18, 2021

    All split cards have two card faces on a single card, and you put a split card onto the stack with only the half you're casting. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. For example, if an effect prevents you from casting red spells, you can cast Road, but not Ruin.

    Source: wotc
  9. June 18, 2021

    If you cast the first half of a split card with aftermath during your turn, you'll have priority immediately after it resolves. You can cast the half with aftermath from your graveyard before any player can take any other action if it's legal for you to do so.

    Source: wotc

Price History

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