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Mishra's Research Desk

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Colorless. Artifact

one generic mana

Mishra's Research Desk

The Brothers' War #162 · Illustrated by Matt Stewart

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Non-foil · The Brothers' War #162

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Foil · The Brothers' War #162

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Oracle text

one generic mana, tap this permanent, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile the top two cards of your library. Choose one of them. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.

Unearth one generic manaone red mana (one generic manaone red mana: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

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Card details

First printed
2022
Printings
1
Mana value
1
EDHREC rank
#16,349 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Keywords
Unearth
Artist
Matt Stewart

Rulings (6)

  1. 2022-10-14

    Unearth grants haste to the permanent that's returned to the battlefield (even if it's not a creature card). However, neither of the "exile" abilities is granted to that permanent. If that permanent loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of the next end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.

  2. 2022-10-14

    If a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth would leave the battlefield for any reason, it's exiled instead—unless the spell or ability that's causing the permanent to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it! In that case, it succeeds at exiling it. If that spell or ability later returns the card to the battlefield (as Static Net might, for example), the permanent card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effects will no longer apply to it.

  3. 2022-10-14

    At the beginning of the next end step, a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability, and it can be countered by effects such as Defabricate that counter triggered abilities. If the ability is countered, the permanent will stay on the battlefield and the delayed triggered ability won't trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the permanent if it eventually leaves the battlefield.

  4. 2022-10-14

    Activating a card's unearth ability isn't the same as casting that card. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities (such as Defabricate's second mode) will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Scatter Ray) will not.

  5. 2022-10-14

    If you activate a card's unearth ability but that card is removed from your graveyard before the ability resolves, that unearth ability will do nothing as it resolves.

  6. 2022-10-14

    You must pay all costs and follow all normal timing rules for spells cast using the first ability of Mishra's Research Desk.

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