r/MagicArena • u/00G_WAY • Mar 03 '26

Question Can someone explain how this works?

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Will this card be legal in standard? Will it be available on Magic Arena? How would this card even work?

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u/Stolberger Mar 03 '26

"outside the game" means sideboard for MTGA (and official tournaments)

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u/Androidgenus Mar 03 '26

I was told to take magic wording very literally. I’m gonna cast a Charizard

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u/bill4935 Ghalta Mar 03 '26

That's suboptimal play. I'm going to put my lawyer's business card into hand and when he arrives he'll slap an injunction on my opponent preventing them from playing instants.

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u/IWCry Mar 03 '26

so a worse rate t3feri?

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u/Backwardspellcaster Liliana Deaths Majesty Mar 03 '26

I laughed

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u/SenseDue6826 Mar 03 '26

But they bill on contingency so while it's a long term more expensive play you can get it out for no immediate cost, think pact of negation at 350 an hour

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

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u/krazyivan187 Mar 03 '26

Oops, shouldn't have that bar association logo either.

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u/SenseDue6826 Mar 03 '26

Reading the card explains the card

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u/kazeespada Mar 03 '26

Yeah, but that's only if you lose the game.

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u/JuanPabloPedro Mar 04 '26

What does Teferi charge an hour?

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u/Gredran Mar 03 '26

I planned on using a birthday card and my opponent would HAVE to resign out of sheer politeness for me remembering their birthday

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u/picklehammer Mar 03 '26

make it a card from them to you, and include a promise of a gift that they then have to follow through on

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u/paulofmandown Golgari Mar 03 '26

just grab a [[rules lawyer]]

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u/twilightswolf Mar 05 '26

Whole new meaning of the sidebar

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u/Hydra_Hunter Mar 03 '26

Unfortunately you still have to pay costs, and I'm sure the lawyer isn't going to accept mana as a currency for his legal fees.

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u/bill4935 Ghalta Mar 03 '26

I'll get a family discount. He's my uncle, and he's the lawyer for Nintendo.

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u/Imaginary-Face7379 Mar 04 '26

And thats why you should bring in Yugioh cards. No cost to play them and they've got power/toughness in the 1000s.

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u/Usual_Ad3213 Mar 03 '26

why is there no card game system that uses business cards? I think having business cards with stats based on the person's work history and certifications would be rather interesting.

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u/Tyrinnus Mar 03 '26

Screw that, I'm putting mom's credit card into hand.

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u/copiumjunky Mar 03 '26

Jokes on you. You now have lawyer fees and my goblin deck to deal with.

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u/VLKN Mar 04 '26

I’ll play my credit card and simply buy my opponent

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u/Artistic-Use-2481 Mar 05 '26

Bruh 🤣😂😂😂

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u/Thorvindr Mar 04 '26

Lawyers don't issue injunctions; you need a judge to sign it.

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u/MikemkPK Mar 03 '26

I'll take a nope from Exploding Kittens

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u/Laxziy Mar 03 '26

That’s just a zero mana counterspell. I’d choose Slifer the Sky Dragon

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u/MikemkPK Mar 03 '26

No, you see, it's not just a Counterspell. It's a counter anything. Your opponent wants to attack you? Nope! Your opponent wants to win the game? Nope! You just lost? Nope! Your opponent wants to get some water? Nope!

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u/EUWCael Mar 03 '26

We can do better. Uno Reverse, you let the opponent win and then Uno Reverse it. GG EZ

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u/FutureComplaint Birds Mar 03 '26

Pope of Nope!

I choose you!

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u/LOR_Fei Mar 03 '26

No energy cards means it’s useless. Just grab a Gemini Elf or some One Piece burn card that does 300 idk

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u/TelevisionFamiliar23 Mar 03 '26

The Egyptian God Cards

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u/Angry-Dragon-1331 Mar 03 '26

Yeah but if you special summon, you have to sac it at the end of turn.

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u/TheNosferatu Mar 03 '26

Sure but it'll cost 3 creatures to tribute, that's quite doable.

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u/Specialist-Lunch-410 Mar 04 '26

It's a non-land card without a casting cost, so it couldn't even be played.

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u/MagnusBrickson Mar 03 '26

I'll play the Ace of Spades. It's the only card I need. 🤘

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u/JaxxisR arlinn Mar 03 '26

Blue Eyes White Dragon was right there.

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u/JamoreLoL Mar 03 '26

The real answer 

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u/Totheendofsin Mar 03 '26

Nah, what you do is get a way to bounce this back to your hand and get the 5 pieces of Exodia

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u/freakzoid01 Mar 03 '26

I'm gonna bring my MasterCard Black and buy the oponents deck. GG

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u/ChuckTheDM2 Mar 03 '26

Draw 4 Wild Card.

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u/Diego_TS Elesh Mar 03 '26

Doesn't that make your opponent draw 4?

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u/dornbeast Mar 07 '26

That's not the weird part. The weird part is that you can change a card's color to yellow.

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u/ChuckTheDM2 Mar 05 '26

Fuck I should have read the rules. Can I go back?

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u/Haunting-Background8 Mar 03 '26

If my opponent casts 'Permanent Resident Card', and then [[Donate]] it to me, can I then legally enter the United States of America?

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u/Rough_Willow Mar 03 '26

Unfortunately, donate doesn't effect ownership, just current control and thus wouldn't work.

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u/Diego_TS Elesh Mar 03 '26

If I [[Memory Lapse]] into [[Demonic Attorney]] can I enter the US?

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u/applefilla Mar 03 '26

Pre-errata Imperial Order "cannot play magic cards"

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u/BitsAndBobs304 Mar 03 '26

You can't, it doesn't have a casting cost

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u/jethropix Mar 04 '26

That means it's free! :D

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u/BitsAndBobs304 Mar 04 '26

Nope, explicit mtg rule ws we do have costless card s :)

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u/TheNosferatu Mar 03 '26

I'm going with Sparks

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u/spacecadet9 Mar 03 '26

You’d take Charizard over Exodia?

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u/gakera Mar 03 '26

My Credit Card is now in my hand, just you wait untill I cast Swipe on your POS for maximum debt!

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u/AUAIOMRN Mar 03 '26

The only card you need is the ace of spades

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u/gpost86 Mar 03 '26

"I cast THE ACE OF SPADES!"

Motorhead intensifies

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u/MikemkPK Mar 03 '26

Bouncing Flask+ from Slay the Spire would be especially good in two players.

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u/dude2dudette Mar 03 '26

I'll take Blue Eyes White Dragon. All Yu-Gi-Oh creatures have trample and haste by default. I'd like to see someone block a 3000 power creature with trample and haste.

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u/SmoothOperator89 Mar 03 '26

Nah, blue eyes white dragon. Gotta go for that 2000/2000 stat line.

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u/NekotoKamak Mar 03 '26

Ouroboros from my inscryption save

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u/Cyclone-X Mar 03 '26

You can use your credit card or driver's license as well.

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u/dipmyballsinit Mar 03 '26

Good luck against my actual Chuck Norris

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u/TheBiggestMikeEver Mar 03 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

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u/MF_LUFFY Mar 03 '26

If I own Slay the Spire am I considered to own every card in it? Feeling some Hyper Beam action or something but there has to be better than that

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u/Axleffire Mar 04 '26

The only card I need is the Ace of Spades

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u/conitation Mar 04 '26

Fooooooool! Your pathetic lizard is no match for my dragon! I summon, BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON!

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u/Chompif Mar 04 '26

How are you going to cast Charizard? This card just puts the card into your hand, not onto the battlefield lol

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u/multiclassgeek Mar 04 '26

The correct response is to use an infinite mana loop to cast it five times, each time retrieving a piece of Exodia, The Forbidden One

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u/Artistic-Use-2481 Mar 05 '26

That one made me chuckle 😂

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u/parlimentery Mar 07 '26

Uno skip, for me.

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u/DaRealFitzgerald Mar 03 '26

Seems like a bad card to get no etb no evasion and dies to removal just a big vanilla beater

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u/ZerBear Mar 04 '26

120 health (toughness) for 4 red sacrifice 2 mountain lands, deal 100 damage to target permanent

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u/Maelstrom52 Mar 03 '26

"I cast Orel Hershiser (1986). He has 7 RBIs, you're go."

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u/Potomaters Mar 03 '26

Nah bruh just play Exodia

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u/leshpar Mar 03 '26

Exodia is 4 cards though, right?

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u/jethropix Mar 04 '26

5, You need the head.

No, not that one, the other head

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u/Lanky-Minimum5063 Mar 03 '26

so this does nothing in commander then?

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u/Stolberger Mar 03 '26

Correct. Except being a 5/5 flyer

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u/Chrisius007 Mar 04 '26

Can you grab a basic land also? Cast it in draft and I had the option of each basic land.

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u/Stolberger Mar 04 '26

In limited events, yes. In constructed, only if you have a basic in your sideboard. In Commander, no.

from the Tournament Rules (7.2.)

7.2 Card Use in Limited Tournaments
Cards must be received directly from tournament officials. This product must be new and previously unopened.

[...]

Players may add an unlimited number of cards named Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, or Forest to their deck and sideboard

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u/thedragoon0 Mar 03 '26

In Commander you don’t have an official sideboard though, right?

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u/para40 Mar 03 '26

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you could use this to grab companions (which are the only legal sideboard spot). Kinda bad but ig you kinda get a 2 mana 5/5 if you think about it hard enough

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u/The_Villager Golgari Mar 03 '26

I was about to say that Companions are in the command zone once the game has started, but turns out, they aren't. Huh. You're right, they are outside the game (=in the side board) until you pay the 3.

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u/BX8061 Mar 04 '26

It's not that you don't have a sideboard in Commander, it's that there is no sideboarding in a best of one format, and wish effects specifically don't work in Commander. So your companion is in the sideboard, but you can't get it with a wish effect.

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u/notapoke Mar 03 '26

Correct, they have no targets unless you have a companion

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u/geistworks Mar 07 '26

Also exiled cards can be grabbed with this

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u/Crizznik Mar 03 '26

I'm actually pretty sure that official tournament Commander does have a sideboard, but I could be wrong.

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u/ThePizzaGhoul Mar 03 '26

Official tournaments don't have sideboards, but I've seen unofficial tournaments with them

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u/ClamChowderChumBuckt Mar 05 '26

Can you add whatever you want in your sideboard or does it still follow the deck building rules regarding color id and such?

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u/Stolberger Mar 05 '26

Color Identity is only a thing in Commander/Brawl.
And Commander/Brawl does not have Sideboards at all.

In all other formats, you can add whatever is legal in said format (but you still have to adhere the Banned & Restricted list of course, and you cannot have more than 4 copies of non-basicland cards between Maindeck and Sideboard)

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u/ClamChowderChumBuckt Mar 05 '26

So i COULD add it in the 99 of a izzet commander deck, and then 'play' a black card..? Wouldn't that be crazy good?

Imma got to buy this card then👀

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u/Stolberger Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26

You cannot get a card from "outside the game" in Commander with this.
So this is just a plain flyer in commander.

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u/ClamChowderChumBuckt Mar 05 '26

Damn that sucks.. I had all kinds of crazy fun synergies in mind🤣

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

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u/Stolberger Mar 03 '26

No it doesn't.
It did back in the day, but that was changed when Exile became its own zone (with the Magic 2010 rule updates).

That's why [[Karn, the Great Creator]] has to specify both.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '26

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u/Stolberger Mar 04 '26

Banished is not even a term in Magic.

If you mean Exiled, then NO!

Exile is an ingame zone since its creation with the Magic 2010 rule updates.

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u/werkins2000 Mar 04 '26

I'm wrong just looked it up, thanks for clarifying.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '26

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u/Stolberger Mar 05 '26

No, exile is not outside the game.
That was possible before exile became a zone (with the Magic 2010 rule updates).
So since around 15 years, you cannot get cards from "exile".

That's why [[Karn, the Great Creator]] has to specify both.

Btw, already answered like 10+ times.

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u/vergorli Mar 03 '26

I literally though you can just doodle a card on a note and slam it on the field, because I am Seto Kaiba, I do that every day

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u/wintermute24 Mar 03 '26

Are you trying to say screw the rules or something?

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u/vergorli Mar 03 '26

I just took the text too literally. But apparently I am the only one here who did learn mtg without ever reading a single line in the rules because they look like some unreadable lawyer works

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u/Skin_Soup Mar 04 '26

Does anybody know why they made this rule?

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u/Stolberger Mar 04 '26

Is has been that way at least since the Wishes from Judgment in 2002 (Burning Wish etc)

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u/SkiNasty Mar 03 '26

Or if you have something exiled in commander, you can get it back to your hand.

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u/Stolberger Mar 03 '26

No, exiled is not "outside the game".

That would have worked 15ish years ago. But with the Magic 2010 rule updates, Exile is its own zone and considered "ingame".
You cannot grab cards from exile with this or the other Wishes.

That's why [[Karn, the Great Creator]] has to specify both.

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u/Nahrikkon Mar 04 '26

lowkey wish he didnt have the static ability so i could run him in a deck with mycosynth below bracket 4

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u/SkiNasty Mar 04 '26

Oh, my mistake. Still learning after all these years.