Card

Desertion

Instant


Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

"It is one thing to run away. It is quite another to escape your fate." —Oko


  Special Guests (SPG)
#31, Mythic Rare

Illustrated by: Donato Giancola
Multiverse ID: 660839

Not Legal Alchemy BO1
Not Legal Standard BO1
Not Legal Brawl
Not Legal Explorer BO1
Not Legal Modern
Not Legal Pauper
Not Legal Pioneer
Not Legal Traditional Standard
Not Legal Traditional Alchemy
Not Legal Traditional Explorer

Rulings

  • 2004-10-04
    The card is put onto the battlefield, but any effects that check if the original card was “cast from your hand” will not trigger or otherwise consider the card to have been cast from your hand. The card was put onto the battlefield by the effect of Desertion instead.
  • 2004-10-04
    This spell includes a replacement effect. If the target is an artifact or creature, it never goes to the graveyard.
  • 2004-10-04
    If the spell is not countered (because the spell it targets can’t be countered), then this card’s ability does not put the card onto the battlefield. The spell continues to resolve as normal.
  • 2024-04-12
    This spell includes a replacement effect. If the target is an artifact or creature spell, it never goes to the graveyard.
  • 2004-10-04
    The card is put onto the battlefield, but any effects that check if the original card was "cast from your hand" will not trigger or otherwise consider the card to have been cast from your hand. The card was put onto the battlefield by the effect of Desertion instead.
  • 2004-10-04
    If the spell is not countered (because the spell it targets can't be countered), then this card's ability does not put the card onto the battlefield. The spell continues to resolve as normal.
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