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Conjurer's Ban

Conjurer's Ban

Sorcery

uncommon

Choose a card name. Until your next turn, spells with the chosen name can't be cast and lands with the chosen name can't be played. Draw a card.

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Semantic Tags

Cantripmechanical

A spell that replaces itself by drawing a card as part of its resolution.

Card Drawmechanical

Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.

Draw Hatevector

Punishes or prevents opponents from drawing extra cards.

Prevents players from searching their libraries. Shuts down tutors and fetchlands.

Tax or prevent spellcasting — Rule of Law, Thalia, Sphere of Resistance.

Slows opponents down by taxing actions or restricting what they can do.

Suspendvector

A keyword ability that provides an alternative way to play a card. See rule 702.62, “Suspend.” A card is “suspended” if it’s in the exile zone, has suspend, and has a time counter on it.

Tutorvector

Searches your library for a specific card. Named after Demonic Tutor. Excludes land search (that's ramp).

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneernot legal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historicnot legal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Guildpact#108uncommon···

Related Rules

107.3d

If a cost associated with a special action, such as a suspend cost or a morph cost, has an {X} or an X in it, the value of X is chosen by the player taking the special action immediately before they pay that cost.

116.2f

A player who has a card with suspend in their hand may exile that card. This is a special action. A player can take this action any time they have priority, but only if they could begin to cast that card by putting it onto the stack. See rule 702.62, “Suspend.”

702.62

Suspend

701.56a

To time travel means to choose any number of permanents you control with one or more time counters on them and/or suspended cards you own in exile with one or more time counters on them and, for each of those objects, put a time counter on it or remove a time counter from it. See rule 702.62, “Suspend.”

702.62a

Suspend is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that functions while the card with suspend is in a player’s hand. The second and third are triggered abilities that function in the exile zone. “Suspend N—[cost]” means “If you could begin to cast this card by putting it onto the stack from your hand, you may pay [cost] and exile it with N time counters on it. This action doesn’t use the stack,” and “At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is suspended, remove a time counter from it,” and “When the last time counter is removed from this card, if it’s exiled, you may play it without paying its mana cost if able. If you don’t, it remains exiled. If you cast a creature spell this way, it gains haste until you lose control of the spell or the permanent it becomes.”

702.62b

A card is “suspended” if it’s in the exile zone, has suspend, and has a time counter on it.

702.62c

While determining if you could begin to cast a card with suspend, take into consideration any effects that would prohibit that card from being cast.

702.62d

Casting a spell as an effect of its suspend ability follows the rules for paying alternative costs in rules 601.2b and 601.2f–h.

Rulings

2006-02-01

You may name a land card to prevent it from being played.

2006-02-01

Conjurer's Ban only affects cards. A copy of a card (for example, one created by Eye of the Storm isn't a card, so it can be played.

2006-02-01

Players may cast spells while Conjurer's Ban is on the stack. Only after all players pass priority does Conjurer's Ban resolve, and that's when you name a card. Once you name a card, that card can't be played in response.

2008-08-01

This can't be used as a counterspell. It will have no effect on spells which were on the stack when it was cast, nor on those cast in response to it.