Hostile Negotiations
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- The Brothers' War #329 (rare)
- Price
- $0.42 USD
Exile the top three cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top three cards of your library in another face-down pile. Look at the cards in each pile, then turn a pile of your choice face up. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. You lose 3 life.
Hostile Negotiations has 5 printings, first in The Brothers' War (2022). EDHREC ranks it #6,718 among Commander cards. It appears most in The Celestial Toymaker decks (2,932 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Hostile Negotiations most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- The Celestial Toymaker: 2,932 decks
- Magar of the Magic Strings: 1,000 decks
- Toshiro Umezawa: 717 decks
- Rivaz of the Claw: 417 decks
- Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths: 350 decks
- Kroxa and Kunoros: 338 decks
- Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian: 292 decks
- Araumi of the Dead Tide: 279 decks
Often played with Hostile Negotiations
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If you have fewer than six cards in your library, the second pile will be smaller than the first. If you have fewer than four cards in your library, only the first pile will have cards in it at all, and the second pile will be empty. You may choose to turn the empty pile face up, but your opponent will probably choose to give you the empty pile regardless, unless they're feeling especially generous.