Unexpected Assistance
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed #80 (common)
- Price
- $0.19 USD
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Draw three cards, then discard a card.
Unexpected Assistance has 1 printing, first in Lorwyn Eclipsed (2026). EDHREC ranks it #10,568 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ovika, Enigma Goliath decks (1,009 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Unexpected Assistance most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ovika, Enigma Goliath: 1,009 decks
- Kasla, the Broken Halo: 742 decks
- Sygg, Wanderwine Wisdom // Sygg, Wanderbrine Shield: 645 decks
- Namor the Sub-Mariner: 562 decks
- Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound: 541 decks
- Saint Traft and Rem Karolus: 408 decks
- Lyra, Tolarian Archangel: 339 decks
- The Watcher in the Water: 286 decks
Often played with Unexpected Assistance
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You can tap any untapped creature you control to convoke a spell, even one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.
- : Tapping an untapped creature that's attacking or blocking to convoke a spell won't cause that creature to stop attacking or blocking.
- : When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Convoke applies after the total cost is calculated. Convoke doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
- : If a creature you control has a mana ability with {T} in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with convoke will result in the creature being tapped before you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for convoke. Similarly, if you sacrifice a creature to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with convoke, that creature won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for convoke.