Press the Enemy
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #516 (rare)
- Price
- $4.47 USD
Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost.
Press the Enemy has 5 printings, first in The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (2023). EDHREC ranks it #5,460 among Commander cards. It appears most in Y'shtola, Night's Blessed decks (6,260 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Press the Enemy most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Y'shtola, Night's Blessed: 6,260 decks
- Saruman of Many Colors: 2,283 decks
- The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell: 2,045 decks
- Lord of the Nazgûl: 1,956 decks
- Gandalf of the Secret Fire: 1,718 decks
- Saruman, the White Hand: 1,443 decks
- Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time: 514 decks
- Zevlor, Elturel Exile: 348 decks
Often played with Press the Enemy
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a permanent with {X} in its mana cost is returned to a player's hand this way, {X} is 0 for the purpose of evaluating its mana value.
- : If a spell with {X} in its mana cost is returned to a player's hand this way, {X} is the value chosen as the spell was cast for the purpose of evaluating the spell's mana value.
- : If the spell you cast has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X.
- : If a spell is returned to its owner's hand, it's removed from the stack and thus will not resolve. The spell isn't countered; it just no longer exists. This works against a spell that can't be countered.
- : If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.