Grinning Totem
- Mana cost
- {4}
- Type
- Artifact
- Set
- Mirage #303 (rare)
- Price
- $0.76 USD
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card. At the beginning of your next upkeep, if you haven't played it, put it into its owner's graveyard.
Grinning Totem has 3 printings, first in Mirage (1996). EDHREC ranks it #21,429 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mishra, Artificer Prodigy decks (66 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Grinning Totem most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mishra, Artificer Prodigy: 66 decks
- Kotose, the Silent Spider: 10 decks
Often played with Grinning Totem
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You may choose to find any kind of card, including a land. You must exile a card (unless the opponent’s library is empty); you can’t fail to find anything.
- : The exiled card is played using the normal rules for timing and priority for its card type, as well as any other applicable restrictions. You’ll have to pay its mana cost. The only thing that’s different is you’re casting it from the Exile zone.
- : “Until the beginning of your next upkeep” means the effect wears off as soon as your next upkeep starts. Your last chance to play the card is usually the End step of the player who immediately precedes you.