Abeyance
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Oversized League Prizes #78 (rare)
Until end of turn, target player can't cast instant or sorcery spells, and that player can't activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.
Draw a card.
Abeyance has 4 printings, first in Weatherlight (1997). EDHREC ranks it #13,759 among Commander cards. It appears most in Dack Fayden, Helping Hand decks (445 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Abeyance most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Dack Fayden, Helping Hand: 445 decks
- Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff: 138 decks
- Leonardo, Cutting Edge: 15 decks
- Pang Tong, "Young Phoenix": 2 decks
- Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer: 1 decks
- Barbara Wright: 1 decks
- Queen Mother Ramonda: 1 decks
- The Howling Commandos: 1 decks
Often played with Abeyance
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Abeyance does not affect abilities which are not activated, such as static abilities and triggered abilities. It also doesn't stop the declaration of attackers or blockers.
- : Abeyance never prevents mana abilities from being activated.
- : Abeyance prohibits activated abilities of cards which are not on the battlefield.
- : 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.