Calculated Dismissal
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Magic Origins #48 (common)
- Price
- $0.16 USD
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Calculated Dismissal has 2 printings, first in Magic Origins (2015). EDHREC ranks it #16,447 among Commander cards. It appears most in Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound decks (207 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Calculated Dismissal most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound: 207 decks
- Matoya, Archon Elder: 102 decks
- Eligeth, Crossroads Augur: 7 decks
- Alhammarret, High Arbiter: 3 decks
- Proft, Consulting Detective: 3 decks
Often played with Calculated Dismissal
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : In one unusual situation, you can cast Calculated Dismissal targeting an instant or sorcery spell you control while there is one instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. In this situation, if you decline to pay {3}, the spell will be countered and put into your graveyard. The spell mastery ability will then apply and you’ll scry 2.
- : If the spell mastery ability applies, you’ll scry 2 even if the controller of the spell pays {3}.
- : Check to see if there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard as the spell resolves to determine whether the spell mastery ability applies. The spell itself won’t count because it’s still on the stack as you make this check.