In the Trenches
- Mana cost
- {1}{W}{W}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- The Brothers' War Promos #8s (mythic)
Creatures you control get +1/+1.
{5}{W}: Exile target nonland permanent you don't control until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery and only once.
In the Trenches has 6 printings, first in The Brothers' War (2022). EDHREC ranks it #9,906 among Commander cards. It appears most in Captain America, First Avenger decks (3,246 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run In the Trenches most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Captain America, First Avenger: 3,246 decks
- Jasmine Boreal of the Seven: 569 decks
- Sovereign Okinec Ahau: 249 decks
- Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar: 249 decks
- Harbin, Vanguard Aviator: 136 decks
- Kongming, "Sleeping Dragon": 53 decks
- King Darien XLVIII: 49 decks
- Crovax, Ascendant Hero: 47 decks
Often played with In the Trenches
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : In a multiplayer game, if the owner of In the Trenches leaves the game, the exiled card will return to the battlefield. Because the one-shot effect that returns the card isn't an ability that goes on the stack, it won't cease to exist along with the leaving player's spells and abilities on the stack.
- : The activated ability can only be activated once per game. If the ability is countered or otherwise fails to resolve after being activated, it can't be activated again.
- : If a token is exiled, it ceases to exist. It won't be returned to the battlefield.
- : If In the Trenches leaves the battlefield and later returns to the battlefield, it is a new object on the battlefield with no memory of the last time it was there. Its ability may be activated, even if it was activated a previous time it was on the battlefield.
- : If In the Trenches leaves the battlefield before its activated ability resolves, the target permanent won't be exiled.
- : The activated ability is a single ability that creates two one-shot effects: one that exiles the permanent when the ability resolves, and another that returns the exiled card to the battlefield immediately after In the Trenches leaves the battlefield.
- : Auras attached to the exiled permanent will be put into their owners' graveyards. Equipment attached to an exiled creature will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled permanent will cease to exist.