Mission Briefing
- Mana cost
- {U}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica Promos #44s (rare)
Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Mission Briefing has 4 printings, first in Guilds of Ravnica (2018). EDHREC ranks it #4,938 among Commander cards. It appears most in Mirko, Obsessive Theorist decks (5,934 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Mission Briefing
- Revenant Recon - Murders at Karlov Manor Commander, led by Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Commanders that run Mission Briefing most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Mirko, Obsessive Theorist: 5,934 decks
- Octavia, Living Thesis: 1,779 decks
- Neerdiv, Devious Diver: 1,404 decks
- Denzilore Fatehold: 919 decks
- Matoya, Archon Elder: 783 decks
- Marvo, Deep Operative: 596 decks
- Lazav, the Multifarious: 487 decks
- Nymris, Oona's Trickster: 309 decks
Often played with Mission Briefing
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The instant or sorcery card you choose may be one that you just surveilled into your graveyard.
- : If you cast a spell this way and that card is exiled, it's considered a new object in the zone it's put into. It won't be exiled if it's put into your graveyard later in the turn.
- : Mission Briefing is still on the stack while you choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. Your Mission Briefing can't be to give yourself that same Mission Briefing.
- : Mission Briefing doesn't change when you can cast the chosen card. For example, if you choose a sorcery card, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
- : You perform the actions stated on a card in sequence. For some spells and abilities, you'll surveil last. For others, you'll surveil and then perform other actions.
- : When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.