Abstruse Appropriation
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}{B}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3 Promos #177s (rare)
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Exile target nonland permanent. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend colorless mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.
Abstruse Appropriation has 3 printings, first in Modern Horizons 3 (2024). EDHREC ranks it #5,805 among Commander cards. It appears most in Ulalek, Fused Atrocity decks (3,648 on EDHREC). It has 9 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Abstruse Appropriation most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Ulalek, Fused Atrocity: 3,648 decks
- Azlask, the Swelling Scourge: 2,815 decks
- Ketramose, the New Dawn: 2,760 decks
- Killian, Ink Duelist: 943 decks
- Silverquill, the Disputant: 780 decks
- Shilgengar, Sire of Famine: 510 decks
- Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate: 363 decks
- Nita, Forum Conciliator: 205 decks
Often played with Abstruse Appropriation
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : In a multiplayer game, if a player leaves the game, all cards that player owns leave as well. If you leave the game, any spells or permanents you control from Abstruse Appropriation's effect are exiled, and any cards still exiled by it remain exiled.
- : Devoid doesn't affect the color identity of the card for the purposes of the Commander variant. For example, while Abstruse Appropriation is colorless because it has devoid, its color identity is still white and black, and it can't be included in a Commander deck where the commander's color identity doesn't include both white and black.
- : If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won't return to the battlefield. You can't cast it.
- : Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid a color. If that happens, it's just the new color, not that color and colorless.
- : If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object's color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.
- : In the rare case where the exiled card is a land card (probably because that land became a copy of a permanent while it was still on the battlefield), you won't be able to play it from exile.
- : Abstruse Appropriation doesn't change when you can cast the exiled card. For example, if you exile a creature card without flash, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
- : A card with devoid is just colorless. It's not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
- : Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.