Subtlety
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}{U}
- Type
- Creature — Elemental Incarnation
- Power / toughness
- 3 / 3
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop #7005 (mythic)
Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, choose up to one target creature spell or planeswalker spell. Its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.
Evoke—Exile a blue card from your hand.
Subtlety has 8 printings, first in Modern Horizons 2 (2021). EDHREC ranks it #4,213 among Commander cards. It appears most in Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow decks (3,792 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: banned
Commanders that run Subtlety most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow: 3,792 decks
- Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing: 989 decks
- Talion, the Kindly Lord: 985 decks
- Katara, Waterbending Master: 714 decks
- King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring: 349 decks
- Satoru, the Infiltrator: 281 decks
- Nymris, Oona's Trickster: 224 decks
- Wan Shi Tong, Librarian: 207 decks
Often played with Subtlety
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an evoke cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.
- : The owner of the spell is the one who chooses whether it goes on the top or bottom of their library. All players will know this information.
- : Subtlety's triggered ability targets a spell on the stack. It can't target creatures or planeswalkers on the battlefield.
- : A spell that's put into its owner's library doesn't resolve, but it isn't countered. This will work on spells that say they can't be countered.
- : If you pay the evoke cost, you can have the creature's own triggered ability resolve before the evoke triggered ability. You can cast spells after that ability resolves but before you have to sacrifice the creature.