Cease // Desist
Instant // Sorcery
Exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. Target player gains 2 life and draws a card.
Destroy all artifacts and enchantments.
Illustrated by Dominik Mayer ยท Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)
Legalities
- Standard
- Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
Printings
Rulings
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To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of any of the split cards featured in this set.
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Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.
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Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Cease // Desist counts once, not twice.
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Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.
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A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Cease // Desist has a mana value of 8 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Cease // Desist.
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If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Cease this way, but not Desist.
Archetypes that play this card
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