Subtlety
Creature — Elemental Incarnation
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.
3/3
Illustrated by Anastasia Ovchinnikova · Modern Horizons 2 (MH2)
Legalities
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Duel Commander
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
Printings
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Secret Lair Drop #7005 mythic 2025-06-09
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Special Guests #50 mythic 2024-06-14
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Special Guests #45 mythic 2024-06-14
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Modern Horizons 2 Timeshifts #6 mythic 2024-06-14
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Magic Online Promos #91227 mythic 2021-11-25
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Modern Horizons 2 #67 mythic 2021-06-18
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Modern Horizons 2 #309 mythic 2021-06-18
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Modern Horizons 2 Promos #67s mythic 2021-05-06
Rulings
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Subtlety's triggered ability targets a spell on the stack. It can't target creatures or planeswalkers on the battlefield.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Archetypes that play this card
Duel Commander
- Aang, Swift Savior 100.0% of lists
- Aragorn, King of Gondor 100.0% of lists
- Elminster 100.0% of lists
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- Emry, Lurker of the Loch 100.0% of lists
- Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph 100.0% of lists
- Glarb, Calamity's Augur 100.0% of lists
- Goro-Goro and Satoru 100.0% of lists
- Kefka, Court Mage 100.0% of lists
- Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel 100.0% of lists
- Niv-Mizzet, Parun 100.0% of lists
- Satya, Aetherflux Genius 100.0% of lists
- Tasigur, the Golden Fang 100.0% of lists
- The Wandering Minstrel 100.0% of lists
- Tivit, Seller of Secrets 100.0% of lists
- Atraxa, Grand Unifier 50.0% of lists
- Jace, Multiverse Architect 25.0% of lists
Modern
- Bant Midrange 100.0% of lists
- Living End 100.0% of lists
- Izzet Murktide 94.1% of lists
Show 5 more Modern archetypes
- Esper Midrange 81.0% of lists
- 5c Midrange 66.7% of lists
- Other 6.2% of lists
- Esper Blink 2.3% of lists
- Goryo's Vengeance 1.6% of lists
Vintage
- Counter Vine 43.5% of lists
- Other 3.4% of lists