Sorcery
Detain up to two target creatures your opponents control. (Until your next turn, those creatures can't attack or block and their activated abilities can't be activated.)
The Azorius have so many codes and statutes that you're always in violation of one of them.
Card details
- Shown printing
- Dragon's Maze (DGM)
- Artist
- Kev Walker
- Color identity
- White
- Colors
- White
- Mana value
- 2
- Keywords
- Detain
- First released
- May 3, 2013
- Printings
- 1
- EDHREC rank
- #25747 on EDHREC
- Market price
- $0.06 (cheapest printing, updated weekly)
Legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- Standard BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
- GladiatorNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderLegal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHNot legal
- PremodernNot legal
- Old SchoolNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- FutureNot legal
Rulings (6)
Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form “[cost]: [effect].” No one can activate any activated abilities, including mana abilities, of a detained permanent.
If a creature is already attacking or blocking when it’s detained, it won’t be removed from combat. It will continue to attack or block.
If a noncreature permanent is detained and later turns into a creature, it won’t be able to attack or block.
If a permanent’s activated ability is on the stack when that permanent is detained, the ability will be unaffected.
The static abilities of a detained permanent still apply. The triggered abilities of a detained permanent can still trigger.
When a player leaves a multiplayer game, any continuous effects with durations that last until that player’s next turn or until a specific point in that turn will last until that turn would have begun. They neither expire immediately nor last indefinitely.
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