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Artifact · MKM #251 · rare
Cryptex
$0.15
versions · 4 printings
format pulse
- standard legal
- pioneer legal
- modern legal
- legacy legal
- vintage legal
- commander legal
- pauper not legal
EDHREC #20494
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{T}, Collect evidence 3: Add one mana of any color. Put an unlock counter on this artifact. (To collect evidence 3, exile cards with total mana value 3 or greater from your graveyard.)
Sacrifice this artifact: Surveil 3, then draw three cards. Activate only if this artifact has five or more unlock counters on it.
rulings
- 2024-02-02Once you've announced that you're casting a spell, players can't take actions until you've finished doing so. Notably, opponents can't try to remove cards from your graveyard to stop you from collecting evidence.
- 2024-02-02Cryptex's first ability is a mana ability. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.
- 2024-02-02If you can't exile enough cards to meet or exceed the required mana value, you can't choose to collect evidence at all.