← back
Instant · WC97 #jk1 · rare
Abeyance
$4.82
versions · 4 printings
format pulse
- standard not legal
- pioneer not legal
- modern not legal
- legacy legal
- vintage legal
- commander legal
- pauper not legal
EDHREC #14466
price · last 90 days
collecting price history — 0 points so far
prices are estimates, never offers · buy links may earn affiliate commission — your price never changes · source: nightly catalog snapshots
runs well with
all versions
every printing — same card, different shelf price · click one to view it
Until end of turn, target player can't cast instant or sorcery spells, and that player can't activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.
Draw a card.
rulings
- 2004-10-04Abeyance does not affect abilities which are not activated, such as static abilities and triggered abilities. It also doesn't stop the declaration of attackers or blockers.
- 2004-10-04Abeyance never prevents mana abilities from being activated.
- 2004-10-04Abeyance prohibits activated abilities of cards which are not on the battlefield.
- 2008-08-01This can't be used as a counterspell. It will have no effect on spells which were on the stack when it was cast, nor on those cast in response to it.