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    Mindstab

    Sorcery

    Mindstab

    Illustrated by Mark Tedin

    EDHREC Rank #24,465
    Target player discards three cards. Suspend 4— black mana (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay black mana and exile it with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)

    Rulings (13)

    Due to a recent rules change to suspend, you are no longer required to cast the suspended card as the second triggered ability of suspend resolves. Instead, as the second triggered ability resolves, you may cast the card. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored. If you don't cast the card, it remains exiled with no time counters on it, and it's no longer suspended.

    Feb 2, 2024

    Suspend is a keyword that represents three abilities. The first is a static ability that allows you to exile the card from your hand with the specified number of time counters (the number before the dash) on it by paying its suspend cost (listed after the dash). The second is a triggered ability that removes a time counter from the suspended card at the beginning of each of your upkeeps. The third is a triggered ability that gives you the option to cast the card when the last time counter is removed.

    Feb 2, 2024

    When the last time counter is removed, the second triggered ability of suspend (the one that lets you cast the card) triggers. It doesn't matter why the last time counter was removed or what effect removed it.

    Feb 2, 2024

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    Prints (3)

    Mindstab — Time Spiral Remastered
    TSR#123$0.26
    Time Spiral Remastered
    Mindstab — The List
    PLST#TSP-119$0.04
    The List