Spell Snip
Shards of Alara (ALA) #57 · Common · Instant
Mana cost: {2}{U}
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
"Magic cast through a hand of flesh is just as weak as the flesh itself."
—Lodus of the Ethersworn
Illustrated by Michael Sutfin · Released October 3, 2008
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.12 USD · €0.07 EUR
- Foil: $0.25 USD · €0.22 EUR
Nonfoil price over the last 90 days: up $0.01 USD (9.1%) to $0.12 USD; low $0.11 USD, high $0.14 USD.
Printings
- Shards of Alara #57 (this printing) · Common · 2008 · $0.12 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2008-10-01 · wotc — Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not.