Depose // Deploy

Ravnica: Clue Edition (CLU) #185 · Uncommon · Instant // Instant

Mana cost: {1}{W/U} // {2}{W}{U}

Tap target creature.
Draw a card.
//
Create two 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying, then you gain 1 life for each creature you control.

Illustrated by Sara Winters · Released February 23, 2024

Prices

Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.01 USD (8.3%) to $0.13 USD; low $0.12 USD, high $0.13 USD.

Printings

  1. Ravnica: Clue Edition #185 (this printing) · Uncommon · 2024 · $0.13 USD
  2. Ravnica Allegiance #225 (RNA) · Uncommon · 2019 · $0.17 USD

Legality

Rulings

  1. 2019-01-25 · wotc — If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Depose tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You don't draw a card. If the target is legal but not tapped (most likely because it was already tapped), you do draw a card.
  2. 2019-01-25 · wotc — You create Thopters and gain life all while Deploy is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.
  3. 2022-12-08 · wotc — If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery.
  4. 2022-12-08 · wotc — Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice.
  5. 2022-12-08 · wotc — If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery.
  6. 2022-12-08 · wotc — To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card.
  7. 2022-12-08 · wotc — Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.
  8. 2022-12-08 · wotc — A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery.
  9. 2022-12-08 · wotc — Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.

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