Brain Maggot
Friday Night Magic 2014 (F14) #11 · Rare · Enchantment Creature — Insect
Mana cost: {1}{B}
When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card until this creature leaves the battlefield.
Power/toughness 1/1 · Illustrated by Dave Kendall · Released January 1, 2014
Prices
- Foil: $0.37 USD · €0.52 EUR
Printings
- Historic Anthology 2 #7 (HA2) · Uncommon · 2020
- Magic Online Promos #54551 (PRM) · Uncommon · 2015
- Journey into Nyx #62 (JOU) · Uncommon · 2014 · $0.28 USD
- Friday Night Magic 2014 #11 (this printing) · Rare · 2014 · $0.37 USD foil
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2014-04-26 · wotc — The exiled card returns to its owner's hand immediately after Brain Maggot leaves the battlefield. Nothing happens between the two events, including state-based actions.
- 2014-04-26 · wotc — In a multiplayer game, if Brain Maggot's owner leaves the game, the exiled card will return to its owner's hand. Because the one-shot effect that returns the card isn't an ability that goes on the stack, it won't cease to exist along with the leaving player's spells and abilities on the stack.
- 2014-04-26 · wotc — Brain Maggot's ability causes a zone change with a duration, a new style of ability that's somewhat reminiscent of older cards like Tidehollow Sculler. However, unlike Tidehollow Sculler, Brain Maggot has a single ability that creates two one-shot effects: one that exiles the nonland card when the ability resolves, and another that returns the exiled card to its owner's hand immediately after Brain Maggot leaves the battlefield.
- 2014-04-26 · wotc — If Brain Maggot leaves the battlefield before its enters-the-battlefield ability resolves, the opponent will reveal their hand, but no card will be exiled.