Cryptic Command
Final Fantasy: Through the Ages (FCA) #29 · Rare · Instant
Mana cost: {1}{U}{U}{U}
Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.
Illustrated by Kazuya Takahashi · Released June 13, 2025
Prices
- Nonfoil: $4.25 USD · €5.01 EUR
- Foil: $18.01 USD · €16.84 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: down $1.84 USD (30.2%) to $4.25 USD; low $3.87 USD, high $6.32 USD.
Printings
- Secret Lair Drop #905 (SLD) · Rare · 2025 · $8.21 USD foil
- Final Fantasy: Through the Ages #29 (this printing) · Rare · 2025 · $4.25 USD
- The List #IMA-48 (PLST) · Rare · 2024 · $3.61 USD
- The List #LRW-56 (PLST) · Rare · 2020 · $7.36 USD
- Pro Tour Promos #2020-1 (PPRO) · Rare · 2020 · $7.98 USD foil
- Iconic Masters #48 (IMA) · Rare · 2017 · $7.94 USD
- Amonkhet Invocations #11 (MP2) · Special · 2017 · $34.98 USD foil
- Modern Masters 2015 #43 (MM2) · Rare · 2015 · $7.56 USD
- Modern Masters #38 (MMA) · Rare · 2013 · $7.50 USD
- Magic Online Promos #31447 (PRM) · Rare · 2010
- Magic Player Rewards 2009 #1 (P09) · Rare · 2009 · $21.59 USD foil
- Lorwyn #56 (LRW) · Rare · 2007 · $7.21 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2017-11-17 · wotc — You choose both modes as you cast Cryptic Command. You must choose two different modes.
- 2017-11-17 · wotc — Look at both chosen modes to determine how many targets Cryptic Command has, if any. If it has at least one target, and all its targets are illegal when it tries to resolve, then it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. For example, if you choose the second and fourth modes, and the permanent is an illegal target when Cryptic Command tries to resolve, you won’t draw a card.
Played in these commander decks
- Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound · in 7% of 45 decks