Elkin Bottle
Masters Edition II (ME2) #207 · Rare · Artifact
Mana cost: {3}
{3}, {T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card.
Illustrated by Quinton Hoover · Released September 22, 2008
Printings
- Masters Edition II #207 (this printing) · Rare · 2008
- Deckmasters #35 (DKM) · Rare · 2001 · $0.34 USD
- Fifth Edition #367 (5ED) · Rare · 1997 · $0.37 USD
- Pro Tour Collector Set #mj317 (PTC) · Rare · 1996
- Ice Age #317 (ICE) · Rare · 1995 · $0.50 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Not legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2004-10-04 · wotc — This is not considered to be drawing a card.
- 2004-10-04 · wotc — The card is not part of your hand in any way. You can’t be forced to discard it due to a discard from hand effect, and you can’t discard it to pay a cost.
- 2004-10-04 · wotc — If the Bottle leaves the battlefield or your control, the cards remain waiting until played or until the beginning of your next upkeep. The card is in the “Exile” zone.
- 2004-10-04 · wotc — To “play a card” is to either cast a spell or to put a land onto the battlefield using the main phase special action.
- 2008-08-01 · wotc — If you do not play the card before your next upkeep, it remains exiled; you just lose the ability to play it.
- 2008-10-01 · wotc — The exiled card is played using the normal timing rules for its card type, as well as any other applicable restrictions such as “Cast [this card] only during combat.” For example, you can’t play the card during an opponent’s turn unless it’s an instant or has flash. Similarly, if the exiled card is a land, you can’t play it if you’ve already played a land that turn. If it’s a nonland card, you’ll have to pay its mana cost. The only thing that’s different is you’re playing it from the Exile zone.