Memory Lapse
Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2142 · Rare · Instant
Mana cost: {1}{U}
Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.
Each scale glitters, a momentary distraction from everything that matters.
Illustrated by Wylie Beckert · Released December 1, 2025
Prices
- Foil: $1.99 USD · €2.64 EUR
Printings
- Secret Lair Drop #2142 (this printing) · Rare · 2025 · $1.99 USD foil
- Strixhaven Mystical Archive #16 (STA) · Rare · 2021 · $2.05 USD
- The List #EMA-60 (PLST) · Common · 2019 · $0.44 USD
- Eternal Masters #60 (EMA) · Common · 2016 · $0.60 USD
- Magic Online Promos #35986 (PRM) · Common · 2014
- Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska #24 (DDM) · Common · 2014 · $0.51 USD
- World Championship Decks 2002 #cr88 (WC02) · Common · 2002 · $1.22 USD
- Seventh Edition #88 (7ED) · Common · 2001 · $0.45 USD
- Seventh Edition #88★ (7ED) · Common · 2001 · $87.48 USD foil
- Classic Sixth Edition #81 (6ED) · Common · 1999 · $0.45 USD
- Judge Gift Cards 1999 #1 (G99) · Rare · 1999 · $39.85 USD foil
- World Championship Decks 1998 #rb32 (WC98) · Common · 1998 · $1.75 USD
- Fifth Edition #103 (5ED) · Common · 1997 · $0.45 USD
- Mirage #74 (MIR) · Common · 1996 · $0.52 USD
- Pro Tour Collector Set #shr32asb (PTC) · Common · 1996 · $2.49 USD
- Pro Tour Collector Set #shr32bsb (PTC) · Common · 1996
- Homelands #32a (HML) · Common · 1995 · $0.72 USD
- Homelands #32b (HML) · Common · 1995 · $0.37 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Banned
- Modern: Not legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2016-06-08 · wotc — Memory Lapse has a self-replacement effect that replaces the spell going to the graveyard before any other effect can replace that event. If the spell was cast using flashback, however, flashback will change the spell's destination from its owner's library to exile.
Played in these commander decks
- Gonti, Canny Acquisitor · in 12% of 50 decks
- Niv-Mizzet, Parun · in 7% of 42 decks
- Stella Lee, Wild Card · in 7% of 45 decks