Silence
Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2300 · Rare · Instant
Mana cost: {W}
Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.
"Now, inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth—without talking. Good. Keep going."
—Jeong Jeong, to Aang
Illustrated by Barbara Rosiak · Released November 17, 2025
Prices
- Nonfoil: $17.37 USD · €15.98 EUR
- Foil: €23.14 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.03 USD (0.2%) to $17.37 USD; low $17.17 USD, high $17.40 USD.
Printings
- Secret Lair Drop #2779 (SLD) · Rare · 2026 · $6.08 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #2300 (this printing) · Rare · 2025 · $17.37 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #7003 (SLD) · Rare · 2025 · $8.80 USD foil
- Secret Lair Drop #1816 (SLD) · Rare · 2025 · $20.07 USD
- Secret Lair Drop #881 (SLD) · Rare · 2025 · $102.82 USD foil
- Pioneer Masters #32 (PIO) · Rare · 2024
- Secret Lair Drop #1445 (SLD) · Rare · 2023 · $23.20 USD
- The List #TSR-302 (PLST) · Special · 2021 · $9.18 USD
- Time Spiral Remastered #302 (TSR) · Special · 2021 · $12.51 USD
- Magic 2014 #35 (M14) · Rare · 2013 · $9.80 USD
- Magic Online Theme Decks #B10 (TD0) · Rare · 2010
- Magic 2011 #30 (M11) · Rare · 2010 · $7.62 USD
- Magic 2010 #31 (M10) · Rare · 2009 · $8.25 USD
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
- 2021-03-19 · wotc — The only thing Silence stops is casting spells. Your opponents can still activate abilities, including abilities of cards in their hands (like cycling). Their triggered abilities work as normal, they can still play lands, and so on.
- 2021-03-19 · wotc — A player who can't cast a spell can't suspend a card.
- 2021-03-19 · wotc — Silence won't affect spells that your opponents cast before you cast Silence, including any spells that are still on the stack. Silence also won't stop your opponents from casting spells after you cast Silence but before Silence resolves.
Played in these commander decks
- Tymna the Weaver · in 50% of 50 decks
- Heliod, Sun-Crowned · in 26% of 46 decks
- Kaalia of the Vast · in 12% of 50 decks
- Shorikai, Genesis Engine · in 10% of 48 decks
- Sergeant John Benton · in 10% of 50 decks
- Ulalek, Fused Atrocity · in 8% of 48 decks
- Y'shtola, Night's Blessed · in 8% of 49 decks
- Dihada, Binder of Wills · in 8% of 49 decks