Plumb the Forbidden
Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX) #81 · Uncommon · Instant
Mana cost: {1}{B}
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and lose 1 life.
Strixhaven forbade all magic from the Blood Age, so that is where Extus began his research.
Illustrated by Andrey Kuzinskiy · Released April 23, 2021
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.53 USD · €0.72 EUR
- Foil: $1.33 USD · €2.11 EUR
Nonfoil price since July 24, 2026: down $0.10 USD (15.9%) to $0.53 USD; low $0.44 USD, high $0.64 USD.
Printings
- Secret Lair Drop #7114 (SLD) · Rare · 2026 · $3.84 USD
- Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #224 (SOC) · Uncommon · 2026 · $0.43 USD
- Bloomburrow Commander #188 (BLC) · Uncommon · 2024 · $0.50 USD
- Strixhaven: School of Mages #81 (this printing) · Uncommon · 2021 · $0.53 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: Not legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2021-04-16 · wotc — If you copy Plumb the Forbidden multiple times, each magecraft ability of a creature you control will trigger that many times.
- 2021-04-16 · wotc — If you sacrifice a creature with a magecraft ability to cast Plumb the Forbidden, that creature's ability will not trigger.
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