Abstract Performance
Sorcery
$0.33
Market price
2
Public decks
Rules Text
Card Facts
Legality
Commander
LegalDuel Commander
LegalLegacy
LegalOathbreaker
LegalVintage
LegalAlchemy
Not legalBrawl
Not legalCompetitive Brawl
Not legalFuture
Not legalGladiator
Not legalHistoric
Not legalModern
Not legalOld School
Not legalPauper
Not legalPauper Commander
Not legalPenny Dreadful
Not legalPioneer
Not legalPreDH
Not legalPremodern
Not legalStandard
Not legalStandard Brawl
Not legalTimeless
Not legalTLR
Not legalRulings
- Mar 20, 2026 · Wizards of the Coast
You choose which opponent chooses the pile while resolving Abstract Performance.
- Mar 20, 2026 · Wizards of the Coast
If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the spell.
- Mar 20, 2026 · Wizards of the Coast
If the spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- Mar 20, 2026 · Wizards of the Coast
You cast the spell while Abstract Performance is resolving and still on the stack. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on its types are ignored.
- Mar 20, 2026 · Wizards of the Coast
You can't look at the cards in the face-down pile until you're instructed to do so or until they're moved to the graveyard (at which point they'll be face up).
- Mar 20, 2026 · Wizards of the Coast
If you have fewer than eight cards in your library, the second pile will be smaller than the first. If you have fewer than five cards in your library, only the face-down pile will have cards in it at all, and the second pile will be empty. In that case, your opponent will probably choose to put the pile with cards in it into your graveyard.
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2 public decks run Abstract Performance.
