Hidden Strings
Sorcery
Hidden Strings
Sorcery
Card Text
You may tap or untap target permanent, then you may tap or untap another target permanent.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 2
- Colors
- Blue
- Color Identity
- Blue
- EDHREC Rank
- #4,564
Format Legalities
Market Prices
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Price History (30d)
All Printings (13)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Masters (PIO) | #328 | uncommon | en | Daarken | β | β |
| Pioneer Challenger Decks 2021 (Q06) | #5 | common | en | Daarken | $0.39 | β |
| Dragon's Maze (DGM) | #12 | common | en | Daarken | $0.29 | $20.25 |
| Dragon's Maze (DGM) | #12 | common | de | Daarken | β | β |
| Dragon's Maze (DGM) | #12 | common | es | Daarken | β | β |
| Dragon's Maze (DGM) | #12 | common | fr | Daarken | β | β |
| Dragon's Maze (DGM) | #12 | common | it | Daarken | β | β |
| Dragon's Maze (DGM) | #12 | common | ja | Daarken | β | β |
| Dragon's Maze (DGM) | #12 | common | ko | Daarken | β | β |
| Dragon's Maze (DGM) | #12 | common | pt | Daarken | β | β |
| Dragon's Maze (DGM) | #12 | common | ru | Daarken | β | β |
| Dragon's Maze (DGM) | #12 | common | zhs | Daarken | β | β |
| Dragon's Maze (DGM) | #12 | common | zht | Daarken | β | β |
Official Rulings (11)
The spell with cipher is encoded on the creature as part of that spellβs resolution, just after the spellβs other effects. That card goes directly from the stack to exile. It never goes to the graveyard.
If you choose not to cast the copy, or you canβt cast it (perhaps because there are no legal targets available), the copy will cease to exist the next time state-based actions are performed. You wonβt get a chance to cast the copy at a later time.
If the creature leaves the battlefield, the exiled card will no longer be encoded on any creature. It will stay exiled.
If a creature with an encoded card deals combat damage to more than one player simultaneously (perhaps because some of the combat damage was redirected), the triggered ability will trigger once for each player it deals combat damage to. Each ability will create a copy of the exiled card and allow you to cast it.
You cast the copy of the card with cipher during the resolution of the triggered ability. Ignore timing restrictions based on the cardβs type.
The copy of the card with cipher is created in and cast from exile.
If another player gains control of the creature, that player will control the triggered ability. That player will create a copy of the encoded card and may cast it.
You choose the creature as the spell resolves. The cipher ability doesnβt target that creature, although the spell with cipher may target that creature (or a different creature) because of its other abilities.
If the spell with cipher doesnβt resolve, none of its effects will happen, including cipher. The card will go to its ownerβs graveyard and wonβt be encoded on a creature.
If you want to encode the card with cipher onto a noncreature permanent such as a Keyrune that can turn into a creature, that permanent has to be a creature before the spell with cipher starts resolving. You can choose only a creature to encode the card onto.
The exiled card with cipher grants a triggered ability to the creature itβs encoded on. If that creature loses that ability and subsequently deals combat damage to a player, the triggered ability wonβt trigger. However, the exiled card will continue to be encoded on that creature.
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