First printed in Weatherlight (1997)

Abjure

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a blue permanent.
Counter target spell.

Mirri's hackles rose as Ertai continued expounding his virtues. "If that arrogant brat doesn't shut up soon," she growled to herself, "I'm going to have to kill him."

Illustrated by: Ted Naifeh

Legality

Legal in: Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker
Not legal in: Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl

Ruling (1)

2009-10-01 You can't sacrifice more than one permanent.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.01 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

Pauper In 11 of 5456 decks (0.2%), most in Grixis Affinity

Pauper metagame

Share of decks

0.2%

▲ 0.2 vs previous 90 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

11 main, 0 sideboard

Avg. copies

2.5

in the main deck

Win rate

51%

1 top 8, leagues excluded

Weekly data

Week from	Share of decks
10 Aug	0.0%
17 Aug	0.0%
24 Aug	0.0%
31 Aug	0.0%
7 Sep	0.3%
14 Sep	0.0%
21 Sep	0.5%
28 Sep	0.1%
5 Oct	0.0%
12 Oct	0.0%
19 Oct	1.4%
26 Oct	0.4%

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Grixis Affinity	3.8%	0%
Dimir Control	3.2%	1%
Dimir Ninja Affinity	0.6%	18%
UR (unclassified)	0.2%	10%
Dimir Affinity	0.1%	13%
UB (unclassified)	0.1%	17%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
Cryogen Relic	100%	20.9
Seat of the Synod	91%	10.2
Cast Down	91%	4.9
Hard Evidence	82%	498.6
Thoughtcast	82%	10.2
Mistvault Bridge	82%	10.0
Blood Fountain	82%	8.0
Vault of Whispers	82%	6.0
Counterspell	82%	3.2
Baleful Strix	73%	7.2

Together: decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift: how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Best win rate

Deck	Record
Dimir Ninja Affinity Malpyrocky in Pauper Challenge 32	7-1 88%
Dimir Ninja Affinity Niederschatten in Pauper Challenge 32	3-3 50%
Dimir Affinity Chry_ in Pauper Challenge 32	3-3 50%
UB Levi van Zoelen in Amsterdam Pauper League – 7° Leg – 2026	1-5 17%

Leagues excluded: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Dimir Ninja Affinity Malpyrocky, 27 Oct	2 main	#23 of 33 1-3
Dimir Ninja Affinity G-Monteiro, 26 Oct	2 main	5-0
Dimir Ninja Affinity Niederschatten, 23 Oct	2 main	#23 of 61 3-3
Dimir Ninja Affinity G-Monteiro, 23 Oct	2 main	5-0
Dimir Ninja Affinity Malpyrocky, 22 Oct	2 main	#3 (top 8) of 44 7-1
Dimir Ninja Affinity polarrobin, 21 Oct	2 main	5-0
UB Levi van Zoelen, 3 Oct	4 main	#56 of 63 1-5
Dimir Affinity Chry_, 28 Sep	3 main	#22 of 60 3-3

Commander In 13 of 15406 decks (0.1%), most in Urza, Lord High Artificer

Commander metagame