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Highway Robbery

First printed in Outlaws of Thunder Junction (2024)

Highway Robbery

Sorcery

You may discard a card or sacrifice a land. If you do, draw two cards.
Plot 1 genericRed (You may pay 1 genericRed and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

The fires weren't even out before the backstabbing began.

Illustrated by
Scott Murphy

Legality

Rulings (6)

  • Plot abilities are written “Plot [cost],” which means “Any time you have priority during your main phase while the stack is empty, you may pay [cost] and exile this card from your hand. It becomes plotted.”
  • If you’re casting a plotted card from exile without paying its mana cost, you can’t choose to cast it for any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the plotted card has any mandatory additional costs, those must still be paid to cast the spell.
  • You can’t cast a plotted card on the same turn it became plotted. On any future turn, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost during your main phase while the stack is empty.
  • You can’t choose to discard a card if you have no cards in hand. Similarly, you can’t choose to sacrifice a land if you control no lands.
  • Exiling a card using its plot ability is a special action. Once you announce you’re taking that action, no other player can respond by trying to remove that card from your hand.
  • If a plotted card has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

Pauper In 38 of 216 decks (17.6%), most in Mono Red Madness

Staple: main deck, 14% of decks (#15) (last 120 days)

Share of decks
17.0%
▲ 1.1 vs previous 7 days
10 Aug: 13.9% 17 Aug: 15.3% 24 Aug: 16.3% 31 Aug: 17.4% 7 Sep: 16.6% 14 Sep: 20.2% 21 Sep: 14.6% 28 Sep: 13.3% 5 Oct: 14.3% 12 Oct: 14.0% 19 Oct: 15.9% 26 Oct: 17.0%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
40
40 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
3.9
in the main deck
Win rate
52%
7 top 8, leagues excluded
Weekly data
Week fromShare of decks
10 Aug13.9%
17 Aug15.3%
24 Aug16.3%
31 Aug17.4%
7 Sep16.6%
14 Sep20.2%
21 Sep14.6%
28 Sep13.3%
5 Oct14.3%
12 Oct14.0%
19 Oct15.9%
26 Oct17.0%

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Mono Red Madness 15.7% 100%
Rakdos Madness 1.4% 100%
Mono-Red goblins 0.5% 100%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Lightning Bolt100%3.4
Grab the Prize98%5.7
Fiery Temper98%5.7
Faithless Looting98%5.3
Sneaky Snacker98%4.2
Fireblast93%5.2
Lava Dart90%5.9
Guttersnipe90%5.9
Voldaren Epicure85%4.1
Kessig Flamebreather70%5.9
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

DeckRecord
Mono Red Madness
Syns in Pauper Challenge 32
8-1
89%
Mono Red Madness
wabodabo in Pauper Challenge 32
7-2
78%
Mono Red Madness
Captain_Tsubasa in Pauper Challenge 32
6-2
75%
Mono Red Madness
MisterTwin in Pauper Challenge 32
5-2
71%
Mono Red Madness
ziofrancone in Pauper Challenge 16
5-2
71%
Mono Red Madness
MyPotatoes in Pauper Challenge 32
4-2
67%
Mono Red Madness
LucasG1ggs in Pauper Challenge 32
4-2
67%
Mono Red Madness
Dustin_Comite in Pauper Challenge 32
4-2
67%

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

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Mono Red Madness
fallenangel02,
4 main #11
of 25
3-2
Mono Red Madness
Deulotar,
4 main #16
of 25
2-3
Mono Red Madness
eXavie,
4 main #19
of 25
2-3
Mono Red Madness
hyde1234,
4 main #24
of 25
0-3
Mono Red Madness
Fofondrik,
4 main #25
of 25
0-3
Mono Red Madness
mikamimtg,
4 main 5-0
Mono Red Madness
Syns,
4 main #1 (top 8)
of 53
8-1
Mono Red Madness
wabodabo,
4 main #2 (top 8)
of 53
7-2

Commander In 7 of 719 decks (1.0%), most in Ral, Monsoon Mage

Share of decks
1.0%
▼ 1.0 vs previous 7 days
17 Aug: 1.8% 24 Aug: 1.9% 31 Aug: 2.1% 7 Sep: 1.9% 14 Sep: 1.6% 21 Sep: 1.6% 28 Sep: 1.9% 5 Oct: 1.5% 12 Oct: 1.1% 19 Oct: 2.0% 26 Oct: 1.0%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
7
7 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
–
1 top 8, leagues excluded
Weekly data
Week fromShare of decks
10 Aug–
17 Aug1.8%
24 Aug1.9%
31 Aug2.1%
7 Sep1.9%
14 Sep1.6%
21 Sep1.6%
28 Sep1.9%
5 Oct1.5%
12 Oct1.1%
19 Oct2.0%
26 Oct1.0%

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Ral, Monsoon Mage 1.1% 88%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Quiet Speculation100%89.9
Abandon Attachments100%89.9
Witch's Mark100%79.9
Reckless Impulse100%71.9
Echo of Eons100%71.9
Wrenn's Resolve100%71.9
Vision of Love100%65.4
Lava Dart100%65.4
Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy100%59.9
Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape100%55.3
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

No results yet.

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

Latest decks

DeckCopiesFinish
Ral, Monsoon Mage
Brandon Groner,
1 main #16
of 17
0-2
Ral, Monsoon Mage
Andrew Felber,
1 main #6 (top 8)
of 32
2-2
Ral, Monsoon Mage
Shane Ledet [HAUS],
1 main #56
of 105
0-3
Ral, Monsoon Mage
maya rader [pinnacle],
1 main #35
of 65
0-3
Ral, Monsoon Mage
Xavi Lopez,
1 main #19
of 52
1-2
Ral, Monsoon Mage
Jared Engelken,
1 main #42
of 54
0-3
Ral, Monsoon Mage
Valdemar Witzke,
1 main #19
of 38
1-3

Standard No decks in this period

No decks with this card in this period.

Pioneer No decks in this period

No decks with this card in this period.

Modern No decks in this period

No decks with this card in this period.

Duel Commander No decks in this period

No decks with this card in this period.

Limited On MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Highway Robbery in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ), Premier Draft 51.8% -2.4 -0.8 39137
Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ), Sealed 52.1% -3.2 +2.2 1513
GIH WR
win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set
points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD
improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games
games in which the card was seen