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Phyrexian Espionage

First printed in Dominaria United (2022)

Phyrexian Espionage

Sorcery

Kicker 1 genericBlack (You may pay an additional 1 genericBlack as you cast this spell.)
Draw two cards. If this spell was kicked, each opponent discards a card.

"Even if they're hunting for sleeper agents, who looks twice at a bird?"
—Rona

Illustrated by
Allen Williams

Legality

Rulings (6)

  • If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
  • To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
  • If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
  • The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
  • If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
  • If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."

Prices

Paper price: €0.11 / $0.19 , the cheapest non-foil print (Cardmarket and TCGplayer through MTGJSON, 3 Nov 2026).

MTGO price: 0.002 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 3 Nov 2026).

Limited On MTG Arena

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

Win rates of Phyrexian Espionage in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Dominaria United (DMU), Premier Draft 58.4% +2.0 +3.1 117511
Dominaria United (DMU), Sealed 58.6% +2.4 +3.0 3902
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