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Poison the Cup

First printed in Kaldheim (2021)

All 2 prints

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Poison the Cup

Instant

Destroy target creature. If this spell was foretold, scry 2.
Foretell 1 genericBlack (During your turn, you may pay 2 generic and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Dark schemes cut down what armies cannot.

Illustrated by
Colin Boyer
Watermark
Foretell

Legality

Rulings (4)

  • If you’re casting a foretold card from exile for its foretell 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 card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.
  • Because exiling a card with foretell from your hand is a special action, you can do so any time you have priority during your turn, including in response to spells and abilities. Once you announce you’re taking the action, no other player can respond by trying to remove the card from your hand.
  • Casting a foretold card from exile follows the timing rules for that card. If you foretell an instant card, you can cast it as soon as the next player’s turn. In most cases, if you foretell a card that isn’t an instant (or doesn’t have flash), you’ll have to wait until your next turn to cast it.
  • If the target creature is an illegal target as Poison the Cup tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won’t scry 2 if Poison the Cup was foretold.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.003 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

In Limited on MTG Arena

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

Win rates of Poison the Cup in Limited
Set GIH WR vs set IWD Games
Kaldheim (KHM), Premier Draft 58.0% +3.5 +6.9 18939
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