First printed in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (2023)
Legendary Artifact
: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.): Until end of turn, each creature card in your graveyard gains "Escape—
, Exile four other cards from your graveyard." (You may cast a card with escape from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
- Illustrated by
- Bruce Brenneise
Legality
- Legal in
- Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Pauper, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Penny Dreadful, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Gladiator, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
Rulings (5)
- If you cast a spell with its escape permission, you can't choose to apply any other alternative costs or to cast it without paying its mana cost. If it has any additional costs, you must pay those.
- Escape's permission doesn't change when you may cast the spell from your graveyard.
- Once you begin casting a spell with escape, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can't take any other actions until you're done casting the spell.
- To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an escape cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was and no matter whether an alternative cost was paid.
- If a card has multiple abilities giving you permission to cast it, such as two escape abilities or an escape ability and a flashback ability, you choose which one to apply. The others have no effect.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.71 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 31 Oct 2026).
Combos
1 combo:
- Infinite self-discard triggers, Infinite draw triggers…: Matoya, Archon Elder + Mind Over Matter + The Grim Captain's Locker