Abstract Performance
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Exile the top four cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top four cards of your library in a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your graveyard. Look at the cards in the other pile. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest into your hand.
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2026-03-20
If the spell has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- 2026-03-20
If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the spell.
- 2026-03-20
You cast the spell while Abstract Performance is resolving and still on the stack. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing restrictions based on its types are ignored.
- 2026-03-20
You can't look at the cards in the face-down pile until you're instructed to do so or until they're moved to the graveyard (at which point they'll be face up).
- 2026-03-20
If you have fewer than eight cards in your library, the second pile will be smaller than the first. If you have fewer than five cards in your library, only the face-down pile will have cards in it at all, and the second pile will be empty. In that case, your opponent will probably choose to put the pile with cards in it into your graveyard.
- 2026-03-20
You choose which opponent chooses the pile while resolving Abstract Performance.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Abstract Performance, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rootha, Mastering the Moment | 1 | 0 | — |
| Sanar, Unfinished Genius | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Izzet 2 decks
Abstract Performance price history
The Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #17 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.26 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.28 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.30 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Abstract Performance
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $0.26
Extended Art
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $0.33
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Abstract Performance. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
