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Mental Misstep

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What it does

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Counter target spell with mana value 1.

Rulings

7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2011-06-01

    Each Phyrexian mana symbol in a spell's mana cost contributes 1 to that spell's mana value. For example, Mental Misstep's mana value is 1, regardless of how its cost was paid.

  • 2011-06-01

    To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.

  • 2011-06-01

    If a spell has X in its mana cost, X is considered to be the value chosen for it while that spell is on the stack.

  • 2011-06-01

    As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.

  • 2011-06-01

    A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.

  • 2011-06-01

    If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.

  • 2011-06-01

    Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Mental Misstep, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 4
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Teval, the Balanced Scale 1 0 —
Veyran, Voice of Duality 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Sultai 1 deck
  • Izzet 1 deck

Every version of Mental Misstep

9 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Mental Misstep — a name search across every version, for 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.