Mind's Dilation card art

Mind's Dilation

Enchantment MV 7

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

Buy on TCGplayer Track your own decks
Jump to section ▾
What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, that player exiles the top card of their library. If it's a nonland card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Rulings

6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2016-07-13

    If you don't cast the card, perhaps because you choose not to or because it's a land card, it remains exiled.

  • 2016-07-13

    If the card has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

  • 2016-07-13

    If you cast the exiled card, you do so as part of the resolution of Mind's Dilation's ability. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored, but other restrictions (such as "Cast [this card] only during combat") are not.

  • 2016-07-13

    If you cast an instant or sorcery card this way, it goes to its owner's graveyard as normal. It doesn't return to exile.

  • 2016-07-13

    If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as emerge costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as escalate costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.

  • 2016-07-13

    If you cast the card this way, it will resolve before the spell that caused Mind's Dilation's ability to trigger.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Mind's Dilation, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
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
Invisible Woman 1 0 —
Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima 1 0 —
Sanar, Unfinished Genius 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Izzet 1 deck
  • Esper 1 deck
  • Four-Color (no Black) 1 deck

Every version of Mind's Dilation

6 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 Mind's Dilation — 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.