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Press the Enemy

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What it doesRulingsIn the 99Every version

What it does

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Rulings

5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-06-16

    If a permanent with X in its mana cost is returned to a player's hand this way, X is 0 for the purpose of evaluating its mana value.

  • 2023-06-16

    If a spell with X in its mana cost is returned to a player's hand this way, X is the value chosen as the spell was cast for the purpose of evaluating the spell's mana value.

  • 2023-06-16

    If the spell you cast has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X.

  • 2023-06-16

    If a spell is returned to its owner's hand, it's removed from the stack and thus will not resolve. The spell isn't countered; it just no longer exists. This works against a spell that can't be countered.

  • 2023-06-16

    If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost," you can't pay any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.

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

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Press the Enemy, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
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
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea 1 0 —
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Blue 1 deck
  • Esper 1 deck

Every version of Press the Enemy

5 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 Press the Enemy — 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.