Pure Intentions
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Saviors of KamigawaSOK · #25
- Card type
- Instant — Arcane
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.35 € · ★ 1.78 € · 0.29 $ · ★ 1.74 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- White
Card text
Whenever a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard cards this turn, return those cards from your graveyard to your hand. When a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard this card, return this card from your graveyard to your hand at the beginning of the next end step.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Randy Gallegos
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2005-06-03
Rulings
Discarding Pure Intentions to your own spell or ability doesn't trigger its abilities.
If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes a player to discard multiple cards, such as Waking Nightmare or Three Tragedies, Pure Intentions doesn't return to hand until its triggered ability has resolved. A player can't discard the same Pure Intentions twice for the same discard effect.
Neither part cares who decides which card to discard — only the controller of the spell or ability matters.
The first part of Pure Intentions is the effect of casting Pure Intentions. The second part is a triggered ability that triggers whenever an opponent's spell or ability causes a player to discard Pure Intentions.