Containment Breach
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Strixhaven: School of MagesSTX · #125
- Card type
- Sorcery — Lesson
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.17 € · ★ 0.20 € · 0.16 $ · ★ 0.31 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Green
Card text
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. If its mana value is 2 or less, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Campbell White
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-04-23
Flavour text
For pestkeepers, there's no sound more disheartening than breaking glass.
Rulings
Although you may want to include Lessons in your sideboard if you're playing with cards that instruct you to learn, Lesson cards can be included in your main deck like other instant or sorcery cards.
If Containment Breach resolves, and the target artifact has a mana value of 2 or less, but it wasn't destroyed (perhaps because it has indestructible), you will still create a Pest.
If the artifact or enchantment is an illegal target as Containment Breach tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won't create a Pest.
Lesson is a spell subtype found on some instant and sorcery cards in the Strixhaven set. The Lesson subtype has no special rules associated with it.