View from Above
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
ConfluxCON · #38
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.18 € · ★ 0.93 € · 0.71 $ · ★ 4.31 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Target creature gains flying until end of turn. If you control a white permanent, return View from Above to its owner's hand.
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
- Howard Lyon
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2009-02-06
Flavour text
"This air feels so heavy and thick. There are no winds to speak of. I fear the knowledge that comes from a place like this."
Rulings
If View from Above doesn’t resolve for any reason (for example, if its target has become illegal), none of its effects happen. It will be put into your graveyard as normal.
If you control a white permanent, View from Above moves from the stack to your hand as part of its resolution. It never hits the graveyard. If you don’t control a white permanent, View from Above is put into the graveyard from the stack as normal.
This checks the colors of permanents you control as it resolves.
