Devious Cover-Up
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Innistrad: Midnight HuntMID · #48
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.07 € · ★ 0.22 € · 0.19 $ · ★ 0.25 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may shuffle up to four target cards from your graveyard into your library.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Colin Boyer
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-09-24
Flavour text
Widow Weber's new scarecrow seemed to attract more crows than it scared off.
Rulings
A spell that can't be countered is a legal target for Devious Cover-Up. The spell won't be countered when Devious Cover-Up resolves, but you'll still shuffle cards into your library.
Devious Cover-Up can't target itself at all. You can't try to counter it with itself and shuffle cards in, and you can't use its effect to shuffle itself into your library.
You may target zero cards in your graveyard and still shuffle your library.
