Inaction Injunction
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Return to RavnicaRTR · #41
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.05 € · ★ 0.30 € · 0.14 $ · ★ 0.46 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.) Draw a card.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- 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
- Wayne Reynolds
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2012-10-05
Flavour text
"To prevent action is to prevent transgression." —Azorius Arrester motto
Rulings
Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form “[cost]: [effect].” No one can activate any activated abilities, including mana abilities, of a detained permanent.
If a creature is already attacking or blocking when it’s detained, it won’t be removed from combat. It will continue to attack or block.
If a noncreature permanent is detained and later turns into a creature, it won’t be able to attack or block.
If a permanent’s activated ability is on the stack when that permanent is detained, the ability will be unaffected.
The static abilities of a detained permanent still apply. The triggered abilities of a detained permanent can still trigger.
When a player leaves a multiplayer game, any continuous effects with durations that last until that player’s next turn or until a specific point in that turn will last until that turn would have begun. They neither expire immediately nor last indefinitely.