Command the Chaff
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.36 € · 0.32 $
- Mana value
- 6
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Look at target opponent's sideboard. You may cast a card from that sideboard without paying its mana cost. Exile Command the Chaff.
Format legality
Legality is not available in the catalogue.
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
- George Fan
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-08-20
Rulings
If a spell has in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Tormenting Voice, you must pay those to cast the card.
In a Limited event, each card a player opened (in a Sealed Deck event) or drafted (in a Booster Draft event) is their sideboard.
You can’t play land cards from that sideboard.
You must cast the sideboard card you wish to cast while Command the Chaff is resolving. You can’t cast it later in the turn.