Containment Membrane
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The ListPLST · #OGW-52
- Card type
- Enchantment — Aura
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.11 € · 0.14 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Surge (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.) Enchant creature Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
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
- Daarken
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-09-26
Rulings
Casting a spell for its surge cost doesn't change its mana cost or its mana value.
Containment Membrane can target and be attached to an untapped creature. It just won't have any effect until that creature becomes tapped.
For some cards, surge represents only an alternative cost, a discount that applies if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn. Other cards, like Reckless Bushwhacker, have additional abilities or effects if you paid the surge cost to cast the spell.
If an instant or sorcery spell cast for its surge cost is copied, the copy is also considered to have had its surge cost paid.
The enchanted creature can still be untapped by other spells and abilities.
The other spell that you or a teammate cast can be one that's resolved, one that was countered, or (for instants with surge) one that's still on the stack.
