Repeal
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Return target nonland permanent with mana value X to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- 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
- Anthony Palumbo
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2002-06-24
Flavour text
"Your deed cannot be undone. You, however, can be." —Agosto, Azorius imperator
Rulings
If a permanent on the battlefield has in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
If the target permanent is an illegal target by the time Repeal tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You don't draw a card.
The mana value of a token that isn't a copy of another object is 0. A token that is a copy of another object has the same mana cost as that object.