{3}, {T}: Exile the top card of your library. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card.
Legalities
tlrlegal
duellegal
brawlnot legal
pennylegal
PreDH
Rulings · 6
wotc
The exiled card is played using the normal timing rules for its card type, as well as any other applicable restrictions such as “Cast [this card] only during combat.” For example, you can’t play the card during an opponent’s turn unless it’s an instant or has flash. Similarly, if the exiled card is a land, you can’t play it if you’ve already played a land that turn. If it’s a nonland card, you’ll have to pay its mana cost. The only thing that’s different is you’re playing it from the Exile zone.
wotc
If you do not play the card before your next upkeep, it remains exiled; you just lose the ability to play it.
wotc
This is not considered to be drawing a card.
Context
This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from ME2 — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #207 of *Masters Edition II*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2008 Masters Edition II release.
Card type: Artifact, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {3} (3 converted).
Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #29,550 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Quinton Hoover. Rarix catalogs 321 other cards credited to this artist.
Notes
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The card is not part of your hand in any way. You can’t be forced to discard it due to a discard from hand effect, and you can’t discard it to pay a cost.
wotc
If the Bottle leaves the battlefield or your control, the cards remain waiting until played or until the beginning of your next upkeep. The card is in the “Exile” zone.
wotc
To “play a card” is to either cast a spell or to put a land onto the battlefield using the main phase special action.
