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Empty City Ruse

Empty City Ruse

Sorcery
2
printings
#19227
EDHREC rank
penny rank
Std
normal
in vault
for trade
wishlisted
Value
$46.9490d high · 2 printings
90-dayhigh $47low $1.36range 3351.5%n 152
Gameplay
Sorcery
Target opponent skips all combat phases of their next turn.
Out of time and options, Kongming was forced to bluff at Xicheng. He tricked an army of 150,000 Wei by leaving the city gates open and calmly playing the zither.
Legalities
tlrlegal
duellegal
brawllegal
pennynot legal
PreDHlegal
futurenot legal
legacylegal
modernnot legal
paupernot legal
alchemynot legal
pioneernot legal
vintagelegal
historiclegal
standardnot legal
Timelesslegal
commanderlegal
Gladiatorlegal
Old Schoolnot legal
Premodernnot legal
Oathbreakerlegal
Standard Brawlnot legal
Pauper Commandernot legal
Context

Across the 2 printings of this card, the trailing-90-day price band runs from $1.36 to $46.94 across 152 observations.

Rarix catalogs 2 distinct printings of this card concept, spanning every set the card has appeared in. The Printings grid below lists each one with its own variant treatment, price, and collector signal.

Card type: Sorcery. Color identity: white. Mana cost: {W} (1 converted).

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Brawl, and Historic.

EDHrec ranks this card concept #19,227 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

The representative printing on this page is illustrated by Viacom.

All printings · 2
TLE #3Borderless
TLE · #3
mythic
$2.93
PTK #3
PTK · #3
uncommon
$46.94

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Empty City Ruse · Concept · Rarix