Card Codex

M:tG card similarity search

17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Ertai's Meddling

XU · Instant

X can't be 0. Target spell's controller exiles it with X delay counters on it. At the beginning of each of that player's upkeeps, if that card is exiled, remove a delay counter from it. If the card has no delay counters on it, the player puts it onto the stack as a copy of the original spell.

Similar cards

Color identity:
NameManaTypeText
Presence of the Master 3WEnchantment Whenever a player casts an enchantment spell, counter it.
Slaughter Games 2BRSorcery This spell can't be countered. Choose a nonland card name. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
Cruel Sadist BCreature — Human Assassin {B}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on Cruel Sadist. {2}{B}, {T}, Remove X +1/+1 counters from Cruel Sadist: It deals X damage to target creature. 1/1
Arcane Artisan 2UCreature — Human Wizard {2}{U}, {T}: Target player draws a card, then exiles a card from their hand. If a creature card is exiled this way, that player creates a token that's a copy of that card. When Arcane Artisan leaves the battlefield, exile all tokens created with it at the beginning of the next end step. 0/3
Boseiju, Who Shelters All Legendary Land Boseiju, Who Shelters All enters the battlefield tapped. {T}, Pay 2 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on an instant or sorcery spell, that spell can't be countered.
Ride the Avalanche GUInstant The next spell you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash. When you next cast a spell this turn, put X +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature, where X is the mana value of that spell.
Slicer, Hired Muscle 4RLegendary Artifact Creature — Robot More Than Meets the Eye {2}{R} (You may cast this card converted for {2}{R}.) Double strike, haste At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, you may have that player gain control of Slicer until end of turn. If you do, untap Slicer, goad it, and it can't be sacrificed this turn. If you don't, convert it. 3/4
Venerated Rotpriest GCreature — Phyrexian Druid Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.) Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell, target opponent gets a poison counter. 1/2
Slippery Bogbonder 3GCreature — Human Druid Flash Hexproof When Slippery Bogbonder enters the battlefield, put a hexproof counter on target creature. Then move any number of counters from among creatures you control onto that creature. 3/3
March of Wretched Sorrow XBInstant As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may exile any number of black cards from your hand. This spell costs {2} less to cast for each card exiled this way. March of Wretched Sorrow deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life.
Page 61