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Expose the Culprit

Instant1 generic manaRed mana

A two-mana instant built to pull double duty on a mechanic that lives and dies by information asymmetry. The first mode is the obvious one: flip an opponent's face-down attacker into whatever it actually is at a moment they weren't ready to reveal it, or unmask your own to trigger a disguise ability early. The second mode is where the design gets slippery. It gathers your own face-up creatures that carry disguise, shuffles them into a fresh pile, and puts them back down as generic 2/2s with ward, launching a new guessing game from scratch. The creatures reset this way were known quantities a moment ago: the opponent could see exactly which body was the bomb, plan removal around it, block it correctly. After the shuffle, that certainty is gone, and re-earning it costs a ward tax on every attempt to check. The reshuffle quietly protects a creature about to eat targeted removal: scrambling a face-up threat back into an indistinguishable body is a way to launder it through the fog of face-down combat. The effect only works with creatures that have disguise, which keeps it from becoming a universal blink-and-hide button, but inside a deck built to trade on hidden information it turns a cheap instant into a rug-pull. This is less removal or protection than a manipulation of what the opponent is allowed to know, and that is a rarer axis to attack than most instants at this cost bother with.

Expose the Culprit (mkm)
MKM · #124uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.04
Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose one or both — • Turn target face-down creature face up. • Exile any number of face-up creatures you control with disguise in a face-down pile, shuffle that pile, then cloak them. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward 2 generic mana. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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