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Extirpate

InstantBlack mana

The graveyard hate that is almost impossible to answer. Most exile effects can be Stifled, redirected, or simply responded to: you hold up an instant, you flash back the threatened card in reply, you reanimate before the spell resolves. Split second slams that window shut. Once this is on the stack, the affected player gets no chance to spin their graveyard into value or protect the key card; they sit and watch all copies leave the graveyard, hand, and library at once. That is the design that makes it the surgical tool it is: not just removing a card from a graveyard but excising a name from the game entirely, four-of and all, before its owner can do anything about it. The targeting clause is the precision: one card in a graveyard, then every copy of it everywhere a player can hide a copy, with the basic-land exclusion the only restriction on what it can name. Against a deck built on a single redundant piece (a combo engine, a recursive threat, a flashback or escape payoff that lives in the yard), it does not slow the plan down; it deletes the plan and the backups in one resolution. What you pay for that certainty is flexibility: it does nothing to a graveyard holding nothing worth naming, and it buys the caster assurance rather than tempo. As a hate card, its power is the absence of an out.

Extirpate (mma)
MMA · #84rare
Pricing
Normal: $1.67
Foil: $8.85
Oracle Text

Rules text

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
Legalities

Format Status

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

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