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Isolation Zone

Enchantment2 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

The Oblivion Ring template, stretched to four mana and narrowed to two permanent types: creatures and enchantments. That trade tells the whole story of where it sits. Oblivion Ring and Banishing Light exile any nonland permanent for one less mana; this asks an extra white pip and gives up artifacts and planeswalkers as legal targets, gaining nothing in raw rate. What it buys instead is a double-white commitment that signals a heavily white deck, and a deliberately fenced-off slice of the answer space. The exile-until-leaves clause carries the same vulnerability its predecessors do: destroy the enchantment and the exiled permanent comes home, so it parks a threat rather than burying it, and any enter-the-battlefield value the target had is refunded on the way back. As removal it is honest about what it is, a deliberately costed, deliberately restricted member of the long line of "exile to a permanent" answers white has refined since the temporary-exile drawback first rode on bodies like Faceless Butcher. The narrowed target list is the cost of admission, not a flaw: strictly worse than Banishing Light against an unrestricted board, and exactly as good against the boards where creatures and enchantments are the only threats worth spending four mana to switch off.

Isolation Zone (ogw)
OGW · #22common
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.10
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this enchantment enters, exile target creature or enchantment an opponent controls until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. (That permanent returns under its owner's control.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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