Common Courtesy
Unglued 21 • uncommon
- Set
- Unglued
- Collector number
- 21
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana blue mana blue mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Mike Raabe
- Market price
- $0.42
What it does
Whenever a player casts a spell without asking your permission while casting it, counter that spell.
When a player asks you permission to cast a spell and you refuse, counter that spell and sacrifice this enchantment.
"You didn't say the Magic word."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyNot legal
- VintageNot legal
- CommanderNot legal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerNot legal
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Where it came from
Common Courtesy was released in 1998 as part of the Unglued set, Wizards of the Coast's first foray into a standalone silver-bordered expansion. Designed by a team led by Mark Rosewater, the set was intended as a humorous, satirical take on Magic: The Gathering mechanics, explicitly breaking the standard rules of the game to prioritize comedy and social interaction. It emerged during a period when the company sought to experiment with the boundaries of the trading card game format, moving away from tournament-legal play to explore the fun of casual, 'un-set' mechanics.
The card's design features an illustration by Pete Venters, who played a major role in establishing the visual identity of the set. Common Courtesy captures the game's tongue-in-cheek spirit by requiring players to use polite language to trigger its effect, directly involving the physical behavior of the participants. While the card is famously unplayable in sanctioned formats, it has maintained a cult reputation among long-time fans for its clever subversion of traditional rules and its status as a quintessential artifact of late-1990s experimental game design.
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