Fateful Absence
Innistrad: Double Feature 18 • rare
- Set
- Innistrad: Double Feature
- Collector number
- 18
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana white mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- White
- Artist
- Eric Deschamps
- Market price
- $0.79
What it does
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Its controller investigates. (They create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "2 generic mana, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")
Sensing a plot, Sorin raced to his grandfather's resting-crypt. But someone else had gotten there first.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Fateful Absence was originally introduced as a versatile white removal spell in the Innistrad: Midnight Hunt expansion, designed to offer players a flexible answer to creatures and planeswalkers at the cost of providing the opponent with a card draw. The card represents a pivotal moment in the gothic horror narrative of the plane, illustrating the unsettling disappearance of key figures during the world's eternal night.
The Double Feature printing features the distinct silver-screen aesthetic of the Innistrad: Double Feature set, which was released in 2022 to showcase cards from both Midnight Hunt and Crimson Vow with a monochromatic, high-contrast visual style. This design choice was intended to pay homage to classic black-and-white horror cinema, providing a stylized, premium alternative for collectors who appreciate the set's thematic commitment to the tropes of vintage monster movies.
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