Mental Misstep
Mystery Booster 2 30 • uncommon
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Collector number
- 30
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- U/P symbol
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Erica Yang
- Market price
- $5.84
What it does
(U/P symbol can be paid with either blue mana or 2 life.)
Counter target spell with mana value 1.
"Your first mistake was thinking I would let you live long enough to make a second."— Sarnvax, Gitaxian sective
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernBanned
- LegacyBanned
- VintageRestricted
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Mental Misstep was originally released in the 2011 set New Phyrexia, designed by Mark Rosewater and the Wizards of the Coast development team. The card was intended to provide a low-cost, universal countermeasure against the prevalence of one-mana spells across various Magic: The Gathering formats. Its design, featuring an unconventional mana cost that could be paid with life, created significant ripple effects in competitive play, eventually leading to its restriction or banning in multiple tournament formats due to its sheer ubiquity and efficiency.
This specific iteration appears in Mystery Booster 2, a product designed as a specialized draft experience featuring a curated selection of reprints and experimental cards. The inclusion of Mental Misstep in this set serves as a nod to its impactful history within the game's ecosystem, allowing players to encounter a card that fundamentally altered the speed and interaction patterns of competitive deck-building. The card's aesthetic retains the haunting, biomechanical art style characteristic of the Phyrexian-themed sets from which it originated.
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