Deceptive Divination
Deceptive Divination is a . A theme groups drops that share a franchise or an idea.Secret LairSpecial Magic cards sold by Wizards of the Coast on their own online store for a short time. Most are cards that already exist, given new art by a well-known artist or another franchise. A Secret Lair copy of a card plays exactly like any other copy of it.Open the full glossaryThemeOur way of grouping Secret Lair drops that share a subject, like Marvel or Fallout, so every version is on one page.Open the full glossary
Released 5 cards
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Every card in this drop
Click a card for the card itself, the decks that play it and, once you are signed in, whether you already own a copy. To mark every card here at once, press Show what I own. A foil is the shiny version of a card. Secret Lair sells it as a separate Foil Edition of the same drop.
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- Card Kingdom $5.49 foil $7.99
- Cardmarket €4.69
- Mana Pool $4.16 foil $3.85
- TCGplayer $5.15 foil $5.47
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- Card Kingdom $3.49 foil $5.49
- Cardmarket €3.62
- Mana Pool $3.41 foil $4.10
- TCGplayer $4.00 foil $4.59
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- Card Kingdom $18.99 foil $34.99
- Cardmarket €15.40
- Mana Pool $18.09 foil $27.00
- TCGplayer $17.37 foil $27.20
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- Card Kingdom $14.99 foil $24.99
- Cardmarket €14.16
- Mana Pool $14.13 foil $19.80
- TCGplayer $14.71 foil $20.05
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- Card Kingdom $16.99 foil $24.99
- Cardmarket €10.81
- Mana Pool $9.95 foil $19.53
- TCGplayer $11.22 foil $18.38
The Store Price Against Buying the Cards One at a Time
The single-card total is each card's price at TCGplayer on , in US dollars. A total only shows when every card in the drop has a price.
| Drop | Version | Store Price | Cards One at a Time | Cheaper |
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| Deceptive Divination | Foil | Price when it launched: $34.99, from the community Magic wiki (mtg.wiki). | $75.69 | The store, by $40.70 |
| Deceptive Divination | Non-foil | Price when it launched: $24.99, from the community Magic wiki (mtg.wiki). | $52.45 | The store, by $27.46 |
Rulings for the Cards on This Page
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11 rulings for 2 cards
Circular Logic
Count the number of cards in your graveyard as Circular Logic resolves to determine how much the controller of the target spell has to pay. Circular Logic is still on the stack at that time. It doesn't count itself.
If you discard a card with madness while a spell or ability is resolving, it moves immediately to exile. Continue resolving that spell or ability, noting that the card you discarded is not in your graveyard at this time. Its madness triggered ability will be placed onto the stack once that spell or ability has completely resolved.
Casting a spell with madness ignores the timing rules based on the card's card type. For example, you can cast a sorcery with madness if you discard it during an opponent's turn.
Cards are discarded in a Magic game only from a player's hand. Effects that put cards into a player's graveyard from anywhere else do not cause those cards to be discarded.
If you discard a card with madness to pay the cost of a spell or activated ability, that card's madness triggered ability (and the spell that card becomes, if you choose to cast it) will resolve before the spell or ability the discard paid for.
Madness works independently of why you're discarding the card. You could discard it to pay a cost, because a spell or ability tells you to, or because you have too many cards in your hand during your cleanup step. You can't discard a card with madness just because you want to, though.
A spell cast for its madness cost is put onto the stack like any other spell. It can be countered, copied, and so on. As it resolves, it's put onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card or into its owner's graveyard if it's an instant or sorcery card.
A card with madness that's discarded counts as having been discarded even though it's put into exile rather than a graveyard. If it was discarded to pay a cost, that cost is still paid. Abilities that trigger when a card is discarded will still trigger.
If you choose not to cast a card with madness when the madness triggered ability resolves, it's put into your graveyard. Madness doesn't give you another chance to cast it later.
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a madness cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined by only its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast that spell was.
Eternal Witness
If a resolving spell puts Eternal Witness onto the battlefield, Eternal Witness's ability can target that card if it's put into your graveyard as it resolves.
Also Printed in Other Drops
Some of these cards came in other Secret Lair drops too, each with its own art.
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