Once and Future

Format legality

Where you can play Once and Future in sanctioned and popular formats.

All printings

Prices range from $0.26 to $0.39 across finishes. Cheapest printing: Throne of Eldraine at $0.26.

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Rulings

Official rulings from Wizards of the Coast (6).

• 2019-10-04You choose which card will be returned to your hand and which will be put on top of your library as you choose those cards as targets, not as Once and Future resolves.
• 2019-10-04If one of the two target cards is an illegal target by the time Once and Future resolves, you'll put the other in the appropriate zone and exile Once and Future. If both targets are illegal, the spell won't resolve and you won't exile Once and Future.
• 2019-10-04If an instant or sorcery spell has an adamant ability, you perform the spell's instructions in order. You don't perform the adamant instruction before the spell resolves or before any other effects printed above it.
• 2019-10-04If an effect allows you to cast a spell without paying its mana cost, you can't choose to cast it and pay unless another rule or effect allows you to cast that spell for a cost. Similarly, you can't waive a cost reduction unless that effect says you may.
• 2019-10-04Adamant effects check what mana was actually spent to cast a spell. If an effect allows you to spend mana “as though it were mana” of any color or type, that allows you to spend mana you couldn't otherwise spend, but it doesn't change what mana you spent to cast the spell.
• 2019-10-04If you copy a spell that has an adamant ability, no mana was spent to cast the copy at all, so that ability won't apply.

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