Confession Dial

Rules for this card

• Surveil Rule 701.25 Glossary

  To manipulate some of the cards on top of your library, sending some of them to your graveyard and rearranging the rest. See rule 701.25, “Surveil.”

Rulings (8)

• October 13, 2023 · Wizards of the Coast
  If a card has multiple abilities giving you permission to cast it, such as two escape abilities or an escape ability and a flashback ability, you choose which one to apply. The others have no effect.
• October 13, 2023 · Wizards of the Coast
  Once you begin casting a spell with escape, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can't take any other actions until you're done casting the spell.
• October 13, 2023 · Wizards of the Coast
  If you cast a spell with its escape permission, you can't choose to apply any other alternative costs or to cast it without paying its mana cost. You may pay any optional additional costs the spell has, such as kicker costs. If it has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
• October 13, 2023 · Wizards of the Coast
  If a spell you're casting with escape has an additional cost of discarding cards or sacrificing permanents, you may exile cards discarded or sacrificed this way to pay that part of its escape cost.
• October 13, 2023 · Wizards of the Coast
  To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an escape cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was and no matter whether an alternative cost was paid.
• October 13, 2023 · Wizards of the Coast
  Escape's permission doesn't change when you may cast the spell from your graveyard.
• October 13, 2023 · Wizards of the Coast
  After an escaped permanent spell resolves, it enters the battlefield and will return to its owner's graveyard if it dies later.
• January 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast
  When you surveil, you may put all the cards you look at back on top of your library, you may put all of those cards into your graveyard, or you may put some of those cards on top and the rest of them into your graveyard.

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