Illusion // Reality
Instant // Instant
Printings & Editions
Premodern-legal editions of Illusion // Reality — old-border printings plus any period-appropriate foil promos (Arena/Judge, through Scourge). Hover to preview an edition on the card; click to select it.
Old-border editions + pre-Scourge promo foils (Arena/Judge). Modern-frame reprints (8th Edition onward) exist but are not period-appropriate printings.
Critical Rulings
"To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card."
— 2022-12-08
"A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery."
— 2022-12-08
"Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack."
— 2022-12-08
"If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery."
— 2022-12-08
"If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery."
— 2022-12-08
"Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice."
— 2022-12-08
"Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both."
— 2022-12-08
Price History
91d · USDTracks this card’s preferred printing: the old-border edition shown by default (block-expansion printings first, e.g. Urza’s, Tempest, Mirage). It doesn’t re-price when you select a different edition above. Per-edition history is planned.
Decks playing Illusion // Reality (0)
No mainboard decks match.
