Mental Misstep (PMEI #2023-1)

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Mental Misstep — Media and Collaboration Promos

Mental Misstep is a rare printing from Media and Collaboration Promos (PMEI #2023-1), a Instant. Illustrated by Erica Yang.

Card text

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)

Counter target spell with mana value 1.

Details

Mana cost {U/P}
Type Instant
Rarity Rare
Set Media and Collaboration Promos (PMEI)
Collector number 2023-1
Artist Erica Yang
Released 2023-05-15

Current price

As of 2026-10-19, Scryfall listed this printing at foil $225.41 (USD). Prices change constantly, so check the live price before buying.

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Legality

Standard Not legal
Future Standard Not legal
Historic Not legal
Timeless Not legal
Gladiator Not legal
Pioneer Not legal
Modern Banned
Legacy Banned
Pauper Not legal
Vintage Restricted
Penny Dreadful Not legal
Commander Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Standard Brawl Not legal
Brawl Not legal
Competitive Brawl Not legal
Alchemy Not legal
Pauper Commander Not legal
Duel Commander Legal
Old School Not legal
Premodern Not legal
PrEDH Legal
TLR Legal

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Rulings

  • June 1, 2011 — A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.
  • June 1, 2011 — To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
  • June 1, 2011 — As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.
  • June 1, 2011 — If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
  • June 1, 2011 — Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
  • June 1, 2011 — If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be the value chosen for it while that spell is on the stack.
  • June 1, 2011 — Each Phyrexian mana symbol in a spell's mana cost contributes 1 to that spell's mana value. For example, Mental Misstep's mana value is 1, regardless of how its cost was paid.

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