Guidance Failure
Instant
Not yet released — 13 Nov 2026
Mana cost: {3}{U}
How we read this card
This spell costs {1} less to cast if it targets an attacking creature.
on-cast — costs 1 less
Target creature or Spacecraft's owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.
on-cast —
Causes: anything leaves the battlefield.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Guidance Failure is one).
When Guidance Failure is cast:
- Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
- Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
- Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
- Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
- Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
- Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
- In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
- Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls
427 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Guidance Failure is one).
When Guidance Failure is cast:
- Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
- Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
- Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
- Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
- Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
- Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
- Master of Winds — triggers
5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.