Impossible Choice

Impossible Choice

Instant

Not yet released — 13 Nov 2026

Mana cost: {2}{B}

How we read this card

Surgical Separation — Destroy target creature. Its controller creates two 1/1 red Officer creature tokens.

on-cast —

on-cast — makes 2 tokens

Remain Fused — You draw two cards and each player loses 2 life.

on-cast — draws you 2 cards

on-cast — makes each opponent lose 2 life

Causes: you face a dilemma, a creature dies, create an Officer creature token, put an Officer creature token onto the battlefield, draw a card, make a player lose life.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

you face a dilemma — 739 cards in the game can cause this (Impossible Choice is one).

When Impossible Choice poses a dilemma:

  1. Seven of Nine — draws you 1 card
  2. Elim Garak, Simple Tailor — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  3. Obsidian Order Operative — makes each opponent lose 1 life

a creature in a graveyard — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Impossible Choice is one).

Impossible Choice puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Chainer, Dementia Master — can bring back
  2. The Deck of Many Things — can bring back
  3. Afterlife from the Loam — can bring back
  4. Crypt Champion — can bring back
  5. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — can bring back
  6. Push // Pull — can bring back
  7. Vivien on the Hunt — can bring back
  8. Virtus's Maneuver — can bring back
  9. Dredger's Insight — can bring back
  10. Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest — can bring back

799 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken creature dies — 2,769 cards in the game can cause this (Impossible Choice is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Impossible Choice:

  1. Vraska, the Silencer — brings a card back
  2. High-Society Hunter — draws you 1 card
  3. Overseer of the Damned — makes a token
  4. Shelob, Dread Weaver — hits a graveyard
  5. Ghoulish Procession — makes a token
  6. Ogre Slumlord — makes a token
  7. Minotaur, Roxxon CEO — makes a token
  8. Harvester of Souls — draws you 1 card
  9. Magus of the Bridge — exiles itself
  10. Koh, the Face Stealer — exiles it

60 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature dies — 2,830 cards in the game can cause this (Impossible Choice is one).

When a creature dies thanks to Impossible Choice:

  1. Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity — brings a card back
  2. Avatar Destiny — mills a card
  3. Blood Spatter Analysis — mills a card
  4. Shadows of the Past — scries
  5. Shriveling Rot — makes a player lose life equal to its toughness
  6. Meathook Massacre II — brings a card back
  7. Ashnod's Intervention — brings a card back
  8. Missy — brings a card back
  9. Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire — brings a card back
  10. Saffi Eriksdotter — sacrifices itself

456 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Impossible Choice is one).

  1. Zahur, Glory's Past — When Impossible Choice makes a player lose life, Zahur, Glory's Past raises your speed

55 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Impossible Choice is one).

  1. Toothy, Imaginary Friend — When Impossible Choice makes a player draw a card, Toothy, Imaginary Friend puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

66 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Impossible Choice is one).

When Impossible Choice is cast:

  1. Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
  2. Krile Baldesion — brings a card back
  3. Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar — brings a card back
  4. Cyclops Superconductor — gets +1/+1
  5. Jeskai Sage — gets +1/+1
  6. Pink Horror — deals 2 damage
  7. Cryptic Pursuit — triggers

430 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Impossible Choice is one).

  1. Athreos, Shroud-Veiled — Impossible Choice puts cards into the graveyard that Athreos, Shroud-Veiled can bring back

443 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.