Unexplained Absence
Instant
Mana cost: {3}{W}
How we read this card
For each player, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls. For each permanent exiled this way, its controller cloaks the top card of their library.
on-cast —
- makes exile an artifact
- makes exile a battle
- makes exile a creature
- makes exile an enchantment
- makes exile a planeswalker
- makes an artifact leaves the battlefield
- makes a battle leaves the battlefield
- makes a creature leaves the battlefield
- makes an enchantment leaves the battlefield
- makes a planeswalker leaves the battlefield
Causes: exile an artifact, exile a battle, exile a creature, exile an enchantment, exile a planeswalker, an artifact leaves the battlefield, a battle leaves the battlefield, a creature leaves the battlefield, an enchantment leaves the battlefield, a planeswalker leaves the battlefield.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
an artifact is exiled — 336 cards in the game can cause this (Unexplained Absence is one).
- Shard of the Void Dragon — When an artifact is exiled thanks to Unexplained Absence, Shard of the Void Dragon puts 2 +1/+1 counters on itself
1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
a creature is exiled — 1,003 cards in the game can cause this (Unexplained Absence is one).
When a creature is exiled thanks to Unexplained Absence:
- Ashnod's Intervention — brings a card back
- Soulherder — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
6 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Unexplained Absence is one).
- The War Doctor — When a creature, artifact, enchantment, planeswalker or battle is exiled thanks to Unexplained Absence, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself
an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Unexplained Absence is one).
When Unexplained Absence is cast:
- Electro, Assaulting Battery — adds 1 mana
- Elemental Expressionist — grants a keyword
- 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
- 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.
a nontoken creature leaves the battlefield — 4,133 cards in the game can cause this (Unexplained Absence is one).
- Dual Nature — When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Unexplained Absence, Dual Nature exiles a creature
3 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
a creature leaves the battlefield — 4,238 cards in the game can cause this (Unexplained Absence is one).
When a creature leaves the battlefield thanks to Unexplained Absence:
- Extractor Demon — mills a card
- Valor of the Worthy — makes a token
- Traveling Plague — returns itself from the graveyard
- Funeral March — makes a player sacrifice a creature
25 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 (Unexplained Absence is one).
When Unexplained Absence 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.