Name
The Pandorica

Mana Cost

Type
Legendary Artifact

Set
Doctor Who

Rarity
Rare

Text

You may choose not to untap The Pandorica during your untap step.
, : Untap another target nonland permanent, then it phases out. It can't phase in for as long as The Pandorica remains tapped. When The Pandorica becomes untapped or leaves the battlefield, that permanent phases in. Activate only as a sorcery.


Number
#343

Legal Formats
Commander | Duel | Legacy | Oathbreaker | Vintage

Availability
Paper

Rulings

(13/10/2023)
While a permanent is phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist. It can't be the target of spells or abilities, its static abilities have no effect on the game, its triggered abilities can't trigger, it can't attack or block, and so on.


(13/10/2023)
Phasing out doesn't cause any "leaves the battlefield" abilities to trigger. Similarly, phasing in won't cause any "enters the battlefield" abilities to trigger.


(13/10/2023)
Any continuous effects with a "for as long as" duration ignore phased-out objects. Any such effects will expire if their conditions are no longer met after ignoring the phased-out objects.


(13/10/2023)
Choices made for permanents as they entered the battlefield are remembered when they phase in.


(13/10/2023)
Each Aura and Equipment attached to a permanent that's phasing out also phases out. They will phase in with that permanent and still be attached to it. Similarly, permanents that phase out with counters phase in with those counters.


(13/10/2023)
Abilities that trigger when a creature becomes tapped won't trigger when a creature phases in tapped. (This might happen if the creature in question has one or more stun counters on it.)


(13/10/2023)
Any one-shot effects that are waiting "until this leaves the battlefield," won't happen when a permanent phases out.


Artist
Craig J Spearing

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