Card
Detention Sphere
Mana cost {1}{W}{U}
When this enchantment enters, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 9 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · RTR · #155
- Cheapest printing
- €0.25
- EDHREC salt
- 0.33
- Color identity
- Blue, White
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
9 known combos.
- Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward + Glorious Protector + Detention Sphere
Produces: Infinite blinking of nonland permanents, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Apocalypse + Barren Glory + Detention Sphere
Produces: Win the game
View on Commander Spellbook - Oblivion Ring + Detention Sphere + Archon of Sun's Grace + Copy Enchantment
Produces: Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2012-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
The "enters" ability has only one target. The other permanents with that name aren't targeted. For example, a permanent with protection from white will be exiled if it has the same name as the target nonland permanent. - 2012-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
If Detention Sphere leaves the battlefield before its "enters" ability has resolved, its leaves-the-battlefield ability will trigger and do nothing. Then the "enters" ability will resolve and exile the targeted nonland permanent and other permanents with that name indefinitely. - 2012-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
Although the target of the "enters" ability must not be a land, lands with the same name as that permanent will be exiled. - 2012-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
If the target nonland permanent is an illegal target when the "enters" ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. No permanents will be exiled, including those with the same name as the target.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast