Card
Thieves' Auction
Mana cost {4}{R}{R}{R}
Exile all nontoken permanents. Starting with you, each player chooses one of the exiled cards and puts it onto the battlefield tapped under their control. Repeat this process until all cards exiled this way have been chosen.
Mass land denial: only allowed from bracket 4. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · MMQ · #218
- Cheapest printing
- €1.84
- EDHREC salt
- 2.02
- Color identity
- Red
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — not allowed: Mass land denial is not allowed
- B2 Core — not allowed: Mass land denial is not allowed
- B3 Upgraded — not allowed: Mass land denial is not allowed
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Mass land denial
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2005-08-01 · Wizards of the Coast
If you choose an Aura, you can put it on any permanent it can legally enchant. If there is nothing it can legally enchant, it remains exiled, and it can still be chosen by you or another player later in the auction. If there comes a point where only Auras and no legal permanents left, they stay exiled permanently. - 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
An Aura put onto the battlefield this way does not target the permanent it is placed upon. - 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
Triggers from the permanents leaving the battlefield and then being put back onto the battlefield are not put on the stack until the entire effect is done. - 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
In multi-player games, it affects all players and players make choices in turn order. - 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
You can’t pick a card that can’t legally be returned to the battlefield. If there are no cards that can be legally returned, then you can’t pick one.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast