Grinning Totem
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This printing
SetMIR
Collector #303
Released1996-10-08
Rarityrare
ArtistDonato Giancola
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Grinning Totem

RareMV 4
Artifact
, , Sacrifice this artifact: Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it. Then that player shuffles. Until the beginning of your next upkeep, you may play that card. At the beginning of your next upkeep, if you haven't played it, put it into its owner's graveyard.
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
2 other English printingsEarliest 1999-04-21Newest 2006-10-06Cheapest priced $0.35 in TSB
Rulings (3)
wotc25 Sept 2006
You may choose to find any kind of card, including a land. You must exile a card (unless the opponent’s library is empty); you can’t fail to find anything.
wotc25 Sept 2006
“Until the beginning of your next upkeep” means the effect wears off as soon as your next upkeep starts. Your last chance to play the card is usually the End step of the player who immediately precedes you.
wotc25 Sept 2006
The exiled card is played using the normal rules for timing and priority for its card type, as well as any other applicable restrictions. You’ll have to pay its mana cost. The only thing that’s different is you’re casting it from the Exile zone.