Detainment Spell
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SetTSP
Collector #12
Released2006-10-06
Raritycommon
ArtistDarrell Riche
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Detainment Spell

CommonColour IDMV 1
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature's activated abilities can't be activated.
: Attach this Aura to target creature.
Keywords
Enchant
Card capabilities
Enchantment
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (3)
wotc25 Sept 2006
Morph isn't an activated ability, so Detainment Spell doesn't prevent face-down creatures from being able to turn face up.
wotc25 Sept 2006
Responding to a creature's activated ability being activated by moving Detainment Spell onto that creature won't affect the ability that was just activated.
wotc25 Sept 2006
Detainment Spell prevents mana abilities of the enchanted creature from being activated.