Uncommon · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan

Confounding Riddle

Instant

Choose one —

• Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.

• Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4} .

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How it plays

What it wants, and what it gives

Read from the rules text. A card that enables a keyword makes or is the thing; a card that rewards it gets better when you have it. Two cards interact when one enables what the other rewards.

It enables

enablesSpellslingerKeyword page →Instants and sorceries, and cards that trigger when you cast them.1,018 cards reward Spellslinger

Also taggedCounterspell

Works well with

Cards that click with it

enablesSpellslingermeetsrewardsSpellslinger1,018 cards reward it

Price

Lowest printing, from Scryfall.

US market$0.21

EU market$0.14

Foil, lowest$0.29

Price history: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan #50

Non-foil
Foil

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Date	Non-foil	Foil
12 Nov 2026	$0.21	$0.29
11 Nov 2026	$0.21	$0.29

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