Oblivion Ring

Enchantment

When Oblivion Ring enters the battlefield, exile another target nonland permanent.

When Oblivion Ring leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

TheoryCrafter on Beta Brackets Update Today

3 weeks ago

Personally, if we're going to have a whole bracket system, we may as well just unban everything that isn't an ante, conspiracy or is racist and set a minimum bracket for specific cards. Such as all cards currently banned means you can only play it in Bracket five while a card like Teferi's ProtectionGC can only be played in perhaps(?) no lower than bracket 3.

With that said I don't think there was a bad call the whole announcement. I know Y'all aren't happy about Coalition Victory. However, it's a spell with a mana cost of 8 and every color except Green has at least one counter spell with a mana value of 2 or less that can handle it. Not to mention the countless spells that cost one black mana to force a discard and there's cards like Naturalize to destroy Dryad of the Ilysian Grove or Leyline of the Guildpact(which some players won't be able to afford purchasing, anyways) as soon as Coalition Victory is cast.

While I don't ever see myself building a deck around Braids, Cabal Minion I can definitely see someday putting her in the Juri, Master of the Revue Deck I am currently building.

Because Sway of the Stars is now unbanned, it's not that difficult to win a game of Commander with Battle of Wits in it. One just needs to activate Spawnsire of Ulamog's 2nd activated ability to put a lotta Eldrazi on the battlefield, target Battle of Wits with Oblivion Ring or Detention Sphere, then cast Sway of the Stars for the win. Provided you can find a playgroup willing to tolerate a wish board of 103 or more cards.

May you draw well.

SufferFromEDHD on Enchantment Recursion.

1 month ago

Lose the artifacts add Wild Growth, Utopia Sprawl and/or Fertile Ground. Possibly Stony Silence.

Extinguish All Hope > Blot Out

On Thin Ice, Oblivion Ring or Parallax Wave > Swords to Plowshares

LunchBox1211 on Aces in Exile

1 month ago

After some more pauper experience, I'm going to take Grubbernaut's advice regarding Journey to Nowhere. Banishing Light is going in side board just in case I do need them, and I'm removing Oblivion Ring because it's more expensive IRL.

Flarhoon13 on For all Intet's Purposes, Dreaming Dragons

1 month ago

Regarding the win over Jesse's constant removal... When I killed Jesse, all my dragons emerged from the exile his Oblivion Ring effects had subjected them to. So, my air force made short work of my other opponents.

Chaospyke on Blinking Grasp of Fate and …

1 month ago

Legendofa is wrong. If you control and own grasp of fate and Urabrask's Forge is exiled with it, then you flicker the Grasp of fate using Brago's ability, you can target that Urabrask's Forge that re-entered. Grasp of Fate is worded differently from Oblivion Ring and was is colloquially called "New O-ring" text. As the ruling says, nothing happens between Grasp leaving the battlefield and the exiled cards returning. Urabrask's Forge would return during the middle of resolution of Brago's ability while all targets are exiled. Once all targets have returned and Brago's ability has finished resolving, then Grasp's ability would go onto the stack. At this time Urabrask's Forge is on the battlefield and a legal target for Grasp's ability.

For the record, this same scenario would not work for Oblivion Ring as Oblivion ring has a separate triggered ability that triggers when it leaves the battlefield. If you had an O-ring or similar effect when the return ability is on a different trigger, then Brago's ability would resolve causing the O-ring to leave the battlefield and return. Once it returns, you must immediately choose a target to exile with it, but what ever was previously exiled with would not have returned yet as the return triggered ability would not have resolved. Effects like this that have a separate ability for the return trigger are colloquially called "Old O-ring" effects.

Flarhoon13 on Hey Macleod, Get offa my ewe! (Angus Mackenzie)

4 months ago

Also, I had a Greater Tanuki in hand to apply beats plus Moon-Blessed Cleric and Vizier of Remedies, which had been exiled by John's Oblivion Ring cognate.

DemonDragonJ on Why Did WotC Change the …

5 months ago

wallisface, do you believe that that is why WotC is no longer reprinting Oblivion Ring and instead reprinting Banishing Light?

Flarhoon13 on For all Intet's Purposes, Dreaming Dragons

6 months ago

May 3, 2024 I started a new quest. Having built 52 decks, I endeavoured to play them all, in roughly the same order as I created them.

June 14

For all Intet's Purposes, Dreaming Dragons won. 13-11. Great game, actually. Jesse exiled all creatures the turn before I was planning to kick a Rite of Replication on Scourge of Valkas. That would have been over 200 damage. Some few turns later facing Jesse's constant Oblivion Ring removal effects, I still won via Temur Ascendancy and Utvara Hellkite. Earthquake Dragon--I cast for 1 lol. Emrakul, the Promised End came out with haste via Selvala's Stampede. It was a relentless Thunder of dragons!!!