Future Sight and lands on opponent's turn
Asked by CaiusV 7 years ago
If I have Future Sight out, and the top card of my library is a mana, can I play that mana on my opponent's turn?
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #2
Remember to check the Gatherer rulings before posting a question. Gatherer rulings include FAQs and other relevant clarifications that answer most questions typically asked about specific cards.
6/8/2016: You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions for the top card of your library and pay its costs. If it has alternative or additional costs, you may pay those. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
6/8/2016: If the top card of your library is a land, you may play that land only if you have any available land plays.
You don't get any land plays on an opponent's turn. You can only play lands whenever you could normally cast a sorcery, meaning during one of your own main phases while the stack is empty and you have priority.
Note also that land and mana are not the same thing. Lands are cards (or sometimes tokens) that can generally produce mana. Mana is an intangible resource used to pay for certain kinds of costs. You don't play mana. Mana cards don't exist.
February 11, 2017 3:42 a.m.
Panzerforge says... #3
So you also, under normal conditions, couldn't play that land if you'd already a land in your turn.
If you have an ability that allows to play lands during your opponent's turn, that will be an exception, but make sure it doesn't say "from your hand" like Burgeoning.
Hope this helps!
February 11, 2017 3:45 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #4
As far as I'm aware, there are no effects that allow you to play lands on any other player's turn.
Note that putting a land onto the battlefield is not the same as playing a land.
February 11, 2017 4:05 a.m.
Panzerforge says... #5
I hadn't looked, so I wasn't willing to say it's impossible.
Closest thing I could think of off the top of my head was Burgeoning, but that's only for lands in hand.
February 11, 2017 4:07 a.m.
Panzerforge says... #6
Can't even cast Quicken then Summer Bloom. (Wouldn't work.)
Dang.
It's looking like this is becoming a 100% "no."
February 11, 2017 4:20 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #7
There's actually a rule that specifically says you can't play lands on other peoples' turns.
305.3. A player can't play a land, for any reason, if it isn't his or her turn. Ignore any part of an effect that instructs a player to do so.
February 11, 2017 12:11 p.m.
You can only play a land during one of your own main phases when you have an unused land drop. Normally, you're also restricted to the stack being empty, but if the land has flash (specifically if that land is Dryad Arbor and you control Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir) you may play it while there are spells or abilities on the stack.
Panzerforge says... #1
You can only play the card when it would be legal to play normally.
So "no."
February 11, 2017 2:53 a.m. Edited.