Baral's Expertise

Card text

Return up to three target artifacts and/or creatures to their owners' hands.

You may cast a spell with mana value 4 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

"Get out of my way."

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.29 (as of 2026-11-01).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Baral's Expertise by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

Other printings of Baral's Expertise

Baral's Expertise has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Baral's Expertise, newest first.

• 2017-04-18 The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If an expertise spell allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half or, if that split card has fuse, both halves.
• 2017-02-09 If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as emerge costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Cathartic Reunion, you must pay those to cast the card.
• 2017-02-09 If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
• 2017-02-09 If the Expertise spell you cast has any targets, and those targets become illegal before the spell resolves, the spell doesn't resolve and none of its effects happen. You won't get to cast a free spell.
• 2017-02-09 A card's mana value is determined solely by the mana symbols printed in its upper right corner. The mana value is the total amount of mana in that cost, regardless of color. For example, a card with mana cost {1}{U}{U} has mana value 3. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions that could apply to it. A card with no mana cost has a mana value of 0.
• 2017-02-09 Any triggered abilities that trigger while performing the Expertise spell's first effect won't be put onto the stack until after you're done casting your free spell. They're put onto the stack at the same time as any abilities that triggered while casting that spell regardless of the order in which those abilities triggered.
• 2017-02-09 The card that you cast may be an artifact or creature that was returned to your hand by this spell.
• 2017-02-09 While you're casting your free spell, the Expertise spell is still on the stack. It will be put into its owner's graveyard after the free spell is cast. The free spell can't target the Expertise card in your graveyard. It can target the Expertise spell on the stack, but the Expertise spell will become an illegal target before the free spell resolves.

Similar cards

Other sorcery cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.

• Ponder
• Windfall