Cease // Desist
Cease // Desist: Instant, Murders at Karlov Manor. Exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{B/G}
- Mana value
- 8
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- White, black and green (WBG)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM)
- Released
- 2024-02-09
- Collector number
- 246
- Artist
- Dominik Mayer
- Commander rank
- 23,052 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Cease // Desist
Cease // Desist is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon white, black and green instant from Murders at Karlov Manor (MKM), an expansion set released in February 2024. It is collector number 246 in that set, with art by Dominik Mayer. It costs {1}{B/G} to cast, for a mana value of 8. Its colour identity is white, black and green. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. Murders at Karlov Manor is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.17 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. Target player gains 2 life and draws a card.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.17 (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 Cease // Desist by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Official rulings
Six official rulings apply to Cease // Desist, newest first.
- A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Cease // Desist has a mana value of 8 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Cease // Desist.
- To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of any of the split cards featured in this set.
- Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.
- Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Cease // Desist counts once, not twice.
- If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Cease this way, but not Desist.
- Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.
Similar cards
Other instant cards with a white, black and green colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
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