Expropriate
Expropriate: Sorcery, Conspiracy: Take the Crown. Council's dilemma - Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {7}{U}{U}
- Mana value
- 9
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Set
- Conspiracy: Take the Crown (CN2)
- Released
- 2016-08-26
- Collector number
- 30
- Artist
- Zack Stella
- Commander rank
- 2,480 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Council's dilemma
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About Expropriate
Expropriate is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare blue sorcery from Conspiracy: Take the Crown (CN2), a draft-focused set released in August 2016. It is collector number 30 in that set, with art by Zack Stella. It costs {7}{U}{U} (seven generic and two blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 9. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It is banned in Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Conspiracy: Take the Crown (2016) to Special Guests (2023). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $15.09 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Council's dilemma - Starting with you, each player votes for time or money. For each time vote, take an extra turn after this one. For each money vote, choose a permanent owned by the voter and gain control of it. Exile Expropriate.
Few things are more valuable than time or money-and Leovold has plenty of both.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $15.09 (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 Expropriate by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Banned |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Expropriate
Expropriate has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2396 | Mythic | 2026 |
| Special Guests (SPG) #66 | Mythic | 2024 |
| The List (PLST) #CN2-30 | Mythic | 2019 |
| Treasure Chest (PZ2) #65785 | Mythic | 2016 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Expropriate, newest first.
- No player votes until Expropriate resolves. Any responses to the spell must be made without knowing the outcome of the vote.
- Each player must vote for one of the available options. They can't abstain.
- Votes are cast in turn order, and each player will know the votes of players who voted beforehand.
- No player votes until the spell or ability resolves. Any responses to that spell or ability must be made without knowing the outcome of the vote.
- If a creature with an enters-the-battlefield council's dilemma ability leaves the battlefield before that ability resolves, players can still vote for any option that would put +1/+1 counters on that creature, even though-or perhaps especially because-those votes won't generate an effect.
- Players can't do anything between voting and finishing the resolution of the spell or ability that included the vote.
- The effects of each council's dilemma ability happen in the stated order. First the vote occurs, then the first effect, and finally the second effect.
- Unlike the will of the council cards from the original Conspiracy set, where a majority of votes determined what happened, each vote made for a council's dilemma card adds to the ultimate effect.
Similar cards
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