Karn's Temporal Sundering
Karn's Temporal Sundering: Legendary Sorcery, Dominaria. Target player takes an extra turn after this one. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {4}{U}{U}
- Mana value
- 6
- Type
- Legendary Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Dominaria (DOM)
- Released
- 2018-04-27
- Collector number
- 55
- Artist
- Noah Bradley
- Commander rank
- 4,042 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Karn's Temporal Sundering
Karn's Temporal Sundering is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue legendary sorcery from Dominaria (DOM), an expansion set released in April 2018. It is collector number 55 in that set, with art by Noah Bradley. It costs {4}{U}{U} (four generic and two blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 6. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.68 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Target player takes an extra turn after this one. Return up to one target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Exile Karn's Temporal Sundering.
Centuries ago, a quest to harness time became a spiral into chaos.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.68 (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 Karn's Temporal Sundering by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Karn's Temporal Sundering
Karn's Temporal Sundering has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Dominaria Promos (PDOM) #55s | Rare | 2018 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to Karn's Temporal Sundering, newest first.
- You can’t cast a legendary sorcery unless you control a legendary creature or a legendary planeswalker. Once you begin to cast a legendary sorcery, losing control of your legendary creatures and planeswalkers won’t affect that spell.
- If the target player or target nonland permanent is an illegal target as Karn’s Temporal Sundering resolves, the other target is affected as normal and Karn’s Temporal Sundering is exiled. If both targets are illegal, Karn’s Temporal Sundering doesn’t resolve and isn’t exiled.
- Other than the casting restriction, the legendary supertype on a sorcery carries no additional rules. You may cast any number of legendary sorceries in a turn, and your deck may contain any number of legendary cards (but no more than four of any with the same name).
Similar cards
Other sorcery cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
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