Mental Misstep
Mental Misstep: Instant, Mystery Booster 2. Counter target spell with mana value 1. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {U/P}
- Mana value
- 1
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2 (MB2)
- Released
- 2024-08-02
- Collector number
- 30
- Artist
- Erica Yang
- Commander rank
- 459 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Mental Misstep
Mental Misstep is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue instant from Mystery Booster 2 (MB2), a Masters set released in August 2024. It is collector number 30 in that set, with art by Erica Yang. It costs {U/P} to cast, for a mana value of 1. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and PreDH. It is banned in Modern and Legacy. It is restricted in Vintage. It has been printed in 6 sets, from New Phyrexia (2011) to Mystery Booster 2 (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $7.10 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Counter target spell with mana value 1.
"Your first mistake was thinking I would let you live long enough to make a second." -Sarnvax, Gitaxian sective
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $7.10 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Mental Misstep by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Banned |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Banned |
| Vintage | Restricted |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Mental Misstep
Mental Misstep has been printed in 6 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #143 | Uncommon | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #22 | Uncommon | 2026 |
| The Zeta Set (SLZ) #264 | Uncommon | 2026 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2373 | Rare | 2026 |
| Eternal Weekend (PEWK) #2023a | Rare | 2023 |
| Media and Collaboration Promos (PMEI) #2023-1 | Rare | 2023 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1179 | Rare | 2022 |
| New Phyrexia (NPH) #38 | Uncommon | 2011 |
Official rulings
Seven official rulings apply to Mental Misstep, newest first.
- Each Phyrexian mana symbol in a spell's mana cost contributes 1 to that spell's mana value. For example, Mental Misstep's mana value is 1, regardless of how its cost was paid.
- To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
- If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be the value chosen for it while that spell is on the stack.
- As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.
- A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.
- If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
- Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
Similar cards
Other instant cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
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