Psychic Battle
Psychic Battle: Enchantment, Invasion. Whenever a player chooses one or more targets, each player reveals the top card of their library. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{U}
- Mana value
- 5
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Invasion (INV)
- Released
- 2000-10-02
- Collector number
- 68
- Artist
- Ray Lago
- Commander rank
- 17,165 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Psychic Battle
Psychic Battle is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue enchantment from Invasion (INV), an expansion set released in October 2000. It is collector number 68 in that set, with art by Ray Lago. It costs {3}{U}{U} (three generic and two blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and PreDH. It has been printed in 2 sets, from Invasion (2000) to The List (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.24 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Whenever a player chooses one or more targets, each player reveals the top card of their library. The player who reveals the card with the greatest mana value may change the target or targets. If two or more cards are tied for greatest, the target or targets remain unchanged. Changing targets this way doesn't trigger abilities of permanents named Psychic Battle.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.24 (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 Psychic Battle by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Psychic Battle
Psychic Battle has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #INV-68 | Rare | 2026 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Psychic Battle, newest first.
- The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves.
- You can't change the number of targets, choose an illegal target, or make something get targeted more than once.
- An empty library will have no card to reveal, so a player with an empty library has no card to compare. The effect looks for the highest cost card of the cards that actually are revealed.
- You can change all, some, or none of the targets.
Similar cards
Other enchantment cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Psychic Battle is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.