Consign // Oblivion is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.) Target opponent discards two cards.
Complete guide
Consign // Oblivion is a versatile Aftermath card that provides both tempo and hand disruption in one package. By splitting its effects between the hand and the graveyard, it ensures you get maximum value out of a single card slot in your deck.
Understanding the Split
Consign // Oblivion is a split card with the Aftermath keyword. In your hand, you can cast Consign for {1}{U} to bounce a nonland permanent. Once it is in your graveyard, you can cast Oblivion for {4}{B} to force an opponent to discard two cards. After the Aftermath half resolves or leaves the stack, the card is exiled forever.
How it Resolves Step by Step
First, you cast Consign from your hand, choosing a target nonland permanent. Upon resolution, that permanent returns to its owner's hand and Consign is placed in your graveyard. Next, while the card is in your graveyard, you may cast Oblivion by paying its mana cost. The card moves to the stack immediately, meaning opponents cannot exile it in response to you beginning to cast it. Finally, after Oblivion resolves and the opponent discards two cards, the card is exiled.
Characteristics and Mana Value
While not on the stack, Consign // Oblivion has the combined characteristics of both halves. It is both an Instant and a Sorcery, its colors are Blue and Black, and its mana value is 7 (2 + 5). This is crucial for effects that check the mana value of cards in your library or graveyard.
Common Mistakes
A common error is trying to cast the Oblivion half from your hand; the Aftermath keyword strictly limits that half to being cast from the graveyard. Additionally, remember that even if Oblivion is countered, the card is still exiled due to the Aftermath rules.
Interaction examples
Sublime EpiphanyIf your opponent casts a spell, you can use Sublime Epiphany to counter it and return a threat to their hand. If you later cast Consign, you can bounce another nonland permanent. This forces the opponent to spend multiple turns re-casting their board, setting them up perfectly for the Oblivion half to discard those same cards from their hand.
Dig Through TimeWhen casting Dig Through Time, you might be tempted to exile Consign // Oblivion to pay for the Delve cost. However, because Consign // Oblivion is a single card with a mana value of 7 while in the graveyard, it only counts as one card for Delve. Be careful: if you exile it to pay for Dig Through Time, you lose the ability to cast the Oblivion half later.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Consign // Oblivion
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Once you've started to cast a spell with aftermath from your graveyard, the card is immediately moved to the stack. Opponents can't try to stop the ability by exiling the card with an effect such as that of Crook of Condemnation.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard one, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard, Destined // Lead counts once, not twice.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one, but not both.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
While not on the stack, the characteristics of a split card are the combination of its two halves. For example, Destined // Lead is a green and black card, it is both an instant card and a sorcery card, and its mana value is 6. This means that if an effect allows you to cast a card with mana value 2 from your hand, you can't cast Destined. This is a change from the previous rules for split cards.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
If you cast the first half of a split card with aftermath during your turn, you'll have priority immediately after it resolves. You can cast the half with aftermath from your graveyard before any player can take any other action if it's legal for you to do so.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from any zone other than a graveyard, you can't cast the half with aftermath.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
If another effect allows you to cast a split card with aftermath from a graveyard, you may cast either half. If you cast the half that has aftermath, you'll exile the card if it would leave the stack.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #8· Wizards of the Coast
A spell with aftermath cast from a graveyard will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it's countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #9· Wizards of the Coast
All split cards have two card faces on a single card, and you put a split card onto the stack with only the half you're casting. The characteristics of the half of the card you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack. For example, if an effect prevents you from casting green spells, you can cast Destined of Destined // Lead, but not Lead.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #10· Wizards of the Coast
Split cards with aftermath have a new frame treatment—the half you can cast from your hand is oriented the same as other cards you'd cast from your hand, while the half you can cast from your graveyard is a traditional split card half. This frame treatment is for your convenience and has no rules significance.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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