Ugin's Binding 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
Devoid (This card has no color.) Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Whenever you cast a colorless spell with mana value 7 or greater, you may exile this card from your graveyard. When you do, return each nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Complete guide
Ugin's Binding is a versatile colorless instant that offers both targeted removal and a devastating board wipe potential. As a card with Devoid, it bypasses protection from colors and synergizes perfectly with high-cost Eldrazi and artifacts.
What Ugin's Binding Does
Despite costing blue mana, Devoid ensures this card is colorless in all zones, including the stack and graveyard. When cast, it returns a single nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Its true power, however, lies in its triggered ability: if it is in your graveyard when you cast a colorless spell with mana value 7 or greater, you can exile it to bounce every nonland permanent your opponents control.
Step-by-Step Resolution
First, when you cast a qualifying colorless spell (like a large Eldrazi), Ugin's Binding triggers from the graveyard and goes on top of the stack. You then choose whether to exile Ugin's Binding as the ability resolves. If you do, the 'When you do' reflexive trigger occurs, returning all opposing nonland permanents to their owners' hands. This all happens before your big creature spell even enters the battlefield.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
A common error is trying to trigger the graveyard ability with the same copy of Ugin's Binding you just cast. The card must already be in the graveyard at the moment you cast the 7+ mana spell; it cannot trigger if it is still on the stack. Additionally, remember that Devoid does not change color identity—this card still requires a Blue identity for Commander decks.
Interaction examples
CounterspellIf you cast a massive colorless spell and an opponent casts Counterspell on it, the graveyard ability of Ugin's Binding still resolves. Because the ability triggers upon the 'casting' of the spell, it doesn't matter if that spell is later countered or removed from the stack.
Arcane DenialYou can use Ugin's Binding to bounce a problematic blocker early in the game. Later, when you cast a 7-mana spell, you can exile it from your graveyard. If an opponent tries to stop the board wipe by using Arcane Denial on your 7-mana spell, they are too late to stop the Binding's trigger, which is already on the stack and independent of the spell's success.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Ugin's Binding
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The last ability triggers only if Ugin's Binding is in your graveyard as you cast the colorless spell. That ability will resolve before the colorless spell does. If the colorless spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack in response to Ugin's Binding's triggered ability, the ability will still resolve as normal.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
A card with devoid is just colorless. It's not colorless and the colors of mana in its mana cost.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Other cards and abilities can give a card with devoid a color. If that happens, it's just the new color, not that color and colorless.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Devoid works in all zones, not just on the battlefield.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
If a card loses devoid, it will still be colorless. This is because effects that change an object's color (like the one created by devoid) are considered before the object loses devoid.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
Devoid doesn't affect the color identity of the card for the purposes of the Commander variant. For example, while Abstruse Appropriation is colorless because it has devoid, its color identity is still white and black, and it can't be included in a Commander deck where the commander's color identity doesn't include both white and black.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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