Plan the Heist
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Surveil 3 if you have no cards in hand. Then draw three cards. (To surveil 3, look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Plot {3}{U} (You may pay {3}{U} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
What it does
Tagged as Card draw — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.
Official rulings
- You can’t cast a plotted card on the same turn it became plotted. On any future turn, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost during your main phase while the stack is empty. (2024-04-12)
- Exiling a card using its plot ability is a special action. Once you announce you’re taking that action, no other player can respond by trying to remove that card from your hand. (2024-04-12)
- If a plotted card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost. (2024-04-12)
- If you’re casting a plotted card from exile without paying its mana cost, you can’t choose to cast it for any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the plotted card has any mandatory additional costs, those must still be paid to cast the spell. (2024-04-12)
- You’ll only surveil 3 if you have no cards in hand when Plan the Heist resolves, but you’ll still draw three cards either way. (2024-04-12)
- Plot abilities are written “Plot [cost],” which means “Any time you have priority during your main phase while the stack is empty, you may pay [cost] and exile this card from your hand. It becomes plotted.” (2024-04-12)
Printings & prices
Every set Plan the Heist has been printed in, with the art, the finishes and the market price of each — the headline price above is the cheapest of these.
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