Card Codex

M:tG card similarity search

17 May 2024: Card library updated.

Unexplained Absence

3W · Instant

For each player, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls. For each permanent exiled this way, its controller cloaks the top card of their library. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward {2}. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Similar cards

Color identity:
NameManaTypeText
Repel 3UInstant Put target creature on top of its owner's library.
Time Ebb 2USorcery Put target creature on top of its owner's library.
Narnam Renegade GCreature — Elf Warrior Deathtouch Revolt — Narnam Renegade enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it if a permanent you controlled left the battlefield this turn. 1/2
Purelace WInstant Target spell or permanent becomes white. (Mana symbols on that permanent remain unchanged.)
Umbilicus 4Artifact At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may pay 2 life. If they don't, they return a permanent they control to its owner's hand.
Holistic Wisdom 1GGEnchantment {2}, Exile a card from your hand: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand if it shares a card type with the card exiled this way. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, land, planeswalker, sorcery, and tribal are card types.)
Fluttershy 1GWLegendary Creature — Pegasus Defender, flying {1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature with a tail target player controls. Stare down up to one target creature until end of turn. (It can't attack or block as long as you're looking directly at it.) 0/4
Natural Selection GInstant Look at the top three cards of target player's library, then put them back in any order. You may have that player shuffle.
Assimilation Aegis 1WUArtifact — Equipment When Assimilation Aegis enters the battlefield, exile up to one target creature until Assimilation Aegis leaves the battlefield. Whenever Assimilation Aegis becomes attached to a creature, for as long as Assimilation Aegis remains attached to it, that creature becomes a copy of a creature card exiled with Assimilation Aegis. Equip {2}
Gerrymandering 2GSorcery Exile all lands. Give each player a number of those cards chosen at random equal to the number of those cards the player controlled. Each player returns those cards to the battlefield under their control.
Page 169