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Mishra's Research Desk
Price history
Mishra's Research Desk price history chart, default range 3 months. currently $0.24.
Mishra's Research Desk Price Summary
Mishra's Research Desk's current headline price is $0.24.
Mishra's Research Desk Printings & Prices
Mishra's Research Desk has 1 tracked printing across 1 sets, in nonfoil and foil finishes.
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Sell Mishra's Research Desk: Buylist Offers
| Buyer | Printing | Finish | Cash offer | Retail | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Card Kingdom | BRO #162 | Foil | — | — | — |
| CoolStuffInc | BRO #162 | Foil | — | — | — |
| Card Kingdom | BRO #162 | Nonfoil | — | — | — |
Mishra's Research Desk Rules Text & Legality
View on Scryfall ↗{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile the top two cards of your library. Choose one of them. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
Unearth {1}{R} ({1}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Mishra's Research Desk is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy and Commander, and not legal in Standard and Pauper.
Mishra's Research Desk Rulings
- Oct 14, 2022 Activating a card's unearth ability isn't the same as casting that card. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities (such as Defabricate's second mode) will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Scatter Ray) will not.
- Oct 14, 2022 At the beginning of the next end step, a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability, and it can be countered by effects such as Defabricate that counter triggered abilities. If the ability is countered, the permanent will stay on the battlefield and the delayed triggered ability won't trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the permanent if it eventually leaves the battlefield.
- Oct 14, 2022 If a permanent returned to the battlefield with unearth would leave the battlefield for any reason, it's exiled instead—unless the spell or ability that's causing the permanent to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it! In that case, it succeeds at exiling it. If that spell or ability later returns the card to the battlefield (as Static Net might, for example), the permanent card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effects will no longer apply to it.
- Oct 14, 2022 If you activate a card's unearth ability but that card is removed from your graveyard before the ability resolves, that unearth ability will do nothing as it resolves.
- Oct 14, 2022 Unearth grants haste to the permanent that's returned to the battlefield (even if it's not a creature card). However, neither of the "exile" abilities is granted to that permanent. If that permanent loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of the next end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.
Reprints & Reprint Risk
Mishra's Research Desk has been reprinted 2 times.
| Set | Date | Rarity | Treatment |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRO #162 | 2022-11-18 | Uncommon | Standard |
| BRO #162 | 2022-11-18 | Uncommon | Standard |
Mishra's Research Desk in Commander
Mishra's Research Desk is the #16,170 most-played card on EDHREC, down 379 places over the last 30 days.
Mishra's Research Desk FAQ
How much is Mishra's Research Desk worth?
Mishra's Research Desk is worth about $0.24 for its cheapest playable printing as of Sep 24, 2026.
Is Mishra's Research Desk legal in Commander?
Yes — Mishra's Research Desk is legal in Commander. It is also legal in Pioneer, Modern and Legacy.
Has Mishra's Research Desk been reprinted?
Yes — Mishra's Research Desk has been reprinted 2 times, with 1 printings tracked on The Index.
Why is Mishra's Research Desk cheap?
Mishra's Research Desk trades at about $0.24 — 2 reprints keep supply plentiful, and Commander demand is modest (#16,170 on EDHREC).