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Mental Misstep 
Mental Misstep appeared in 1,741 MTGO Challenge Top-8 decks over the past 12 months, averaging 1 copies per deck. Its current TCGplayer price is $8.55.
Oracle Text
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Counter target spell with mana value 1.Format Legality
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Mental Misstep, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vintage | 82 | 1 | 1077 | 1 |
| Duel Commander | 15 | 1 | 664 | 1 |
Details
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 30
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Mental Misstep
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (5)
Lands (16)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix - 1 Assassin's Trophy$0.70 0.02 tix
- 2 By Force
$0.27
0.03 tix - 2 Fatal Push$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix - 3 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix - 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix - 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix - 3 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (6)
Planeswalkers (5)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
- 1 Gush$2.41 0.04 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 3 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (6)
Planeswalkers (5)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (6)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (4)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Ceremonious Rejection
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix - 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Infernal Reckoning
$0.30
0.02 tix - 4 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Tarmogoyf
$5.38
0.03 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Ceremonious Rejection
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Infernal Reckoning
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 3 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Tarmogoyf
$5.38
0.03 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (19)
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (4)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (4)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
- 1 Trygon Predator
$0.14
0.02 tix
- 1 Phantasmal Image
$4.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
$2.17
0.02 tix
- 4 Vengevine
$5.72
1.69 tix
- 1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
$0.26
0.10 tix
- 1 Wonder
$1.25
0.02 tix
- 4 Hollow One
$0.31
0.10 tix - 2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
$0.63
1.16 tix
- 4 Deathrite Shaman
$4.88
0.71 tix - 4 Basking Rootwalla
$0.13
0.01 tix
Sorceries (2)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (18)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Sorcerous Spyglass
$0.08
0.02 tix
- 3 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (16)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (17)
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.03
0.03 tix - 1 Firespout
$0.37
0.02 tix - 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 3 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (19)
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 1 Gifts Ungiven
$5.43
0.02 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 2 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Mana Drain
$51.06
0.40 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (10)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (19)
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (6)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 9
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (19)
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 3 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 3 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (4)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2