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Mental Misstep 
Instant
Mental Misstep appeared in 1,749 MTGO Challenge Top-8 decks over the past 12 months, averaging 1 copies per deck. Its current TCGplayer price is $8.55.
Oracle Text
( can be paid with either 
or 2 life.)
Counter target spell with mana value 1.
can be paid with either or 2 life.)
Counter target spell with mana value 1.Format Legality
ModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Mental Misstep, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vintage | 88 | 1 | 1082 | 1 |
| Duel Commander | 15 | 1 | 667 | 1 |
Details
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 30
Non-foilBorderless
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Mental Misstep
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix - 1 By Force
$0.27
0.03 tix - 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix - 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 2 Ingot Chewer
$0.14
0.03 tix - 1 Keranos, God of Storms
$11.21
0.02 tix - 1 Molten Disaster
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Punishing Fire
$0.29
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Rack and Ruin
$0.17
0.04 tix
- 1 Rending Volley
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Shattering Pulse
$0.21
0.04 tix
- 1 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 True-Name Nemesis
$2.71
0.73 tix
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Creeping Tar Pit$0.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 1 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 1 Treetop Village$0.33 0.03 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 3 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix - 1 Dread of Night
$0.39
0.55 tix - 2 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 3 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Manglehorn
$0.91
0.03 tix - 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Instants (18)
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 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 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 3 Mana Drain
$51.06
0.40 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (5)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Creeping Tar Pit$0.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 2 Mishra's Factory$0.15 0.03 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 3 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 3 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (22)
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 3 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
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 3 Mana Drain
$51.06
0.40 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (10)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (15)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 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
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Tolarian Academy$177.50 2.89 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 By Force
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.07 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 4 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Subterranean Tremors
$1.13
0.05 tix
- 1 Sulfur Elemental
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix - 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (15)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
14.55 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
23.97 tix
- 1 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.14 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.97 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.04 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.81 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.60 tix
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 1 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Arcane Laboratory
$0.56
0.04 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix
- 1 Dread of Night
$0.39
0.55 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Illness in the Ranks
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 3 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (19)
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 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 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
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 3 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (6)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Disenchant
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (23)
- 1 Rebuild
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 3 Thirst for Knowledge
$0.11
0.01 tix
- 4 Paradoxical Outcome
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Mana Drain
$51.06
0.40 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix
Artifacts (13)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 tix
- 1 Chrome Mox
$38.87
1.82 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
14.55 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
23.97 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.97 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.04 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.81 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.60 tix
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 1 Memory Jar
$36.82
0.36 tix
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 3 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (18)
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 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 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 3 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (6)
Lands (16)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 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
- 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 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (23)
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 3 Thirst for Knowledge
$0.11
0.01 tix
- 3 Paradoxical Outcome
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 3 Mana Drain
$51.06
0.40 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix
Artifacts (13)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
14.55 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
23.97 tix
- 1 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.14 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.97 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.04 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.81 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.60 tix
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Tomb$48.51 6.50 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix
- 1 Dread of Night
$0.39
0.55 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 2 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (7)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (21)
- 2 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Gifts Ungiven
$5.43
0.02 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
- 2 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
- 4 Mana Drain
$51.06
0.40 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (21)
- 2 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Gifts Ungiven
$5.43
0.02 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
- 2 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
- 4 Mana Drain
$51.06
0.40 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (7)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 1 By Force
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 2 Ingot Chewer
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Molten Disaster
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Rack and Ruin
$0.17
0.04 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.78 tix
- 1 Rending Volley
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Shattering Pulse
$0.21
0.04 tix
- 1 Sower of Temptation
$2.11
0.02 tix
- 1 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Tradewind Rider
$0.65
0.02 tix
- 1 True-Name Nemesis
$2.71
0.73 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (22)
- 3 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 3 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 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 Mana Drain
$51.06
0.40 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (8)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Disenchant
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Fragmentize
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (15)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
14.55 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
23.97 tix
- 1 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.14 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.97 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.04 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.81 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.60 tix
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 1 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix