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Enchantment — Aura
LegalRampRank #747
Enchant creature, land, or planeswalker
Enchanted permanent is a colorless land with "
: Add 
" and loses all other card types and abilities.
KeywordsEnchant
Why is this card good?
Imprisoned in the Moon is one of blue's most flexible removal pieces because it doesn't care what it's hitting. It turns the target into a do-nothing colorless land — and critically, it answers things that are normally hard for blue to deal with.
- Hits anything that matters: commanders, planeswalkers, problematic lands (Cabal Coffers, Gaea's Cradle, Maze of Ith), and indestructible/hexproof-from-creatures threats. It's "exile"-adjacent without being exile.
- Beats commander recursion: because it doesn't kill the creature, opponents can't just recast their commander from the command zone. That's a huge edge against voltron and value commanders.
The downside: it's an Aura, so it dies to enchantment removal and naturally falls off when the permanent is bounced, sacrificed, or flickered — returning the threat fresh. It also leaves them a land, which feeds ramp-punishing strategies on the wrong side.
Play it in any blue control, midrange, or tempo deck. Skip it in fast combo lists that prefer counterspells, or where you can't reliably protect the Aura.
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Printings (12)
Played by these commanders
Gimbal, Gremlin Prodigy100% of 1
Galea, Kindler of Hope100% of 1
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity100% of 2
Millicent, Restless Revenant100% of 1