Johann's Stopgap
Mana value4TypeSorcery
Color identity Blue
RarityCommon
SetWilds of Eldraine (WOE)
ArtistChristina Kraus
Price€0.09 · foil €0.10 · $0.08About this card
Johann's Stopgap is a sorcery card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 4 (color identity: blue). Printed in Wilds of Eldraine (2023). Role in Commander: card draw and removal. Legal in Commander, Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage and Pauper. Cardmarket price: €0.09.
Johann's Stopgap
This spell costs
less to cast if it's bargained.Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
"Just ... stay in there ... for one ... second!"
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Rulings
2023-09-01
The cost-reduction ability of Johann's Stopgap doesn't change its mana cost or mana value, only the total cost you pay. Specifically, the mana value of Johann's Stopgap is always 4.
2023-09-01
If the permanent is an illegal target as Johann's Stopgap tries to resolve, Johann's Stopgap is removed from the stack and you won't draw a card.
2023-09-01
Bargain means "As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token."
2023-09-01
Bargain represents an optional additional cost. A spell cast with that additional cost paid is "bargained."
2023-09-01
You may sacrifice only one artifact, enchantment, or token to pay a spell's bargain cost.
2023-09-01
If you copy a bargained spell, the copy is also bargained. If a card or token enters the battlefield as a copy of a permanent that's already on the battlefield, the new permanent isn't bargained, even if the original was.
2023-09-01
Some instant and sorcery spells require additional targets if they're bargained. You ignore those targeting requirements if those spells aren't bargained, and you can't bargain those spells unless you can choose the appropriate targets. On the other hand, you can bargain a permanent spell even if you won't be able to choose targets for an enters-the-battlefield ability of that permanent once the spell resolves.
