---
name: "Command the Chaff"
mana_cost: "{4}{U}{U}"
cmc: 6
type_line: "Instant"
colors: []
color_identity: ["U"]
keywords: []
set: "CMB2"
set_name: "Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2021"
collector_number: "18"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "George Fan"
oracle_id: "c1b8145a-7c54-49fb-b1be-9c745a581e56"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/command-the-chaff-cmb2"
legalities:
  commander: "not_legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "not_legal"
  vintage: "not_legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Command the Chaff
- **Mana Cost:** `{4}{U}{U}` (CMC: 6)
- **Type:** Instant

## Oracle Text
Look at target opponent's sideboard. You may cast a card from that sideboard without paying its mana cost.
Exile Command the Chaff.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Your Wish Is My Command](/printing/your-wish-is-my-command-mb2.md) — Sorcery
2. [Jester's Sombrero](/printing/jesters-sombrero-ugl.md) — Artifact
3. [Planeswalker's Mischief](/printing/planeswalkers-mischief-pls.md) — Enchantment
4. [Extract Brain](/printing/extract-brain-otc.md) — Sorcery
5. [Siphon Insight](/printing/siphon-insight-otc.md) — Instant
6. [Sorcerous Sight](/printing/sorcerous-sight-por.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Mystery Booster Playtest Cards 2021 (CMB2) #18
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** George Fan

## Format Legalities
Commander: `not_legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `not_legal` | Vintage: `not_legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2019-11-12)* If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
- *(2019-11-12)* If you cast a card “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Tormenting Voice, you must pay those to cast the card.
- *(2019-11-12)* In a Limited event, each card a player opened (in a Sealed Deck event) or drafted (in a Booster Draft event) is their sideboard.
- *(2019-11-12)* You must cast the sideboard card you wish to cast while Command the Chaff is resolving. You can’t cast it later in the turn.
- *(2019-11-12)* You can’t play land cards from that sideboard.