---
name: "Highway Robbery"
mana_cost: "{1}{R}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Sorcery"
colors: ["R"]
color_identity: ["R"]
keywords: ["Plot"]
set: "OTJ"
set_name: "Outlaws of Thunder Junction"
collector_number: "129"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Scott Murphy"
oracle_id: "df020a47-1784-479b-9882-be77b7f30950"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/highway-robbery-otj"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Highway Robbery
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{R}` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Sorcery
- **Keywords:** Plot

## Oracle Text
You may discard a card or sacrifice a land. If you do, draw two cards.
Plot {1}{R} (You may pay {1}{R} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

> *The fires weren't even out before the backstabbing began.*

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Rob the Archives](/printing/rob-the-archives-snc.md) — Sorcery
2. [Pyretic Charge](/printing/pyretic-charge-otc.md) — Sorcery
3. [Tormenting Voice](/printing/tormenting-voice-sir.md) — Sorcery
4. [Thrill of Possibility](/printing/thrill-of-possibility-one.md) — Instant
5. [Pitiless Carnage](/printing/pitiless-carnage-otj.md) — Sorcery
6. [Steal the Show](/printing/steal-the-show-psos.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Outlaws of Thunder Junction (OTJ) #129
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Scott Murphy
- **Total Printings:** 8 across all historical editions

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