---
name: "Mission Briefing"
mana_cost: "{U}{U}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Instant"
colors: ["U"]
color_identity: ["U"]
keywords: ["Surveil"]
set: "GRN"
set_name: "Guilds of Ravnica"
collector_number: "44"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Matt Stewart"
oracle_id: "c3a68018-9eff-47e6-a612-182886d28fe3"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/mission-briefing-grn"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Mission Briefing
- **Mana Cost:** `{U}{U}` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Instant
- **Keywords:** Surveil

## Oracle Text
Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Curate](/printing/curate-mkc.md) — Instant
2. [Otherworldly Gaze](/printing/otherworldly-gaze-dbl.md) — Instant
3. [Enhanced Surveillance](/printing/enhanced-surveillance-mkc.md) — Enchantment
4. [Unauthorized Exit](/printing/unauthorized-exit-mkm.md) — Instant
5. [Spellgyre](/printing/spellgyre-blb.md) — Instant
6. [Taigam's Scheming](/printing/taigams-scheming-ktk.md) — Sorcery

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Guilds of Ravnica (GRN) #44
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Matt Stewart
- **Total Printings:** 19 across all historical editions

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