---
name: "Stormcage Containment Facility"
mana_cost: "N/A"
cmc: 0
type_line: "Plane — Unknown Planet"
colors: []
color_identity: []
keywords: ["Detain"]
set: "WHO"
set_name: "Doctor Who"
collector_number: "600"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Calder Moore"
oracle_id: "204ee01c-74ca-4c4c-92db-aebeebb89406"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/stormcage-containment-facility-who"
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"
---

# Stormcage Containment Facility
- **Mana Cost:** `N/A` (CMC: 0)
- **Type:** Plane — Unknown Planet
- **Keywords:** Detain

## Oracle Text
Each creature card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to the card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast cards from your graveyard for their escape cost.)
Whenever chaos ensues, detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Underworld Breach](/printing/underworld-breach-thb.md) — Enchantment
2. [From the Catacombs](/printing/from-the-catacombs-clb.md) — Sorcery
3. [Grafdigger's Cage](/printing/grafdiggers-cage-m20.md) — Artifact
4. [Loathsome Chimera](/printing/loathsome-chimera-thb.md) — Creature — Chimera
5. [Sleep of the Dead](/printing/sleep-of-the-dead-thb.md) — Sorcery
6. [Soulless Jailer](/printing/soulless-jailer-one.md) — Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Doctor Who (WHO) #600
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Calder Moore

## 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
- *(2023-10-13)* If you cast a spell with its escape permission, you can't choose to apply any other alternative costs or to cast it without paying its mana cost. If it has any additional costs, you must pay those.
- *(2023-10-13)* If you're casting a modal double-faced card with escape, you choose how you wish to cast it, then pay the appropriate cost (for the face you're casting) plus exiling three other cards.
- *(2023-10-13)* If a card has no mana cost, its escape cost is an unpayable cost, so you can't cast it for that cost.
- *(2023-10-13)* The static abilities of a detained permanent still apply. The triggered abilities of a detained permanent can still trigger.
- *(2023-10-13)* Once you begin casting a spell with escape, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can't take any other actions until you're done casting the spell.
- *(2023-10-13)* Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form "[cost]: [effect]." No one can activate any activated abilities, including mana abilities, of a detained permanent.