Inaction Injunction

Sorcery

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.)
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CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Return to Ravnica
Price
$0.05
EDHREC rank
#19981
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Inaction Injunction card art
Inaction Injunction taps a creature and locks it down until its controller pays two mana — relevant stax pressure stapled to a cantrip that replaces itself immediately. The cost is that it does nothing permanent: a well-timed mana payment undoes all of it, and Lyse Hext aside, most decks would rather run hard removal.

Best Commanders

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Lyse Hext

Lyse Hext

17.8% of decks · synergy 0.18

Lyse Hext cares about casting and copying spells, and Inaction Injunction pulls double duty — it slows the most dangerous creature across the table while drawing into the next spell in the chain, which is exactly the tempo Lyse Hext wants to maintain through the early game.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

In Commander, Inaction Injunction is a niche piece: the cantrip makes it nearly free to include, but tapping one creature in a four-player game rarely changes the board state enough to justify the slot unless you're building around the effect. Pauper is where it has the most legitimate standing — the format is slower, a locked attacker matters more per turn, and commons that replace themselves are genuinely scarce. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it sits below the power floor; there are cheaper, permanent answers at every point on the curve. Vintage doesn't want it either — by the time a creature is threatening enough to tap, you want it gone, not temporarily inconvenienced.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.05 bulk tier

At $0.05, Inaction Injunction is deep bulk — you'll find it in a commons box before you find it on a vendor page. That price is stable by default: there's no spike coming for a conditional tap effect, so buy as many as you need without a second thought.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.