Unauthorized Exit
Instant
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Murders at Karlov Manor
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #9687
Unauthorized Exit bounces a nonland permanent and surveil 2s on the way out — interaction plus card selection stapled together for two mana. In any blue deck that wants to filter toward specific pieces, that's a clean rate; in Mirko, Obsessive Theorist specifically, every surveil trigger is a free mill-and-reanimate setup.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
Mirko, Obsessive Theorist turns each surveil into a free entomb effect, so Unauthorized Exit pulling double duty as a bounce spell and a two-card-deep surveil makes it an engine piece rather than just removal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Unauthorized Exit is legal across every major format but sees almost no play outside Commander — in competitive formats like Modern and Pioneer, two mana for a bounce spell without a relevant body attached doesn't clear the bar when Brainstorm effects and counterspells exist. In Pauper it's at least conceivable in a surveil-matters shell, but the card doesn't have a proven home there. Commander is where Unauthorized Exit earns its slot, specifically in commanders that convert surveil into direct card advantage or graveyard setup — Mirko decks in particular treat it as cheap, repeatable fuel.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Unauthorized Exit is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card itself. Bulk commons at this price point don't appreciate unless they spike in a competitive format, and nothing about this card's design suggests that's coming.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.