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Incubation // Incongruity, art by Mike Bierek
Art by Mike Bierek · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · image via Scryfall
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Incubation // Incongruity

{G/U} // {1}{G}{U} · Sorcery // Instant

Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. // Exile target creature. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Rulings (8)

Jan 25, 2019 · If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Incongruity tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. No player creates a Frog Lizard token.

Dec 8, 2022 · A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery.

Dec 8, 2022 · Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice.

Dec 8, 2022 · To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card.

Dec 8, 2022 · If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery.

Dec 8, 2022 · If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery.

Dec 8, 2022 · Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.

Dec 8, 2022 · Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
ModernLegal
PioneerLegal
StandardNot legal
PauperNot legal
PremodernNot legal
cEDHLegal

Where it’s played now

Inclusion by archetype · Modern

% of archetype's lists running it · last 30 days · n=109 decks
ArchetypeFormatInclusionCopiesDecks (n)
Living EndModern2.8%1–2×109
Data as of Jun 14, 2026 · MTGO + papercasthaven.com

Price

Incubation // Incongruity — price trend

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