Invoke Prejudice

Enchantment

On the Topic of Depictions of Racism in Magic.

Whenever an opponent plays a nonartifact creature spell that doesn't share a color with a creature you control, counter that spell unless its controller pays (X), where X is its converted mana cost.

Legality

Format	Legality
Archenemy	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Oldschool 93/94	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal

Discussion (48)

legendofa on Unblockable

7 months ago

Invoke Prejudice is banned in all formats. That's what's marking this deck as not legal.

Ravenrose on If magic made a spin-off …

1 year ago

I personally would like to see a spin-off game that is either using Flesh & Blood mechanics, or I think they should make an RPG. I know D&D is starting to use MTG worlds - I personally am planning on DMing a Theros campaign - but hear me out.

There will be some rules that are the same as in D&D and some similar character races but the point is to create your own Planeswalker, see what their mana alignment is, their magical specialty and adventures through the multiverse. Perhaps your character is like the Wandering Emperor of Kamigawa and can't help Planeswalking. But depending on what you choose, it can also help indicate your interactions with other Planeswalkers and NPCs. You can choose whether or not to get involved in problems on a plane, or to be the one to cause problems.

On the subject of potentially inappropriate imagery, I agree that the KKK imagery on Invoke Prejudice should never have been given the green light, especially by an artist who I think held some of those questionable views. But, and here is where the historian and lets-study-how-humans-tick side to me comes in, I find it fascinating to see how it did, why it did and why it shouldn't be permitted now. Do I agree it should stay? Hades to the no. Because I am aware of the offence it causes and questionable origins of the card.

Also, I am going to say that pure Nazi imagery should never be put on a card. What I do think is that sometimes villains need to be made obvious - why else did the original Lion King use it? Why dress Death Eaters in awesome black cloaks and ornate silver masks? It's distinctive and let's people know, "OI! You see them? Fecking run!" Or in my case, be quietly jealous about the awesome fashion sense while running away, but I digress. Should the swastika be on a Magic card? Obvi, no. Should there be a concentration camp? NO! Should there be an equally evil looking banners and creepy as shite looking buildings? Yes. Should history INSPIRE the cards? Historian in me says yes.

Why? Because real life and real people fuel better characters and settings (yes I know, writer tangent - sorry). I loved Ixalan because I could recognised the history and loved the lore. Which made it better when the dinos (my faves) beat the ever loving fangs out of those leeches. I want to have some level of grey morality and obvious villains because that is when the interesting debates and thoughts come out. I am an academic, and despite me taking a sabbatical to work on a PhD idea, I will always be one.

Also, keep any other series away from Magic. I still hate those stupid Secret Lairs. Though I love the new cards they made from the Stranger Things one.

Sproet on Legacy Banlist

1 year ago

You forgot Crusade, Jihad, Invoke Prejudice, Pradesh Gypsies, Cleanse, Stone-Throwing Devils, and Imprison

vishnarg on If you could make it …

1 year ago

If it were up to WOTC obviously it would be Invoke Prejudice

I had to think about this a lot, and I'm not sure this is my final answer, but I think we can all agree if Eldraine never included Oko, Thief of Crowns, nobody would be any worse off.

EVEN-ELITE on The Most Expensive EDH Deck Ever

2 years ago

It's banned in EDH, as are the "racist" cards Invoke Prejudice and Jihad. I still can't believe that WotC did that...

Icbrgr on Censorship

2 years ago

Times are just different now... even in the history of magic cards/art there are now forbidden Crusade, Invoke Prejudice, Jihad, Cleanse, Stone-Throwing Devils, Imprison ect ect...

This hasnt happened to me personally no....but iv'e seen wild threads in the blind eternities that went on that had less to do with magic/the game than Oof_Magic's original/copied posts.

If someone where to make a post saying that they were upset with the author of the war of the sparks decision to undo Nissa and Chandras relationship/sexual preferences that would be allowed to let the conversation develop..... I cant say the same would be allowed/tolerated if it went the other direction. If someone were to make a post/thread about Niko Aris and their opinions surrounding the planswalkers lore and creation I could also only assume the conversation would be allowed to go one way as well.

enpc on Will we see less cards …

3 years ago

DemonDragonJ: There's nuance here though. The cards you've listed were banned due to either racist undertones or to historical events which some construe as racist. And while historical events should always be evaluated in the context of their day (i.e. nuance is required here too), the justification for the ban was at least clear.

Here, the 'cleanest' line of argument for plague themed cards being banned is: "MtG has plague themed cards, there is a current pandemic whihc is bigger than any other recent pandemic, I know somebody who died becuase of the pandemic, I'm angry at any reminder about the pandemic, ergo, I am angry at WotC for having cards which remind me of this."

This is very clearly a stretch, as the same argument could be that the game in general depicts death and somebody might be upset about the death of a loved one (from a COVID unrelated issue). But this very dangerous, as it's not WotC's responsibility to ensure that they don't upset anybody about anything. Additionally, it's important that we push back on people arbitrarily projecting offense about things. Nobody wins in these situations. Again (like with all things) emapthy and nuance is required on both sides, but the diea of being offended does not immediately make you in the right and the other person in the wrong. The basis of the claim should actually be assessed and then people should move forward from there.

As I mentioned before, at least with the banned cards, they directly referenced either racist slurs or themes (like Invoke Prejudice ) or were a direct reference to a specific event (in the case of Crusade ) rather than a general plague theme.

And look, I know there are a lot of discussions around painting all these cards with the same brush despite being banned for different reasons, however (and without derailing the conversation to talk about the banned cards) there were better ways that WotC could have handled all this.

Rabid_Wombat on None

3 years ago

I have an Invoke Prejudice somewhere...kinda want to sell it now ;)