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Torpor Orb

6 printings listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Torpor Orb, The Big Score Promos printing
The Big Score Promos PBIG · No. 27p 2026-01-23

Card text

{2}
Artifact
Creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.
"Devour the hope of a world and it will bow before you." —Fomori inscription
EDHREC rank #3579 Mythic Not on the Reserved List
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The 6 printings

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Standard ✓ Legal
Pioneer ✓ Legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✓ Legal
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ∅ Not legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

7 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

Abilities that apply "as [this creature] enters the battlefield," including many abilities that ask a creature's controller to choose a color or creature type, are unaffected.

2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast

Replacement effects are unaffected by Torpor Orb's ability. For example, a creature that enters the battlefield with one +1/+1 counter on it will still receive a +1/+1 counter.

2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast

Look at the permanent as it exists on the battlefield, taking into account continuous effects, to determine whether any triggered abilities will trigger. For example, if you control March of the Machines, which says, in part, "Each noncreature artifact is an artifact creature," each artifact will be a creature at the time it enters the battlefield and will not cause triggered abilities to trigger.

2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast

Triggered abilities use the word "when," "whenever," or "at." They're often written as "[Trigger condition], [effect]." Some keyword abilities are triggered abilities and will have "when," "whenever," or "at the beginning of" in their reminder text.

2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast

Torpor Orb stops a creature's own enters-the-battlefield triggered abilities as well as other triggered abilities that would trigger when a creature enters the battlefield.

2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast

The trigger event doesn't have to specify "creatures" entering the battlefield. For example, Captain Storm, Cosmium Raider from the Lost Caverns of Ixalan release has an ability that says "Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on target Pirate you control." If an artifact creature enters the battlefield under your control, that ability won't trigger. If a noncreature artifact enters the battlefield under your control, the ability will trigger.

2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast

If Torpor Orb and a creature enter the battlefield at the same time, that creature entering the battlefield won't cause triggered abilities to trigger.

2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast

All printings

Torpor Orb, Mystery Booster 2 printing
Mystery Booster 2
MB2 · #236
Rare
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
Northern War Table · Condition LP