Collective Defiance

Collective Defiance

{1}{R}{R}Sorcery

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Escalate {1} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)

Choose one or more —

• Target player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards.

• Collective Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature.

• Collective Defiance deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

What it does

Tagged as Card draw · Removal — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.

Official rulings

  1. Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added. (2016-07-13)
  2. If an effect allows you to cast a spell that has escalate without paying its mana cost, you pay escalate costs for that spell if you choose more than one mode. (2016-07-13)
  3. Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value. (2016-07-13)
  4. You choose all of your modes at once. You can’t wait to perform one mode’s actions and then decide to choose more modes. (2016-07-13)
  5. You can’t choose any one mode multiple times. (2016-07-13)
  6. If two of the chosen modes of an escalate spell target a creature, you may choose the same creature for each mode’s target, or choose different creatures. The same is true if the chosen modes target a player (or opponent). (2016-07-13)
  7. If one target of an escalate spell becomes illegal, the other targets will still be affected. If all of the targets become illegal, the spell won’t resolve. (2016-07-13)

Printings & prices

Every set Collective Defiance has been printed in, with the art, the finishes and the market price of each — the headline price above is the cheapest of these.

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