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Cleaving Skyrider

Cleaving Skyrider

{2}{W}Creature — Human Warrior2/2

Flash

Kicker {2}{R} (You may pay an additional {2}{R} as you cast this spell.)

Flying

When this creature enters, if it was kicked, it deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of attacking creatures.

Keyword reminders

Kicker. You may pay an additional cost as you cast this for a bonus effect. · CR 702.33
Flying. This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach. · CR 702.9
Flash. You may cast this any time you could cast an instant. · CR 702.8

Official rulings

  1. In a Two-Headed Giant game, this triggered ability counts all attacking creatures that each attacking team controls. (2022-09-09)
  2. Cleaving Skyrider's triggered ability counts all attacking creatures, even attacking creatures other players control. (2022-09-09)
  3. If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it. (2024-11-08)
  4. If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked. (2024-11-08)
  5. To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was. (2024-11-08)
  6. The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once. (2024-11-08)
  7. If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was. (2024-11-08)
  8. If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked." (2024-11-08)

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