Ana Battlemage
Card Information
Type: Creature — Human Wizard
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity: 
Set: Planar Chaos (PLC)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 124
Oracle Text
Kicker {2}{U} and/or {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{U} and/or {1}{B} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked with its {2}{U} kicker, target player discards three cards. When this creature enters, if it was kicked with its {1}{B} kicker, tap target untapped creature and that creature deals damage equal to its power to its controller.
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Card Rulings
- November 8, 2024
If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
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.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
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.
Source: wotc - February 1, 2007
The second triggered ability targets an untapped creature. If there are no other untapped creatures when Ana Battlemage enters, it must target Ana Battlemage. If the target becomes tapped by the time the ability tries to resolve, the ability won't resolve.
Source: wotc
Price History
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