
Printings
Bard Class
Card Information
Type: Enchantment — Class
Mana Cost:
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (AFR)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 217
Oracle Text
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Legendary creatures you control enter with an additional +1/+1 counter on them. {R}{G}: Level 2 Legendary spells you cast cost {R}{G} less to cast. This effect reduces only the amount of colored mana you pay. {3}{R}{G}: Level 3 Whenever you cast a legendary spell, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play them this turn.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- July 23, 2021
If you exile a modal double-faced card this way, you may cast either face of that card.
Source: wotc - July 23, 2021
Gaining a level is a normal activated ability. It uses the stack and can be responded to.
Source: wotc - July 23, 2021
You can multiclass or even control multiple Class enchantments of the same class. Each Class permanent tracks its own level separately.
Source: wotc - July 23, 2021
Gaining a level won't remove abilities that a Class had at a previous level.
Source: wotc - July 23, 2021
Each Class has five abilities. The three in the major sections of its text box are class abilities. Class abilities can be static, activated, or triggered abilities. The other two are level abilities, one activated ability to advance the Class to level 2 and another to advance the Class to level 3.
Source: wotc - July 23, 2021
Some Class cards have an effect that increases when more are under your control. For example, if you have multiple Barbarian Class cards, you roll that many additional dice and ignore that many of the lowest rolls.
Source: wotc - July 23, 2021
Each Class starts with only the first of three class abilities. As the first level ability resolves, the Class becomes level 2 and gains the second class ability. As the second level ability resolves, the Class becomes level 3 and gains the third class ability.
Source: wotc - July 23, 2021
Unlike most abilities that reduce the costs of spells, Bard Class's Level 2 ability cannot be applied to generic mana costs. For example, a spell that costs {2}{G} to cast would instead cost {2} to cast.
Source: wotc - July 23, 2021
You can't activate the first level ability of a Class unless that Class is level 1. Similarly, you can't activate the second level ability of a Class unless that Class is level 2.
Source: wotc - July 23, 2021
If you control multiple Bard Classes, legendary creatures you control enter the battlefield with that many additional +1/+1 counters.
Source: wotc - July 23, 2021
If you do not play the cards exiled with Bard Classes Level 3 ability on the turn they are exiled, they will remain exiled indefinitely and cannot be played on a later turn.
Source: wotc
Price History

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