Printings
Blessed Alliance
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Eldritch Moon (EMN)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 13
Oracle Text
Escalate {2} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Target player gains 4 life. • Untap up to two target creatures. • Target opponent sacrifices an attacking creature of their choice.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- July 13, 2016
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.
Source: wotc - July 13, 2016
You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.
Source: wotc - July 13, 2016
Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.
Source: wotc - July 13, 2016
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.
Source: wotc - July 13, 2016
Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
Source: wotc - July 13, 2016
Untapping an attacking creature doesn’t cause it to be removed from combat.
Source: wotc - July 13, 2016
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).
Source: wotc - July 13, 2016
The targeted opponent chooses which of their attacking creatures to sacrifice, not you.
Source: wotc - July 13, 2016
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.
Source: wotc
Price History
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