Printings
Certain Death
Card Information
Type: Sorcery
Mana Cost: 5
CMC: 6
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Jumpstart 2022 (J22)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 386
Oracle Text
Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- July 13, 2016
The targeted creature will have already left the battlefield before its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. If it has any abilities that care about gaining or losing life, they won’t apply.
Source: wotc - July 13, 2016
If the creature becomes an illegal target for Certain Death, no player gains or loses life. If it’s a legal target but isn’t destroyed, most likely due to having indestructible, its controller still loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Source: wotc
Price History
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