Printings
Collateral Damage
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 
CMC: 1
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Jumpstart (JMP)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 305
Oracle Text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Collateral Damage deals 3 damage to any target.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 24, 2014
Players can respond to Collateral Damage only after it’s been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the creature you sacrificed to stop you from casting this spell.
Source: wotc - November 24, 2014
If you sacrifice an attacking or blocking creature during the declare blockers step, it won’t deal combat damage. If you wait until the combat damage step, but that creature is dealt lethal damage, it’ll be destroyed before you get a chance to sacrifice it.
Source: wotc - November 24, 2014
You must sacrifice exactly one creature to cast this spell; you can’t cast it without sacrificing a creature, and you can’t sacrifice additional creatures.
Source: wotc
Price History
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