Dead Drop
Card Information
Type: Sorcery
Mana Cost: 9
CMC: 10
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Khans of Tarkir (KTK)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 67
Oracle Text
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Target player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- March 19, 2021
Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise's mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.
Source: wotc - September 20, 2014
Dead Drop doesn't target any creature. The target player could sacrifice a creature with hexproof, for example.
Source: wotc - September 20, 2014
The target player chooses which creatures they will sacrifice as Dead Drop resolves. If the player controls only one creature at that time, they will sacrifice it.
Source: wotc
Price History
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