Printings
Death Spark
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 
CMC: 1
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Alliances (ALL)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 70
Oracle Text
Death Spark deals 1 damage to any target. At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is in your graveyard with a creature card directly above it, you may pay {1}. If you do, return this card to your hand.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- October 1, 2008
A card is "directly above" another card in your graveyard if it was put into that graveyard later and there are no cards in between the two.
Source: wotc - October 1, 2008
Players may not rearrange the cards in their graveyards.
Source: wotc - October 1, 2008
If an effect or rule puts two or more cards into the same graveyard at the same time, the owner of those cards may arrange them in any order.
Source: wotc - October 1, 2008
The last thing that happens to a resolving instant or sorcery spell is that it's put into its owner's graveyard. Example: You cast Wrath of God. All creatures on the battlefield are destroyed. You arrange all the cards put into your graveyard this way in any order you want. The other players in the game do the same to the cards that are put into their graveyards. Then you put Wrath of God into your graveyard, on top of the other cards.
Source: wotc - October 1, 2008
Say you're the owner of both a permanent and an Aura that's attached to it. If both the permanent and the Aura are destroyed at the same time (by Akroma's Vengeance, for example), you decide the order they're put into your graveyard. If just the enchanted permanent is destroyed, it's put into your graveyard first. Then, after state-based actions are checked, the Aura (which is no longer attached to anything) is put into your graveyard on top of it.
Source: wotc
Price History
To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.