Dire Tactics
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (IKO)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 183
Oracle Text
Exile target creature. If you don't control a Human, you lose life equal to that creature's toughness.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- April 17, 2020
Use the exiled creature’s toughness as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how much life you lose.
Source: wotc - April 17, 2020
Whether you control a Human is checked only after exiling the target creature. If that creature had exiled a Human you controlled until that creature left the battlefield, that Human will return to the battlefield in time to be counted.
Source: wotc
Price History
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