TYPE
Sorcery

ABILITY
Escalate {1} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Target player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards. • Collective Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature. • Collective Defiance deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

ILLUSTRATOR
William Tempest

LEGALITIES
Standard Future Historic Timeless Gladiator Pioneer Explorer Modern Legacy Pauper Vintage Penny Commander Oathbreaker Standardbrawl Brawl Alchemy Paupercommander Duel Oldschool Premodern Predh

LANGUAGES
DE EN ES FR IT JP PT ZH-CN

RULINGS

• 2016-07-13 Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
• 2016-07-13 If an effect allows you to cast a spell that has escalate without paying its mana cost, you pay escalate costs for that spell if you choose more than one mode.
• 2016-07-13 Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.
• 2016-07-13 You choose all of your modes at once. You can’t wait to perform one mode’s actions and then decide to choose more modes.
• 2016-07-13 You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.
• 2016-07-13 If two of the chosen modes of an escalate spell target a creature, you may choose the same creature for each mode’s target, or choose different creatures. The same is true if the chosen modes target a player (or opponent).
• 2016-07-13 If one target of an escalate spell becomes illegal, the other targets will still be affected. If all of the targets become illegal, the spell won’t resolve.