Collective Defiance

Sorcery

Escalate (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.

Set

Eldritch Moon (EMN #123)

Rarity

Rare

Mana value

3

Released

2016-07-22

Artist

Kieran Yanner

EDHREC rank

#7,628

Colour identity

Finishes

Nonfoil, Foil

Served from

Local database

Commander bracket

EDHREC

Combos

Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.

Format legality

Rulings

• 2016-07-13

  Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.

• 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

  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.

• 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

  You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.

• 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.