Blessed Alliance (EMN)
Instant
Escalate (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or more —
• Target player gains 4 life.
• Untap up to two target creatures.
• Target opponent sacrifices an attacking creature.
Johann Bodin
13/205
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Legalities
- brawl: banned
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- modern: legal
- pauper: legal
- standard: banned
- vintage: legal
- pioneer: legal
Rulings
- 2016-07-13:
The targeted opponent chooses which of their attacking creatures to sacrifice, not you.
- 2016-07-13:
Untapping an attacking creature doesn’t cause it to be removed from combat.
- 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.
- 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.