Instant
Escalate 
(Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)
Choose one or both —
• Target creature gets +3/+0 until end of turn.
• Target creature gains first strike until end of turn.
Card details
- Shown printing
- Innistrad Remastered (INR)
- Artist
- Volkan Baǵa
- Color identity
- Red
- Colors
- Red
- Mana value
- 1
- Keywords
- Escalate
- First released
- July 22, 2016
- Printings
- 4
- EDHREC rank
- #13416 on EDHREC
- Market price
- $0.16 (cheapest printing, updated weekly)
Legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- Standard BrawlNot legal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- AlchemyNot legal
- GladiatorLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderLegal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHNot legal
- PremodernNot legal
- Old SchoolNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- FutureNot legal
Rulings (7)
Additional costs don’t affect a spell’s mana value.
Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.
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.
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.
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).
You can’t choose any one mode multiple times.
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.
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