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Collective Effort

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Escalate—Tap an untapped creature you control. (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.)

Choose one or more —

• Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.

• Destroy target enchantment.

• Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature target player controls.

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Price

0.30 $

Foil 0.51 $

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Collective Effort rulings

  • Additional costs don't affect a spell's mana value.

  • 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.

  • Effects that reduce the cost of spells reduce the total cost, including any escalate costs added.

  • You can tap any untapped creature you control to pay the escalate cost, including one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of the turn.

  • 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 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).

  • If you choose the first and third modes, and destroying the creature ends an "exile until" effect (such as that of Lunarch Inquisitors), the creature will return to the battlefield before you put +1/+1 counters on creatures. The same is true if you choose the second and third modes and destroying the enchantment ends such an effect.

  • You can't choose any one mode multiple times.

  • 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.

Collective Effort keyword rules

Escalate Rule 702.120

Escalate is a static ability of modal spells (see rule ) that functions while the spell with escalate is on the stack. “Escalate [cost]” means “For each mode you choose beyond the first as you cast this spell, you pay an additional [cost].” Paying a spell’s escalate cost follows the rules for paying additional costs in rules –h.

Collective Effort format legality

Constructed

  • StandardNot legal
  • PioneerLegal
  • ModernLegal
  • Future StandardNot legal

Eternal

  • LegacyLegal
  • VintageLegal
  • PauperNot legal
  • PremodernNot legal
  • Old SchoolNot legal
  • Penny DreadfulLegal

Commander

  • CommanderLegal
  • OathbreakerLegal
  • Pauper CommanderNot legal
  • Duel CommanderLegal
  • PreDHNot legal

Arena & online

  • HistoricLegal
  • TimelessLegal
  • AlchemyNot legal
  • GladiatorLegal
  • BrawlLegal
  • Standard BrawlNot legal
  • Competitive BrawlLegal

Other

  • TLRLegal

All printings of Collective Effort 38

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